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Mingyang Zheng is an Assistant Professor at Radford University, School of Social Work.  He received his M.S.W. from Boston University in 2013 and his Ph.D. in Social Work with a minor in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota in 2021. He has experience in practicing social work in the US and China. His research interests include long-term services and supports in community settings, mental health among older adults, and program evaluation and assessment. In his spare time, Mingyang enjoys watching basketball games (Go Lakers!), experimenting with new recipes (often fails miserably), and hanging out with his two daughters (has no choice).

Selected Publications: 

Toft, J., Soffer-Elnekave, R., Calhoun, M., Otis, J., Mendel, J., Zheng, M., Lightfoot, E., & Choy-Brown, M. (accepted). Working Conditions, Professional Discretion and Resistance of Front-Line Social Workers. Social Work.

Toft, J., Soffer-Elnekave, R., Zheng, M., Calhoun, M., & Lightfoot, E. (2025). The Pressures of Neoliberal Managerialism: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Work Supervisors.

Zheng, M., Frasier, P. Y., & Philippi, H. G. (2025). Why health care students say “no” to geriatric care: Insights from the theory of planned behavior. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education

Zheng, M. & DeLiema, M. (2024). Why Plan Ahead? A Focus Group Investigation on Barriers in Advance Financial Care Planning. Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning. DOI: 10.1891/JFCP-2023-0061

Vang, C., Sieng, M., & Zheng, M. (2023). Conceptualizing loneliness among a Hmong older adult group: Using an intersectionality framework. Asian American Journal of Psycholog.

Zheng, M., Kane, A. R., & Lightfoot, E. (2022). Helping older residents Remain in low-income housing: Predictive validity of the Live Well at Home-Rapid Screen (LWAH-RS) in a real-world application. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Lightfoot, E. & Zheng, M. (2021). Mentoring social work PhD students to help re-imagine long-term care. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Kane, A. R., & Zheng, M. (2020). Long-term services and supports. In Franklin, C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Work. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.