Center for
Social Well-being Studies
Senshu University

8th Conference of the International Consortium for Social Well-Being Studies
Social Well-Being and Resilience in Developing Societies of Asia

Date: February 8 (Thursday), 2024, 13:00-16:50 (UTC+9)
Format: Hybrid.
In Person: Room 211, Building 2, Ikuta Campus, Senshu University
Online: Registered participants will receive a Zoom link via email.

Program
Part 1: Keynote Lectures (13:00-14:35)
Part 2: Proactive Resilience of Marginalized People: Photovoice Research in Mongolia, Thailand, and Vietnam (14:50-16:50)

Registration
Registered participants will receive a Zoom link via email.

7th Conference of the International Consortium for Social Well-Being Studies
Resilience and Well-Being in East and Southeast Asia

Date: February 5 (Sunday), 2023, 11:00-13:00, 14:30-16:30 (UTC+9)
Venue: Ikuta Campus, Senshu University
2-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Format: Hybrid. A Zoom link will be sent to pre-registered participants.

Program:
Part 1: Resilience in Crisis (11:05-13:00)
Part 2: Well-Being and Family in Asia (14:30-16:25)

Registration: Deadline February 3, 2023

Data Published: Social Well-Being Survey in Asia (SoWSA)

The complete data and documents of Social Well-Being Survey in Asia (SoWSA) are now available for all registered users at KOSSDA (Korea Social Science Data Archive). SoWSA is a cross-national questionnaire survey conducted by the International Consortium for Social Well-Being Studies in 2015-17 in 7 Asian societies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines).

Brochure 2017: Forming a Social Well-being Research Consortium in Asia

You can download here.

Aim

This research project aims (1) to investigate the current state and mechanism of social well-being in contemporary East and Southeast Asia by conducting cross-national questionnaire surveys in this region and {2) to form an international research consortium consisting of universities and institutes in the region for academic exchange on social well-being and other related studies.

Well-being, or the quality of life, has been one of the central themes in the field of social sciences. It relates not only to the socio-economic status of each individual such as income, employment, and education, but also to his or her social relations such as families and neighbors as well as to other social institutions such as the political system and religion. Therefore, in this project, we focus on the concept of social well-being rather than individual well-being to be explored both theoretically and empirically through inter-disciplinary approaches in social sciences including economics, sociology, and political sciences.

East and Southeast Asia is an attractive research area for exploring these themes because of its vast diversity in economic standard, political system, ethnicity, culture, and religion. The region also shares the historical trajectories of late-departed, thus quite rapid modernization, and the resulting social issues including sustainable economic development in the globalized market economy as well as sustainability in social security systems under low fertility rates. Therefore, this research project would contribute to expanded and deepened insight into social well-being for global academia in social sciences.

Institute for the Development of Social Intelligence, Senshu University

Senshu University believes that social intelligence is essential for those who intend to contribute to resolve various social problems in the 21st century and concurrently achieve self-actualization. Hence, Senshu University’s vision for the 21st century is “development of social intelligence”. The Graduate Institute for the Development of Social Intelligence was launched in February 2003 in order to realize this vision. Since the activity belong the development of social intelligence should not be limited the graduate school of the university, this institute included the university as a whole in April 2006. Accordingly, the name was changed to The Institute aspires to support specialized and interdisciplinary general research and educational activities in various fields. Which are applicable to globalized societies.

MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private universities

This program both generally and specifically supports research projects. The program intends to assist private universities in building a foundation for research studies in accordance with the universities’ business strategies. The program was launched in 2008 with the intention to help improve Japanese scientific technologies.