Jo-Pei Tan
Senior Lecturer in Integrated Health and Social Care at the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Tan graduated from the University of Oxford (2008) with a PhD in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and a Master’s in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge (2004). She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. She also worked as a visiting professor for the Next-Generation Global Workshop for ECR in Asia Research at the University of Kyoto since 2011 and co-founded the South Asian Social Research Network in April 2023.
She has taught undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional health and social care practitioners in Malaysia, China, Vietnam, and the UK on subjects ranging from child development, parent-child interaction, health and social care, to social research methods. Building on her rich teaching experience, she is interested in using interactive methods, e-learning, and activity-based approaches to enhance learning and teaching.
Link
j.tan@mmu.ac.uk
Healthy Ageing Expertise
Dr Tan is interested in ageing, caregiving and quality of life / wellbeing of caregivers among general and minority groups. She is also interested in the impact of care relations on families, children and adolescents, including how parenting and grandparenting relate to children’s health and developmental outcomes. She has extensive experience in mixed-methods research design, survey construction and advanced quantitative analysis including multivariate analysis and moderation-mediation testing using multinational datasets to explore these issues within the UK and global contexts.
Relevant Projects
- Black Kinship Carers in the UK: A Scoping Study
- Positive Grandparenting and Ageing Program for Malaysian Grandparents
- Resilience and Connectedness of the Middle Generation in the Provision of Elder Care in Vietnam
- Care in Modern Family within UK and Vietnam
- Comparative Asian Family Survey (CAFS Malaysia)
- Parents and Children in Families and in Cultures (PACIFIC)
