The good news! Two faculty members from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences have been promoted to long-term associate professors to help build talent in the College.
On December 12, 2025, SUSTech's 2025 long-term recruitment ceremony was held at the Convention Center. Professor Liu Xu, a higher education research center under the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor Wang Yu, a social science center and higher social science research institute, have successfully promoted long-term associate professors with their outstanding academic achievements, outstanding teaching results and profound social service contributions, injecting strong impetus into the construction of the college's talent team, and highlighting the college's remarkable achievements in cultivating outstanding teaching and research talents and building a high-level teacher echelon.
Teacher Liu Xu: Deeply engaged in the field of higher education, focusing on both teaching and research and social services
Professor Liu Xu, as the Research Center for Higher Education and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of SUSTech,The first researcher to be promoted by an assistant professor to a permanent associate professor, has been working in higher education since its inception in 2020. She graduated from the School of Education, University College London. Her research focuses on higher education policy and governance, innovative talent training and young university development. Her academic achievements are fruitful - she has published nearly 60 papers in Chinese and English journals, includingNearly 50 papers in core high-level journals, published 4 books in Chinese and English (including one book), presided over the completion of the national social science youth project, the national social science general project and a number of provincial and ministerial-level topics, and its research results were also awarded2023 Shenzhen Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Excellence AwardIn the field of teaching, teacher Liu Xu's teaching evaluation of the course continues to rank in the forefront of similar courses in the whole school, and "Introduction to Sociology of Education" was selected in 2024. "Guangdong University Curriculum Civic and Political Reform Demonstration Project", she herself has won two school-level excellent tutor awards, won the annual teaching excellence award, and been evaluated as an excellent tutor of the academy for four consecutive years to help students grow with solid teaching skills. In addition, Mr. Liu Xu has also served as an editorial board member, reviewer of several SSCI journals and a Chinese expert on the global advisory committee of the QS World University Rankings. At the same time, he has also served as a member of the party committee of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and the secretary-general of several municipal academic organizations, and has played an important role in academic exchanges, discipline construction and social services.
Teacher Wang Yu: Focusing on water governance research, international academic influence is significant
Teacher Wang Yu's academic career was equally fruitful. He received his PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong in 2014. After postdoctoral research at the University of Hong Kong, he joined Sun Yat-sen University through the "Hundred Talents Program" and joined SUSTech's Social Science Center as an associate professor in 2020. Its research areas include political ecology, human geography and public management, and its core results have profoundly revealed the complex water governance systems and power operation mechanisms in the process of globalization, urbanization and agricultural modernization.Developed theoretical frameworks such as critical institutionalism and water-social relations based on Chinese practicehas greatly deepened the understanding of the process and mechanism of social-ecological transformation. In terms of scientific research, in recent years, he has presided over 3 projects of the National Natural Science Fund and 2 projects of the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, and published more than 50 academic papers in well-known journals at home and abroad;Since 2025, he has been the editor-in-chief of International Water Resources Development, an international authoritative SCI journal in the field of water governance.At the same time, he has also served as an editorial board member of many domestic and foreign academic journals, a member of professional committees, a director, etc., and has a wide range of influence in the international and domestic academic circles. This promotion is a full recognition of his outstanding achievements in academic research and discipline construction.
The college's talent construction has achieved remarkable results, and the introduction and education mechanism will continue to be optimized in the future.
薛其坤校长为刘绪老师（左一）、王雨老师（中间）颁发聘任证书
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has always focused on the core goal of building a world-class research university, continuously improving the long-term hiring system, optimizing the talent education mechanism, and building a broad platform for teachers to display their talents. In the future, the College will continue to support teachers in focusing on the strategic needs of the country to carry out cutting-edge research, strengthen the integration of interdisciplinary innovation and theoretical practice, constantly cultivate and gather more outstanding talents, and contribute more to building a philosophical and social science system with Chinese characteristics, cultivating top innovative talents, and serving national and local development.
Once again, warm congratulations to Teacher Liu Xu and Teacher Wang Yu!
