Juan Chen

Professor of Social Policy and Social Welfare
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Juan Chen’s research centers around migration, urbanization, and urban governance; health, mental health, and well-being; help seeking and service use; social policy and social service system. Her work has appeared in Social Science & Medicine, China Quarterly, Habitat International, Cities, Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, Transcultural Psychiatry, among others.

Qiaobing Wu

Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Qiaobing Wu’s research centers on the health and well-being of children and youths in the context of migration, resilience, social capital, health disparities and health policy. Her research has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Population, Space and Place, American Journal of Community Psychology, Youth & Society, British Journal of Social Work, etc.

Chengpang Lee

Assistant Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Chengpang Lee works on comparative politics and religious change in East Asia have been awarded several awards and appear in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, American Behavioral Scientist, Voluntas, Social Movement Studies among others. He is now developing three lines of research. One is to continue his research on organizational evolution. The second one is on the transformation of the Chinese medical and health field, and the third line is to use network and big data to investigate the evolution of knowledge communities.

Jia Wang

Assistant Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jia Wang’s research interest includes Stratification and Inequality, Work and Family, Health, Aging and the Life Course. Her research has been published in journals such as the Social Forces, American Journal of Sociology and Child Indicators Research.

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Herbary Cheung

Research Assistant Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Herbary Cheung is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Born, raised and educated in the States, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Dr Cheung received his PhD in Asian and Policy Studies from The Education University of Hong Kong under the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) from the Research Grants Council (RGC). He is an awardee of the Ernst Mach Grant - worldwide from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF).

Dr Cheung has published in high-quality refereed journals, including the Culture, Health & Sexuality, Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Sociology, and South East Asia Research (ranked 1/100 in Asian Studies in A&HCI edition 2022). His research outputs have advanced both theoretical and methodological approaches in gendered migration studies, critical family and health studies, and studies on intersectionality, postcolonialism and ethnography. His monograph, Engendering Migration Journey: Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong is published under the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series of Palgrave Macmillan (2023).

Dr Cheung is a Research Associate at the Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), French Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia, supported by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE - UMIFRE 22) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS - UAR 3142) and Associate Member of “BelMix” research team, working on migration and conjugal mixedness in Europe-Asia social spaces at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Inspired by “power in unity”, he serves as an executive committee member of The Hong Kong Society for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees (HKSASR), the first refugee-led organization jointly managed by local Hong Kongers and refugees since 2019.