Danlin Wu

Professional career

  • 6/2021 until today:
    Research Assistant at the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies (GSU)
    Coordinator of Research Centre on Chinese-European Sport Politics

Academic career

  • 2019 until today:
    PhD studies at the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies (GSU)
    Working title: "The Evolution of Policy Networks in Chinese Sport: The Dialectical Relationships of Actors, Contexts, and Outcomes in the Policy Process"
  • 2017 until 2019
    Master studies International Sport Development and Politcs (GSU)
    Thesis' title: “Understanding Sport Policy-making in China on A Policy Network Perspective: Is the Government Still Taking the Lead over Sporting Issues?”
  • 2015 until 2017
    Bachelor studies at the Wuhan Sport University, PR China
    Thesis' title: “The Experiment of Motivational Music in Swimming Training”

Research Focus

  • Sport politics

Ongoin Projects

  • 07/2022 – today
    Academic coordinator for the Research Center on Chinese-European Sport Politics

 

Mittag, Jürgen und Wu, Danlin (2023). "Friendship through Sport". Inter-Allied Games und Military World Games als transnationale Sportgroßereignisse des Militärs. in M. Elbe, & F. Reichherzer (Hrsg.), Der Sport des Militärs: Perspektiven aus Forschung, Lehre und Praxis (S. 85-103). De Gruyter Oldenburg.

 

Presentations

  • Speaker at the 3rd Sino-German International Academic Forum on Sport Development: “Changing Sports Development: China and Europe – Inventories, Case Studies and Interactions” in Cologne, Germany (topic: Swimming: From Completive to Leisure Swimming?)

  • Speaker at the 8th Sino-German International Academic Forum on Sport Development: “Sport Participation and Urban Transformation in China and Europe” in Beijing, China (online; topic: "Friendship through Sport": Inter-Allied Games and Military World Games as Major Transnational Sporting Events for the Military)

Teaching

  • Lecturer of the Academic Summer School Program of the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies at German Sport University Cologne (2019-2023)