SU Yong-gang is Visiting Academic Fellow at PEALS from September 2009 until August 2010. Yong-gang is Director of the College English Department at Shandong University Medical School in northern China. He comes to PEALS with an award from the China Scholarship Council in order to further his PhD studies, which provide a comparison between Chinese and Western approaches to end of life issues, including palliative care and euthanasia.
Yong-gang is particularly concerned with expanding the levels of hospice care in China and hopes to learn from UK and EU experience with this issue in order to recommend appropriate approaches for Chinese policy-makers. He will be working with Michael Barr and Simon Woods during his stay at Newcastle.published on: 24th September 2009