Jung Chen obtained a bachelor degree in Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences from National Tsing-Hua University in 2017 and graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a master degree in Sociology in 2018. Her master dissertation focused on lesbians’ coming out experiences and strategies titled ‘Coming Out or Closeted: Lesbians' Identity and Everyday Life Practices in Taiwan.’
From 2018 to 2020, Jung was a research assistant at Chang Gung University working on the project ‘Living-Related Organ Donation Decision-Making: Gender, Power and Family Politics’ with Dr Ya-ping Lin. Focusing on the lived experiences of organ donors, recipients and families, this research investigated how intra-familial relationships and gendered divisions of care work within the household caused impacts on the medical decision-making processes.
Jung is currently a PhD student in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) under the supervision of Professor Sarah Franklin and Dr Marcin Smietana, and her project is funded by Cambridge Trust and the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. She carried on her interests in body experiences in biomedicine and LGBTQ+ studies to her PhD project, which looks at queer reproduction in Taiwan with a specific focus on Taiwanese gay men who form families and make kinship via transnational surrogacy.
