Lin-Ching Hsia

Taiwan Action Research Association
Taipei, Taiwan

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PhD. in Psychology at Harvard University, USA
Professor of Psychology at the Fu-hen University, Taipei, Taiwan(1978~2018)
Dean of Social Sciences, Fu-jen University (2014~2016)

I started teaching at the Department of Psychology of Fu-jen Catholic University in Taipei for the past forty over years. Besides, I have been working with different Taiwanese communities in various social movements since 1975.
Over the many years of hard work, I have educated, trained and built a team of activists who have managed to forge a pathway. I called this approach, “Action-oriented research for social transformation.”

By the end of 1980, The team I was with, extended our activism gradually from the trade union movement to the movement for adult education and subsequently, the sex workers’ movement, the grassroots education movement, and movement of the marginalized and disenfranchised, such as the unemployed workers, the injured and sick workers, sex workers, the physically and mentally challenged, international migrants and migrant workers or foreign service providers, grassroots teachers and so on. We have been consistently pushing for a political movement that would re-align power relations between the people and the ruling elite.
My work can be summarized into the following concepts:team interventions and group dynamics/relationships in the social field and -transformation of self-identity and the relationship between the ‘self and other’ within social movements.

We have developed a unique trend. Interaction among the team members has woven an interconnected web of relationships among the individuals; also between the group and the individuals, and among different social groups. Essentially, this is a community-based movement that tries to merge everyday lives with politics. Ultimately, in the process, lives are transformed.

In 2012, the research outcome of my method of “action research” to promote “the family as the location of social field study” has been well documented and published in, “The Tiny Room with Starry Sky: family as locus of social research” in Chinese language.

As a psychology practitioner who has devoted most part of my life going between the academe and the field of practice so as to cultivate my unique application of theories into practice as a methodology, my goal is to enlarge the space of dialogue using social and political participation.