Professor, Department of Education and Futures Design, Tamkang University.

Address: 151 Yingzhuan Rd. Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan 251301

E-mail: sochen@mail.tku.edu.tw

Phone: +886 2 26215656 ext.3175

Ph.D. Sociology. Louisiana State University. USA. May, 1996

Doctoral Dissertation: Transactional Interactions and Growth in the Global Economy: A Multiple-Network Analysis.”

PRIMARY TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Futures Thinking and Strategy Development, Social Futures, Youth Futures Globalization, Social Change and Development, Population and Aging Economic Sociology, Social Science Methods, Futures Research Methodology.

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS HELD

• 1996-present Professor, Department of Education and Futures Design, Tamkang University.

• 2018-present Director, Center for Future Intelligence and Reserch

• 2014-2016 Director, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University

• 2007-2011 Director, Center for General Education and Core Curriculum, Tamkang University

• 2005-2006 Dean, College of Global Research and Development, Tamkang University.

• 2000-2004 Director, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University.

• 2000-2002 Director, Center for Futures Studies, Tamkang University.

• Chen, K. H., Hsu, L. P., & Hoffman, J. (2021). Reevaluating the foresight styles assessment: A measurement of futures competency for university students. Journal of Futures Studies, 26(1), 19-32 (ESCI Journal).

• Chen, K. H., & Hsu, L. P., (2020). Visioning the future: Evaluating learning outcomes and impacts of futures-oriented education，Journal of Futures Studies, 24(4), 103-116 (ESCI Journal)

• Chen, K. H., (2019). Transforming environmental values for a younger generation in Taiwan: A participatory action approach to curriculum design. Journal of Futures Studies. 23(4), 79-96. (ESCI Journal)

• Lee, C. C. & Chen, K. H., (2018). Investigating Taiwan’s integrated scenarios of climate change through visualization rhetoric in science communication. Tamkang Journal of International Affairs. 22(1): 1-38. (Scopus)

• Chen, K. H. & Hoffman, J., (2017). Serious play: transforming futures thinking through game-based curriculum design. Journal of Futures Studies. 22(2):41-60. (ESCI Journal)

• Chen, K. H., (2016). Linking metaphors of the future with socio-cultural prospects among Taiwanese high school students. Futures, 84, 178-185. (SSCI Journal)