Dr CHAN, Kit Wa Anita    陳潔華 博士
Associate Professor
Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies
Contact
ORCiD
0000-0002-5805-8948
Phone
(852) 2948 7709
Email
akwchan@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Website
https://pappl.eduhk.hk/rich/web/person.xhtml?pid=73957&name=CHAN, Kit Wa Anita
Scopus ID
55465242200
SDGs
4 - Quality Education
5 - Gender Equality
10 - Reduced Inequality
16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Research Interests
Her main research interests include the following fields:
  • Gender and Masculinities Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality issues in Education
  • Family Studies
  • Migration and Transnational Studies

She has supervised students on topics related to international student mobility; left-behind children in China; gendered identities of male teachers in China; and Muslim women political leaders in Bangladesh
Teaching Interests

She has taught the following courses at various levels:


  • Gender and Society (UG)
  • Self and Society (UG)
  • Love, Intimacy and Families (UG)
  • Hong Kong Society (UG)
  • Sociology of Education (Master)
  • Gender and Education (EdD)
  • Qualitative Research Methods (UG; EdD&PhD)
External Appointments
  1. Board Member of Mother's Choice Adoption Committee (since March 2024)
  2. Programme Director of the ESD Learning Programme on Gender Equality, Plan International (since Dec 2023)
  3. Young Allies Steering Committee Member, The Women's Foundation (since March 2023)
  4. Independent School Manager for Fanling Kau Yan College (Aug 2021 to July 2025)
  5. External Examiner of PhD and MPhil theses for various universities (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, and the University of Hong Kong) (since 2004)
  6. Research Proposal Reviewer for Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (since 2019)
  7. Research Proposal Reviewer for Research Grants Council (since 2017)
  8. Research Proposal Reviewer for General Research Fund Competitive Research Funding for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector under Research Grants Council (since 2015)
  9. Manuscript Reviewer for various academic journals: International Migration Review (since 2024); Women's Studies International Forum (since 2024); Asian Ethnicities (since 2023); Cogent Education (since 2022); Urban Studies (since 2021); Asia Pacific Journal of Education (since 2020); Mobilities (since 2019); Education Journal (since 2018); Political Geography (since 2017); Compare (since 2011); Global Studies of Childhood (since 2011); Families, Relationships and Societies (since 2013)
  10. External Examiner for MA Sociology, Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016-19)
  11. Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Families, Relationships and Societies (2012-2018)
  12. External Examiner for the undergraduate course, ‘Media, Culture and Society’, offered by the School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong (2014-2016)
  13. External Examiner for the Associate Degree in Arts, Social Sciences Concentration, Yew Chung Community College (2014-16)
  14. Member of the Independent Accreditation Panel for BSSc Programme (Asian Studies), the Hang Seng Management College (2014-15)
  15. Accreditation Panel Member for Hong Kong Baptist University (Bachelor of Arts in Liberal and Cultural Studies) (2012-13)
  16. External Course Assessor for The Open University of Hong Kong (the Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education) (2012-13)
  17. Academic Adviser for The Women’s Foundation (Life Skills Programme) (2011 - 2013)
  18. Committee member for Hong Kong Education Examination Authority (Integrated Humanities Subject Committee) (2007-2011)
Personal Profile

Anita Chan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, EdUHK. She is an expert in gender and education and has examined various gender issues in Hong Kong's education system, including the gendered identities of school girls, university males, primary school teachers, principals, and gender differences in choosing STEM subjects among secondary school students. She is also passionate about family and migration studies and has researched parenting, motherhood, fatherhood, changing families and intimacies, cross-border students, and transnational families. She is a qualitative researcher specializing in in-depth interviews and narrative analysis.


Her publications can be found in journals such as Mobilities; Sociological Research Online; Children and Youth Services Review; Asian Studies Review; International Migration Review; Urban Studies; Journal of Consumer Culture; Gender and Education; and Compare.



Research Interests
Her main research interests include the following fields:
  • Gender and Masculinities Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality issues in Education
  • Family Studies
  • Migration and Transnational Studies

She has supervised students on topics related to international student mobility; left-behind children in China; gendered identities of male teachers in China; and Muslim women political leaders in Bangladesh
Teaching Interests

She has taught the following courses at various levels:


  • Gender and Society (UG)
  • Self and Society (UG)
  • Love, Intimacy and Families (UG)
  • Hong Kong Society (UG)
  • Sociology of Education (Master)
  • Gender and Education (EdD)
  • Qualitative Research Methods (UG; EdD&PhD)
External Appointments
  1. Board Member of Mother's Choice Adoption Committee (since March 2024)
  2. Programme Director of the ESD Learning Programme on Gender Equality, Plan International (since Dec 2023)
  3. Young Allies Steering Committee Member, The Women's Foundation (since March 2023)
  4. Independent School Manager for Fanling Kau Yan College (Aug 2021 to July 2025)
  5. External Examiner of PhD and MPhil theses for various universities (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, and the University of Hong Kong) (since 2004)
  6. Research Proposal Reviewer for Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (since 2019)
  7. Research Proposal Reviewer for Research Grants Council (since 2017)
  8. Research Proposal Reviewer for General Research Fund Competitive Research Funding for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector under Research Grants Council (since 2015)
  9. Manuscript Reviewer for various academic journals: International Migration Review (since 2024); Women's Studies International Forum (since 2024); Asian Ethnicities (since 2023); Cogent Education (since 2022); Urban Studies (since 2021); Asia Pacific Journal of Education (since 2020); Mobilities (since 2019); Education Journal (since 2018); Political Geography (since 2017); Compare (since 2011); Global Studies of Childhood (since 2011); Families, Relationships and Societies (since 2013)
  10. External Examiner for MA Sociology, Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016-19)
  11. Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Families, Relationships and Societies (2012-2018)
  12. External Examiner for the undergraduate course, ‘Media, Culture and Society’, offered by the School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong (2014-2016)
  13. External Examiner for the Associate Degree in Arts, Social Sciences Concentration, Yew Chung Community College (2014-16)
  14. Member of the Independent Accreditation Panel for BSSc Programme (Asian Studies), the Hang Seng Management College (2014-15)
  15. Accreditation Panel Member for Hong Kong Baptist University (Bachelor of Arts in Liberal and Cultural Studies) (2012-13)
  16. External Course Assessor for The Open University of Hong Kong (the Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education) (2012-13)
  17. Academic Adviser for The Women’s Foundation (Life Skills Programme) (2011 - 2013)
  18. Committee member for Hong Kong Education Examination Authority (Integrated Humanities Subject Committee) (2007-2011)
Research Outputs
Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Bartholomaeus, C., Chan, A.Kw., Yelland, N., Karthikeyan, N., Soo, L.M.J. (2023). Everyday out-of-school lifeworlds look like this: Children’s activities in three global cities. Lee, IF., Saltmarsh, S., Yelland, N., Childhood, Learning & Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities – Experiences from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore (107-133). Singapore: Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0486-0_6
Tam, C. O., Chan, A. K. W. Cheng, E. C. K. & Roger, J. (2022). Teaching creative thinking skills in the higher education classroom: A guidebook for educators. Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong. https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991017576409603410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library, http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/cgi-bin/handle.pl?pub=2260/4968published version (EdUHK Users only)
Chan, Anita K.W. (2018). Gender and schooling in Asia: Prospects and challenges. In K. J. Kennedy, and J. C. K. Lee (Eds.), Routledge handbook on schools and schooling in Asia (759-763). Longon: Routledge.
Lee, Dorothy.Wing-huen & Chan, Anita Kit-wa (2018). To lead and to mother: Contradictory constructions of new femininity in an elite girls’ school in Hong Kong. In K. Kennedy and J. C.K. Lee (Eds.), Routledge handbook on schools and schooling in Asia (794-802). London: Routledge.
Chan Anita K.W. (2014). Making Sense of their Career Pathways: The Work Narratives of Women Primary School Principals in Hong Kong. In Marie-Pierre Moreau (Ed.), (In)equalities in the Teaching Profession: A Global Perspective (157-178). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
王惠玲、陳潔華 (2012)。 戰後報刊媒體對母親概念的建構—曾經有人這樣告訴你甚應是好媽媽。吳俊雄、張志偉、曾仲堅編輯， 《普普香港二—閱讀香港普及文化2000-2010》 (190-194)。香港: 香港教育圖書公司。
Chan Kit Wa & Choi Po King (eds) (2012). The Making of Gender identities -- Education and Personal Development. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Choi Po King & Chan Kit Wa (eds) (2012). Gender Perspectives in Education: Empirical Research into Schooling Processes. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
姚偉梅、黎楊惠玲、陳潔華、林藹陽 (2012)。 〈香港教師培訓課程中的性別教育元素初探〉。蔡寶瓊、陳潔華（編）， 《教育的性別視角：課堂與教學實證研究》 (135-148)。香港: 香港城市大學出版社。
蔡寶瓊、陳潔華 (2012)。 〈導讀：性別平等教育論述的發展與香港本土研究回顧〉。蔡寶瓊、陳潔華（編）， 《教育的性別視角：課堂與教學實證研究》 (xxxi-xlviii)。香港: 香港城市大學出版社。
陳潔華 (2012)。 〈校長也有性別？檢視香港小學男校長的「性別論述」〉。蔡寶瓊、陳潔華（編）， 《教育的性別視角：課堂與教學實證研究》 (91-106)。香港: 香港城市大學出版社。
陳潔華 (2012)。 〈豈只「女多男少」：審視殖民香港時期教師行業女性化的現象(1841-1970)〉。陳潔華、蔡寶瓊（編），《性別顯微鏡》。陳潔華、蔡寶瓊（編）， 《性別顯微鏡》 (167-189)。香港: 香港城市大學出版社。
Chan, K. W. A. (2004)。 Introduction in Teaching Critically & Creatively: Hong Kong Community Studies。 (pp. v-xv)。Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies。
Chan, K. W. A. (2004). The Making of Gender in Families. in Anita K. W. Chan and W. L. Wong (eds), Gendering Hong Kong Society: A Reader (pp. 397-419). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Chan, K. W. A. (ed.) (2004)。 Teaching Critically & Creatively: Hong Kong Community Studies。Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies。
Chan, K. W. A., Wong, W. L. (2004). Introduction in Gendering Hong Kong Society: A Reader. (pp. xvii-xxxix). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Chan, K. W. A., Wong, W. L. (eds) (2004). Gendering Hong Kong Society: A Reader. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Chan. K. W. A. (2004). Gendering the Ideal-Learner Citizen in Hong Kong Schooling Processes. in Agnes Ku & Ngai Pun (eds), Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong : Community, Nation, and the Global City (pp. 74-94). London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
Chan, K. W. A., Fong, Y. H., Fung, K. K., Hung, S. L., Ng, C. H., Pun, N., Wong, M. W. (1995). The Impact of Industrial Restructuring on Women Workers in Hong Kong. in Committee for Asian Women Workers (ed.), Silk and Steel: Asian Women Workers Confront Challenges of Industrial Restructuring (pp. 34-105). Hong Kong: Committee for Asian Women.

Journal Publications
Yelland, N., Chan, A.K.W., Bartholomaeus, C. (2024). Children’s everyday lifeworlds out of school in Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Singapore: Family, enrichment activities, and local communities. Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 5(2), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.37291/2717638X.202452362
SDGs infomation: 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, 4 - Quality Education, 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Chan, A.K.W., Fang, T.S., and Kwok, D.K. (2024). Uncovering the challenges and needs of Chinese adoptive parents in Hong Kong. Child & Family Social Work, 2024, 1-11, Article 0. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13212
Chong, E.K., Chan, A.K.W., Wong, M.Y.H., Lee, M.Y.K. & Cheung, L.T.O. (2024). Who intended to leave? Patterns and impacts of Hong Kong’s recent wave of migration. Population, Space and Place, 2024, 1-16, Article PSP2781. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2781
Choi, K.W.Y., Chan, A.K.W., and Chan, A.H.N. (2024). Turning older women’s life stories into hypermedia: Reflections on the production of feminist creative analytic practices. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2024(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231220131
Lee, M.Y. K., Wong, M.Y.H., Chan, A.K.W., Chong, E.K., and Cheung, L.T.O. (2024). Do people feel they belong? Socio-political factors shaping the place attachment of Hong Kong citizens. Geographical Research, 62 (1), 181-193. https://doi.org/doi/10.1111/1745-5871.12630
Tam, C.O., Cheng, E. C. K., Chan, A. K. W., Roger, J., and Tan, X. (2023). Exploring the characteristics of undergraduate students’ creative thinking skills. International Journal of Learning and Teaching, 9, 191-196, Article 3. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijlt.9.3.191-196
Chan. A. K. W. and Chen, X. (2023). Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants: ongoing struggles of mainland Chinese graduates in Hong Kong. Higher Education, 2023(9), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01114-9
Ngan, L. L-S., A.K-W. Chan, R. H. Yeung-Chan, and Q. K. W. Y. Siu (2023). The impact of a transnational background on family migration considerations amid political uncertainty: Second-generation returnees in Hong Kong. The China Review, 23, 217-243, Article 3.
Choi, K. W. Y., Chan, K. W. A., and Chan,. A. H. N. (2023). Spatialising domestic practices: Hong Kong women's life stories of domesticity and their disjunctive modern womanhood. Gender, Place and Culture, 2023(July), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2023.2234657
Ngan, L.L.S., & Chan, A.K.W. (2023). Gender equality or just more involved fathering? A critical examination of the division of childcare in Hong Kong’s professional middle-class families. Community, Work & Family, 2023(May), 1-16. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13668803.2023.2207718
Ngan, Lucille Lok Sun and Chan Anita Kit-wa (2023). The Quest for Lifestyle: Reverse Family Migration among Hong Kong Returnee Parents. International Migration Review, 2023 (Feb), 1-232. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183221149024
Yelland, Nicola; Bartholomaeus, Clare; Chan, Anita Kit-wa (2023). Exploring children’s out-of-school lifeworlds: Video re-enactment with children in three global cities. Qualitative Research Journal, 23(4), 383-396. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-12-2022-0157
Chan, A.K.W., Cheung, L.T.O., Chong, E.K., Lee, K.M.Y., and Wong, M.Y.H. (2022). Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: Socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate. Comparative Migration Studies, 10, Article 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00323-y
Yelland, N., Bartholomaeus, C., Muspratt, S., Chan, A. K. W., Leung, V. W. M., Soo, L. M. J., & Lim, K. M. (2022). Belonging, student identity, and school activity preferences: Views from Year 4 in the global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. Policy Futures in Education, 2022(11), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103221136380
Chan, Anita K.W. and Fang, T.S. (2021). Negotiating masculinity in a post-socialist society: The case of Chinese male nurses. Sociological Research Online, https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211046970, 28(2), 1-17.
Ngan, Lucille L.S and Chan Anita K.W. (2021). Transnational Familyhoood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong. Asian Studies Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2021.1937939, 2021, 1-19.
Yelland, Nicola, Sandy Muspratt, Clare Bartholomaeus, Nanthini Karthikeyan, Anita Kit Wa Chan, Vivienne Wai Man Leung, I-Fang Lee, Li Mei Johannah Soo, Kam Ming Lim and Sue Saltmarsh (2020). Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children: Out-of-school activities in three global cities. Globalisation, Societies and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2020.1816921, 19(3), 259-273.
Chan, Anita K.W., Chiu Ming Ming, Yang Shuyan, and Ngan Lucille L. S. (2020). Mobility, belongingness and schooling experiences of Chinese cross-border students. Children and Youth Services Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104870, 111, 1-10.
Choi, Kimburley W. Y., Chan, Annie H.N., and Chan, Anita K.W. (2020). Producing ‘luxury’ housing: Developers’ strategies and housing advertisements in Hong Kong (1961-2011). Urban Studies https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098019896711, 57(16), 3252-3280.
Choi, Kimburley W. Y., Chan, Annie H.N., and Chan, Anita K.W. (2019). The disappearance of community, work and everyday life in late capitalism: Private housing, advertisements from 1961 to 2011 in global Hong Kong. Journal of Consumer Culture, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1469540519846201, 00, 1-23.
Chan, A.K.W. and Ngan, L.L.S. (2018). Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students. Mobilities, doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2017.1300452, 13(1), 142-156.
Chan, A. K.W., Ngan L.L.S.,Wong, K.W.A., and Chan, W.S. (2017). ‘Border’ matters in discussions of cross-border students. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 13, 56-70.
Chan, K.W. A, Ngai, S.K. G. & Choi, P.K. (2016). Contextualising the career pathways of women principals in Hong Kong: a critical examination(doi: 10.1080/03057925.2014.884919). Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2014.884919, Vol.46, No.2, 194-213.
陳潔華、顏樂燊、陳永新 (2014)。 〈跨境學童的就學經驗和歸屬感〉。 《跨境家庭論壇》，2，13-25。
蔡寶瓊、陳潔華 (2014)。 性別平等教育論述的發展：香港本土研究回顧。 性別平等教育季刊，66，106-115。
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2012). From ‘civilising the young’ to a ‘dead-end job’: gender, teaching, and the politics of colonial rule in Hong Kong (1841–1970). History of Education, 41, 1-20.
Chan Kit-wa, Anita (2012). Doing family, contesting gender and expanding affinity: family practices of married women in Hong Kong. Families, Relationships and Societies, 1(1), 25-41.
Chan, K.W.A. (2011). Feminizing and Masculinizing Primary Teaching: A Critical Examination of the Interpretive Frameworks of Male Principals in HK. Gender and Education, 23(6), 745-759.
王惠玲、伍嘉敏、陳潔華 (2010)。 解讀香港育兒雜誌的「好媽媽」。 性別平等教育季刊，49，106-113。
Ng, C. H., Ng, B. S., & Chan, K. W. A. (2009). Doing families: Strategy, Morality and emotion. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 4, 57-87.
Chan, K. W. A. (2009). Hong Kong experience, Taiwan's exchange. Gender Equity Education Journal, 45, 102-105.
Ng, C. H., Wong, W, B., Chu, Y. W., & Chan, K. W. A. (2009). Special Focus: Doing Families in Hong Kong. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 4, 3-187.
Ng, C. H., Wong, W. B. T., Chu, Y. W. A., & Chan, K. W. A. (2009). Doing families in Hong Kong: Values, Relations & Strategies. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 4, 3-15.
Green, G., Bradby, H., Chan, A., & Lee, M. (2006). "We are not completely Westernized": Dual medical systems and pathways to health care among Chinese migrant women in England. Social Science and Medicine, 62 (2006), 1498-1509.
Green, G., Bradby, H., Chan, K. W. A., Lee, M., and Eldridge, K. (2002). Is the English National Health Service Meeting the Needs of Mentally Distress Chinese Women?. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 17(4), 216-221.
Lee, M., Chan, K. W. A., Bradby, H and Green, G. (2002). Chinese Migrant Women and Families in Britain. Women's Studies International Forum, 25(6), 607-618.

Conference Papers
Chan Anita, Kit-Wa (2025, February). Chinese adopted children’s perspectives on family experiences. WCQR 9th World Conference on Qualitative Research, Poland.
SDGs infomation: 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, 10 - Reduced Inequality
Chen Xi and Chan Anita, Kit-Wa (2025, February). Migrant networks, economic integration and socio-cultural segregation of middling mainland Chinese students-turned-migrants in Hong Kong. International Conference on The Challenges and Future of Transnational Mobility/ Transnational What, Why and How?, Hong Kong.
SDGs infomation: 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, 10 - Reduced Inequality, 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Ngan, Lucille Lok-Sum and Chan, Anita Kit-Wa (2025, February). Exploring the social lives of older long-term Hong Kong immigrants in Australia: Insights from casinos and churches. International Conference on The Challenges and Future of Transnational Mobility/ Transnational What, Why and How?, Hong Kong.
Chan, Kit Wa, Anita (2023, November). Critical reflections on interviewing and re-presenting adopted children’s perspectives on family experiences. International Qualitative Research Conference, Malaysis.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2022, December). 'Gender Education: What young men reveal to us in their narratives?'. Invited parallel section speaker at International Conference: Moving towards gender equality and a sustainable society, 10 Dec, 2021, co-organised by Hong Kong Federation of Women’s Centres, Gender Research Centre, CUHK, and Gender Studies Programme, CUHK., Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2022, December). “We have to do more than ordinary parents”: Challenges and strategies of Chinese adoptive families. DESI Conference 2021: Challenges and Opportunities of Diversity and Social Inclusion in the School and Community, 8 Dec, 2021, Hong Kong.
Chan A.K.W. & Cheung, A.K.L. (2021, December). Girls don’t have the “Math sense’: How secondary school students make sense of STEM related subject choices. Paper presented at the International Conference on Gender, Language and Education, Hong Kong.
Cheung A. K.L. & Chan K..A. (2021, December). Why are females not taking STEM in university: Results from a student survey in Hong Kong. International Conference on Gender, Language and Education, Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2021, May). Challenges and strategies of adoptive parents: An invisible family type in Hong Kong. Logos International Forum, 6th Annual Conference, Hong Kong.
Gube, J., Chan, A. K. W., Bhowmik, M. K., Gao, F., Au, Y. T. M., Chan, H. T., & Halse, C. (2020, December). “Let Hong Kong be Hong Kong”: Belonging and (dis-)unity in times of unrest. Paper presented at the 12th Korean Association for Multicultural Education (KAME) International Conference, Seoul, Korea.
Gube, J., Chan, K.W., Bhowmik, M., Gao, F., Au, M., Chan, A., & Halse, C. (2020, July). Belonging, cultures, and schooling: Committing to nation-states in turbulent times?. World Education Research Association (WERA) Focal Meeting 2020, Galicia, Spain.
Ngan, L.L.-S., & Chan, A.K.W. (2019, July). Parachute Kids and Transnational Families: The Negotiation of Migratory Strategies among Second-Generation Returnee Fathers in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of Chinese Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
Kimburley Choi, Annie Chan & Anita Chan (2019, May). From everyday living to abstract living: Private housing advertisements in global Hong Kong (1961-2011). the International Conference on Cultural Governance in Asia, 2019, Soft Power, Place-(re)making and Civility, Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2018, July). Transnationality, mobility and belongingness of Chinese cross-border students. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto.
陳潔華、陳宗迪 (2017，11). 為何第三組別男生「不」願意學習通識？。「世界教育研究學會會議暨香港教育研究學會國際研討會2017：當代世界的創新、改革與教育變革」，Hong Kong。
陳潔華和楊姝焱 (2017，11). 跨境學童就學經驗對香港歸屬感影響的研究。論文發表於「世界教育研究學會會議暨香港教育研究學會國際研討會2017：當代世界的創新、改革與教育變革」，Hong Kong。
Chan, A.K.W. and Ngan, L.N.S. (2017, June). Border policies, family configurations and differential mobility: The case of Chinese cross-border students. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm.
Anita Kit-wa Chan and Lucille Lok-sum Ngan (2016, June). Sense of belonging of young cross-border students: mobility, place and familial contexts. Paper presented at the Asian Conference on Asian Studies, Kobe, Japan.
Lucille Lok-sum Ngan and Anita Kit-wa Chan (2016, June). Exploring fathering goals among Hong Kong return migrants. Paper presented at the Asian Conferences on Asian Studies, Kobe, Japan.
Lucille L.S. Ngan and Anita K.W. Chan (2015, November). Exploring transnationalism and child-rearing strategies among Chinese returnee fathers in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the International Conference: Asian Migration and Rooted-Transnationalism, Melbourne, Australia.
Anita Kit-wa Chan and Lucille Lok-sum Ngan (2015, July). Family and spatial strategies of families with cross-border students. The Ninth International Convention of Asian Studies, Adelaide, Australia.
Anita K.W. Chan & Lucille Ngan (2014, December). The Politics of Mobility of Cross Border Students in Hong Kong. The 16th Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong.
Lucille, Nok Sun Ngan, Anita Kit-wa Chan, Anthony Wong, and Chan Wing Sun (2014, May). Border Crossing and Hybridity: Cross-border Students in Hong Kong. The Fourth Asian Conference on Asian Studies, Osaka, Japan.
Anita K.W. Chan (2013, October). Envisioning Education from a Gender Perspective. The Symposium on Women Envisioning a New Society, CUHK, Hong Kong.
Chan, Anita, K.W., Ngan, Lucille & Wong, Anthony (2013, June). Identities of Cross-border Students: Crisis, Ambiguity or Flexibility. Paper presented at The Eighth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Macao, China.
Chan, K.W. Anita (2013, June). The Importance of Gendered Equity Sensitivity in Education. Keynote paper presented at the Annual Gender Roles Workshop – Gender Sensitivity and Education, Hong Kong.
Ngan, Lucille, Chan, Anita, K.W. & Wong, Anthony (2013, May). Identity Construction of Cross-border Students in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies and the Third Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Osaka, Japan.
Chan, K.W. Anita, Ngan, Lucille & Wong, Anthony (2013, April). Perspectives and Experiences of Cross-border Students. Paper presented at the Workshop on Cross-border Mobilities, Strategies and Identities in Hong Kong and Mainland, Hong Kong.
Chan, K.W. Anita, Ngan, L., & Wong, A. (2013, March). Perspectives and Experiences of Cross-border Students. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Ngai, Siu Keung George, Chan, Kit Wa Anita & Choi, Po King (2012, August). Strategies of being successful and sustainable primary school principals nowadays: A Case in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Conference on the 7th International Conference on the Social and Moral Fabric of the School, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA..
Chan, Kit Wa Anita, Ngan, Siu Keung George & Choi Po King (2012, January). The rise of women leadership in Hong Kong’s primary schools: is it a case of celebration?. 10th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Chan Kit Wa Anita (2011, December). Doing Mothering: Meanings, Practices and Experiences of Chinese Mothers in contemporary Hong Kong. Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hong Kong.
Chan K.W. A. & Choi Po King (2011, April). The development of the field of gender and education in Hong Kong: challenges and prospects. Paper presented at Conference on Gender/Sexual Politics in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: CUHK.
Yu, C.W.M., Lai-Yeung, T.W.L., Chan, A.K.W., Lam, O. Y. (2010, December). A Study of Gender in Teacher Education: Hong Kong Case.. The 2nd East Asian International Conference on Teacher Education Research, Hong Kong.
Chan, A.K.W (2010, June). Reproducing inequalities and initiating changes: family and maternal practices of married women in Hong Kong. Keynote paper presented at the Conference on Changing Families in a Changing World, UK.
Chan, A.K.W. (2010, January). Do school principals have a gender? A close examination of the narratives of male primary school headteachers in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Seminar on Gender and Education, Faculty of Education Studies, Macau University, Macau.
Chan, A.K.W. (2009, December). Interrogating the gender discourses of male primary school principals. Paper presented at the Symposium on Gender & Education in Hong Kong, HKIEd, Hong Kong.
Chan, A.K.W. (2009, December). Women manage but men lead: “Gender differences” as narrated by male primary school principals in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Gender Equity Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Yu, W. M. C.,Chan, A.K.W., Lam, O. Y., Lai-Yeung, T.W.L. (2009, December). A critical examination of the development and discourses of studies on Gender & Education in Hong Kong, 1983-2009. Paper presented at the Symposium on Gender & Education in Hong Kong, HKIEd, Hong Kong.
Chan K.W. A. (2009, October). How to Equip Youth Workers to Effectively Promote Sexual Health Education. Paper presented at the AIDS Concern Youth Workers Forum – Rethinking Modern Sex Education, Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A. (2009, June). More than a change in number: Gendering the historical development of primary school teaching in Hong Kong. Paper presented at The conference of Education & Heritage, Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A. (2009, March). Women are more thorough but men think big: " Gender differences" as narrated by male primary school principals. Paper presented at the Gender: Regulation a Resistance in Education, Gender & Education Association, 7th International Conference, London.
Chan, K. W. A., & Lam, O. Y. B. (2009, March). A paradox in Hong Kong: A land of "abundant opportunities" With limited development in gender and education. Paper presented at the Gender: Regulation a Resistance in Education, Gender & Education Association, 7th International Conference, London.
Chan, K. W. A. (2008, December). Doing motherhood: Stories of women in contemporary Hong Kong. Paper presented at The International Conference, Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A., Ng, K. M. C., & Wong, W. L. (2008, November). Raising kids in an insecure world: The hidden curriculum in a parenting magazine. Paper presented at The First International Conference on Popular Culture & Education in Asia, Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A., Lai Yeung, W. L. T., & Yu, W. M. C. (2008, May). Gender in education: Pedagogical practices and research directions. Paper presented at the 2008 Spring Workshop - Research Matters: The Production of Knowledge, Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A. (2008, April). Edison Chan's "Erotic" Photos: An re-examination of the saga the perspectives of gender & human rights. Paper presented at the Lunch Time Seminar of The Gender Matters Group & The Centre for Citizenship Education, Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A. (2005, June). Hong Kong Women's Sexuality in the Twenty-first Century. Paper presented at the Women's Worlds: 9 th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Seoul , Korea.
Chan, K. W. A. (2004, December). Negotiating Intimacy: The Family and Its Discontent. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association, The University of Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A. (2004, November). When Women 'Baby-sit' and Men 'Transmit Knowledge': The Construction of Gender in Hong Kong 's Educational System. Invited paper at The First International Conference on Gender Equity Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, The Population and Gender Studies Centre, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
Chan, K. W. A. (2003, June). Masculinities and Power of Male Primary Teachers. Paper presented at the 3rd international interdisciplinary conference at the University of Keele , England , organized by Gender, Work & Organization
Chan, K. W. A. (2002, November). Gendering School Management Strategies: A Case Study. Paper presented at the Section "Gender, Age and Class: Identities in Conflict", at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Chan, K. W. A. (2002, August). Managing Gender in an Entrepreneurial School. Paper presented at the Regular Section "Gender & Work", at the 97 th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Chicago, USA.

Creative and Literary Works, Consulting Reports and Case Studies
Chan, Anita Kit-wa, Kwok, Diana Kan, Fang, Tevin, Shu-han and Leung Yo-hin (2022). The Lifeworld of Adopted Children. The Lifeworld of Adopted Children. Hong Kong: Hong Kong: The Education University of Hong Kong. https://issuu.com/adoption_picturebook/docs/the_lifeworld_of_adopted_children_english
Chan, A.K.W. and Cheung, A.K.L. (2021). Exploring the Masculinities of Young Men in Hong Kong: Final Report.. Hong Kong: Hong Kong: The Women’s Foundation. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34677.29927.
Chan, A.H.L., Chan, A.K.W., Cheung, F., Choi, K.W.Y. and Lun, V. (2019). A study on knowledge of sexual harassment and experience of being sexually harassed in the service industries: Comparing recent female mainland Chinese immigrants with locally local women.. Hong Kong: Hong Kong: Equal Opportunities Commission.
Chan, A.K.W. and Cheung, A.K.L. (2018). Gender differences in choosing STEM subjects at secondary school and university in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong: The Women's Foundation.

All Other Outputs
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2022). External Examiner of PhD Thesis, Three Essays on Young People and Housing Inequality. Hong Kong: Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2021). External Examiner of PhD Thesis, (Un)healthy Start: The Making of Healthy Students' Bodies in 20th Century Colonial Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Graduate Studies Programme, CUHK.
Chan Kit Wa Anita (2019). External Examiner of PhD Thesis, ‘Patterns of Adolescent-Parent Conflicts over the Schoolwork in Chinese Families’. Hong Kong: Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Chan, Kit Wa Anita (2018). External Examiner of MPhil Thesis, Reality Television Production under the State-market Dynamics in China: A Case Study of the Chinese-Style Blind Dating. Hong Kong: The School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita External Examiner of PhD Thesis (2017). Un-gendering breast cancer: Misrepresentation of breast cancer in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita External Examiner of MPhil Thesis (2017). Alternative sexualities/intimacies? Yuri fans community in the Chinese context. Hong Kong: Department of Sociology, Lingnan University.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita External Examiner of PhD Thesis (2017). Meaning-making and emotional experience among participants of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita External Examiner of MPhil Thesis, (2016). Post-secondary educational choice of working-class low performers in Hong Kong: Associate degree or higher diploma?. Hong Kong: Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chan Kit Wa, Anita (2013). External Examiner of PhD thesis, 'Farming for Respect: An Ethnographic Study of Mainland Migrant Mothers in Hong Kong'. Hong Kong: Department of Sociology, HKU.
Chan Kit, Wa, Anita (2013). External Examiner of PhD thesis, 'Ordinary Hopes, Extraordinary Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Community College Students'. HKU, Hong Kong: PhD Thesis, Department of Sociology, HKU.
Chan Kit-wa, Anita (2011). External Examiner of Mphil Thesis, "Elite Schoolgirl: The construction of ‘ideal female subject’ in a globalised context". Hong Kong: Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chan, K.W.A. (2011). External Examiner of PhD Thesis, Understanding Ambivalence of Settlement: A Qualitative Study on Time management, gender relationship and identity of rural-urban migrant families in Nanjin. Hong Kong: Department of Social Work and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong.
Chan, K. W. A. (2009). External Examiner of Mphil Thesis, Risk culture of late modernity? Mass tutoring enrolment of Hong Kong's senior secondary students'. Department of Sociology, Lingnan University..
Chan, K. W. (2008). External examiner of Mphil Thesis, The social construction of femininities: An ethnographic study of junior secondary girls in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Gender Studies Programme, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Projects
The Caregiving Experiences of Chinese Grandfathers: An Exploratory Study
This proposed exploratory study aims to investigate the caregiving experiences of grandfathers in contemporary Hong Kong, a topic that remains under-researched in existing grandparenthood literature. Despite rising concern about the evolving roles and contributions of grandparents in Hong Kong—a rapidly ageing society—the research focus has predominantly been on grandmothers or grandparents generally, leaving grandfathers’ voices and experiences under-examined. This lack of attention to men’s caregiving experiences not only obscures their contributions, needs and challenges as grandfathers and caregivers, but also inadvertently reinforces women as primary caregivers. By conducting life history interviews with eight grandfathers, focusing on their caregiving activities, subjective evaluations, and identity construction, this study addresses the knowledge gap in local studies and provides insights into family policies and service provision.
Project Start Year: 2026, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita
SDGs Information: 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, 5 - Gender Equality, 10 - Reduced Inequality
 
Training Workshops for Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) and Using Gen-AI in Qualitative Research Methods
In response to the growing importance of advanced qualitative research methodologies, I would like to propose a comprehensive 5-day workshop aimed at enhancing the skills of both faculty members and postgraduate students in the use of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) and Generative AI in qualitative research. This initiative aligns with the strategic goals of FLASS by fostering research excellence and equipping our academic community with essential skills needed in today’s research landscape.
Project Start Year: 2025, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita
SDGs Information: 4 - Quality Education
 
A Critical Examination of College Men’s Perspectives on Love, Intimacy and Family
This project aims to critically examine the narratives of Hong Kong college men on the views of ideal female partners, women’s sexuality and family roles. It aims to assess how and in what ways new forms of Chinese masculinity are emerging among the group of educated young men.
Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita

 
Advancing Equity in Hong Kong: An Intersectional Analysis of Secondary School Students’ Schooling Experiences
Addressing educational inequality is a priority for both educators and policymakers in Hong Kong. Previous studies in Hong Kong have found significant links between inequalities in educational opportunities and learning outcomes and different demographic features—particularly gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES). Studies in diverse contexts indicate that the intersection of these demographic features can exacerbate educational inequalities, but little is known about how these features intersect and influence educational inequalities in Hong Kong, especially in relation to students’ schooling experiences.

The proposed study will address this knowledge gap. It will deploy intersectionality approach to examine the multiplicative relationships among Hong Kong secondary students’ gender, ethnicity, and SES, and how these relationships affect inequalities in key schooling experiences. It will use a two-phase research design using mixed research methods. In Phase 1, a territory-wide survey will be used to examine the multiplicative relationships among secondary students’ gender, ethnicity, and SES, and their key aspects of schooling experiences identified as critical to their well-being, developmental outcomes, and learning opportunities and outcomes Phase 2, based on three case-study schools with interviews and narrative analysis, will provide in-depth insights into what the quantitative findings look like in the lives of diverse students and their views on how these inequalities might be addressed.
Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): JANG, Sung Tae (CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita as Co-Investigator)

 
Transnational Ageing and Family Processes among Elderly Hong Kong Parents
Transnational ageing is particularly relevant to Hong Kong due to the combination of its ageing population, increasing population mobility and elongation of post-retirement life. Much of the scholarly work on transnational migration from Hong Kong since the 1990s has focused on the transnational mobility of emigrants who departed to the west before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China. While studies have provided insights into these migrants’ continuous migration through the life course, we know very little about their migration trajectories and how they live within a transnational context in their old age. This study aims to understand the links between ageing and migration and their impact on the elderly and society. This study will explore the transnational processes of ageing among elderly returnees in Hong Kong and Hong Kong–born elderly migrants residing abroad who are 60 years and over. Our overriding research question is: “How do elderly Hong Kong transnationals organise and cope with ageing in contexts no longer bound to the frame of a single nation-state?” Employing qualitative research methods, we will examine their residential considerations, the role of non-proximate family networks in care circuits, transnational coping strategies and practices, and cross-border utilisation of elderly care services.
Project Start Year: 2023, Principal Investigator(s): Ngan, Lok Sun Lucille (CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita as Co-Investigator)

 
Emerging Impact Case: Improve Public Understanding and Service Support to Chinese Adoptive Families
Adoptive families have been an under-researched and almost neglected family form in Hong Kong. Such invisibility means their unique needs and challenges remain unmet and the bias, stigma and limited understanding against adoption and non-blood ties family relations unaddressed. This research not only reveals to policy makers and service providers the inadequate social support available to adoptive parents. With the aid of a research-based picture book and a series of knowledge exchange activities with educators, social workers, and parents, it promotes positive understanding towards adoptive families and respect for family diversity among the general public.
Project Start Year: 2022, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita

 
“Loving My Political Opponents”: Political Disagreements and Marital Quality in Hong Kong.
Political polarization among the public has become a major concern in many societies. The process of polarization has strengthened partisan identities and increased the amount of prejudice and anger directed against members of opposing groups. The increased hostility could cause particularly serious difficulties when couple partners differ greatly in terms of their political attitudes, behaviors, and identities. Unfortunately, few academic studies have investigated the prevalence, factors, and consequences of within-couple political disagreements. In particular, the relationship between within-couple political disagreements and marital quality has not been thoroughly investigated. It remains unclear why some families are more vulnerable to these conflicts than others in times of political polarization.

Hong Kong provides an interesting and important case study for the investigation of the relationship between political polarization and marital relations. Public opinion polls have an increasing polarization towards a wide range of political issues. Citizens with different political orientations have developed a strong sense of antagonism and hatred toward members of out-groups. Given that political polarization has become a major issue in many societies nowadays, how do married couples with different political orientations maintain their marriage and interact with each other in a highly polarized political context is an important question that remains inadequately addressed in the literature.

The main purpose of the proposed study is to investigate in detail the relationship between within-couple political disagreements and marital quality. The proposed study aims at answering five related research questions: 1) How are differences in political attitudes and values, behaviors, and partisan identities associated with different dimensions of marital quality? 2) How does the strength of association between political disagreements and marital quality compare with the a
Project Start Year: 2022, Principal Investigator(s): CHEUNG KA LOK, ADAM 張家樂 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
An Exploratory Study on the Factors Affecting the Place of Attachment and Belongingness of Hong Kong Permanent Residents
This research cluster aims at studying the place of attachment and belongingness of Hong Kong adult permanent residents by using qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews. This proposed research cluster is interdisciplinary in nature since it will draw upon relevant and updated theories and perspectives from politics, sociology, geography, as well as citizenship. For this reason, it will also be a means to strengthen the ongoing collaborations across faculties (FLASS & FEHD) and departments (SSC, APS & EPL). This project is about studying the place of attachment and belongingness of Hong Kong permanent residents. Belongingness, which is defined as a fundamental human need to maintain significant interpersonal relationships (Baumeisseter & Leary, 1995, p. 497) and a desire to take part in a community (Capra & Steindi-Rast, 1991, p. 14), has been an important concept in psychology. However, in the past two decades, the complexity of social conditions and human movements around the world have motivated social scientists from different disciplines to further theorise about it (Antonsich, 2010; Halse, 2018; May, 2013; Yuval-Davis, 2006).
Project Start Year: 2021, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita

 
Childhood, Cooperation & Conflict: Exploring the Role of Cooperation and Conflict in Children’s Texts, Play and Peer Relations, and Implications for Social Competence and Social Cohesion
This study is concerned with cooperation and conflict in children’s texts, play and peer relations, with a view to better understanding how social cohesion begins to take shape during early childhood. The research will analyse cultural texts such as children’s picture books with thematic concerns about cooperation and conflict, and will also undertake visual ethnographies in early childhood settings in Hong Kong and Australia
Project Start Year: 2021, Principal Investigator(s): SALTMARSH, Sue Okerson (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Collaborator)

 
Development of Creative Thinking Skills: Engagement of University Teachers and Students in Learning, Assessment and Collection of Evidence
The Community of Practice project is a response to the University’s Strategic Plan 2016-2025. One of the primary missions of the strategic plan is to ‘prepare our students to become educators and professionals who can integrate theory and practice, and who are creative, innovative, …’. The proposed CoP will gather academic and teaching colleagues who have the vision and passion to nurture our students with creative thinking. Through engagement in professional dialogues, sharing of experience and critical reviews, members of the CoP will develop pedagogies and instructional designs collectively that can effectively engage students in creative thinking. The pedagogies leveraged from the CoP will be shared, tested, documented and disseminated in the University so as to create a shared culture that values creative thinking skills and the teaching of them to students. Through increasing infusion and improvement of teaching of creative thinking skills in courses and dissemination of the pedagogies in different channels, the CoP will contribute to better performance of students in the GILO ‘Creative Thinking Skills’ of our University.
Project Start Year: 2021, Principal Investigator(s): TAM, Cheung On (CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita as Co-Principal Investigator)

 
Factors shaping the belongingness to Hong Kong: An exploratory study
Belongingness, which is defined as a fundamental human need to maintain significant interpersonal relationships (Baumeister & Leary, 1995, p. 497) and a desire to take part in a community (Capra & Steindi-Rast, 1991, p. 14), has been an important concept in psychology. However, in the past two decades, the complexity of social conditions and human movements around the world have motivated social scientists from different disciplines to further theorise about the concept of belonging (Antonsich, 2010; Halse, 2018; May, 2013; Yuval-Davis, 2006). Belongingness is now recognized as multi-dimensional; it is not simply personal but also relational, social, and spatial because it is the ‘desire for some sort of attachment, be it to other people, places, or modes of being’ (Probyn, 1996, p.19). One notable development is a rising interest in relations between people and place – people’s affective and emotional attachment to a place – in various disciplines, contributing to concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, place identity, place dependence, territorial-belonging and place-belongingness in environmental psychology, human and cultural geography, and sociology. The growth of academic interest marks belongingness, a fertile ground for interdisciplinary research, and a potential research cluster area for the Department of Social Sciences.

Building on colleagues’ existing research interests, this proposal seeks to develop belongingness into a research cluster area with a preliminary investigation. It explores many factors that may affect residents’ belongingness to Hong Kong. More specifically, it aims to determine how Hong Kong residents’ socio-demographic-economic backgrounds, mobilities, and perceptions of income inequality, the rule of law, and global citizenship affect their attachment and sense of belonging to Hong Kong.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita

 
Exploring the Masculinities of Young Men in Hong Kong
The study examined young men’s perception, understanding and evaluation of gender roles, women’s rising status, and changing gender and sexual relationships. With a focus on male university students, it also investigated what factors might be shaping the gendered attitudes of young, educated men. Moreover, it assessed whether taking gender-related courses or programmes makes a difference in young men’s understanding of gender roles and masculinity.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita

 
Global Childhoods in Australia and Asia: Discussion and Sharing of Preliminary Findings
The objectives of the project are to strengthen the international collaboration with the Australian team members; enable me to analyse and theorise the data collected in different cities with other team members in face to face meetings; generate and refine themes for writing and publication with other team members; and publicise our findings with students and faculty members at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita, Prof Nicola Yelland, Prof Sue Saltmarsh, Dr I-Fang Lee

 
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 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Diversity, Equity and Social Inclusion Research Group
This proposal builds on and extends the achievements over the last two years by the Intercultural Studies Strategic Research Group in establishing a culture of collaborative research and high quality research outcomes:
i) Successful grant applications on diversity: 5 of 6 GRF/ECS applications since 2017 successful (83% success rate);
ii) Quality outputs: 1 co-edited book (Springer), 9 A*, 6 A journal articles by members on diversity (2 co-authored; three won awards)
iii) Research collaboration: multi-method, collaborative research project involving all members on ‘Belonging of Diverse Youth in Hong Kong’
iv) International conferences: AERA Symposium (2019); presentations at Korean Association for Multicultural Education (KAME) (2019);
v) RPG support: Monthly Theory Reading group.
vi) Community engagement: Symposium with the Equal Opportunity Commission, NGOs, schools practitioners and community members on ‘Minorities and Education: Future directions?’, https://sites.google.com/friends.eduhk.hk/intercultural-res/events/symposium
vii) Internationalization: i) established APIRN (Asia Pacific Intercultural Research Network) to connect regional diversity scholars. Includes members from Korean Educational Development Institute, Gyeongin National University of Education (South Korea), Osaka University (Japan), University of Canberra (Australia), Chiang Mai University (Thailand), National Institute of Education (Singapore).
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): HALSE CHRISTINE MARGARET , JACKSON, Liz null (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Remaking Chinese Families: Narratives and Practices of Adoptive Families in Hong Kong
Adoption is an under-researched and almost neglected area in Hong Kong. The purpose of this research is to address this research gap by bringing in the voices and experiences of this ‘invisible group’. It will explore the narratives and experiences of Chinese adoptive families in Hong Kong and glean the ways and extent that values and practices associated with family, kinship, parenthood and childhood have been negotiated and reconceptualised.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
Exploring the Masculinities of Young Men in Hong Kong
This study proposes to examine young men’s perspectives of changing gender relationships. It examines young men’s gender ideologies and their understanding of hegemonic masculinity, in particular their views of what ‘real men’ should be and have in relation to women and other men in the twenty-first century. It also explores their views of ‘masculinity threats’ such as their perceived fear, anxiety and anger over what threatening their sense of manhood in particular in relation to gender relations, sexuality and sexual violence
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
Trajectories, Strategies, Practices of Second-Generation Hong Kong Transnational Families
This research will explore the migration trajectories of second-generation Hong Kong transnational families, in relation to their motives, strategies, practices, challenges and outcomes. After securing foreign passports and attaining overseas tertiary education, many second generation immigrants who emigrated to western shores before the 1997 hand-over have resettled to Hong Kong and are forming their own families. However, having transitioned to parenthood they are planning to leave Hong Kong yet again, with their children, for better education and quality of family life.

While migrants’ circulatory movements and their family ties have been increasingly addressed through a transnational perspective, there has been limited focus on the migratory trajectories of second generation transnational families, as a unit. The significance of our study thus lies in revealing the scarcely known trajectories of second generation Hong Kong transnational families in process - as they happen. We will explore notions of home and belongingness and also the range of factors within the spheres of employment, family life and children’s education that are affecting their migratory trajectories. Furthermore, we will examine local and transnational strategies that are ultilised to pursue family projects and how gender relations are played out in the migration process. Our ethnographic fieldwork will involve 32 detailed family case studies of second-generation Hong Kong transnational migrants that are residing Hong Kong but have intentions to leave and also families that have departed to Australia and Canada.
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): NGAN, Lok Sum Lucille (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Global Childhoods: Lifeworlds and Educational Success in Australia and Asia
This project investigates how everyday lifeworlds of Year 4 (9-10 year of age) students in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore shape children’s orientations to educational success. Situated in the global cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore, the study explores connections between policy contexts, school experiences and everyday activities of children growing up in the Asian Century. Findings will advance knowledge of factors that contribute to children’s understandings of how their experiences in and out of school prepare them for futures in a global world. This will enable policy-makers, educators and parents to provide improved learning opportunities in children’s lives.
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): Prof Nicola Yelland, Prof Sue Saltmarsh, Dr. I-Fang Lee (CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita as Co-Principal Investigator)

 
Recycling Working Daughters? Hong Kong Older Women’s Divergent Lives and Subjectivities
The proposed research will explore the experiences and identities of a particular generation of
older women, who were born between 1940 and 1955 (aged 61-76 in year 2016). This
particular generation of women had been working daughters and household financial pillars
(Salaff 1995) in the 1960s and 1970s. After marriage, their role as unwaged “homemakers”
became integral to their identities (Lee 2002; Chan 2008), though some subtly resist their
domestic roles (Ho 2007; Chan 2012), and the caregiver role persists even when they enter late
adulthood (Liu, Cheng and McGhee 2001). As focus on Hong Kong economy shifted from a
manufacturing economy to a financial and service economy, these women have been facing
underemployment and unemployment since 1990s (Choi 2011) and (forced) retirement
recently. Although research had studied how this group performed as working daughters in the
past (Salaff 1995; Choi 1998; 2011), as well as the present situation of older women in general
(Woo et al 2008), no research has explored how older women develop divergent subjectivities
in relation to the changing material-discursive-structural forces of Hong Kong society, and
how their evaluation of their life experiences and their present everyday practices produce fluidand complex subjectivities.
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): Choi Wing Yee, Kimburley (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
"Intercultural Studies"
This project's aim is to establish Intercultural studies in education as an area of strength in The Faculty of Education and Human Development. This will begin by comprising 4 research themes: i) young people in education; ii) educational leadership; iii) multicultural education and intercultural pedagogies; iv) international education and internationalization.
Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): HALSE, Christine Margaret (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
A study on knowledge and victimization experience of sexual harassment in the service industries: Comparing recent female Mainland Chinese immigrants with locally-born women
The proposal describes a 12 month mixed methods study on the topic “A study on knowledge and victimization experience of sexual harassment in the service industries: Comparing recent Mainland Chinese immigrants with locally-born women.” Our conceptual model examines (1) how organizational and job context and sexual harassment knowledge shape sexual harassment experience, and (2) how outcomes of such experience are mediated by help-seeking behavior. Recent female Mainland Chinese immigrants are increasingly recognized as a socially vulnerable group. Paid work enables them some economic independence and therefore protection against social marginalization, but they are likely to be more vulnerable than their locally-born counterparts in the workplace. Recent female migrants from Mainland China are more likely to be concentrated in service, sales work and elementary occupations which involve interaction with co-workers and customers – in short, high risk areas for workplace sexual harassment. Understanding these women’s knowledge, perception, experience and responses in relation to sexual harassment is therefore directly related to their ability to maintain economically active as well as general health and psychological well-being.
Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): Chan, H.N. Annie (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
A Study on Gender Differences in Choosing STEM Subjects in Hong Kong Secondary Schools
Existing studies usually focus on examining the motives and fears of young girls in not choosing STEM subjects. This research, however, proposes to examine how and why both teen girls and boys perceive and choose STEM subjects in secondary schools and for their university applications. In other words, instead of focusing only on girls and their choices in choosing or not choosing STEM subjects, we deem it more meaningful to explore the views and experiences of both genders to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding. Furthermore, as perception and experiences of subject choices are multi-dimensional and affected by various factors, we would also propose to collect both quantitative and qualitative data.
Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
Girls Go Tech Programme Impact Assessment
This research assesses the possible changes brought about by the programme (Girls Go Tech) among student and teacher participants by conducting the impact assessment exercise. It has both quantitative and qualitative parts.
Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
Developing a Blended Learning Course on Advanced Qualitative Research Skills
This project aims to provide in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of advanced qualitative research skills to undergraduate and post-graduate students via a series of seminars and workshops. It also develops on-line learning resources on advanced qualitative skills
Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa, Anita

 
Good Teaching Practice – Incorporation of Development of Generic Skills into Course Teaching at Higher Education Context
The present project is related to Community of Practice (CoP). It aims to promote good teaching practice with the focus of incorporating the generic intended learning outcomes (GILOs) in course teaching and develop a peer sharing atmosphere on campus. It engages our colleagues in sharing and exchanging their teaching experience through an online platform.
Project Start Year: 2015, Principal Investigator(s): CHENG, May Hung May 鄭美紅 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Team Member)

 
Early Fatherhood among Returnees in Hong Kong: Spousal Relations, Childrearing and Work
The research adopts a qualitative approach to explore how Chinese returnees make sense of and ‘do’ fatherhood. Our ethnographic fieldwork includes participant observation and in-depth interviews with 24 whole-family case studies. The study aims to capture complex family dynamics and will contribute to new methods in family research in Hong Kong by examining the changes affecting men within the context of the family, rather than a mere focus on women, which has been the traditional way in family studies.
Project Start Year: 2015, Principal Investigator(s): Ngan, Lok Sun Lucille (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Teaching Enhancement Initiatives Fund - Department of Social Sciences
e-Learning
Project Start Year: 2014, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華, CHONG, King Man Eric 莊璟珉, HO, Ka Ki Lawrence 何家騏, HUNG, Chung Fun Steven 洪松勳, LAU SHU WAI, CARL 劉樹偉, LEE, Man Yee Karen 李敏儀, ZHAO, Zhenzhou 趙振洲

 
Nurturing Student Ambassadors and Extending Social Sciences Knowledge to Secondary School Liberal Studies Classrooms via Poster Presentation
To make use of new assessment initiative to enhance the teaching and learning outcomes in the courses offered by the Department of Social Sciences; and give ways to student learners to disseminate their acquired knowledge at HKIED to the secondary school communities
Project Start Year: 2013, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Ka Ki Lawrence 何家騏 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Educational Experiences, Family Relationships and Sense of Belonging: Cross-border Primary School Children Commuters
In recent years, there has been a high increase in school children commuting from Shenzhen to Hong Kong (HK) for schooling. These children with the right of abode in HK are residing in the Mainland but studying in HK. In the past, due to the quota restrictions of the one-way permit scheme (OWP), cross-border school children have mainly come from families dispersed across the border where the capacity for family members to care for them has been restricted. Recently, there has been more diversity in the family configuration and socio-economic background of cross-border students, including reunited families of OWP applicants in the mainland, HK born children to mainland Chinese parents, and the once HK resident families who have moved to Shenzhen because of costs of living or job opportunities. Cross-border school children come from a diversity of family configurations; however this complexity and the impact of border crossing on schooling and familial experience are under researched.

While choices are deliberately made by parents, children in reality are the ones who become the main bearers of these decisions. Not only do they have to travel alone across the border, some also have to endure the absence of parent(s) which directly impacts on the parent-child relationships. Moreover, these children may also encounter social exclusion at school because of their cultural differences. All these factors impact significantly on their educational experiences, negotiation of home and belonging, and familial relationships. While cross-border children encounter vastly different issues from their parents, their experiences, especially those of primary school children, have largely been under-researched in the existing studies. We argue that cross-border school children need to be examined separately as a distinct group in order to fully comprehend the complexity and diversity of their experience.

This study will examine the many realities and challenges faced by cross-border school children as they live their lives across the border of HK and Mainland China. The research will involve undertaking a questionnaire survey with 350 primary school children, individual in-depth interviews with children and their parents, and organizational in-depth interviews of key stakeholders.
Project Start Year: 2012, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
The Construction of Masculinities under Global Capitalism – A Cross-class, Ethnographic study of Boys-only Secondary Schools in Hong Kong
This is a study of how boys construct their masculinities, or, how they become men, in
one of the important sites of their growing-up process, i.e. the school. More specifically, we would research into the different dimensions of school life of teenage boys, and how these impact on their evolving gender and sexual identities. The study of masculinities, and how they are constructed in schools, had begun in English-speaking societies in the 1980s and the 1990s respectively. However, no such studies have been done in Chinese societies, and this study would be among the first. With the understanding that this process in boys-only schools will be different from that in mixed schools, we choose to study the former at this pioneering stage. A class dimension is built into this study by choosing two schools at both ends of the spectrum – an “elite school” with a predominantly upper-middle class intake, and a “Band 3” (i.e., academically poor) school with a working class intake. This cross-class comparison is important because existing literature reveals that there are multiple masculinities, and these are class-specific. Ethnography is adopted for our study because this enables us to observe and document the myriad details of school life experienced by boys, as well as the daily, repeated patterns of behaviour, feelings and thoughts that go into the making of diverse masculinities.Through our cross-class study, we hope to explore the diversely different processes of construction of masculinities. Lastly, our study is also expected to contribute to the understanding of Chinese masculinities in a post-colonial context, and thereby to enrich the comparative study of masculinities and gender construction.
Project Start Year: 2012, Principal Investigator(s): Choi Po King, Dora (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
TDG FAS - Engaging Students Learning Through Online Reflective Dialogue in the Social Sciences Courses
To engaging students into reflective dialogue on the effectiveness of course delivery in five Social Sciences Courses by using communication tools of Blackboard
Project Start Year: 2011, Principal Investigator(s): YU, Wai Mui Christina 姚偉梅 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Team Member)

 
Issues and Challenges of Cross-border School Commuters
The main objectives of this research are:
1) To explore the current policies and social developments related to cross-border education and family.
2) To examine issues related to care-taking strategies, travelling parent-child relationships and educational experiences of cross-border school children.
3) On the basis of the findings, develop a more in-depth study to examine the diverse issues faced by cross-border families.

Project Start Year: 2011, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
Secondary Teachers’work, identities and work-life interface in Confucian heritage and Western societies
This research examines the interplay of the “global” and the “local” in the problematic of teacher stress by comparing secondary school teachers’ work, identities and work-life interface under globalised neo-liberal pressures of performativity, accountability and standards in schools in three Confucian Chinese cultural heritage settings: Hong Kong, PRC and Australia. This study uses an interpretative ethnographic methodology in which narratives play a significant part to allow for analysis of the complexity of identities and workplaces within the same conceptual frame. Critical discourse analysis will also be used to analyze neo-liberal global order of “new capitalism” and Chinese Confucian heritages discourses in “family”, “teachers’ work” and “Confucian self and cardinal relationships”. Two generations of teachers, in four groups of: Hong Kong Chinese, PRC: Fujian Province, Chinese Australian and Anglo-Celtic Australian, equally divided between the two genders, totaling 96 teachers will be interviewed in-depth both individually and in groups. This data set allows for investigating how diverse settings provide different resources and constraints to teachers with different mixes of cultural heritage, as they negotiate work-life interfaces. Understanding how teachers can better resolve issues of stress can enhance educational outcomes, teaching satisfaction, and attract newcomers to the teaching profession
Project Start Year: 2010, Principal Investigator(s): CHOI, Pik Lin Jocelyn 蔡碧蓮 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Developing Resources for Effective Teaching and Learning in Academic Service-Learning Courses
Academic service-learning, different from internships, volunteer activities, or social practice, intends to bridge the gap between abstract theoretical knowledge and life and the social world. Both academic learning and service actions enhance each other in the end. Academic service-learning has begun to take shape in some countries and regions, such as the U. S., Great Britain and Taiwan; however, teaching practices and research into effective design and teaching strategies remain underdeveloped in Hong Kong. Nonetheless, in recent years, more and more Hong Kong post-secondary institutions have started introducing service-learning components into their academic programmes and courses. During 2008-09, for instance, HKIEd offered three pilot academic service-learning courses in the general education domain.

In order to promote academic service-learning at HKIEd, we are proposing the establishment of a database and resource bank on local and Asian countries’ practices and current research on academic service-learning courses. The purpose of this database, developed through a literature review, will be to develop resources for teaching practice in courses that incorporate service-learning components, inform the organization of a series of service-learning related faculty development at HKIEd, and identify research themes and future research directions on academic service-learning in the Hong Kong context.

The project not only aligns with the Institute’s encouragement of “students’whole person development and holistic learning”, “students’ social and intellectual engagement”, and their “caring for the community and humanity,” it also represents a timely endeavor in the face of the curriculum development in Kindergarten, primary and secondary education in Hong Kong.

In short, the 12-month-long project is expected to provide a comprehensive review of practice and research in the field of academic service-learning. These will undoubtedly benefit the teaching and research of our colleagues and students in the future.
Project Start Year: 2010, Principal Investigator(s): XU, Hui Xuan 徐慧璇 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Gender and Leadership: Life Histories of Female and Male Primary School Principals in Hong Kong
This project proposes to collect the life histories of 16 primary school head teachers. It will analyze the impact of gender on their career trajectories, leadership experiences, and home-work balance by examining the similarities and differences between women and men and within each group. This research is timely in two respects. First, in recent years, there has been a slow but steady growth of female principals in Hong Kong and elsewhere, a phenomenon that has attracted the attention of scholars. Although some of this growth can be attributed to equal opportunity legislation (which, however, is not a strong factor in Hong Kong), some researchers suggest that the recent educational restructuring has encouraged a new type of leadership and has facilitated women’s entry into leadership positions. The proposed project, exploratory in nature, will gauge the possible reconfigurations of gender in a feminized profession in the context of the educational changes in Hong Kong – a Chinese society characterized by a specific patriarchal culture. Second, the work-family intersection is an important issue throughout the world. In Hong Kong, a society with one of the lowest birth rates in the world, (i.e., 0.9 in 2006), the stories of how real female and male leaders balance, negotiate, and struggle with the demands of work and home in an increasingly stressful sector will be of great interest to aspiring principals, leaders in other fields, academics, and policy makers.
Project Start Year: 2010, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
Enhancement of teaching and learning of research skills
The project is to enhance students’ abilities to conduct research for their honours project, a new element of undergraduate teaching training at IEd, and more broadly as part of the training of undergraduates in education and social sciences. Taking into account some of the problems encountered in implementing the honours project, the proposed teaching development will review strengths and weaknesses in student’s research skills, catalogue resources for teaching and learning such skills and develop new ones, including highly operational items such as checklists and other tools of planning and review for crucial phases of research. It will promote use of such resources over all the undergraduate years by involving most teaching staff in the development and to recommend consistent exposure of students to a set of standards and practices. It also enhances the learning of research skills by reviewing and recommending adjustments to assessment tasks in all courses in programmes taught by the department to progressively build up student’s research abilities over the duration of their study at the Institute. After eight months of initial development, assessment of and adjustments to the resources will be made in the following academic year, when the resources and recommendations will be tried out and modified.
Project Start Year: 2009, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Wing Hoi 陳永海 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Exploring the Promotion of Gender Equity Education in Seoul-Joint project of Gender Matters Interest Group and SAO
A three-day study tour to Seoul, South Korea, as hosted and organized by the Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education so as to see how does the Korean Government apply gender policies in the country. The group has been led to visit institutes and organizations working for the gender equality and sex education in Korea. The group managed to participate in the opening ceremony of a conference about gender.
Project Start Year: 2009, Principal Investigator(s): LUK-FONG YUK YEE, PATTIE 陸方鈺儀 (CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華 as Co-Investigator)

 
Visual Representations and Cultural Constructions of Childhood and Parenting in a Parent Magazine
This study examines the visual images and cultural meanings conveyed in the advertisements of a popular child-care magazine in Hong Kong, with specific attention on its representations and constructions of childhood and parenting. By deconstructing its images and messages encoded in the advertisement, this study aims to achieve three purposes: a) examing the kinds of gender identities and relations in respect of childhood and parenting that have been reinforced and promoted; b) exploring how childhood and parenthood are constructed; c) outlining some pedagogical implications for educators who want to take more seriously the images and messages of the popular culture.
Project Start Year: 2008, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN Kit Wa Anita

 
A Preliminary Study of Gender Issue across Subjects: Reaearch and Pedagogy
As research into gender and education remains underdeveloped in Hong Kong, and in view of the importance of gender in the New Senior Secondary Liberal Studies Curriculum, this project aims to contribute to the field and meet the needs of front line teachers in three ways: a) establishing a database and resource bank that documents research and practices on gender education that have been carried out locally and elsewhere; b) providing examplars and strategies that can help inform subject-based teaching and learning and professional training; and c) conducting a critical review of local studies in order to identify research themes and future research direction, and to develop teaching new practice and pedagogical modules for promoting gender equity education.
Project Start Year: 2008, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Kit Wa Anita 陳潔華

 
The Cultural Constructions of Motherhood in a Popular Parenting Magazine in Hong Kong
This study will examine the messages conveyed in the most popular parenting magazine, Ours, with specific attention on its discussion and constructions of motherhood and feminities. Ours, which was first launched in 1988, is the first magazine of its kind in Hong Kong and is in existence for almost 20 years. By deconstructing the messgaes and images encoded in the magazine, this study aims to achieve three purposes:a) to identify changes in the conceptions and practices of motherhood (and fatherhood, if any); b) to examine the kinds of gender identities and relations that the magazine has helped to promote; c) to assess the insights and limitations of the magazine's discourses on parenting for those who provide gender equity education and parent education.
Project Start Year: 2007, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN Kit Wa Anita

 
The Gender Identities, Career Trajectories, and Management Practices of Male Principals in Primary Schools
This project had dual purposes. First it aims to provide a fuller understanding of the experiences of men in a female-predominant occupation, and secondly, it aims to explore the gender awareness of male leaders and the extent that they have reinforced or challenged the gendered cultures in primary school teaching.
Project Start Year: 2005, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN Kit Wa, Anita

 
Prizes and awards
The FLASS Caring Teacher Award
This award is to acknowledge and reward excellence in teaching and to recognise colleagues' overall pastoral care of students and practice Life, Positive, and Values Education actualisation in classroom/ project/ field experience/ practicum/ university life.
Date of receipt: /6/2025, Conferred by: The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
 
Outstanding Paper Award for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2017/2018
The paper entitled “Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students” has been recommended as one of the outstanding papers for 2017/2018.
Date of receipt: 13/12/2018, Conferred by: The Academy of Hong Kong Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
 
Emerald Literati Network Awards - 2018 Highly Commended Award
The award is given to my paper entitled, “‘Border’ matters in discussions of cross-border students”, which was selected as one of the best papers of the year.
Date of receipt: 29/5/2018, Conferred by: Emerald Publishing Limited
 
Excellence in Teaching Award 2009-10

Date of receipt: 31/5/2010, Conferred by: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, HKIEd
 
Best Research Leader Award 2009
I was given the award and commended by the Selection Committee that I have been "dedicated to conducting researches in relation to gender and education isues in Hong Kong, and have published a good number of insightful articles analyzing different gender issues in the local context."
Date of receipt: 15/10/2009, Conferred by: The Women's Foundation
 
Knowledge Transfer Activities
Staff Engaged as Professional Consultants or Members of External Advisory Bodies
Fanling Kau Yan College
Date: 2021-09-01 - 2025-07-01
Plan International
Date: 2023-12-01
Mother's Choice
Date: 2024-03-01
The Women's Foundation
Date: 2025-03-01