Staff

• Professor Dickson Chak Kwan CHAN

Programme Director

Research Professor and Director of Asia Pacific Institute of Aging Studies; MA in Social & Community Work Studies (Bradford, UK); PhD Social Policy (Sheffield, UK)

Research Areas: Social security; Caregivers; poverty; comparative social policy

• Dr Padmore Adusei AMOAH

Associate Programme Director

Research Assistant Professor of the School of Graduate Studies and Asia Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies; BSc (KUNST, Ghana); MPhil (NTNU, Norway); PhD (Lingnan University)

Research Areas: Population Health and Health Services Research; Social Epidemiology and Sexual Health Studies

• Dr Vera Mun Yu TANG

Admissions Coordinator

Research Assistant Professor of the Asia Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies; BSSc, MPhil, PhD, (CUHK)

Research Areas: Poverty and Social Security; Social Capital and Social Exclusion; Well-being and Quality of Life; Grandparenting; Program Evaluation

• Professor Ka Ho MOK

Vice-President of Lingnan University, Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies; BA (CityU); MPhil (CUHK); PhD (LSE, London)

Research Areas: Comparative Higher Education Policy and Governance; Comparative Social Policy and Governance; Development Studies in East Asia

• Professor Albert Wing Nang LEUNG

Adjunct Professor of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies

Research Areas: History & culture of Chinese Medicine; clinical Chinese Medicine; applications of Chinese Medicine in Gerontology; anticancer drugs; Chinese Medicine education

• Professor David PHILLIPS

Lam Woo & Co Ltd Chair Professor of Social Policy of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy; BScEcon, PhD (Wales)

Research areas: Social Gerontology; Social Epidemiology; Asia-Pacific Population and Development; Housing, Services and Health Care

• Dr Albert KO

Director, Office of Service-Learning; BSc, MSc (PSU) MPhil, PhD (HKU)

Research areas: robot-assisted search and rescue systems, emergency engineering, appropriate technologies for humanitarian relief, and emergency water and sanitation systems

• Dr Eric Wing-kuen SEE-TO

Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Computing and Decision Sciences; Programme Director of Master of Science in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management; BEng (CUHK), MBA (HKU), PHD (HKUST)

Research areas: Healthcare Analytics; Data Science; Big Data; Finance Analytics; Marketing Analytics

• Dr Zhuoyi WEN

Research Assistant Professor of the Asia Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, BA (SYSU); MPHil (SYSU); PhD (CityU)

Research areas: Higher Education; Social Policy; Public Policy and Management

• Professor Maggie Ka-wai LAU

Research Associate Professor of the School of Graduate Studies and Asia Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies; Programme Director of Doctor of Policy Studies; BA, MPhil (CityU), PhD (York)

Research areas: Education and Equality; Health promotion; Poverty and Social Exclusion; Child Poverty and Child Well-Being; Adolescent Health Behaviours; and Migration

• Professor Stefan KÜHNER

Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy; Programme Director of Master of Social Sciences in Comparative Social Policy (International); MA (York), PhD (York)

Research areas: Comparative and Global Social Policy; Pooled Time Series Cross Section Analysis; Qualitative Comparative Analysis

• Professor Ada Hiu-kan WONG

Associate Professor of Teaching of the Department of Marketing and International Business; Programme Director of Master of Social Sciences in Organisational Psychology and Education Management; MPhil, PhD (PolyU, Hong Kong)

Research areas: Marketing capabilities in transition economies; Supply chain management; Distance effects on marketing strategy; Marketing orientation; Social marketing; Practical significance in academic research

Visiting Professors and Supporting Practitioners of the Programme

• Professor Yu-Cheung WONG

Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong; BSoc (HKU), M. Soc Sc. (HKU), PhD, (HKU)

Research areas: Digitialisation and societies; social insurance; child protection; inclusive societies; disability

• Dr Winnie TANG

Smart City Consortium, Hong Kong (Practitioner)

• Dr Jie LEI

Associate Professor in Social Work, School of Sociology & Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Research areas: Professionalism of social work; social assistance and child protection