September 2020: Ph.D. in Social Environment Studies, Kanazawa University, Japan
December 2020 - Present: Lecturer, School of Social Development, Tianjin University of Technology
April 2015 - March 2019: Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship
April 2014 - March 2015: Ishikawa Prefecture Scholarship for Foreign Students
March 2015: Kanazawa University 150th Anniversary Scholarship
2016: Excellent Paper Award, Graduate School of Human and Social Environment Studies, Kanazawa University
1. Du, L.; Tan, H. Digital Sustainability in an Aging Society: Reframing Smartphone Phubbing as Structural Compensation Among Urban Chinese Older Adults. Sustainability 2025, 17, 10608.
2. Liang, Z.; Du, L. Population Aging and Pension Fund Risk-Taking. Finance Research Letters 2026, 88, 109133.
3. Du, L. The Perception of People with Disabilities in Modern China -- Based on Interviews with People with Disabilities and Non-disabled. Human and Social Environment Studies (33), 15-30, March 2017; This paper was reprinted and fully included in China Relations Essay Materials No. 58.
4. Lin Du; Hiroshi Tanabe. Development and Issues of Disability Movement in China -- A Case of a Disabled Persons' Organization; Bulletin of the Faculty of Human Sciences Kanazawa University 10, 45-65, March 31, 2018.
5. Lin Du. Report on the Survey of Building a Discrimination-Free City in Hakusan - Chapter 7: Citizens' Awareness on Disability Welfare, March 2015.
6. Du, L. Curriculum Development and Practice of Gerontology under the Background of New Humanities. International Journal of New Developments in Education 2023, 5, 1–4.7.
7. Du, L.; Cheng, M. A Dual-Driven Experimental Teaching Model for Gerontology: Integrating Industry and AI Technology. International Journal of New Developments in Education 2025, 7, 14–18.
1. Projects Led
2015-2016: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Human and Social Environment Studies Project "Research on Discrimination and
Social Exclusion of Disabled People"
2016-2019: Overseas Dispatch Project of New Academic Creation Research Institute and Kanazawa University Graduate School of Human
and Social Environment Studies Project "Research on Independent Living of Disabled People"
2021: Tianjin Municipal Philosophy and Social Science Project "Research on the Changes in Perception of Disability and Support
Mechanisms-From Theory to Practice"
2025: Tianjin University of Technology University-Level Teaching Fund Project (General) “Innovation Model and Reform Pathways for
Experimental Curriculum in Gerontology under a Dual-Driven Approach of Industry-Education Integration and AI Technology”
2. Participated Projects
2014: Subproject of the Japanese Government Commissioned Research Project "Awareness Survey on the Welfare of Disabled
People" - "Research on Building a Discrimination-Free Town in Hakusan" (Principal Investigator: Professor Hiroshi Tanabe)
2015-2018: Japanese National Research Project "International Comparative Study Toward Policy Making of Care Workforce from the
Viewpoint of Social Inclusion and Career Formation" (Principal Investigator: Professor Osamu Moriyama)
2014-2019: Japanese National Research Project "International Comparative Study on Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion Systems for
People with Intellectual Disabilities" (Principal Investigator: Professor Hiroshi Tanabe)
Introduction to Gerontology
Elderly Law and Policy
Evaluation of Elderly Services
Gerontophysiology
