Research Expertise

Academic staff in the Department of Social Sciences are actively engaged in research and scholarship in areas of key social concern in Hong Kong, China, and internationally.  With each of us taking our own specific topical and methodological approaches, we share research expertise and interest in several core areas.  See below for links to the profiles, projects, and publications of individual academic staff engaged in research on these areas of interest. 

Business and Economics
Prof YU Wai Mui Christina
Professor (Practice)
Career and Life Planning Education
Field Experience in Teacher Education
Human Competence Conception, Development and Assessment
Business, Entrepreneurship and Personal Financial Education
Pedagogical Strategies and Online Learning Activities

Prof CHIU Wing Kai Stephen
Chair Professor of Sociology
Hong Kong studies
Economic and development sociology
Youth studies (identities and school to work transition)
Social movements
Liberal Studies
Chinese medicine

Dr TAN Weiqiang
Associate Professor
Corporate Social Responsibility, Household finance, Financial Technology, Sustainable Finance
Dr LAW Kim Fai Eric
Senior Lecturer II
Knowledge Management
Learning Community
Personal Financial Management
Educational Leadership
Dr CHU Man Ying Amanda
Assistant Professor
Data Privacy
Business Ethics
Risk Management
Applied Statistics
Dr CHENG Wan Suen Vincent
Lecturer I
Student-centred Pedagogies
Competencies of Business Teachers
Entrepreneurship Education
Dr CHENG Wai Lun Eddie
Assistant Professor
Transfer of training
Research methods and analyses
Teaching and learning
Construction economics
Project management
Citizenship and Education
Prof CHIU Wing Kai Stephen
Chair Professor of Sociology
Hong Kong studies
Economic and development sociology
Youth studies (identities and school to work transition)
Social movements
Liberal Studies
Chinese medicine

Mr BONG Ngan Wing Adam
Lecturer I
Research Interest
Dr PAN Suyan
Associate Professor
Sociology of Education
Theories of Development (including Modernization, Dependency, World-System, and Globalization discourses)
International Academic Mobility
International Educational Relations
Governance, Legislation and Educational Policymaking
Citizenship and Citizenship Education
China Studies
Dr LAW Kim Fai Eric
Senior Lecturer II
Knowledge Management
Learning Community
Personal Financial Management
Educational Leadership
Dr CHENG Wan Suen Vincent
Lecturer I
Student-centred Pedagogies
Competencies of Business Teachers
Entrepreneurship Education
Politics and Governance
Prof HARRIS, Paul
Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies
Global environmental politics, policy and ethics.
Climate change, including international governance of climate change, climate ethics and justice, the politics and foreign policy of climate change, and American and Chinese climate change policies
Prof CHEUNG Tsan Yin Peter
Head of Department & Professor (Practice)
Public policy
Public policy process in Hong Kong
Politics and governance in China
Relations between Hong Kong and South China
Dr WONG Yee Hang Mathew
Assistant Professor
Income inequality
Comparative politics
Democracy
Asian politics
Youth development
Dr MOK Ka Tung Francis
Assistant Professor
Moral responsibility of civilian participants in politics/political movements in totalitarian regimes.
The intellectual foundations of the idea of pragmatic politics.
The moral foundation of public support of homeownership.
Dr LAW Kam Yee
Associate Professor
Political sociology of East Asian societies
Geopolitics of Laos
Political relations between Hong Kong and Taiwan
Integration of South Asian population in Hong Kong
Dr HUI Lai Hang Dennis
Assistant Professor
Urban Geography
Sustainable Development
Dr HO Ka Ki Lawrence
Assistant Professor
History and sociology of policing,
Comparative policing practices
Public order management
Criminal justice systems
Public policies
The politics and sociology of sports
Dr CHAN Yiu Ming Gordon
Lecturer I
Corporate and Commercial Law
Financial Regulation
Legal Reforms in China
Urban and Environmental Affairs and Climate Change
Prof JIM Chi Yung, BH, JP
Research Chair Professor of Geography & Environmental Science
Urban ecology, urban biodiversity and nature conservation
Urban forest and soil management for arboriculture
Urban climate, thermal comfort and climate-change adaptation
Urban green infrastructure as nature-based solutions
Urban spatial-environmental planning
Prof HARRIS, Paul
Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies
Global environmental politics, policy and ethics.
Climate change, including international governance of climate change, climate ethics and justice, the politics and foreign policy of climate change, and American and Chinese climate change policies
Dr TAN Weiqiang
Associate Professor
Corporate Social Responsibility, Household finance, Financial Technology, Sustainable Finance
Dr PEI Qing
Associate Head of Department & Associate Professor
Human and Environmental Geography
Environmental Humanities and Environmental Economics
Geo-Statistics and its Application
Dr MOK Ka Tung Francis
Assistant Professor
Moral responsibility of civilian participants in politics/political movements in totalitarian regimes.
The intellectual foundations of the idea of pragmatic politics.
The moral foundation of public support of homeownership.
Dr MA Kin Hang Matt
Lecturer I
Popular religion in south China
Death management in Hong Kong
Intangible cultural heritage
Social history of Hong Kong
Dr LIU Shuwen Karen
Senior Lecturer II
Tourism and Sustainable Development
Nature-based Tourism
Tourism and Climate Change
Cultural Tourism
Dr CHOW Sin Yin Alice
Associate Head of Department (L&T) & Assistant Professor
Urban form and travel
Excess commuting
Sustainable mobility
Transit-oriented development
Environmental behaviour
Geographical education
Youth, Gender and Social Transformation
Prof CHIU Wing Kai Stephen
Chair Professor of Sociology
Hong Kong studies
Economic and development sociology
Youth studies (identities and school to work transition)
Social movements
Liberal Studies
Chinese medicine

Dr TO Wai Chun Clara
Assistant Professor
Gender studies
Migration studies
Family studies
Chinese societies
Intergenerational relations
Dr PAN Suyan
Associate Professor
Sociology of Education
Theories of Development (including Modernization, Dependency, World-System, and Globalization discourses)
International Academic Mobility
International Educational Relations
Governance, Legislation and Educational Policymaking
Citizenship and Citizenship Education
China Studies
Dr MA Kin Hang Matt
Lecturer I
Popular religion in south China
Death management in Hong Kong
Intangible cultural heritage
Social history of Hong Kong
Dr CHAN Kit Wa Anita
Associate Professor
Gender and masculinities Studies
Gender and sexuality issues in Education
Family studies
Migration studies
Qualitative research methods