Dr Chan Wai Yin joined the School of Arts and Social Sciences, HKMU in 2022. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies and Master of Cultural Studies (Distinction) from Lingnan University, MPhil and BSSc in Government and Public Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Teaching Areas & Research Interests
Social inequality
Sociology, culture and politics of health
Community life and development
Academic & Professional Experience
2022-Present: Co-I, “Health status and behaviour of residents of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong”, commissioned by Caritas Community Development Service
2019-2021: PI, “Liveability in rural Sai Kung”, commissioned by Sai Kung District Community Centre
Member, Public and Social Policy Research Centre, School of Arts and Social Sciences,HKMU
Journal Reviewer: Government and Opposition; Social Movement Studies; Journal of Contemporary Asia; Sustainable Development; Hong Kong Journal of Social Work
Board of Directors, Grassroots Cultural Hub
Selected Publication
Book Chapters
Chan, Wai Yin, and Cheng, Wai Edmund (2020). State-society relations in Hong Kong and Macau: A historical institutionalist approach. In Meng U Ieong (ed.), Macau 20 Years after the handover: Changes and challenges under “one country, two systems” (pp.121-134). Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge.
Ng, Kai-Hon, Wong, Wai-Ho., Lee, Ka-Kiu, Wong, Hung, Ng, Sai-Leung. Lee, Wai-Ying, Leng, Woo, and Chan, Wai Yin (2011). The Pattern of Urban Life in Hong Kong: A District Level Community Study of Sham Shui Po. A consultant report submitted to the Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government.
Cheng, Wai Edmund, and Chan, Wai Yin (2017). Explaining spontaneous occupation: Antecedents, contingencies and spaces in the Umbrella Movement. Social Movement Studies, 16(2), 222–239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2016.1252667
Chan, Wai Yin, and Ma, Shu Yun (2009). The making of a Chinese head of the WHO: A study of the media discourse on Margaret Chan's contest for the WHO Director-Generalship and its implications for the collective memory of SARS. International Journal of Health Services, 39(3), 587–614. doi: http://doi.org/10.2190/HS.39.3.i
Chan, Wai Yin, and Ma, Shu Yun (2004). Heritage perservation and sustainability of China's Development, Sustainable Development, 12, 15–31. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.224
Ma, Shu Yun, and Chan, Wai Yin (2003). The provision of public goods by a local entrepreneurial state: The case of perservation of the Nanyue relics in China. Journal of Development Studies, 40(1), 119–141. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220380412331293697
