Dr TANG, Hei Hang Hayes    鄧希恒 博士
Assistant Professor
Department of Education Policy and Leadership
Contact
ORCiD
0000-0001-7386-3892
Phone
(852) 2948 8453
Email
hhhtang@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Scopus ID
56206152400
Research Interests

Research interests

  • Sociology of Education (especially Sociological Role of Education in the age of Innovation, Entrepreneurialism and Globalisation)
  • Higher Education
  • Youth Engagement, Educated Youth and Public Policy
  • Academic Entrepreneurialism ('Entrepreneurial Universities'), Scholarship of Engagement/Application and Impact of Universities
  • Academic Profession and Its Connections with Other Professions (including Teaching Profession/ Schools)
  • Education Governance and Policy Innovation in the Age of Global Inequalities, Populism and Authoritarianism


Teaching Interests
  • Future Skills Development and Reflections in Higher Education
  • Democracy and Education
  • Teacher Professionalism and Academic Profession
  • University General Education and Liberal Education
  • Sociology of Education


External Appointments

2023- Secretary, The Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA)

2023-26 Academic Assessor, China's Development, Hong Kong and the National Security Law, HKU SPACE Community College, The University of Hong Kong

2023-26 External Examiner, Certificate in Digital Brand Communication (Senior Secondary Applied Learning), School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2023 Invited speaker, The role of world-class universities in entrepreneurial ecosystem: China's Greater Bay Area and Hong Kong's knowledge profession. Special Public Policy Research (SPPR) seminar on innovation and entrepreneurship education and ecosystem policy. City University of Hong Kong, March 10, 2023

2023 Reviewer, Society

2023 External Reviewer, Diploma in Foundation Studies Programme, HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College

2023 Organizing Committee Member, the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) International Conference 2023

2022 Reviewer, International Sociology

2022 Reviewer, Asian Studies Review

2022 Professional Learning Speaker, Harrow School (AISL Academy) "New gains and bright spots from the global pandemic: Leading academic entrepreneurialism for innovation and future-oriented education".

2022 Reviewer, Transactions on Education

2022 Reviewer, BMC Primary Care

2022- Executive Committee Member, The Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA)

2022 Committee Member, Conference Programme Committee, The International Conference on Applied Education, Technology and Innovation (AETI) 2022 .

2022 Reviewer, Learned Publishing

2022 Reviewer, China Perspectives

2021- Programme Leader, Cambridge International Diploma in Educational Leadership, Cambridge Assessment International Education

2021 International Keynote Speaker for the speech "Global Trends in Education in the Post-Pandemic Setting: Leading Innovation and Academic Entrepreneurialism", The Asian Center of Education, Research, and Training for Innovation (ACERT), December 20, 2021

2021 Invited speaker, "Knowledge Exchange as response to Academic Entrepreneurialism: A Typology of Universities and Institutional Analysis", International Forum Series (Globalisation, Education and Work FRG/Faculty Research Group), Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia, August 25, 2021

2021 External Reviewer, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC)

2021- Reviewer, International Journal of Educational Development (IJED)

2021 Reviewer, Education as Change

2021- Reviewer, Higher Education Forum

2021 Invited Speaker for the professional development talk "Beyond Academic - Vocational Dichotomy: The Role of Innovative Teachers in Enhancing Future - oriented Learning Engagement", CLAP - TECH Pathway, Teachers' Learning Community Gathering, April 9, 2021

2021 Guest Lecturer, "Democratising Higher Education or Dancing with Educational Desire? Some Issues and Debates about ‘Massification’ of Post - secondary Education in Hong Kong", The Chinese University of Hong Kong (PEDU 6208: Current Issues in Educational Administration and Policy), March 26, 2021

2020- Awards Committee Member, Higher Education Special Interest Group, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

2020- Research Fellow, Hong Kong Benchmarks for Career and Life Development/ CLAP for Youth (Phase II)

2020-2024 Part Time Consultant for CLAP - TECH Pathway Project (a project which empowers youth for the new - collar jobs in information and communications technology and STEM industries in Hong Kong)

2020 External Member, Academic Committee, Advanced Diploma in Communication and Culture, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2020- Reviewer, Higher Education

2020- Reviewer, International Studies in Sociology of Education

2020 Organizing Committee Member, the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) International Conference 2021

2020 External Thesis Examiner, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia

2020 Reviewer for scholarly book proposal, Routledge [Taylor & Francis Group] (Book Series of Education and Society in China)

2020 Invited Speaker for the paper "University Knowledge Exchange in a Global City: Perspectives from Academic Profession", RIHE 24th Open Seminar, Research Institute of Higher Education (RIHE), Hiroshima University, Japan

2020 Reviewer, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

2019- Reviewer, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

2019- Associate Editor (Sociology and Education), Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

2019- Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education

2019 Reviewer, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education

2019 Reviewer, Educational Review

2019 Reviewer, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

2019 Reviewer, The Australian Educational Researcher

2019 Reviewer, Progress Report for University Grants Committee's (UGC) Funding Scheme for Teaching and Learning Related Proposals, Hong Kong SAR

2019- Reviewer, Higher Education Quarterly

2019- Editorial Board Member, Chinese Education and Society

2019-2021 External member, Academic Committee, The University of Western Australia’s Bachelor of Arts programmes, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2019- Reviewer, Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education

2018 Keynote Speaker for the Institutional Ethnography Colloquium Seminar, 4th - 5th December, McGill University, Canada

2018 Reviewer for conference paper submission, World Education Research Association (WERA) World Congress 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

2018 Reviewer for scholarly book proposal, Springer Nature (Book Series of Higher Education in Asia)

2018- Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC), The Education University of Hong Kong

2018- Reviewer, SAGE Open

2018- Reviewer, International Journal of Educational Management

2018 Member, Review Committee, Hong Kong Educational Research Association International Conference 2018, Hong Kong

2018 External Reviewer, Research Grants Council's (RGC) Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), The Open University of Hong Kong

2018 External Reviewer, Research Grants Council's (RGC) Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), Tung Wah College

2018- Reviewer, Multicultural Education Review

2018- Reviewer, Educational Research for Policy and Practice

2017 Ad-hoc reviewer, Tertiary Education and Management

2016 Mentor, Startup Weekend HK: Social Innovation, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

2016- Reviewer, Journal of Research in International Education

2016- Reviewer, Australian Journal of Teacher Education

2016- Reviewer, Australian Journal of Education

2016- Reviewer, Asia Pacific Education Review

2016- Reviewer, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development

2016- Reviewer, Chinese Education and Society

2015 Invited Speaker for the Seminar "Seeing China's Governance from Hong Kong Youth Perspective", Fulbright - Hays Seminars Abroad, National Committee on United States - China Relations, USA

2014 Reviewer for conference paper submission, Higher Education SIG, 59th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Washington D.C. 2015

2014 Reviewer, Policy and Society

2014- Reviewer, Asian Education and Development Studies

2013- Reviewer, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

2013- Reviewer, Higher Education Teaching and Learning Review

2013-14 Organising Committee, Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong Annual Conference 2014 “Policy and Educational Development in a Global Context”

2011 International Advisory Board, Higher Education Teaching and Learning

2010-2015 Teaching staff representative, Academic Committee, The University of Western Australia’s Bachelor of Arts programmes, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2009 Reviewer, Research Studies in Education

Other Activities

Tang, H.H.H. (2022, July 15). Hong Kong needs young people who can imagine the future to keep the city competitive and thriving. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3185132/hong-kong-needs-young-people-who-can-imagine-future-keep-city

Personal Profile

A sociologist, Dr Hayes Tang is interested in the fields of educational administration and policy, higher education, academic profession and youth studies. His research reconsiders the sociological role of higher education in the rise of 'academic entrepreneurialism', focussing on East Asia. He is committed to create new knowledge in application for better education governance and policy innovation in the age of global inequalities. He aspires to build lifelong partnership with students and professionals so as to enlighten his analysis on educational development and policy anew with fresh perspectives, along with greater social impact and professional relevance. Recently completed two GRF projects (General Research Fund by Hong Kong Research Grants Council), he is Assistant Professor of Department of Education Policy and Leadership, and Programme Leader of MA in Leading Innovative Learning Organizations (LILO) at the Education University of Hong Kong, as well as Programme Leader of Cambridge Professional Development Qualification (International Diploma of Educational Leadership accreditation). He is completing another GRF project "Reconsidering Academic Entrepreneurialism in East Asia: Diverse Voices and Critical Insights from the Academic Profession of Flagship Universities”. Meanwhile he completed a PPR project (Public Policy Research by the HKSAR Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office) on youth and aspirations in Hong Kong in 2020. He serves as Associate Editor (Sociology and Education) of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (SSCI-indexed), Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education (the official journal of Comparative and International Education Society's Higher Education Special Interest Group), and is on the Editorial Board of Chinese Education & Society (Taylor & Francis).


On top of scholarly research, he considers education a commitment imperative to an academic life. Championing the spirit of liberal arts education, Hayes was presented at the start of his academic career the Outstanding Teacher Award by the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong in 2012. On issues about education, innovation and youth engagement, he was interviewed by journalism including ARTE (Association relative à la télévision européenne) (Franco-German channel), The Straits Times, South China Morning Post (SCMP), Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK, Radio 3), China Daily and D100 Radio. Upon invitation, he delivered a Fulbright-Hays seminar for a delegation of American school teachers during their visit to The University of Hong Kong in August 2015. The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad are hosted by the National Committee on United States-China Relations, USA.


In service of knowledge exchange and transfer, Dr Hayes Tang welcomes media consultation, external membership, community/professional seminars and commissioned R&D projects. The key focus of his scholarship is to innovate knowledge for education, social impact and global citizenship. He can be contacted at hhhtang@eduhk.hk


Research Interests

Research interests

  • Sociology of Education (especially Sociological Role of Education in the age of Innovation, Entrepreneurialism and Globalisation)
  • Higher Education
  • Youth Engagement, Educated Youth and Public Policy
  • Academic Entrepreneurialism ('Entrepreneurial Universities'), Scholarship of Engagement/Application and Impact of Universities
  • Academic Profession and Its Connections with Other Professions (including Teaching Profession/ Schools)
  • Education Governance and Policy Innovation in the Age of Global Inequalities, Populism and Authoritarianism


Teaching Interests

  • Future Skills Development and Reflections in Higher Education
  • Democracy and Education
  • Teacher Professionalism and Academic Profession
  • University General Education and Liberal Education
  • Sociology of Education


External Appointments

2023- Secretary, The Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA)

2023-26 Academic Assessor, China's Development, Hong Kong and the National Security Law, HKU SPACE Community College, The University of Hong Kong

2023-26 External Examiner, Certificate in Digital Brand Communication (Senior Secondary Applied Learning), School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2023 Invited speaker, The role of world-class universities in entrepreneurial ecosystem: China's Greater Bay Area and Hong Kong's knowledge profession. Special Public Policy Research (SPPR) seminar on innovation and entrepreneurship education and ecosystem policy. City University of Hong Kong, March 10, 2023

2023 Reviewer, Society

2023 External Reviewer, Diploma in Foundation Studies Programme, HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College

2023 Organizing Committee Member, the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) International Conference 2023

2022 Reviewer, International Sociology

2022 Reviewer, Asian Studies Review

2022 Professional Learning Speaker, Harrow School (AISL Academy) "New gains and bright spots from the global pandemic: Leading academic entrepreneurialism for innovation and future-oriented education".

2022 Reviewer, Transactions on Education

2022 Reviewer, BMC Primary Care

2022- Executive Committee Member, The Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA)

2022 Committee Member, Conference Programme Committee, The International Conference on Applied Education, Technology and Innovation (AETI) 2022 .

2022 Reviewer, Learned Publishing

2022 Reviewer, China Perspectives

2021- Programme Leader, Cambridge International Diploma in Educational Leadership, Cambridge Assessment International Education

2021 International Keynote Speaker for the speech "Global Trends in Education in the Post-Pandemic Setting: Leading Innovation and Academic Entrepreneurialism", The Asian Center of Education, Research, and Training for Innovation (ACERT), December 20, 2021

2021 Invited speaker, "Knowledge Exchange as response to Academic Entrepreneurialism: A Typology of Universities and Institutional Analysis", International Forum Series (Globalisation, Education and Work FRG/Faculty Research Group), Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia, August 25, 2021

2021 External Reviewer, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC)

2021- Reviewer, International Journal of Educational Development (IJED)

2021 Reviewer, Education as Change

2021- Reviewer, Higher Education Forum

2021 Invited Speaker for the professional development talk "Beyond Academic - Vocational Dichotomy: The Role of Innovative Teachers in Enhancing Future - oriented Learning Engagement", CLAP - TECH Pathway, Teachers' Learning Community Gathering, April 9, 2021

2021 Guest Lecturer, "Democratising Higher Education or Dancing with Educational Desire? Some Issues and Debates about ‘Massification’ of Post - secondary Education in Hong Kong", The Chinese University of Hong Kong (PEDU 6208: Current Issues in Educational Administration and Policy), March 26, 2021

2020- Awards Committee Member, Higher Education Special Interest Group, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

2020- Research Fellow, Hong Kong Benchmarks for Career and Life Development/ CLAP for Youth (Phase II)

2020-2024 Part Time Consultant for CLAP - TECH Pathway Project (a project which empowers youth for the new - collar jobs in information and communications technology and STEM industries in Hong Kong)

2020 External Member, Academic Committee, Advanced Diploma in Communication and Culture, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2020- Reviewer, Higher Education

2020- Reviewer, International Studies in Sociology of Education

2020 Organizing Committee Member, the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) International Conference 2021

2020 External Thesis Examiner, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia

2020 Reviewer for scholarly book proposal, Routledge [Taylor & Francis Group] (Book Series of Education and Society in China)

2020 Invited Speaker for the paper "University Knowledge Exchange in a Global City: Perspectives from Academic Profession", RIHE 24th Open Seminar, Research Institute of Higher Education (RIHE), Hiroshima University, Japan

2020 Reviewer, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

2019- Reviewer, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

2019- Associate Editor (Sociology and Education), Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

2019- Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education

2019 Reviewer, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education

2019 Reviewer, Educational Review

2019 Reviewer, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

2019 Reviewer, The Australian Educational Researcher

2019 Reviewer, Progress Report for University Grants Committee's (UGC) Funding Scheme for Teaching and Learning Related Proposals, Hong Kong SAR

2019- Reviewer, Higher Education Quarterly

2019- Editorial Board Member, Chinese Education and Society

2019-2021 External member, Academic Committee, The University of Western Australia’s Bachelor of Arts programmes, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2019- Reviewer, Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education

2018 Keynote Speaker for the Institutional Ethnography Colloquium Seminar, 4th - 5th December, McGill University, Canada

2018 Reviewer for conference paper submission, World Education Research Association (WERA) World Congress 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

2018 Reviewer for scholarly book proposal, Springer Nature (Book Series of Higher Education in Asia)

2018- Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC), The Education University of Hong Kong

2018- Reviewer, SAGE Open

2018- Reviewer, International Journal of Educational Management

2018 Member, Review Committee, Hong Kong Educational Research Association International Conference 2018, Hong Kong

2018 External Reviewer, Research Grants Council's (RGC) Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), The Open University of Hong Kong

2018 External Reviewer, Research Grants Council's (RGC) Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), Tung Wah College

2018- Reviewer, Multicultural Education Review

2018- Reviewer, Educational Research for Policy and Practice

2017 Ad-hoc reviewer, Tertiary Education and Management

2016 Mentor, Startup Weekend HK: Social Innovation, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

2016- Reviewer, Journal of Research in International Education

2016- Reviewer, Australian Journal of Teacher Education

2016- Reviewer, Australian Journal of Education

2016- Reviewer, Asia Pacific Education Review

2016- Reviewer, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development

2016- Reviewer, Chinese Education and Society

2015 Invited Speaker for the Seminar "Seeing China's Governance from Hong Kong Youth Perspective", Fulbright - Hays Seminars Abroad, National Committee on United States - China Relations, USA

2014 Reviewer for conference paper submission, Higher Education SIG, 59th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Washington D.C. 2015

2014 Reviewer, Policy and Society

2014- Reviewer, Asian Education and Development Studies

2013- Reviewer, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

2013- Reviewer, Higher Education Teaching and Learning Review

2013-14 Organising Committee, Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong Annual Conference 2014 “Policy and Educational Development in a Global Context”

2011 International Advisory Board, Higher Education Teaching and Learning

2010-2015 Teaching staff representative, Academic Committee, The University of Western Australia’s Bachelor of Arts programmes, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong

2009 Reviewer, Research Studies in Education

Other Activities

Tang, H.H.H. (2022, July 15). Hong Kong needs young people who can imagine the future to keep the city competitive and thriving. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3185132/hong-kong-needs-young-people-who-can-imagine-future-keep-city

Research Outputs

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Chun, W.-S. D., Yau, S.-H. T., Leung, C. Y., Tang, H. H. H., & Hui, H. W. (2023). The missing link of secondary STEM education in Hong Kong: Transdisciplinary integration of revitalizing vocational and professional education and training. Christina Hong, Will W. K. Ma, Applied degree education and the shape of things to come (169-197). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9315-2_10
Tang, H. H. H. (2023). Higher education policies and academic entrepreneurialism: Conceptual linkages and a contextual approach. In G. A. Postiglione, C. J. Johnstone, & W. R. Teter (Eds.), Handbook of Education Policy (354-367). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cheng, A.O.Y & Tang, H.H.H. (2023). The United Nations and its partnerships with higher education revisited: 75 years of being inclusive or exclusive?. In S. Kamyab, & R. L. Raby (Eds.), Unintended Consequences of Internationalization in Higher Education (234-248). New York, USA: Routledge.
Chun, W.S.D., Yau, S.H.T., Leung, C.Y.I., Tang, H.H.H., & Hui, H.W. (2022). From deindustrialization to reindustrialization: A repositioning of vocational education and training for improving synergy and connection within the social structure in Hong Kong. In C. Hong, & W.W.K. Ma (Eds.), Applied degree education and the future of learning (517-539). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9812-5_28
Tang, H. H. H., Dang, B. Y. Y., Raby, R. L., & Yeung, J. W. Y. (2021). Sustaining liberal education by online learning in the era of global crises: The case of community colleges in COVID-19 Hong Kong. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003125921-17
Tang, H. H. H., Chun, D. W. S., Leung, I. C. Y., & Yau, T. S. H. (2021). Aspiring and becoming STEM teachers in Hong Kong: A gender perspective. In H. K. Ro, F. Fernandez, & E. J. Ramon (Eds.), Gender equity in STEM in higher education: International perspectives on policy, institutional culture, and individual choice (187-208). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053217
Tang, H.H.H. & Wong, Y.Y.J. (2021). Citizenship as Process: Contesting Identities, Global Citizenship, and Civic Education in Hong Kong. In A. Peterson, G. Stahl, Garth, & H. Soong (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education (xxx-xxx). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Tang, H. H. H., Cheng, A. O. Y. & Ho, C.H. K. (2021). Global citizenship and universal values of Hong Kong educated youth. In T. Alviar-Martin, & M. C. Baildon (Eds.), Research on global citizenship education in Asia: Conceptions, perceptions, and practice (61-78). Charlotte, NC, USA: Information Age Publishing.
Tang, H.H.H. (2021). Global Trend and Institutional Practices of Knowledge Exchange Activities in Universities: The Changing Academic Profession in Hong Kong. In A. Papadimitriou, & M. Boboc (Eds.), Re-envisioning Higher Education’s Public Mission: Global Perspectives (251-273). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chan, W.W.V., Tang H.H.H., & Cheung, R.L.K. (2020). Freedom to Excel: Performativity, Accountability, and Educational Sovereignty in Hong Kong’s Academic Capitalism. In Z.D. Hao, & P. Zabielskis, Academic Freedom Under Siege: Higher Education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia (125-145). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Tang, H.H.H. (2019). World Class Universities and Female Leadership in the Academic Profession: Case Studies of East Asian Higher Education. In D. Neubauer, & S. Kaur (Eds.), Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education in Asia Pacific (41-56). New York, NY: Palgrave Pivot.
Dang, B.Y.Y. & Tang, H.H.H. (2018). Globalization, Policy Borrowing and Education Governance: Taking Stock of the Higher Education Policies of China’s Hong Kong in the First Two Decades. In V. Fernandes & P.W.K. Chan (Eds.), Asia Pacific Education: Leadership, Governance and Administration (113-126). Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.
Tang, H.H.H., Tsui, C.P.G, & Chau, C.F.W. (2018). Sustainability of massification in East Asian higher education: Community colleges in Hong Kong in retrospect and prospects. In R.L. Raby, & E. Valeau (Eds.), Handbook of Comparative Studies on Community Colleges and Global Counterparts (63-82). New York: Springer.
Lam, Q.K.H., & Tang, H.H.H. (2017). The notion of branding in the higher education sector: The case of Hong Kong. In A. Papadimitriou (Ed.), Competition in higher education branding and marketing: National and global perspectives (159-180). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chan, R. Y., Tang, H.H.H., & Delaney, P. (2017). The rise of private supplementary tutoring: Contemporary issues and international perspectives on shadow education in China. In B. Bartram (Ed.), International and comparative education: Contemporary issues and debates (61-73). Oxford: Routledge.
Tang, H.H.H. (2017). Women and intellectual leadership in East Asia’s academic professions: A review of the literature. In L. Stefani, & P. Blessinger (Eds.), Inclusive leadership in higher education: International perspectives and approaches (29-45). London; New York: Routledge.
Tang, H.H.H. (2017). Knowledge exchange by the Hong Kong academic profession: In comparative perspective with South Korea. In G.A. Postiglione and J.Jung (Eds.), The changing academic profession in Hong Kong (183-199). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG.
Ganotice, F.A., Tang, H.H.H., Tsui, G., Villarosa, J.B., & Yeung, S.S. (2016). Globalization of world university rankings and its impact on Asian universities. In K. Downing, & F.A. Ganotice, Jr. (Eds.), World university rankings and the future of higher education (329-344). Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global.
Tang, H.H.H. (2015). “Democratizing higher education in Hong Kong: Between rhetoric and reality”. In Patrick Blessinger (Ed.), Democratizing higher education: International comparative perspectives (pp.155-168). London; New York: Routledge.
Tang, H.H.H. (2014). Academic capitalism and higher education in Macao. In Eilo W.Y. Yu and Ming K. Chan (Eds.), China's Macao transformed: Challenge and development in the 21st century (pp.295-296). Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe; Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Tang, H.H.H. (2014). Academic capitalism in Greater China: Theme and variations. In Brendan Cantwell and Ilkka Kauppinen (Eds.), Academic capitalism in the age of globalization (pp.208-227). Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Tang, H.H.H. (2011). Immigrant education and a typology of adaptation: Case studies of new arrival students from Mainland China to Hong Kong. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert.
Tang, H.H.H. (2009). Higher education governance and academic entrepreneurialism: A comparative study of Hong Kong and Macau. In Herbert Yee, Eilo Yu and Bruce Kwong (Eds.), A tale of two cities III: The political, economic and social development of Hong Kong and Macao ten years after the handover (pp.549-570). Macau: Macau Social Science Society. (In Chinese).

Journal Publications
Tang, H. H. H., & Zhang, Y. (accepted for publication) (2023). Is academic entrepreneurialism a universal concept? New ideas and insights from contextualisation beyond East and West. International Journal of Chinese Education, xx, xx.
Tang, H.H.H., & Dang, B.Y.Y. (2023). Warming up or cooling out? Educational desire and higher education participation in an Asian context. The Australian Educational Researcher, 50, 823 - 844.
Tang, H.H.H. & Zhang, Y. (2022). Enterprising self through higher education: Youth, aspirations and future amidst academic entrepreneurialism. Youth, 2(4), 646-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth2040045
Tsang, K. K., Li, G., Tang, H. H. H., & Wang, X. (2022). Stories to live by: Narrative understandings of the self-concept of students at self-financing higher education institutions in Hong Kong. Sustainability, 14(20) https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013059
Santos, J. M., Liu, Y., & Tang, H. H. H. (2022). Research agendas and culture: A new approach to analysing the academic profession in Asia and Europe. European Journal of Higher Education https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2096091
Chong, E. K.-M., Hu, J., Cheng, E. C.-K., Davies, I., Tang, H. H.-H., Leung, Y. W., & Hung, S. C.-F. (2021). Handling national controversy on the education frontline: Perceptions of Hong Kong teachers on the pedagogies for National Education. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2021.2010273
袁月梅、張志強、梁長城、鄧希恒和陳仲熙 (2021)。 升讀專上教育的成功與障礙因素:香港主流和非主流學生的異同 ( The success and obstacle factors in pursuing post-secondary education: The differences between Hong Kong mainstream and non-mainstream students)。 教育學報,49(2),137-160。
Chong, E.K.M., Hu, J., Tang, H.H.H., Cheng, E.C.K., Davies, I., Leung, Y.W., Hung, S.C.F. (2021). Hong Kong secondary school teachers’ pedagogical approaches to controversial issues at a time of social and political turmoil. Teacher Development (accepted for publication), xx, xx-xx.
Chong, King-man Eric; Hu, Jun; Cheng, Chi-keung Eric; Davies, Ian; Tang, Hei-hang Hayes; Leung, Yan-wing; Hung, Chung-fun Steven (2021). Conceptualizing national education and methods of teaching national education in Hong Kong. Citizenship Teaching and Leaning, 16(1), 69-94.
Lam, B.O.Y., & Tang, H.H.H. (2020). 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, ahead-of-print, .-..
Nichols, N., & Tang, H.H.H. (2020). Navigating managerial and entrepreneurial reforms in research‐intensive universities: A comparison of early career trajectories in Hong Kong and Canada. Higher Education Quarterly, Early View, .-..
Tang, H.H.H. (2020). The Strategic Role of World Class Universities and Academic Profession in Regional Innovation System: The Case of China’s Greater Bay Area. Asian Education and Development Studies, ahead-of-print, .-..
Ho, C.H.K., & Tang, H.H.H. (2020). Building houses by the rootless people: Youth, identities, and education in Hong Kong. Harvard Educational Review, 90(2), 282-294.
Lo, W. Y. W. & Tang, H. H. H. (2020). Chasing Phantoms? Innovation Policy, Higher Education and the Pursuit of a Knowledge Economy in Hong Kong. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 42(2), 178-193.
Tang, H.H.H. & Chau, C.F.W. (2020). Knowledge Exchange in a Global City: A Typology of Universities and Institutional Analysis. European Journal of Higher Education, 10(1), 93-112.
秦偉燊, , 陳偉文, 丘兆豪, 鄧希恒, 鍾明倫 (2020)。 生涯規劃教育、職業教育與生命教育結合的初探:以香港為例。 台灣教育研究期刊,1(5),175 - 192。 http://ezproxy.eduhk.hk/login?url=https://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?DocID=P20220316001-202009-202203240012-202203240012-175-192&PublishTypeID=P001published version
Tang, H.H.H., Chong, K.M.E, Yuen W.W.T. (2019). Learning to Understand a Nation: Developing a National Education Curriculum Imbued with Catholic Social Ethics for Hong Kong’s Primary Schools. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 15(2), 81-93.
Cheng, E. C. K., Yuen, T. W. W., Leung, Y. W., Tang, H. H. H. (2019). A Model for Promoting Student Participation in School Governance. International Journal of Educational Management (DOI 10.1108/IJEM-06-2019-0186), XX, XX-XX.
Tang, H.H.H. (2019). Sociology of Education and Its Forms of Scholarship: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead in China's Hong Kong Amidst Deep Transformation. Chinese Education and Society, 51(6), 427-430.
Tang, H.H.H. (2018). Academic Profession, Entrepreneurial Universities and Scholarship of Application: The Imperative of Impact. The Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 10, 3-5.
Tang, H.H.H., & Guillon, K. (2018). Joshua: Teenager Vs. Superpower: A critical media review. Comparative Education Review, 62 (4), 592-594.
Lam, T.S., Leung, Y.W., Yuen, W.W., Chong, K.M., & Tang, H.H. (2018). An Evaluation Study of the Teachers’ Receptivity of the Hong Kong Catholic Social Ethics Curriculum and the training programme. Hong Kong Journal of Catholic Studies – Issue of Teaching Catholic Social Ethics and Civil Education, 8, 244-275.
Tang, H.H.H. & Tsui, C.P.G. (2018). Democratizing Higher Education through Internationalization: The Case of HKU SPACE. Asian Education and Development Studies, 7(1), 26-41.
Tang, H.H.H. & Y.Y.J. Wong (2017). Mayssoun Sukarieh and Stuart Tannock: Youth Rising? The Politics of Youth in the Global Economy.. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46 (1), 2398-2400.
Lo, W. Y. W. & Tang, H. H. H. (2017). Dancing with Global Trends: Higher Education Policy and University Governance in Hong Kong, 1997–2012. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49(1), 53-71.
Tang, H.H.H. (2016). Book review of Immanuel Wallerstein, Charles Lemert and Carlos Aguirre Rojas (2013), Uncertain worlds: World-Systems analysis in changing times.. International Sociology, 31(5), 570-574.
Wright, E., Lee, M., Tang, H.H.H., & Tsui, G. C. P. (2016). Why offer the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme? A comparison between schools in Asia-Pacific and other regions.. Journal of Research in International Education, 15(1), 3-17.
Tsui, C.P., & Tang, H.H.H. (2015). African university students in China’s Hong Kong: Motivations and aspirations. Journal of Pan African Studies, 7(10), 109-125.
Tang, H.H.H. (2014). Student political activism in a global context: An analytic imperative for enhanced understanding of higher education coordination in Hong Kong.. Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 6(3), 72-76.
Tang, H. H. H. (2014). The scholarship of application in the context of academic entrepreneurialism: A review of the discursive field. Asian Education and Development Studies, 3(3), 292-302.
Sharif, N., & Tang, H. H. H. (2014). New trends in innovation strategy at Chinese universities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. International Journal of Technology Management, 65(1), 300-318.
Tang, H.H.H. (2009). Academic entrepreneurialism and its related concepts: A review of the literature. Research Studies in Education, 7, 42-49.

Conference Papers
Lam, B. & Tang, H. H. H. (2023, June). Problematising the Global North/ South Binaries: A Critical Review of the Sociological Literature of Education of Ethnic Minority Students in Hong Kong. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia/ virtual.
Tang, H. H. H., Lee, S. J., & Kim, Y. (2022, November). Revitalising academic identities in (post-) COVID times: Diverse perspectives and perceptions in East Asia. Revitalising Universities in (Post-) Covid Times, University of Tokyo, Japan/ virtual.
Tang, H.H.H. (2022, June). Nurturing Futures Literacy, Today: What can education gain from academic entrepreneurialism?. The 4th Congress of Top International Development for Educators, virtual.
Lee, S.J. & Tang, H.H.H. (2022, April). Scholarship Reconsidered in the Rise of Academic Entrepreneurialism: Critical Discourse of Higher Education Policies at Flagship Universities in East Asia. American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego/ virtual.
Tang, H. H. H. (2022, April). Stories of becoming STEM teachers in Hong Kong: Gendered perspectives on teacher training and the classroom. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA 2022), San Diego/ virtual.
Tang, H.H.H. (2022, April). Aspiring and Becoming STEM Teachers in Hong Kong: A Gender Perspective (in Book Launch/ Panel Session for Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice). The 66th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES 2022), Minneapolis/ virtual.
Tang, H.H.H. & Lee, S.J. (2022, April). Reimagining the idea of academic entrepreneurialism in East Asia: Diverse voices and critical insights from academics of flagship universities. The 66th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES 2022), Minneapolis/ virtual.
Tang, H.H.H. (2022, January). New Gains from the Global Pandemic: Impact on Academic Entrepreneurialism and Role of Universities in Teacher Professional Development. Conference on Development of Teaching Expertise: Multidisciplinary Study of Teacher's Practice, Beijing, China.
Tang, H.H.H., & Hoshino, A. (2021, December). Trash or Treasure? The Role and Future of Humanities Disciplines amidst the rise of Academic Entrepreneurialism. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference (AARE) 2021, Melbourne, Australia.
Liu, M. Y., Santos, J.M., & Tang, H.H.H. (2021, September). Academic life and the restructuring of research agendas in the face of uncertainty – predicament, opportunities, or business as usual?. Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) 33rd Annual Conference, Hong Kong.
Tang, H.H.H. (2021, September). Reconsidering Social Justice in the Rise of Academic Entrepreneurialism: The Equity Impact of University Knowledge Exchange. Re/framing Educational Equity: An International Collaboration (virtual conference co-organised by University of Strathclyde and The Education University of Hong Kong), Glasgow.
Tang, H.H.H., & Lee, S.J. (2021, September). Reconsidering the public mission of higher education against the rise of academic entrepreneurialism: Institutional policies, academic profession and university-community engagement. Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) 33rd Annual Conference, Hong Kong.
Tang, H.H.H., & Dang, B.Y.Y. (2021, August). Sustaining Liberal Education by Online Learning in the Era of Global Crises The Case of Community Colleges in COVID-19 Hong Kong. Education Everywhere Conference (virtual), Thailand.
Tang, H.H.H. , Kim, Y., Lee, S.J., Chan, R. (2021, April). Narrating Academic identity of Higher Education Researchers in East Asia: Diverse Responses to the Impact of COVID-19.. The 65th Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (vCIES)., Seattle, USA.
Tang, H.H.H., Lam O.Y.B., & Chan, Y.Y. (2021, April). Making sense of educational inequalities and “justice” by youth in a competitive system: Some empirical analysis from Hong Kong. The 65th Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (vCIES), Seattle, USA..
Hoshino, A. & Tang, H.H.H. (2021, March). Emotional Positioning in Academic Internationalization: Interactionist Perspectives between Japanese Universities and Southeast Asian Counterparts. 2021 Conference of The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), Hong Kong.
Tsui, C.P.G., & Tang, H.H.H. (2021, March). Educational Desire in (Post) Confucian Asia: Cultural Origin and Contemporary Pursuit of Personal Success. 2021 Conference of The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), Hong Kong.
Tang, H. H. H. (2020, December). Global citizenship and initial teacher education in an Asian global city: Diverse conceptions and pedagogic implications. Paper presented at the International Conference on Learning and Teaching 2020 (ICLT2020): Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century, Hong Kong, China. https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/pure-data/pub/202100185.pdfpowerpoint presentation
Tang, H.H.H. (2020, August). Academic Profession and Engagement Patterns of Knowledge Exchange Activities: An East Asian Perspective. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2020, (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
Lee, D. H. L., Ho, C. S., & Tang, H. H. (2020, May). School improvement with professional learning communities.. Webinar on Leading School Innovation in Times of Emergency., Hong Kong.
Tang, H.H.H. (2019, December). Unraveling the meanings of ‘impact’: Perspectives from academic profession and good practices of knowledge exchange. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
Lam, B.O.Y. & Tang, H.H.H. (2019, August). The limit of broadened horizons: Inquiring into youth ‘employability’ in the global knowledge economy. World Education Research Association (WERA) 2019 Focal Meeting in Tokyo, Tokyo.
Tang, H.H.H. (2019, July). Engaging Students for Global Citizenship: Diverse Conceptions and Cohesive Vision. Paper presented at the International Conference on Open and Innovative Education (ICOIE), Hong Kong.
Chong, K.M.E.; Leung, Y.W.; Davies, I.; Yuen, W.W.T.; Cheng, C.K.E.; Tang, H.H.H.; Hung, C.F.S (2019, June). How to facilitate students understand their national identity and concern about the national affairs? – Hong Kong civic education teachers’ perceptions on national education. Leverhulme Youth Activism International Network (25-27/6/2019), Budapest, Hungary.
Tang H.H.H. & Chun W.S.D. (2019, April). Constructing Aspirations for Graduate Entrepreneurship in the Age of Deepening Global Inequalities: A Social Class Paradox in Hong Kong?. International Conference on Applied Education, Technology and Innovation, Hong Kong.
Tang, H.H.H. & Dang, B.Y.Y. (2019, April). Democratizing Higher Education through Community College: Some Qualitative Evidences from an East Asian Entrepreneurial City. 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting "Leveraging Education Research in a “Post-Truth” Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence", Toronto, Canada.
Hayes Tang & Timothy Yuen (2018, December). Intercultural Dialogues in Citizenship/National Education in the Context of HK Catholic Schools. FEHD Education Policy Research Cluster Seminar Series, HK.
Dang, B.Y.Y. & Tang, H.H.H. (2018, June). From aspirations to success: The community college graduates' experiences. Striving for Quality Education, Federation for Self-financing Tertiary Education 2018 Conference, Hong Kong.
陳惠云和鄧希恒 (2018,5). 「超級連繫人」的國際化社會資本:香港的大學在大灣區發展中的角色。第一屆粵港澳大灣區高等教育論壇暨“高等教育、區域創新與經濟增長:粵港澳大灣區建設中大學的角色與作用,中山大學。
Tang, H.H.H. (2018, April). Massification and the Creation of Community Colleges in Hong Kong. 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting "The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education", New York City, New York.
Tang, H.H.H. (2017, June). Global Citizenship, Democratic Perception and National Identification of the Hong Kong Post-90s Generation: Implications for ‘Youth Work’ and Education. The 13th CitizED International Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
Tang, H.H.H. (2016, November). Democracy and Education in East Asia: Hong Kong Post-90s Generation, Political Participation and Education Governance. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Tang, H.H.H. (2016, November). Political Participation and National Identification of the Hong Kong Post-90s Generation: Preliminary Report of Key Survey Findings. Hong Kong Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Hong Kong.
Tang, H.H.H. (2016, October). Women and Intellectual Leadership in East Asia’s Academic Professions: A Review of the Literature. Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) Senior Seminar 2016: Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education in Asia Pacific, Hong Kong.
Chia, Y.T., & Tang, H.H.H. (2016, August). Nationalism and Education Compared: ‘National Educations’ in Singapore and Hong Kong. XVI World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Beijing, China.
Tang, H.H.H. (2016, March). Alignment of Undergraduate Education and the Workplace in an East Asian Entrepreneurial Economy: Perceptions from Hong Kong Young Graduates of International Liberal Arts Degree. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Vancouver, Canada.
Tang, H.H.H. (2016, March). University-workplace alignment in an East Asian entrepreneurial economy: Perceptions from Hong Kong young graduates of international liberal arts degree. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society 2016 Conference (CIES 2016): Sixty Years of comparative and international education: Taking stock and looking forward
Tang, H.H.H. (2015, December). International Higher Education in a Marketised East Asian Context: Case Study of the University of Hong Kong. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2015 Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Tang, H.H.H. (2015, November). The Politics of Nationalism and Internationalism in East Asian Academia: Findings and Implications from an International Study of Hong Kong and South Korea Academic Professions Hong Kong. Hong Kong Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Hong Kong.
Tang, H.H.H. (2014, July). Academic Nationalism and Academic Internationalism in East Asia: Findings and Implications from Hong Kong and South Korea Professoriates. The 20th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Perth, Australia.
Tang, H.H.H. (2013, October). Basic Research and Applied Research: Comparing Scholars with Overseas Doctorates in the Hong Kong and South Korea Academic Profession. The 14th International Conference on Education Research (ICER), Seoul, South Korea.
Tang, H.H.H. (2012, December). Overseas Doctoral Education, Citizenship and Internationalisation of the Hong Kong Academic Profession: Aspirations and Actions of 'Mobals' and 'Locals'. Australian Association for Research in Education/ Asia-Pacific Education Research Association Conference (AARE-APERA) 2012, Sydney, Australia.
Tang, H.H.H. (2012, March). Universities Empowered or Endangered? Academic Capitalism and Higher Education in Macao. Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Toronto, Canada.
Tang, H.H.H. (2011, November). Explaining Engagement in Academic Entrepreneurial Activities: Towards a Conceptual Framework. Proceedings of International Workshop of Changing Academic Profession (Sponsor: Ford Foundation), Wuhan, China.
Postiglione, G.A., Wang, S., & Tang, H.H.H. (2009, October). Global job satisfaction and university management in Hong Kong higher education. Paper presented in the international conference The Attractiveness of the Academic Profession: The Management Challenge, University of Melbourne.
Postiglione, G.A., & Tang, H.H.H. (2008, September). Reshaping the academic profession in Hong Kong’s universities: Within the new dynamics of East Asian higher education. Paper presented in the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Sub-regional Preparatory Conference for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education, Macau.
Postiglione, G.A., & Tang, H.H.H. (2008, January). A preliminary review of the Hong Kong changing academic profession data.In RIHE (Ed.). The changing academic profession in international, comparative and quantitative perspectives, Hiroshima: RIHE, Hiroshima University.

Creative and Literary Works, Consulting Reports and Case Studies
Tang, H. H. H., Wong, L. S., & Lo, C. Y. (2023). 教育非同凡想 Think Different ——陪伴學生探索未來 (Short Documentary Film). Hong Kong, China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iviA543bWQ
Tang, H.H.H. (2015). Student activism signals new movements for social justice. University World News: Global Edition, Issue 364 (24th April).
Tong, K.K. & Tang, H.H.H. (2005). Exemplars of good practices in the teaching and learning of English: Ways to teach the English language effectively in secondary schools (exemplars 3 and 4). Hong Kong: Hong Kong SAR Education and Manpower Bureau.
Tang, H.H.H. (2002). The childhood of Hong Kong. Journal on Hong Kong Popular Culture 4 (74-76). An autobiography in Chinese

All Other Outputs
Tang, H. H. H. (2022). Hong Kong needs young people who can imagine the future to keep the city competitive and thriving. South China Morning Post. Hong Kong, China https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3185132/hong-kong-needs-young-people-who-can-imagine-future-keep-city
Lam, B.O.Y. & Tang, H.H.H. (2019). Employability: a mismatch of expectations and skills.
Tang, H.H.H., & Tsang K.K. (Eds.) (2019). Guest Editors of the issue “Sociology of Education and Society in Hong Kong: In Retrospect and Prospects” in Chinese Education and Society 51(6). Taylor & Francis.
鄧希恒、鄧恩欣 (2019)。 談香港副學士 與自資專上教育專責小組報告,(信報 02.03.2019)。
鄧希恒、秦偉燊 (2019)。 學以致用與香港教育(下)(明報 12.02.2019)。
鄧希恒、秦偉燊 (2019)。 學以致用與香港教育(上)(明報 22.01.2019)。
Tang, H.H.H. & Chao, R, Jr. (Eds.) (2018). Guest Editors of the issue “Academic Profession, Entrepreneurial Universities and Scholarship of Application: The Imperative of Impact” in The Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education 10(3). Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Higher Education SIG.
鄧希恒 (2018)。 公民身份作為過程: 從歷史角度探討香港提供的空間和機遇,明報月刊 (二○一八年六月號)。
鄧希恒 (2017)。 國民身分可以教的麽?。(星島日報 28.02.2017)。
鄧希恒 (2016)。 尋夢不尋夢:給教育的一點啟示。(星島日報 01.11.2016)。
林德成、鄧希恒 (2016)。 讓學生認識和實踐公義的教學技巧。(公教報 09.10.2016)。
鄧希恒 (2016)。 理想化的「90後」vs.政治現實2.0。(星島日報 06.05.2016)。
鄧希恒、張立健 (2016)。 創業,青年,新視野。(星島日報 16.01.2016)。
Tang, H.H.H. (2013). Scholarship Reconsidered in an Era of Entrepreneurialism: Academic Professions in Hong Kong and South Korea. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong.

Projects

Reconsidering Academic Entrepreneurialism in East Asia: Diverse Voices and Critical Insights from the Academic Profession of Flagship Universities
This study will examine the impact of the ‘entrepreneurial turn’ in higher education on the everyday life of academics, the interactions between universities and the academic profession and the consequences of these interactions for institutional change at flagship universities in three global cities - Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo in East Asia. Since the global spread of neo-liberalism in the 1990s, economic globalisation has intensified the ‘entrepreneurial governance’ in the social institution of higher education where funding is increasingly being allocated on a competitive basis. At the advent of the global knowledge-based economy, missions of universities have been undergoing substantial transformations, in which knowledge increasingly becomes a new driver of economic development. To guarantee future financial sustainability and secure further resources that would propel institutional excellence, universities have proactively pursued innovation in their everyday management. The literature debates the extent to which higher education institutions see a global convergence of change from ivory tower to ‘entrepreneurial university’ (Etzkowitz et al., 2008). The global trend of entrepreneurialism (for example Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 2000; Clark, 1998a, 1998b;
Shattock, 2009; Tang, 2014) profoundly affects the interactions between universities, the academic profession and institutional change (Gumport, 2019). Despite the prevailing policy trends and emerging scholarship of this topic in Western literature (Rhoades & Stensaker, 2017), research on entrepreneurialism at flagship universities (Stensaker & Benner, 2013) and the academic profession in Asia is lacking (Yang, 2012). The impact of academic entrepreneurialism on East Asian flagship universities, academic life and institutional change remains unknown if the dearth of related research persists.

This study will draw on the methods of institutional ethnography (Smith, 2005). Unique from other qualitative methods, it

Project Start Year: 2021, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang, Hayes
 
University Students Supporting School Teachers of Academically At-Risk Students through Educational Technology
During school closures, teachers in less resourceful schools have struggled to cater to the diverse learning needs of academically at-risk students in their class. Without the physical presence of the teacher, these students, lacking the digital resources and rich learning experiences with educational technology, may not know how to stay engaged in the learning and teaching tasks and activities in online learning environments. EdUHK Bachelor of Education (BEd) students, as future teachers, who have been immersed in technology-enabled learning and teaching experiences, will be able to provide technological support to these school teachers to engage their students. By working with and supporting these teachers, EdUHK BEd students have the opportunities to work in actual teaching contexts and have authentic and meaningful learning experiences in local schools. Meanwhile, EdUHK pre-service teachers could support in-service teachers to enhance the digital experiential learning of their students, namely through the portable future classroom this project will offer. Therefore, this project aims to develop a professional learning community of BEd students, FEHD staff and in-service teachers, and enhances student learning engagement and outcomes by providing EdUHK students with the opportunities to support teachers (technically and pedagogically) of academically at-risk students through the experiential learning with state-of-the-art educational technology.
Project Start Year: 2021, Principal Investigator(s): LIM, Cher Ping 林質彬 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Principal Investigator)
 
The next normal: Blending synchronistic and asynchronistic e-pedagogies to improve and sustain online teaching and learning
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities and schools internationally shifted from face-to-face to online learning. Despite these efforts, EdUHK data indicated that more could be done to enhance the quality of online learning. Teachers still grappled with how to design high-quality online learning experiences for their students.

Moving into a new academic year, these issues and challenges faced by students and teachers must be addressed at both the meta- and micro-level of the learning and teaching environment. EdUHK must lead the way in enhancing the quality of online learning and teaching by investigating, developing, implementing and disseminating high quality e-pedagogies that can be sustained into the “next normal” (Bryant, Chen, Dorn, and Hall, April 2020).

This project proposes to create “virtual classrooms” marked by features of quality learning: interaction among teachers and students, differentiation of instructional practices, creativity, mobility, and mastery. It conceptualizes blended learning (combining online and face-to-face learning) as a blend of synchronistic and asynchronistic online e-pedagogies. It accounts for diverse needs of colleagues and students with regard to disciplinary requirements, their readiness as users of online technologies and mastery of e-pedagogies, and location of delivery.

Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): TSUI, Kwok Tung 徐國棟 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Narrating Academic identity of Higher Education Researchers in East Asia: Diverse Responses to the Impact of COVID-19
The purpose of this study is to describe and understand the academic identity of higher education (HE) researchers in East Asia. Using the approach of narrative research, it will examine the way in which academic identity affects East Asian HE researchers in their response to the impact of COVID-19, and how the global pandemic affects the reworking of academic identity. Empirical analysis of this research will contribute to a better understanding of the role of academic identity in enhancing educational and research productivity at universities, including the field of higher education studies.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒
 
Interpersonal Strengths as Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Collectivist Societies
This project will assess how kindness or individual’s dispositions to perform good deeds to others may be associated with positive environmental attitudes and “eco-friendly behaviors” using structural equation modeling approach. To provide evidence about precise mechanisms underscoring the link of kindness to pro-environmental behaviors, we will also explore the mediating effects of nature connectedness and positive emotions.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): DATU, Jesus Alfonso Daep null (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Investigating Hong Kong Students' Aspirations for the Future
In recent months, school students have organized school strikes, class boycotts, human protest
chains, joined front-line protests, been arrested (30% under 18 years) and shot (2 students; 14
& 18 years), with more than 300 school students involved in the PolyU siege. For other students, the protests disrupted their schooling and their relationships with family, peers and teachers. The longer-term impact on their aspirations, futures and sense of belonging/connectedness to Hong Kong is unknown.This project seeks to map Hong Kong adolescents’ (15-18 years) aspirations and views on the resources/capital needed to achieve their aspirations for the future, and how Hong Kong schools and society can help.

Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): HALSE CHRISTINE MARGARET (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Policy Support for Academic Development of Students from Low Income Families: Cases from Hong Kong and Beijing
The policy provision to support academic development of students from low income families will be compared across the two contexts of Hong Kong and Beijing. The comparison of policy discourses, the drivers and shapers of the policy, student experiences, as well as their impact on the focal groups' academic achievement will enable the investigators to contribute to improving educational equity.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): CHOI, Tae Hee 崔太僖 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
How Educational Policy Supports Low SES Students' Academic Achievement: Students' Experiences
The project is an exploratory case study that aims to understand whether and how education policy has supported low SES students’ academic achievement, drawing on the learning and teaching experiences of stakeholders in schools in Hong Kong. In exploring the experience of students, visual research methods (e.g., picture prompter, photo-taking) will be adopted to help them to share their feelings and day-to-day experiences.
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): CHOI, Tae Hee 崔太僖 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Crafting an Institutional Ethnography of ‘Entrepreneurial Universities’: A Pilot Study
This is a pilot study for the GRF research proposal “Reconsidering Academic Entrepreneurialism in East Asia: Diverse Voices and Critical Insights from the Academic Profession of Flagship Universities” which examines the impact of the ‘entrepreneurial turn’ in higher education on the everyday life of academics, the interactions between universities and the academic profession and the consequences of these interactions for institutional change at flagship universities in three global cities - Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo in East Asia.
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒
 
Exploring the Meanings of ‘Impact' of University: Perspectives from Academic Profession and Good Practices of Knowledge Transfer
This research aims to examine the notion of ‘impact’ of higher education from the perspectives of academic profession, to explore the factors which motivate academic professionals to engage in a good practice of knowledge transfer and to investigate the elements of constituting good practice of knowledge transfer at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒
 
Policy Trajectories, Policy Types, and a Theoretical Model of Policy Processes
The project, an expansion of an ongoing project titled
'Historical development of educational policies in Hong Kong' (PI: Lo, Wai Yin, Co-PI: Choi, Tae-Hee, Co-I: Hui, Hon Wing Joe), will investigate the historical development of key educational policies in Hong Kong, Australia, Mainland China, and Korea. Comparative understanding of the history of select policies will help understand the evolution of policies in interaction with the contexts and actors within. It will be informed by policy enactment theory (Ball, Maguire & Braun, 2012), and draw on frameworks which capture the complexities of policy processes (e.g., Choi, 2018; 2019), and analyse historical policy documents, research reports, public addresses and the media records, in addition to the academic literature.

* References
1. Ball, S., Maguire, M., & Braun, A. (2012). How schools do policy: Policy enactments in secondary schools. London: Routledge.
2. Choi, T.-H. (2018). Implementation and impact of language-in-education policies: Insights from South Korea and Hong Kong. In K. J. Kennedy & J. C.-K. Lee (Eds.), Routledge international handbook for schools and schooling in Asia (pp. 518-524). London: Routledge.
3. Choi, T.-H. (2019). Structure, agency, and the “Teaching English in English” policy: The case of South Korea. In G. P. Glasgow & J. Bouchard (Eds.), Agency in language policy and planning: Critical inquiries (pp. 214-236). Oxon: Routledge.

Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): CHOI, Tae Hee (TANG, Hei Hang, Hayes as Team Member)
 
Assessing Entrepreneurial Intention for Graduate Entrepreneurship: Case Studies of Hong Kong Research-intensive Universities
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Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒
 
Conceptions of Global Citizenship and Teacher Education
This research compares and examines the conceptions of global citizenship in the global citizenship related courses offered for the 15 Bachelor of Education (Honours) programmes at the Education University of Hong Kong. The research investigates the relationship between (a) the varied understandings, discourses and conceptions of global citizenship and (b) the disciplinary and pedagogical trainings of pre-service teachers, with particular focus on the formation of their professional identity and vison in teaching practice. While diversity of views and conceptions of global citizenship is cherished, it is meanwhile important to develop a cohesive framework that democratically captures the varied understandings, discourses and conceptions of
global citizenship. In the current practices of global citizenship education, the main challenge lies in the misalignment between the goals, curricula, pedagogies and assessment tools (Deardorff, 2006, 2009). Seeking the alignments of conceptions of global citizenship, this research contributes to the teaching and learning of the University by enhancement of students’ learning outcomes and core competencies, through the means of internationalisation in cross-faculty curriculum and the fostering of a culture of student engagement and reflections. All things considered, the impact of the research lies in the university-wide framework working towards a clarified and cohesive vision for global citizenship.

Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒
 
Post Anti-National Education and Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Characteristics of National Education in the Perceptions of Hong Kong Secondary School Civic Education Teachers GRF18604317
This GRF project investigates the perception of secondary school civic education teachers on national identity and national education. Mixed methods will be used and this project aims at contributing to scholalry understanding on how do teachers perceive their national identity and their methods of teaching national education. It is hoped that this project shall contribute to citizenship education and national identity literature.
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): CHONG, King Man Eric 莊璟珉 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Transition from Secondary to Post-Secondary Education: Access, Obstacles, and Success Factors of Immigrant, Minority and Low Income Youth in Hong Kong
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Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): YUEN YUET MUI, CELESTE 袁月梅 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Catholic Social Ethics for Teachers (social issues)
The Catholice Socail Ethics Curriculum Project (Social Issues) 天社倫港情篇 2017-18 is a continuation of the previous project on national issues in 2015-17. Its emphasis , however, lies on incorporating Basic Law education into the teaching of Catholic Social Ethics in both primary and secondary schools. Again launched by the Centre for Catholic studies and collaborated with EdUHK academics, the project provided teacher training to a total of 80 schools and 200 teachers and its efficacy will be evaluated by the EdUHK team. The intended outcomes of this project is an open e-platform of teaching resources for local teachers and conference papers and research articles.

This project provides teacher training and conducts research on teaching Catholic Social Ethics in Hong Kong catholic primary and secondary schools. After teacher training on understanding different Hong Kong social issues, employing teaching and learning methods and strategies, and Catholic social ethics, the school teachers incoporate Catholic Social Ethics in school curriculum takes place in Religious Education, General Studies or related subjects. Post-teaching evaluation have also been conducted. There are 86 schools and 216 teachers participating this project.

Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): LAM, Tak Shing, John 林德成 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Inclusion of Emotion Regulation into a Core Undergraduate Course
This project aims at enhancing student teachers’ understanding of emotion regulation and cultivating their capacity on emotion regulation to improve their performance in Field Experience. These have been achieved through the inclusion of an intervention on emotion regulation in a core undergraduate course, which is offered just before Field Experience.
Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): CHEN, Junjun 陳君君 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
What we want for Hong Kong education: Challenges and possible solutions
The project has the following objectives: (1) understanding the opinion and idea of stakeholders in preparation of the upcoming educational reform; (2) sharing generated knowledge with the public; (3) conducting impactful policy research
Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): CHOI, Tae Hee 崔太僖 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Transition from Secondary to Post-Secondary Education: Access, Obstacles, and Success Factors of Immigrant, Minority and Low-Income Youth in Hong Kong (Pilot)
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Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): YUEN YUET MUI, CELESTE 袁月梅 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Youth Entrepreneurship by Graduates of Hong Kong Research-Intensive Universities: Incentives and Impediments
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Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒
 
Vocational Education and Training for Youth Development
The study will review the development of VET in Hong Kong and, through literature review, survey and interviews, explore measures that may help diversify educational pathways for young people.
Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): LEE, Siu Yau 李肇祐, LEE, Chi Kin John 李子建 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
World Class Worldwide: The Rise of HKIEd from a Teacher College to an Asian University of 'Education Plus'
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Project Start Year: 2015, Principal Investigator(s): TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒
 
Catholic Social Ethics for Teachers
Helping Catholic primary school teachers understand and apply Catholic social and ethical values in teaching.
Project Start Year: 2015, Principal Investigator(s): LAM, Tak Shing, John 林德成 (TANG, Hei Hang Hayes 鄧希恒 as Co-Investigator)
 
Prizes and awards

Excellent Supervision in University ePortfolio Course (2020-21)

Date of receipt: /5/2021, Conferred by: General Education Office, The Education University of Hong Kong
 
Excellent Supervision in University ePortfolio Course (2019-20)

Date of receipt: /6/2020, Conferred by: General Education Office, The Education University of Hong Kong
 
Top 10% Teaching Award (2018-19)

Date of receipt: /5/2019, Conferred by: Faculty of Education and Human Development, The Education University of Hong Kong
 
Excellent Supervision in General Education Consolidation Course (GECC) (2018-19)

Date of receipt: /5/2019, Conferred by: General Education Office, The Education University of Hong Kong
 
Top 10% Teaching Award (2017-18)

Date of receipt: /5/2018, Conferred by: Faculty of Education and Human Development, The Education University of Hong Kong
 
Outstanding Teacher Award 2011

Date of receipt: 1/1/2012, Conferred by: Community College, HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education