Dr Beatrice Lam

林藹陽博士

M. Phil HKU, Ph.D. Manchester

Biography

Dr Beatrice Lam received her PhD in sociology from The University of Manchester. Her expertise is in the study of social processes that produce and maintain social inequality, especially in the areas of education and the family. She is now working on research projects that address issues on employability of higher education graduates as well as the construction of 'carers' in old age care policy, among others.

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

Qualitative research methods
Hong Kong society
Family, gender and sexuality
Ageing
Migration and mobility
Sociology of education
Social stratification and inequality

Research Grant

A Pilot Study of Key Stakeholders' Perspectives on Informal Caregiving and Carers in Old Age Care Policy through Critical Discourse Analysis and Semi-structured Interviews, PFDS 2022/04, Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Amount: HKD $147,945, 2022 – 2023 (as P.I.).
Graduate Attributes and Employability of Degree Programmes offered by Self-financing Higher Education Institutions in Hong Kong: An Applied Research for Enhancing External Efficiency, KS2017/2.1, Katie Shu Sui Pui Charitable Trust – Research and Publication Fund (Applied Research), The Open University of Hong Kong, Amount: HKD $$100,000, 2018 – 2019 (as P.I.).

Selected Publications

Journal articles

Lam, B. O.-Y., & Tang, H.-H. H. (2021). 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, 34(1), 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2020.1858229

Lam, B. O.-Y., Byun, S.-Y., & Lee, M. (2019). Understanding educational inequality in Hong Kong: Secondary school segregation in changing institutional contexts. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(8), 1170-1187. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1642736

Lee, M., Lam, B. O.-Y., & Madyun, N. (2017). Effects of different-race exposure in school and neighborhood on the reading achievement of Hmong students in the United States. Urban Education 52(10), 1255-1283. http://doi.org/10.1177/0042085915595092

Lee, M., Lam, B. O.-Y., Ju, E., & Deanm D. (2017). Part-time employment and problem behaviors: Evidence from adolescents in South Korea. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 27(1), 88-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12258

Lam, B. O.-Y. (2016). On the social integration of Chinese immigrants in post-colonial Hong Kong: Rethinking the making of the Hong Kong Person. OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society, 6(2), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.15685/omnes.2016.01.6.2.1

Lee, M., & Lam, B. O.-Y. (2016). The academic achievement of socioeconomically-disadvantaged immigrant adolescents. International Review of Sociology, 26(1), 144-173. http://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2016.1112528

Chan, C.W.S., Lam, B. O.-Y., Teng, Y., & Lee, M. (2015). Making sense of divergent perceptions of racial-ethnic discrimination in Hong Kong. Multicultural Education Review, 7(1-2), 41-58.

http://10.1080/2005615X.2015.1048608

Lee, M., Madyun, N., Lam, B. O.-Y., & Jumale, M. (2014). School contexts and acting white. Schools: Studies in Education, 11(1), 122-155. http://doi.org/10.1086/675752

Book chapters

林藹陽。 (2018) 。〈為聽障後輩開創明天的照顧者〉。載平等機會婦女聯席編《照顧無價──家庭照顧者口述故事》，天地圖書，頁77-93。

姚偉梅、黎楊惠玲、陳潔華、林藹陽。(2012) 。〈香港性別平等教育狀況考察〉。載蔡寶瓊、陳潔華編《教育的性別視角：課室與教學實證研究》，香港城市大學出版社，頁179-192。

Others

Lam, B. O.-Y., & Tang, H.-H. H. (2019, September). Employability: A mismatch of expectations and skills. Commentary, University World News. Retrieved from https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190909134301357

Dr Beatrice Lam

Dr Beatrice Lam

林藹陽博士

Biography

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

Qualitative research methods

Hong Kong society

Family, gender and sexuality

Ageing

Migration and mobility

Sociology of education

Social stratification and inequality

Research Grant

A Pilot Study of Key Stakeholders' Perspectives on Informal Caregiving and Carers in Old Age Care Policy through Critical Discourse Analysis and Semi-structured Interviews, PFDS 2022/04, Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Amount: HKD $147,945, 2022 – 2023 (as P.I.).

Selected Publications

Journal articles

Book chapters

林藹陽。 (2018) 。〈為聽障後輩開創明天的照顧者〉。載平等機會婦女聯席編《照顧無價──家庭照顧者口述故事》，天地圖書，頁77-93。

姚偉梅、黎楊惠玲、陳潔華、林藹陽。(2012) 。〈香港性別平等教育狀況考察〉。載蔡寶瓊、陳潔華編《教育的性別視角：課室與教學實證研究》，香港城市大學出版社，頁179-192。

Others

Lam, B. O.-Y., & Tang, H.-H. H. (2019, September). Employability: A mismatch of expectations and skills. Commentary, University World News. Retrieved from https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190909134301357