Education/Title: Associate professor, master's supervisor, Ph.

Position: Head of department of political science and public administration, head of political theory tutor group, instructor of politics association of South China Normal University.

Research Interests: Basic theory of politics, Chinese government and politics, grassroots governance and grassroots power building, qualitative research methods, etc.

Telephone：

E-mail: chinaruansiyu@126.com

Educational Background

Bachelor of law from South China Normal University, Master of law from South China Normal University, Doctor of law (Political Theory) from Sun Yat-sen University

Work Experience

September 2009-August 2011, postdoctoral researcher in Marxist theory, South China Normal University.

Since September 2011, as a lecturer and associate professor in the Department of Politics and Administration，South China Normal University.

Courses Offered

Courses for undergraduate students:

Principles of politics, Chinese government and politics, history of western political thought, introduction of western political systems, modern western political thought; local government studies, etc.

Courses for graduate students:

Academic graduate students: Political philosophy, special studies on frontier issues of political theory.

Professional degrees: Politics (MPA), thematic studies in basic theory of politic (Master of Education - Ideological and Political Education), social policy analysis (MSW).

Informal courses:

Utopia Lecture, Political forum, book club of learning and thinking, Socrates Cup challenge competition of current affairs analysis.

Scientific Research Projects

Presided over scientific research projects：

1. Project Name：Cautiously and Steadily Promote the Conversion of Villages into Residences According to Local Situations - Research Report on Xinhui District, Jiangmen City (Project No. GD14TW02-5), Specially Commissioned Project of Guangdong Province for the 12th Five-Year Plan of Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2014. Person in charge：Ruan Siyu and Lin Ji.

2. Contemporary Chinese Social Thought Debate and its Impact (Project No. GD14XZZ03), co-construction project of Guangdong Province for the 12th Five-Year Plan of Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2014. Person in charge: Ruan Siyu.

3. The New Era of Grassroots Consultative Democracy Makes the Pattern of Social Governance in Guangzhou (Project No. 2019GZGJ45), co-construction project of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the development of philosophy and social sciences in Guangzhou.

Participation in projects:

1. Participate in educational reform projects. Project name: Political Principle teaching team, 2014 South China Normal University Quality Project Construction of teaching team (provincial project). Person in charge: Wang Jinhong.

2. Participate in a major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China. Project name: Expanding Citizens' Orderly Political Participation: Strategies, Paths and Countermeasures (Project No. 12&ZD040), a major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China in 2012. Person in charge: Xiao Bin.

3. Participate in the key project of National Social Science Foundation of China. Project name: Chinese Translation and Research on Gandhian Historical Documents (Project No. 14ASS002), 2014 National Social Science Foundation Key Project. Person in charge: Shang Xiangyu.

Preside over the educational reform project.

1. 2014 Teaching Research and Reform Project of Quality Project Construction of South China Normal University, Project name: Exploration and Practice of Cultivating High-level Academic Undergraduates in Politic. Person in charge: Ruan Siyu.

2. 2018 Online Open Course Construction Project of South China Normal University: Principles of Politic. Person in charge: Ruan Siyu.

Academic Achievements

1. Preside over and complete Cautiously and Steadily Promote the Conversion of Villages into Residences According to Local Situations - Research Report on Xinhui District, Jiangmen City. Person in charge：Ruan Siyu and Lin Ji.

2. One of the author of Is it feasible for non-resident people to participate in the election of the "two committees" of the village and residence where they live? --Based on the research and analysis of Foshan, Zhongshan and Zhuhai in Guangdong Province (person in charge: Wang Jinhong, Ruan Siyu and Liu Zhipeng).

3. Editor-in-chief of Principles of Politic (edited by Zou Jingqin and Ruan Siyu, Science Press, 2019).

4. Publish relevant academic papers in the Cass Journal of Political Science and other journals. research focuses on the basic theory of politic, Chinese government and politics, grassroots governance and grassroots power building, political science research methods and other related fields.

Awards

The Second Prize of the Eighth Guangdong Province Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences (2019).

Second Prize of the Seventh Guangdong Province Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences (2017).

Academic ideals and educational philosophy

Academic ideal: thoughtful academics, academic thoughts.

Educational philosophy: Teaching is learning; researching is learning. Teaching is always new as well as ideas.