Department of Sociology & Social Policy
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People

Professor AU YEUNG Tat Chor

Associate Professor

Contact

Tel: (852) 2616 7209
Fax: (852) 2456 0737
Email: [email protected]

Office

WYL230, Dorothy Y L Wong Building
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

Biography

Tat Chor Au-Yeung obtained his PhD in social policy from the University of Sheffield. Before doing the postgraduate study, he worked as a community organiser advocating policy changes for poverty reduction. Prior to joining Lingnan University in 2019, he had taught social work courses at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include social security, labour market policies, and precarious employment. He also extensively collaborates with NGOs and unions to promote social and labour rights in Hong Kong and beyond.

Areas of Interest
  • Social protection, employment, and labour market policies
  • Precarity, gig economy, and platform work
  • In-work benefits and activation policy
  • Social policy ideas and welfare discourses
  • Community development and policy practice 
     
Education

BSSc (CUHK); PhD (Sheffield); Registered Social Worker

Journal Articles


Au-Yeung, T. C. (2026). Social protection, labour regulation and market creation: welfare capitalism’s institutional embeddedness of platform work and services in Hong Kong. Journal of Asian Public Policy, Latest Articles, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2026.2656777. 


Huang, S. & Au-Yeung, T. C. (2026). Professional and regulatory logics of care: Unravelling the institutional logics of personal care workers’ well-being failure. Social Science & Medicine, 403(119446), 1-11. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119446


Au-Yeung, T. C. & Chan, K. K. (2026). The age-negotiated configuration of welfare conditionality: Implementing employment service as the microfoundation of extending job-seeking lives in Hong Kong. Social Policy & Society, FirstView, 1-17. DOI: 10.1017/S1474746426101419


Leung, L., Au-Yeung, T. C., & Zhang, Y. (2026). “We are just after the company”: tactical resistances of (racial minority) gig workers in Hong Kong. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 27(1), 39-55. DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2025.2574748


Au-Yeung, T. C., Chan, C., & Tsui, A. (2025). Contractual restriction, business model and institutional support: the multilevel configuration of platform-mediated care work and care precarity in Hong Kong. Competition & Change, OnlineFirst, 1-21. DOI: 10.1177/10245294251350352


Ming, K., Au-Yeung, T. C. & Arat, G. (2025). Social risks, platform economy and welfare regime: Evidence from platform workers’ views in Hong Kong. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, Latest Articles, 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/29949769.2025.2490040


Au-Yeung, T. C., Chan, C. K., Ming, C. K. K. & Tsui, W. Y. A. (2025). The gig economy, platform work, and social policy: food delivery workers’ occupational welfare dilemma in Hong Kong. Journal of Social Policy, 54(2), 673-691. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279423000673


Lai, R., Au-Yeung, T. C. & Shu, C. (2025). One Country, Two Governances: A Comparative Study on Policy Intervention of Informal Housing in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 41(1), 34-48. DOI: 10.1017/ics.2025.21


Chan. S. M., Chen, A., Wu, Y., Tang, Y. K., Au-Yeung, T. C. & Tam, N. W. (2025) The impact of tenancy control on housing precarity in Hong Kong: A longitudinal study of subdivided unit residents. Cities, 158, 105693. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105693


Au-Yeung, T. C., Wong, H., Tang, V. Chan, S. M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). When means-testing meets work-testing: A multi-level institutional analysis of claiming in-work benefits in Hong Kong. International Journal of Social Welfare, 33(2), 457-470. DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.12608


Chan, K. K. & Au-Yeung, T. C. (2024). Navigating the challenges of extending working life: A study of employment support services for older workers in Hong Kong. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 44(11/12), 1060-1074. DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-03-2024-0132


Au-Yeung, T. C. (2023). The normative construction of and contestation over in-work benefits in Hong Kong: A moral economy approach. Social Policy & Society, 22(2), 209-225. DOI: 10.1017/S147474642100035X


Chan, S. M., Wong, H., Au-Yeung, T. C., & Li, S. (2023). Impact of multi-dimensional precarity on rough sleeping: Evidence from Hong Kong. Habitat International, 136, 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102831


Au-Yeung, T. C. & Qiu, J. (2022). Institutions, occupations and connectivity: The embeddedness of gig work and the platform-mediated labour market in Hong Kong. Critical Sociology, 48(7-8), 1169-1187. DOI: 10.1177/08969205221090581


Chan, S. M., Wong, H., Au-Yeung, T. C., Huo, X., & Gao, Q. (2022). Impact of poverty stigma on negative affect among welfare recipients: Path analysis on Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 15(1), 145–164. DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2020.1806428


Au-Yeung, T. C. (2022). How are employers represented in and affected by the policymaking of in-work benefits? Policy stakeholders’ views in Hong Kong. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 30(3), 230-249. DOI: 10.1332/175982721X16497618415259


Chan, S. M., Au-Yeung, T. C., Wong, H., Chung, R. Y. N., & Chung, G. K. K. (2021). Long working hours, precarious employment and anxiety symptoms among working Chinese population in Hong Kong. Psychiatric Quarterly, 92(4), 1745-1757. DOI: 10.1007/s11126-021-09938-3


Chan, K. K. & Au-Yeung T. C. (2021). Impact of precarious employment on retirement planning for young workers and their parents: the case of Hong Kong. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 41(11/12), 1278-1289. DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-07-2020-0265


Chan, S. M., Wong, H, Chung, R. & Au-Yeung, T. C. (2021). Association of living density with anxiety and stress: A cross-sectional population study in Hong Kong. Health & Social Care in the Community, 29(4). DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13136


Au-Yeung, T. C. & Chan, K. K. (2020). Crafting the financial-subject: A qualitative study of young workers’ experiences in financialised pension investment in Hong Kong. Journal of Social Policy, 49(2), 323-341. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279419000345


Wong, V. & Au-Yeung, T. C. (2019). Autonomous precarity or precarious autonomy? Dilemmas of young workers in Hong Kong. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 30(2), 241-641. DOI: 10.1177/1035304619838976 


Wong, V. & Au-Yeung, T. C. (2019). Expediting youth’s entry into employment whilst overlooking precariousness: Flexi-employability and disciplinary activation in Hong Kong. Social Policy & Administration, 53(5), 793-809. DOI: 10.1111/spol.12418


Wong, V. & Au-Yeung, T. C. (2018). How do ideas and discourses construct youth policies: The case of Hong Kong. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 38(3/4), 280-294. DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-08-2017-0104

 

Books and book chapters


Au-Yeung, T. C. & Li, Y. H. (2021). Severance Payment and CSSA as the Unemployment Protection in Hong Kong. Policy Bulletin, 29, 4-7. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Council of Social Service. (in Chinese)


Au-Yeung, T. C. (2019). The Principle, Limitation, and Advocacy of CSSA Review. Policy Bulletin, 27, 4-7. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Council of Social Service. (in Chinese)


Au-Yeung, T. C. (2019). Community Development, Social Work and Social Policy: Challenging the Authoritarian Neoliberalism. In Community Development Resource Book. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Council of Social Service. (in Chinese)


Au-Yeung, T. C. & Wong, W. P. (2017). The Unfinished Social Security in Hong Kong: A Critical Introduction (未完成的香港社會保障：批判的導論). Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company. (in Chinese)


Au-Yeung, T. C. & Shiu, K. C. (2015). Politics of ‘Hea”: A Cultural Perspective. In Shiu, K. C. & Leung, S. K. (Eds.), Making Sense of Young People in Hong Kong: Discourse and Dialogue (悠關青春：青年工作的論述與對話). Hong Kong: Centre for Youth Research and Practice, Hong Kong Baptist University. (In Chinese)


Au-Yeung, T. C. (2013). The Making and Alleviation of In-work Poverty: The Changing Labour and Welfare regimes in Hong Kong. In Law, K. Y. & Cheng, Y. S. (Eds), On the Chessboard: Donald Tsang’s Legacy for CY Leung (留給梁振英的棋局：通析曾蔭權時代). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. (in Chinese)

 

Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer

  • Journal of Social Policy
  • Social Policy & Administration
  • Social Policy & Society
  • Competition & Change
  • Gender, Work & Organization
  • British Journal of Social Work
  • Journal of Contemporary Asia
  • Journal of Asian Public Policy
  • International Journal of Social Welfare 
  • Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
  • Global Social Policy
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
  • Social Sciences & Humanities Open
  • Hong Kong Journal of Social Work
     
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Teaching Subjects (Academic Year: 2026 - 2027)

1st Term

  • SOC3342: Non-Profit Organizations and the Voluntary Sector
     

2nd Term

  • SOC3327: Social Welfare and Social Problems in HK
  • SOC4340: Digitisation and Datafication of Social Policy

 

Supervision

  • Chief supervisor: Ms. AWUKU Emefa Tonorgbevi (PhD Student), Ms. Cheung Suet Ying (MPhil Student)
  • Co-supervisor: Mr. MING Cham Kit (PhD Student)