Staff Profile

Biography

Dr. Beatrice Oi-yeung Lam received her PhD in sociology from The University of Manchester. She is interested in studying the processes and dynamics of social stratification and inequalities in relation to education and the family. 

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

• Ageing
• Family, gender and sexuality
• Hong Kong society
• Qualitative research methods
• Social stratification and inequalities
• Sociology of education

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• Lam, B. O. Y., & Chan, W. L. (2023). The informal carer in old age care: Observations in Hong Kong through the lens of critical discourse analysis. Housing and ageing policies in Chinese and global contexts (pp.201-223). Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5382-0_10
• 林藹陽:〈為聽障後輩開創明天的照顧者〉。載平等機會婦女聯席編《照顧無價──家庭照顧者口述故事》，香港：天地圖書，2018，頁77-93。

Journal Articles

• Lam, B. O.-Y., & Tang, H.-H. H. (2024). Qualitative inquiry into the meanings of higher education: Implications for developments in education and social integration in Hong Kong in the post-Covid-19 period. China Perspectives [Online], 137. https://doi.org/10.4000/11y7o
• Lam, B. O.-Y., & Tang, H.-H. H. (2021). Making sense of 'graduate employability' in Hong Kong: A contextualized analysis of experience and interpretations of graduates of self-financing higher education institutions. Journal of Education and Work, 34(1), 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2020.1858229
• Lam, B. O.-Y., Byun, S.-Y., & Lee, M. (2019). Understanding educational inequality in Hong Kong: Secondary school segregation in changing institutional contexts. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(8), 1170-1187. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1642736
• Lee, M., Lam, B. O.-Y., & Madyun, N. (2017). Effects of different-race exposure in school and neighborhood on the reading achievement of Hmong students in the United States. Urban Education, 52(10), 1255-1283. http://doi.org/10.1177/0042085915595092.
• Lam, B. O.-Y. (2016). On the social integration of Chinese immigrants in post-colonial Hong Kong: Rethinking the making of the Hong Kong Person. OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society 6(2), 1-34.
• Lee, M., & Lam, B. O.-Y. (2016). The academic achievement of socioeconomically-disadvantaged immigrant adolescents. International Review of Sociology 26(1), 144-173. http://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2016.1112528.
• Chan, C. W. S., Lam, B. O.-Y., Teng, Y., & Lee, M. (2015). Making sense of divergent perceptions of racial-ethnic discrimination in Hong Kong. Multicultural Education Review 7(1-2), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/2005615X.2015.1048608
• Lee, M., Madyun, N., Lam, B. O.-Y., & Jumale, M. (2014). School contexts and acting white. Schools: Studies in Education 11(1), 122-155. https://doi.org/10.1086/675752

Modified Date: 17 Oct, 2024
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