Academic Staff

Criminology

Prof. MANNING Matthew Garnet
Professor / Head
Office
LI 5615
Tel. no.
3442-5218
Overview

Professor Matthew Manning is a criminological economist and future crime scholar. He was previously a full Professor of Criminology at the Australian National University. He has worked within the fields of criminology and economics for two decades. His current research focusses on how new technologies can be exploited by criminals to undertake money laundering, terrorism financing and fraud. Further, his empirical research evaluates strategies that can be employed by criminal justice actors to respond to these new and complex crimes. As a future crime scholar, he is committed to advancing knowledge about: (1) how individuals commit future crimes; (2) the processes that can be adopted to make committing future crimes more difficult, riskier and less rewarding; and (3) the tools that assist government and industry in making strategic economic decisions that create efficiency and enhance return on investment. He has published over 150 book chapters and papers within the fields of criminology, economics and public policy and has developed a number of economic tools that are beginning to incorporate machine learning algorithms. The cost benefit tools are currently hosted and used by a number of government agencies such as the College of Policing U.K (https://www.college.police.uk/research/practical-evaluation-tools). He has also developed online economic APPs to assist criminal justice actors in developing the economic evidence to make informed policy decisions (https://manningcba.digital).

Prof. WONG, Sing Wing Dennis黃成榮
Professor / Discipline Leader
Office
LI 5650
Tel. no.
3442-8831
Overview

Prof. Dennis S.W. WONG, Ph.D., is currently Professor of Criminology & Social Work at Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He served as an associate dean at the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences from 2012-2019 and the Acting University Librarian from 2019-2020. His areas of teaching and research are criminology, youth studies, parents-child relationships, conflict management, and restorative justice. Prof Wong is honorary consultant on youth drugs abuse, school bullying, and offenders’ rehabilitation for governmental organizations in Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. He is one of the founding members of Asian Criminological Society, an active member of Asia Pacific Forum of Restorative Justice, and chairman / board member for a number of non-governmental organizations. Apart from publishing articles in local and international journals, he has published six books related to youth delinquency, school bullying, alternative to prosecution, mediation, and restorative justice. His areas of teaching and research are criminology, youth studies, parent-child relationships, conflict management, and restorative justice.

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Prof. AKARTUNA Eray Arda
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5642
Tel. no.
3442-8765
Prof. WONG, Wing Yee Rebecca王穎怡
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5627
Tel. no.
3442-7069
Overview

Prof Rebecca W.Y. Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong.
Rebecca’s research interests concern the intersections of green criminology,  illegal trade in protected & endangered wildlife, animal abuse,  criminal networks and issues of trust in the underworld. Her work has been supported by the Research Grants Council, the Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, and the Environmental Conservation Fund.
She has published in peer-reviewed journals in the criminology discipline, including British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Criminology (originally called the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology), Trends in Organised Crime, Aggression and Violent Behaviour and Deviant Behavior. Her book The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China: Understanding Distribution Networks received the Distinguished Book Award from the Asian Criminological Society.
Rebecca holds a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford. In collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, she was awarded a Visiting Professorship by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also an associate fellow of the Extra Legal Governance Institute at the University of Oxford.

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Dr. YOUNG, Chi Man Terence楊志文
Senior Teaching Fellow
Office
LI 5630
Tel. no.
3442-9722
Prof. ZHONG, Yueying Lena鍾月英
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5668
Tel. no.
3442-8767
Overview

Prof. Lena Zhong, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interest includes Chinese policing, crime prevention, drug abuse and crime, recidivism, and quantitative analysis of crime data.

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Applied Sociology

Prof. CHEUNG, Chau Kiu Jacky張宙橋
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5667
Tel. no.
3442-8144
Overview

Prof. Jacky Cheung, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interest includes quality of life, moral development, work and management, citizenship, and youth resilience. He is an expert in applied sociological research and particularly specialised in quantitative data and statistical analysis.

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Prof. FUNG, Sai Fu Simon馮世富
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5644
Tel. no.
3442-4311
Overview

Dr. Sai-fu Fung obtained his PhD from the University of Warwick. Dr. Fung teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to social research methods, digital sociology, political sociology, social problems, and issues in Chinese society. His research interests are in the fields of computational social science, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), digital health, and sports.

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Prof. HO, Wing Chung何榮宗
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5662
Tel. no.
3442-8134
Overview

Prof. HO Wing Chung, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interest includes social problems and social, development in Chinese societies, and social and sociological theories.

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Mr. MA, Kun Stephen馬勤
Lecturer
Office
LI 5616
Tel. no.
3442-8838
Overview

Mr. Stephen Ma is a Lecturer of Sociology at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the sociology of the Internet, evaluation research, and sociology of work and organization.

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Prof. TSANG, Yuk ha Eileen曾玉霞
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5637
Tel. no.
3442-8965
Overview

Prof. Eileen Tsang, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interest includes cultural and political sociology of China’s emerging middle class, the sociology of gender and sexuality, sociology of consumption and popular culture, sociology of sex work, and migration, labor, and crime.

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Psychology

Prof. WONG, Wing Kuen Andus黃永權
Associate Professor / Associate Head
Office
LI 5669
Tel. no.
3442-8957
Overview

I worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Education (Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences) and the Institute of Human Performance at the University of Hong Kong before joining the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong in 2013. My research interests include 1) Language processing, 2) Speech production, 3) Speech motor learning and control, 4) Stress and speech performance, 5) Visual word recognition, and 6) Communication disorders. I use both behavioral and cognitive neuroscience approaches in my study.

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Prof. YEUNG, Yuen Lan Dannii楊婉蘭
Professor / Associate Provost (SL)
Office
CYC 6222
Tel. no.
3442-8119
Overview

My research focuses on aging and work, with emphases on emotional well-being of middle-aged workers, and psychological adjustment to retirement.

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Mr. CHAN, Wai Man Raymond陳偉文
Instructor I
Office
LI 5602
Tel. no.
3442-4744
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Prof. CHEN, Hui Fang陳慧芳
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5635
Tel. no.
3442-2972
Overview

Prof. Hui-Fang Chen is currently an Associate Professor in the City University of Hong Kong. She obtained a PhD degree from Quantitative Research Methods from the University of Denver and a Master's degree from Department of Psychology in the National Chung Cheng University with a Certificate of Elementary School Teacher from the Education Bureau in Taiwan. Her research mainly focuses on survey design and response behaviors in survey questionnaires as well as child development. Her research work includes psychometrics, Rasch analysis, item response theory and applied measurement in education, psychology and medicine.

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Prof. HUI, Na Na Anna許娜娜
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5661
Tel. no.
3442-8260
Overview

Creativity has been a fascinating research topic for me as it often opens up new opportunities for interdisciplinary as well as cross cultural study.

Prof. Anna Hui is currently an associate professor and also the coordinator of the BDSS First Year Experience at the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. Research interests include creativity and innovation; motivation and self-regulation, gifted and creativity education, lifespan development in creativity. She also servesd as the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee of Reviewing the Curriculum Guide of Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Development Council of the Education Bureau, HKSAR.

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Dr. IP, Chi Shun Dennis葉智淳
Instructor I
Office
LI 5602
Tel. no.
3442-2697
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Prof. JIANG, Mengyin Maggie姜梦茵
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5620
Tel. no.
3442-8832
Overview

I received my PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford. My research interests are in social cognition, focusing on the impact of social factors (social experiences, culture, etc.) on information processing, as well as the underlying mechanisms of information processing. I use a viariety of research methods such as behavioural, EEG, and surveys.

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Prof. LAI, Chuk Ling Julian黎祝齡
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5664
Tel. no.
3442-4306
Overview

Prof. Julian Lai obtained his Bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Toronto. He joined the City University of Hong Kong to start his research career after graduating from the University of Hong Kong with a Ph.D. in psychoneuroimmunology. In addition to research on the psychophysiology of stress, he also engaged in research on topics associated with personality and social psychology, health psychology, and environmental psychology. One of Prof. Lai's major contributions is the adoption of salivary cortisol as a biomarker to examine the health impact of personal and interpersonal characteristics in Chinese populations. He is also one of the few scholars who pioneered research on the psychosocial determinants of pro-environmental behavior in the Chinese people. His major publications appear primarily in international journals in psychology. Prof. Lai has been serving as an expert reviewer for a number of prestigious journals in psychology and related disciplines. He was the Editor of the official journal of the Hong Kong Psychological Society (2009-2012) and is a former president of the Hong Kong Psychological Society (2004-2005). He has been an honorary research fellow of the Center on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Lai also has extensive experience in teaching and program planning, especially in taught postgraduate programs. He served as the program leader of the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology for a number of years and was in charge of converting the program to the MSocSc in Applied Psychology in 2009. He has been serving as the program leader of the master program since then. Prof. Lai's teaching expertise concentrates in areas such as biological psychology, behavioral neuroscience, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology (e.g., the interaction between the social environment and psychological processes in determining risk perception). He has also served as the external examiner of various courses and programs offered by other universities in Hong Kong.

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Mr. LAU, Ka Bo Gilbert劉家葆
Teaching Consultant
Office
LI 5601
Tel. no.
3442-9553
Prof. LI, Kin Kit Ben李健傑
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5665
Tel. no.
3442-8261
Overview

Kin-Kit (Ben) Li joined the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences (formerly Department of Applied Social Studies) at City University of Hong Kong since 2009. He received his Ph.D. in sport and exercise psychology from Oregon State University in 2008. His research interests include sport and exercise psychology, physical activity promotion, vaccination, social gerontology, health communication, time perspective, and life-course theories.

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Prof. WONG, Mark Lawrence黃怡發
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5636
Tel. no.
3442-8746
Prof. WANG, Xijing王蹊径
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5626
Tel. no.
3442-8262
Overview

Prof. Wang is a social psychologist, focusing on three broad research themes: 1) Objectification and Dehumanization; 2) Immoral Behaviour, Aggression, and Self-Interested Behaviour; 3) Inequality, Social Power, Social Dominance, and Hierarchy.

She uses a combination of methods, including laboratory and online experiments (e.g., face-perception, economic games, and behavioural paradigms), quasi-experiments/ special sample studies, surveys, and using ecological and archival data (e.g., Google Ngram).

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Prof. YE, Shengquan Sam葉盛泉
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5638
Tel. no.
3442-8114
Overview

Sam Ye obtained his PhD from The University of Hong Kong. Before joining City University of Hong Kong, he was a Post-doctoral Fellow in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include human values, social beliefs, positive psychology, and psychometrics.

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Dr. YEUNG Kit Ling Elaine楊潔翎
Teaching Fellow
Office
LI 5602
Tel. no.
3442-8961
Prof. YU, Xiaonan Nancy于肖楠
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5646
Tel. no.
3442-9436
Overview

Prof. Nancy Xiaonan Yu is a health psychologist with training in public health. Her research program has focused on resilience in adversities, by examining the resilience process and associated factors at the individual, dyadic, family, and community levels. Her resilience-oriented studies involve chronic illnesses (e.g., HIV, cancer, coronary heart disease), acculturation (e.g., migration, cross-border adjustment), losses (e.g., parental absence, bereavement), challenges (e.g., discrimination and stigma, parenting stress, aging), and crisis (e.g., natural disasasters). In addition, she has applied the community-based participatory research approach to develop and implement culturally sensitive interventions to promote resilience in stressful populations. With strong passion for interdisciplinary research, Prof. Yu has been working closely with researchers and practitioners in social work, public health, data science, and biomedical science.

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Prof. ZHEN, Shanshan甄珊珊
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5633
Tel. no.
3442-8994
Overview

I received my Ph.D. degree in Psychology from Dept. of Psychology at National University of Singapore. My research spans several areas in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on decision-making and social reasoning in different populations. I use model-based neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI/EEG) and paradigms from behavioral economics to better understand the neurocomputational bases of human decision-making in social contexts.

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Social Work and Counselling

Prof. TAM, Hau Lin Cherry譚巧蓮
Associate Professor / Associate Head
Office
LI 5666
Tel. no.
3442-7748
Overview

Research Interests/Areas

  • Youth related concerns and issues
  • Social work development in China
  • Life of young migrant workers in China
  • Significance of fieldwork practice
  • Qualitative research methods

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Prof. KWOK LAI, Yuk Ching Sylvia 郭黎玉晶
Professor / Associate Dean, SGS
Office
LI 5648
Tel. no.
3442-8976
Overview

Professor Sylvia Kwok is Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences (SS) at the City University of Hong Kong. Sylvia is currently Associate Dean in the Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies. She has served as Associate Head (Postgraduate Education and Research) in SS from 2022 to 2023. She is listed among the top 2% of the most highly cited scientists in Social Work in the world in 2022, according to metrics compiled by Stanford University. Her research mainly focuses on the family ecological and positive psychological factors that are related to anxiety, depression, suicide, and wellbeing of children and adolescents. She has published over 70 papers related to children and adolescent mental health issues, parenting and positive education in high-impact international refereed journals. As she is an expert in positive education and parenting, she has been invited as guest speaker and keynote speaker in different local and international conferences and symposiums. She has got over $70M research grants from UGC and non-UGC funding sources. As the convenor of the Positive Education Laboratory, she has collaborated with over 300 local schools (from pre-primary schools to universities), social welfare agencies, and corporates to promote positive education for the students, teachers, parents, employees, and the community. She has published over 10 manuals on positive education that have been uploaded to the positive education laboratory website http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/ss_posed.

Sylvia was granted the Second Class National Teaching Achievement Award in the 2022 Higher Education (Undergraduate) Award by the Ministry of Education in China, the Teaching Award (Team) by the University Grants Committee in 2021, Teaching Excellence Award Finalist (Individual) in 2021, Teaching Innovation Award (Team) in 2019 and Excellence in Knowledge Transfer Award in 2013 by the City University of Hong Kong. She also got the Distinguished Alumni Award (Social Sciences) from the University of Hong Kong in 2020. Locally, Sylvia is Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Social Work. She has been the assessment panel member of RGC Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector (Humanities and Social Sciences) since 2021. She is also the assessment panel member of the Social Workers Registration Board for qualification recognition review of social work programmes in Hong Kong. Internationally, she is the regional representative lead in the Positive Education Division of the International Positive Psychology Association.

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Prof. LAM, Ka Keung Ilex林家強
Professor
Office
LI 5652
Tel. no.
3442-4277
Prof. WONG, Sing Wing Dennis黃成榮
Professor / Discipline Leader
Office
LI 5650
Tel. no.
3442-8831
Overview

Prof. Dennis S.W. WONG, Ph.D., is currently Professor of Criminology & Social Work at Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He served as an associate dean at the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences from 2012-2019 and the Acting University Librarian from 2019-2020. His areas of teaching and research are criminology, youth studies, parents-child relationships, conflict management, and restorative justice. Prof Wong is honorary consultant on youth drugs abuse, school bullying, and offenders’ rehabilitation for governmental organizations in Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. He is one of the founding members of Asian Criminological Society, an active member of Asia Pacific Forum of Restorative Justice, and chairman / board member for a number of non-governmental organizations. Apart from publishing articles in local and international journals, he has published six books related to youth delinquency, school bullying, alternative to prosecution, mediation, and restorative justice. His areas of teaching and research are criminology, youth studies, parent-child relationships, conflict management, and restorative justice.

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Ms. CHAN, Ka Lai Eudora陳嘉勵
Teaching Consultant
Office
LI 5634
Tel. no.
3442-9223
Prof. CHAN, Siu Ming 陳紹銘
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5631
Tel. no.
3442-7994
Overview

Prof. Siu Ming CHAN worked as a frontline social worker in community settings for eight years before embarking on his academic journey. He served the underprivileged, including homeless people, low-income families living in cubicles and subdivided flats, poor children, and the elderly, through direct service, group work, and community organizing. He also conducted policy research and surveys related to vulnerable groups facing poverty, housing problems, and other community issues.

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Mr. CHAN, Wai Man Raymond陳偉文
Instructor I
Office
LI 5602
Tel. no.
3442-4744
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Dr. CHAN, Yue Kuen Estella 陳裕娟
Instructor I
Office
LI 5602
Tel. no.
3442-8967
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Ms. CHAU, Wai Ping Phyllis周惠萍
Teaching Consultant
Office
LI 5621
Tel. no.
3442-4202
Prof. FUNG, Lai Chu Annis 馮麗姝
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5663
Tel. no.
3442-2923
Overview

FUNG Lai-chu Annis is an Associate Professor in a Social Work and Counselling Discipline. Her research and teaching areas are children and youth in school bullying, aggressive behaviour, peer victimisation, and innovative counselling interventions. She established the Children and Adolescents at Risk Education Laboratory (C.A.R.E. Lab.), which focuses on developing and scientifically evaluating various original interventions to reduce face-to-face aggression and bullying. Approaches such as the cognitive-behavioural approach, the physio-moral approach (e.g., Chinese martial arts and ethics), the neurobiological approach (e.g., Omega-3 supplementation), the social information-processing approach (e.g., storytelling), and the social learning approach (e.g., parenting efficacy) have been adopted to tackle these issues. Over 150 elementary and middle schools have been involved. In responding to social changes and needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, Annis established a new development of Cyber-Joy Enjoy Laboratory under C.A.R.E. Lab. in 2020. Cyberbullying has been a significant concern as students mostly rely on social networks to stay connected to friends and communities; hence, she developed evidence-based intervention based on emotion-focused therapy on cyberbullying and online victimization for young people.

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Dr. IP, Chi Shun Dennis葉智淳
Instructor I
Office
LI 5602
Tel. no.
3442-2697
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Prof. KWAN, Chi Kin 關志健
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5623
Tel. no.
3442-4532
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Dr. KWOK, Kim 郭儉
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5632
Tel. no.
3442-5798
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Ms. LAM, Ying Hing Fly林英卿
Teaching Consultant
Office
LI 5621
Tel. no.
3442-8966
Prof. LIN, Shen Lamson林珅
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5624
Tel. no.
3442-8768
Overview

Prof. Shen (Lamson) Lin received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW). With interdisciplinary training in social work (FIFSW), gerontology (Institute for Life Course & Aging), and population health (Dalla Lana School of Public Health), Lamson's scholarship centers around social determinants of health, minority ageing, health and mental health equity.

More recently, Lamson's research has been using statistical and computational techniques to examine the mechanisms, risk and protective factors, through which the COVID-19 pandemic influences individuals' psychosocial wellbeing (e.g., anxiety disorders, loneliness, stigma, and vaccine hesitancy). As a first-generation college graduate from his family, Lamson recognizes social/structural vulnerability (e.g., racialized identity, migration status, job precairty) in shaping resource distribution, power dynamics and consequantial health inequalities across the human life course.

To date, Lamson has published 19 SCI/SSCI-indexed scholarly articles and his representative papers can be found in top-tier peer-reviewed journals across health and social sciences, including Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Oxford University Press), Ageing & Society (Cambridge University Press), Journal of Social Work, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Prior to joining CityU, he was a course instructor teaching Social Work Practice in Health (MSW postgraduate course) at FIFSW since 2020.

Lamson has received multiple academic awards from professional organizations in North America, including the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) - 2018 Best Abstract Award (Gero-Ed Track), Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)- 2019 Travel Grant, Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers (SRHP)- 2019 Best Original Research Award - and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - 2020 Travel grant for CPHA Conference.

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Ms. LIU Lai Yung Annie廖麗容
Teaching Consultant
Office
LI 5602
Tel. no.
3442-4276
Prof. SHUM Hei Yan Michelle沈希恩
Assistant Professor
Office
LI 5660
Tel. no.
3442-2583
Prof. YEUNG, Wai Keung Jerf 楊偉強
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5639
Tel. no.
3442-9989
Overview

Jerf Yeung joined the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong in 2013. He is a registered social worker and obtained his PhD in social work from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before teaching in university, he has engaged in social work services and related research since he graduated in social work from City University of Hong Kong and worked in the fields of youth, children and family, and elderly services. His research interests include family and children, religion and health, and adolescent health.

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Prof. YOUNG, Kim Wan Daniel楊劍雲
Associate Professor
Office
LI 5618
Tel. no.
3442-8954
Dr. TAM, Wai Yiu Nelson譚偉耀
Teaching Fellow
Office
LI 5601
Tel. no.
3442-8116