Graduate Student, Sociology
St. Antony's College
About
Tung Suen’s research interests include: Ageing and Life Course; Sexualities and Intimacies; Masculinities; Singlehood; Qualitative Research Methods; and Life Stories. He has been trained in a few Social Sciences disciplines including Sociology, Gerontology, Anthropology and Journalism and Communication, and has employed a range of qualitative and quantitative methods for his research.
His current research interests ageing and life course, and sexualities and intimacies. He is working on a few interconnected projects, all concerned with the lives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Tung is completing his doctoral thesis at the Department of Sociology and Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, examining older gay men’s experience of singlehood, funded by a full Swire/Cathay Pacific Scholarship at St. Antony’s College.
He also recently finished an 18-month action research project for which he was the research lead. Working with a care trust, he designed and delivered awareness raising sessions of older LGBT issues to more than 100 care home staff (funded by Mental Health Foundation and employed by Age UK Oxfordshire).
Tung is keen to work with the community to raise awareness of older LGBT issues and create social impact among the general public, researchers, service providers and policy makers. Findings from his projects have not only been disseminated in academic conferences, but also through meetings with and/or presentations to service providers and policy makers, including:
Orders of St John Care Trust - a not for profit charitable trust operating 73 homes in four counties – Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire; National Health Service (NHS) National End of Life Care Programme; Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Housing Group, Stonewall Housing; Anchor Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Advisory Group, Anchor Trust; Mental Health Foundation; Age UK; Age UK Oxfordshire; Kairos; Rainbow Senior Housing; among others;
He has won funding for and chaired the ‘Generational Sexualities’ conference – a one-day event to bring different generations of sexualities researchers into dialogue (booked to maximum capacity, attended by 120 researchers).
He has recently been invited to speak on older LGBT issues in Istanbul, Turkey, and won some funding to work on the topic in Beijing, China.
Tung has served as an ad-hoc peer-reviewer for a range of journals including Aging and Mental Health; Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences; Gender and Society; Sexualities; Journal of Men’s Studies and Journal of Men’s Health.
He is an External Member of the Oxford Brookes University Research Ethics Committee (2010-Present). He was a Postgraduate Convenor and Co-opted Council Member of the British Sociological Association (2009-2011).
He chaired, convened, co-convened a range of conferences and seminars including:
•‘Generational Sexualities’ Conference
•‘Journal Submission Masterclass with Professor Sally Power, editor from Sociology
•‘Gender, Health and Well-Being’ Seminar Series
•Graduate Research in Progress Seminar Series in Social Sciences
•‘Ageing Societies: Change, Challenge and Chance’Postgraduate Conference
•‘Rethinking Gender in the 21st Century: Masculinities, Well-being and Health’ Seminar Series
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