Sociology Department Party Cell - Steadfastly Under the Party Flag

The 2010-2015 term is identified as an important term, creating momentum for the development of the Party Cell of the Faculty of Sociology in all aspects: political ideology, personnel work, Party building work and professional work in the new situation. The Party Cell identifies the Resolution of the 26th Party Congress of the School as the foundation, the Resolution of the Party Cell Congress as the backbone, forming a compass for planning policies. Joining the vibrant competitive atmosphere with practical activities of the School Party Committee, the Party Cell of the Faculty of Sociology shows a unique color of a unit rich in tradition and constantly moving in the dynamic development trend of social practice.

Political education is considered to be a key and regular activity. The Party Cell strives for unity and comprehensive development in a relationship of solidarity. Currently, the Faculty Party Cell has 18 Party members, focusing on developing new Party members among young cadres and students. The Party Cell directs the activities of the Faculty to develop well in all four areas: training cadres, training work, scientific research and international cooperation.

The Faculty Party Cell directs the focus on building staff work, because this is the backbone for the sustainable development of the unit. Focus on training the teaching staff, creating all conditions and opportunities for staff to improve their academic qualifications and degrees, and study abroad. In the past 5 years, the Faculty of Sociology Party Cell has had 05 more staff members achieving the title of associate professor, 01 staff member defending a doctorate in Singapore, 02 staff members defending a master's degree in social work in the US, 01 staff member defending a master's degree in Australia, 01 staff member defending a master's degree in the UK, 01 staff member defending a doctorate in the Netherlands, 01 staff member defending a doctorate at the school, 06 staff members defending a master's degree in social work at the Faculty... Currently, there are 4 staff members doing their doctorates in the US, France, and Australia. To do a good job in training staff, the Faculty creates the best conditions in terms of time, professional activities, and administration to support the Faculty staff members to defend on time. On the other hand, the staff of the Faculty are active in training and self-training to quickly achieve academic titles and degrees and participate in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the field of social work, meeting the needs of social development.

Regarding training, the Faculty of Sociology always promotes tradition and dynamism to keep up with the social needs for high-quality human resources, expands scale and constantly improves quality. The Faculty is the leading unit in the country in research and training of human resources in Sociology and Social Work at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, full-time and part-time. After graduation, students of the Faculty have contributed to the development of the Social Work profession in localities. Statistics on former Social Work students from K51 to K54 show that most Social Work students have stable jobs after graduation, accounting for 86.4% of the total number of students. The Faculty of Sociology has coordinated with the Departments of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to open part-time undergraduate Social Work training classes and short-term training courses. The majority of the cadres attending the classes are cadres who are directly working in localities from the grassroots to the district, provincial and city levels. In 2013, Hanoi National University implemented the Northwest Project, the Faculty conducted 2 training courses for cadres in Ha Giang and Hoa Binh provinces on social work and received high appreciation from the localities. The Faculty has been training masters and doctors in Sociology for 23 years. For the major of Social Work, postgraduate training has been started since 2011 and has the largest scale in the country..The Faculty regularly conducts exchanges and statistics on the employment situation and positive contributions of undergraduate courses and students to professional careers and society.

Scientific research and international cooperation are the strengths of the Faculty of Sociology, especially in recent years. The Faculty signed a cooperation agreement in the Project “Advancing Social Work in Vietnam” (SWEEP) chaired by San Jose State University (USA) and funded by USAID (2012 – 2015); cooperated with Shukutoku University, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Association of Social Workers to conduct the research “Buddhism and social work” (2012 – 2015); cooperated with Lund University (Sweden) to implement the topic “Assessing social welfare: Scandinavian and East Asian redistribution models in a global context (2012 – 2015)”; cooperated with Degu University (Korea) to implement the project “Multicultural families” (2013 – 2015). Chairing many national and VNU-Hanoi level projects and especially actively participating in community development research activities. The research group "Social work and social security" led by Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Kim Hoa (Head of the Faculty of Sociology) was awarded a certificate of merit for "Strong research group" by the Director of VNU-Hanoi (May 2014). In addition, the Faculty also cooperated with Memorial University (Canada), experts from the US to open training courses on scientific research methods, fields in social work for graduate students and social work lecturers of the schools.

In the 5-year term (2010 - 2015), implementing the Resolution of the 26th Party Congress of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, under the direct and comprehensive guidance of the Party Committee, the Faculty of Sociology has achieved proud achievements. This is the result of consistency and unity in political and ideological work, creative dynamism in professional work, flexibility, humanity and solidity in personnel work. The activities of the Faculty of Sociology Party Cell are a bright spot, along with the strong development of the collective Party Cells throughout the University, each unit with a distinctive color, contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the University Party Congress.