Staff Profile

Biography

Dr. CHAN Wai Yin joined the School of Arts and Social Sciences, HKMU in 2022. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies and Master of Cultural Studies (Distinction) from Lingnan University, MPhil and BSSc in Government and Public Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  She currently serves as the Programme Leader of Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours in Ageing Society and Services Studies (Programme Code: JS9006), and Stream Leader of Ageing Society and Services Studies, Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours (Programme Code: JS9009). 

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

• Social inequality
• Sociology and politics of health
• Social policy and services
• Ageing
• Death, dying and bereavement

Academic & Professional Experience

Selected Research Projects and Grants  

• 2024: PI, “Fable of the Bees in Our Time: An Inquiry to Recover Assets and Values of Waste Pickers in Hong Kong”, Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) of the Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector 2023/24, Research Grants Council (Project no.: UGC/FDS16/H10/23)
• 2022-Present: Co-I, "Health status and behaviour of residents of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong", commissioned by Caritas Community Development Service
• 2019-2021: PI, "Liveability in rural Sai Kung", commissioned by Sai Kung District Community Centre

Professional Development

• 2024: Certificate in Death, Dying, and Bereavement, conferred by Hong Kong Life and Death Studies Association
• 2023: The Science and Art of Happiness: A Certificate Programme on Positive Psychology and Evidence-based Transformative Practice, conferred by the Greater Good Science Centre, University of California, Berkeley, and the Tsz Shan Institute, Tsz Shan Monastery

 

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• Chan, Shun Hin, Yang, Chin Yi, and Chan, Wai Yin. (2024). Auntie's Wang Jing Temple: The historical space of single women's collective living. In Shandi (ed.), Nan Chung Stories: Forgotten tales of Hong Kong (pp.194-225). Partnership for Nature Education and Conservation. (In Chinese)
• Chan, Wai Yin (2023). Changes in media framing and public responses to smoking and drinking from 1960s to 2000s in Hong Kong. In Ayşe Bilge Gürsoy (ed.), Issues in globalization, culture and media (pp.107-125). DORA Basım-Yayın Dağıtım Ltd.
• Chan, Wai Yin, and Cheng, Wai Edmund (2020). State-society relations in Hong Kong and Macau: A historical institutionalist approach. In Meng U Ieong (ed.), Macau 20 Years after the handover: Changes and challenges under “one country, two systems” (pp.121-134). Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge.
• Chan, Wai Yin (2017). The outbreak and dispersal of the Umbrella Movement: Spontaneity, autonomous, and fragmented. In Edmund Wai Cheng (Ed.), The era of social movements: The trajectory of Hong Kong's contentious politics. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. (In Chinese)
• Ng, Kai-Hon, Wong, Wai-Ho., Lee, Ka-Kiu, Wong, Hung, Ng, Sai-Leung. Lee, Wai-Ying, Leng, Woo, and Chan, Wai Yin (2011). The Pattern of Urban Life in Hong Kong: A District Level Community Study of Sham Shui Po. A consultant report submitted to the Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government.
• Chan, Wai Yin (2010). Smoking prohibition and liquor sale. In Po Keung Hui (Ed.), Rewriting the historical stories of our city (pp. 113-125). Oxford University Press (China). (In Chinese)

Journal Articles

• Cheng, Wai Edmund, and Chan, Wai Yin (2017). Explaining spontaneous occupation: Antecedents, contingencies and spaces in the Umbrella Movement. Social Movement Studies, 16(2), 222–239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2016.1252667
• Chan, Wai Yin, and Ma, Shu Yun (2009). The making of a Chinese head of the WHO: A study of the media discourse on Margaret Chan's contest for the WHO Director-Generalship and its implications for the collective memory of SARS. International Journal of Health Services, 39(3), 587–614. doi: http://doi.org/10.2190/HS.39.3.i
• Chan, Wai Yin, and Ma, Shu Yun (2004). Heritage perservation and sustainability of China's Development, Sustainable Development, 12, 15–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.224
• Ma, Shu Yun, and Chan, Wai Yin (2003). The provision of public goods by a local entrepreneurial state: The case of perservation of the Nanyue relics in China. Journal of Development Studies, 40(1), 119–141. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220380412331293697

Selected Professional & Community Services

• Member, Public and Social Policy Research Centre, School of Arts and Social Sciences,HKMU
• Journal Reviewer: Government and Opposition; Social Movement Studies; Journal of Contemporary Asia; Sustainable Development; Hong Kong Journal of Social Work
• Board of Directors, Grassroots Cultural Hub

Modified Date: 17 Jul, 2024
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