Su, Yonggang, PhD, Professor

Director of College English Department, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University

Address: No. 44 West Wenhua Road, Building 8, Room 8503

Jinan, Shandong Province, China 250012

Tel. 86-531-88382034

Email: syg@sdu.edu.cn

Research Interests: End-of-life Care, health care for elderly, Bioethics, Applied Linguistics

Academic advisor for Master's students: Yes

Academic advisor for PhD students of Medical Humanities / Applied Linguistics: Yes

Education Background

1992-1996      Bachelor in Arts, Shandong University

2004-2007      Master in Arts, Shandong University

2008-2013      MD in School of Medicine, Shandong University

Work Experience

2018.09 - present     Shandong University (Professor)

2010.09 - 2018.09    Shandong University (Associate Professor)

2009.09 - 2010.09    University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Research assistant)

2000.09 - 2009.09    Shandong University (Lecturer)

1996.07 - 2000.09    Shandong Medical University ( Assistant Professor)

Overseas Experience

2009.09 - 2010.09     Academic visitor in Newcastle University UK

2007.06 - 2007.09     Visiting Scholar in University State University San Diego

Description of Research and Teaching

Su Yonggang, PhD, professor of Shandong University, is mainly engaged in psychological nursing, bioethics, and applied linguistics. His studies have focused on the health of nursing home residents, palliative care for terminal patients and conversation analysis. He teaches College English, Medical English Reading and Translation, Academic Writing for Chinese students, and Traditional Chinese Culture for international students.

Research Projects

1. 2020.07-2022.12  The construction and three-dimensional communication of the general education course of traditional Chinese culture of Shandong University (2020XWKC001). (PI)

2. 2020.05-2022.05  Translation service of clinical diagnosis and operation planning system (SK200073) . (PI)

3. 2019.06-2020.10  "Outline of Chinese traditional culture" excellent online open course construction of Shandong University (2019Y026) . (PI)

4. 2018.07-2020.12  Medical English (SDYKC18007), project of Shandong graduate education high quality course of Shandong Province. (PI)

5. 2018.07-2020.07 Intervention research on nursing quality of elderly care institutions based on conversation analysis (SZ2018b021), philosophy and social sciences project of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. (PI)

6. 2014.06-2018.06 "Conversation therapy" and health care mechanism of vulnerable people (14YJAZH068), Humanities and social science planning project of Ministry of Education. (PI)

Publications

Journal articles:

1. Limitation on activities of daily living, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among nursing home residents: The moderating role of resilience. Geriatric Nursing, 2020.3 (Corresponding author)

2. Role of resilience and social support in the relationship between loneliness and suicidal ideation among Chinese nursing home residents, Aging & Mental Health, 2020.6 (Co-corresponding author)

3. Depressive symptoms mediate the association between insomnia symptoms and health-related quality of life and synergistically interact with insomnia symptoms in older adults in nursing homes. Psychogeriatrics. 2019.03 (Corresponding author)

4. Loneliness and depression symptoms among the elderly in nursing homes: A moderated mediation model of resilience and social support. Psychiatry Research (2018) 268: 143-151. (Corresponding author)

5. Association between social support and health-related quality of life among Chinese rural elders in nursing homes: the mediating role of resilience. Quality of Life Research (2018) 27(3):783-792.(Corresponding author)

6. Social Support as a Mediator of Physical Disability and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Elderly. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing (2018) 32:256-262. (Corresponding author)

7. The moderating effect of social support on the relationship between physical health and suicidal thoughts among Chinese rural elderly: A nursing home sample. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing (2018) 2018.1.23. doi: 10.1111/inm.12436 (Corresponding author)

8. Job satisfaction mediates subjective social status and turnover intention among Chinese nurses. Nursing and Health Sciences 2017, 19 (3) 2017.06 DOI: 10.1111/nhs.12357 (Corresponding author)

9.Prevalence and related factors of successful aging among Chinese rural elders living in nursing homes. European Journal of Ageing 2017.03.21 (DOI: 10.1007/s10433-017-0423-6) (Corresponding author)

10. Characteristics of the Chinese rural elderly living in nursing homes who have suicidal ideation: a multiple regression model. Geriatric Nursing2017, 38. DOI:10.1016/j.gerinurse.2017.02.005 (Corresponding author)

11. Social Support Moderates the Effects of Self-esteem and Depression on Quality of Life Among Chinese Rural Elderly in Nursing Homes. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing (2016) 31,197-204. (Corresponding author)

12. Attributions, future time perspective and career maturity in nursing undergraduates: correlational study design. BMC Medical Education(2016)16 (1):16-26. (Co-corresponding author)

13. Quality of Life in Chinese Family Caregivers for Elderly People with Chronic Diseases. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2016) 14(1):99 DOI 10.1186/s12955-016-0504-9 (Corresponding author)

Books

1. Monograph: Comparative study on hospice care between China and UK, Beijing: Social Sciences Publishing House, 2013

2. Editor in chief. Context therapy and health care for the elderly, Jinan: Shandong people's Publishing House, 2015

3. Editor in chief. English for Clinical Medicine (a national textbook for the 21st century) , Qingdao: China Ocean University Press. 2020

Awards and Honors

1. Excellent Teacher, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University. 2019

2. Third prize of Science and Technology Award of universities in Shandong Province (2018BR30120)

3. "Research Contribution Award", School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University  2018

4. First prize of Humanities and social sciences, Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award of Shandong Province (2014BR10015)

Additional Experiences

He has achieved some academic titles including committee member in UNESCO chair in Ethics, Science and Society, executive director of the National Medical Foreign Languages Group of the Chinese Medical Association, Standing Director of Health Ethics Research Association of China Ethics Society, etc.. He is the reviewer or editor of SSCI/SCI journals such as Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Psychology, Health & Medicine, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, The Spanish Journal of Psychology, BMJ Open, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Psychology, Health & Medicine, PLOS ONE.