Tong Ren
University of Birmingham
Tong Ren
Tong is a PhD candidate in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her current PhD research is on ‘The Feasibility and Financial Sustainability of the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) System in China’. Based on the China Long-term Care Insurance System Pilot Database (CLIP) and the China Health and Retirement Survey (CHARLS), Tong’s research will include a structured comparison of the design and content of China’s different long-term care insurance pilots, as well as an analysis of the financial sustainability of the different models being developed.
- Bachelor of Management (NanjingUniversity of Finance and Economics), China (2015-2019)
- Master of Science in Management (University of Bristol), UK (2019-2020)
- PhD of Social Policy (University of Birmingham), UK (2021-2025)
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | China; UK; |
|---|---|
| Topics | Long term care subsidies; LTC Policy; LTC Systems; |
| Methods | Comparative policy analysis; Mixed methods; Policy analysis; Quantitative data analysis; Systematic Review; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Care home markets and regulation; Data Science; Economics of Long-Term Care; Employment Education and Family carers; Long-Term Care Policy; Quasi-experimental methods; |
| Website | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/social-policy/research/doctoral-researchers/profiles/ren-tong.aspx |
| https://twitter.com/TongRen_UoB | |
| Research interests | Long-term care insurance Ageing issues Social policy |
| Key publications | Ren, T. and Li, X. (2018). Analysis of the Impact of Delaying Retirement Policy on Pension Gap Rate. Modern Business, (12), pp.164–165. doi: https://doi.org/10.14097/j.cnki.5392/2018.12.083 [In Chinese]. Ren, T. and Li, X. (2020). Research on the Cash Payment Model in the Reform of Long-Term Care System. Labour Security World, (27), pp.58–59. doi: https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1007-7243.2020.27.027 [In Chinese]. |