SHENG CHEN

Last Updated :2026/10/07

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
Web Site
https://researchmap.jp/victor_chen?lang=en
Self-introduction
Sociological research on poverty and welfare

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2026/10, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
  • 2023/10, 2026/09, Shokei University, Junior College, Department of Childhood Education, Assistant Professor
  • 2023/07, 2023/09, Hokkaido University, Faculty of Education,, Researcher/Postdoc
  • 2015/04, 2018/03, PFU Limited, International Sales Department, Employee

Educational Backgrounds

  • Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Education, Division of Education (Sociology of Education Program, Educational Welfare Laboratory)

Research Fields

  • Social sciences;Sociology;Social welfare and social work studies

Research Keywords

  • Poverty Research, Poverty Politics, Participatory Poverty Research , Poverty and Livelihood Security among Children and Families Raising Children, Participatory Welfare Practice Centred on People with Lived Experience

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Society for the Study of Poverty
  • Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
  • Japan Welfare Sociology Association
  • Japan Association for Social Policy Studies (JASPS)
  • Comprehensive Research Institute of Social Welfare

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Challenges in Implementing Participatory Poverty Research with Children: Methodological and Ethical Reflections for Practice in Japan, ASEAN Social Work Journal, 14(1), 1-11, 202606
  2. This is what poverty means: A secondary analysis of a participatory poverty research project in Japan, Asian Journal of Social Science Research, 8(1), 134-147, 202606
  3. Examining the Relational and Symbolic Aspects of Poverty: Insights from the Narratives of Single Mothers, Research and Science Today, 2026(1), 1-22, 202606
  4. A Study on the Child-Rearing Difficulties Faced by Single Mothers, Koyarai, 22, 202511
  5. Children’s Medical Expenses Subsidy and Its Effect on Health Care Seeking Behavior, Annual Report of Research and Clinical Center for Child Developme, 33-43, 202403
  6. The implementation of the participatory poverty research: focusing on the procedures of the research for ‘participation’, Bulletin of Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University, 203-225, 202206
  7. The exclusion and othering of poor people from ‘discussion and policy making’ on poverty, Journal of Education and Social Work, 9-20, 202109
  8. The challenges in conducting participatory approaches to poverty inquiry that include poor people, Hokkaido Social Welfare Study, 24-34, 202103
  9. Education and daily life of children in poverty in China: Case study in S City, Journal of Education and Social Wor, 93-105, 201902

Publications such as books

  1. 2024/10, People in poverty talk about 'What is poverty?' : The potential of participatory poverty research, Hokkaido University Press, Scholarly Book, Single work, 日本語, Sheng CHEN, 9784832968981, 224
  2. 2025/09, Practical Training: Childcare Support — Deepening Perspectives on Support and Professional Expertise Through Practice, Chapter 9, Section 2: Support for Parents Struggling to Balance Work and Childcare (pp.108–111); Chapter 11, Section 3: Support for Single-Parent Families (pp.138–141), Kyoiku Joho Publishing, Textbook, Contributor, 日本語, Masanori Tonariya (Editor)
  3. 2026/08, Children's White Paper 2026, The Impact of Rising Prices on Child-Rearing Households, Kamogawa Shuppan, Contributor, 日本語, Japan Society for the, Protection of Children

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. The Usefulness of Participatory Poverty Research in Understanding Poverty: The Intersection of Participatory Poverty Research and Action Research, Sheng CHEN, Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare, 73rd Autumn Conference — Organized Session: Action Research Methods in Social Welfare Studies, 2025/10/05, With Invitation, Japanese, Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare, Kyoto
  2. Poverty as Told by Those Who Experience It: Voices, Agency, and the Politics of Poverty through Participatory Poverty Research, Sheng CHEN, Society for the Study of Poverty 2025 Seminar Series, 2025/08/29, With Invitation, Japanese, Society for the Study of Poverty, On Line
  3. Poverty from the perspective of those involved: meaning, agencys and constraints, Sheng CHEN, 72nd Autumn Conference of the Japanese Society of Social Welfare, 2024/10/27, Without Invitation, Japanese, Nagoya
  4. Poor People Talk about Poverty: Discourses, Images and Understandings, and Meanings, Sheng CHEN, The 20th East Asian Social Policy Network & the 30th Foundation for International Studies of Social Security Joint International Conference, 2024/06/14, Without Invitation, English, Kyoto
  5. Rethinking poverty: understanding poverty from the perspective of those involved, Sheng CHEN, Commemorative Seminar on the Retirement of Professor Ichiro Matsumoto: Rethinking Poverty, 2024/06/01, Japanese, Sapporo
  6. Discussing the Politics of Poverty from a Global Perspective: Redistribution, Recognition & Respect, Representation & Participation, Sheng CHEN, Issues surrounding Poverty Workshop with Professor Ruth Lister, 2023/11/06, With Invitation, English, Sapporo
  7. Practical report on participatory poverty research, Sheng CHEN, 2022/06, Without Invitation, Japanese, Japanese Journal of Poverty, No. 28, p. 103 (14th Annual Conference of the Association for Poverty Research), Online (Hosted by Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto)
  8. A Study of 'compulsory education guarantee' for poor children and students in China, Sheng CHEN, Japanese Journal of Poverty, No. 22, p. 129 (11th Annual Conference of the Association for Poverty Research), 2019/06, Without Invitation, Japanese, Shizuoka

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Hokkaido University, FY2024 Grant for Publication of Academic Achievements (Book Publication) What Is Poverty? Narratives from People with Lived Experience, 2024/01, 2024/10
  2. Association for Poverty Research, FY2020 Poverty Research Encouragement Fund, Individual Research People Experiencing Poverty Discuss Public Assistance Programs: Through Participatory Poverty Research, 2020/04, 2021/03
  3. Child and parenting family poverty, policy and practice: for the concept of 'comprehensive minimum security'., 2023/10, 2026/03
  4. Research on the Systematization of Educational and Childcare Practices to Address Child Poverty, 2025/04, 2029/03