DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
 
Name   Post Area of Expertise
Professor Lui, T.L.
 
Head/Professor

Class analysis, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology, and Hong Kong society

 
Assistant Professor

Representations and responses to youth crime; fear of crime and trust in police; restorative justice; comparative criminology and sociology; criminological theory; social constructionism; symbolic interactionism; qualitative methods.

Bakken Børge
 
Associate Professor
General sociology and criminology, Crime in the People’s Republic of China, Punishment in cultural and comparative contexts, Deviance and social control, History of crime and punishment. Culture and modernity. I have a particular interest in social problems in the PRC.
Chan, S.C. Cheris
 
Associate Professor Cultural Sociology, Economic Sociology, Culture and Globalization, Ethnography, Contemporary Chinese Society
Chu, Y.K.   Honorary
Assistant Professor
Organized Crime, Police Studies 
Fraser Alistair David
 
Assistant Professor Youth violence/culture, particularly youth gangs; ethnography; community-based research; urban sociology; children’s geographies; critical criminology.
Professor Karen A. Joe Laidler
 
Professor

Drugs, Gangs & delinquency,
Gender, race & crime

Kong, S.K. Travis
 
Assistant Professor

Gender and sexuality studies; Chinese homosexuality and prostitution; HIV/AIDS; Cultural studies; Qualitative research methods

Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng
 
Associate Professor
  • Anthropology of Chinese Societies and China
  • Migration and Chinese Diaspora
  • Religion, Politics and Cultures
  • Philanthropy
  • Women and social and network capital
Lee, S.Y. Maggy
 
Associate Professor
Public and private policing; drugs and control; juvenile delinquency and youth control; migration and human trade.
Leung, Benjamin   Teaching Staff  
Martin, Jeffrey
 
Assistant Professor Political and legal anthropology; police, policing and social control;
social theory; ethnographic methods; semiotic analysis; East Asia;
Taiwan.
Ng, C.H.
 
Associate Professor
Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Palmer, David
 
Assistant Professor Sociocultural anthropology; religion and spirituality; civil society and social development; state, society and traditional culture in contemporary China
Sim S.C. Amy
 
Assistant Professor
Women in labour migration, irregular migration, labour organizing, social movements, NGO organizational/institutional development, civil society, gender and sexuality
Smith, Colin
 
Assistant Professor

Culture and markets; urban anthropology and world cities; sociocultural anthropology; modern Japanese society and culture

Tang, L.Y.
 
Assistant Professor

Sociology of art, sociology of culture, contemporary China, urbanization, culture industries, political sociology

Tang, T. S.
 
Assistant Professor

Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexualities; New Media and Visual Culture; Queer Pedagogy; Urban Spaces;

Tian, X.L.
 
Assistant Professor

Social Studies of Science and technology; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge; Communication and Information Technology; Cultural Sociology

Wong, W.P. Thomas
 
Associate Professor
Social Classes and Social Development, Hong Kong Society, Contemporary Chinese Society

Cho, L.

 
Teaching Consultant Investigative reporting, journalistic professionalism, media, culture and communications in China
Dean, Marissa
 
Post-doctoral Fellow Globalization; Information Society; Cultural Issues Impacting the Psychology of Self Identity
Xu, Jianhua
 
Post-doctoral Fellow Contemporary China studies, Crime and migrant workers in China, Policing, Victimology, Urban Sociology
BCJ Teaching Staff
Name   Post Area of Expertise
Ng, W. Y. Andrea
 
Honorary Lecturer Environmental Protection and Green Education; Corporate social responsibility and governance; Crisis & Disaster Management, Security Management, Computer Crime and IT Governance, Environmental Crime and sustainable development.  
Belcher, L. J.
 
Honorary Lecturer Drugs, injecting drug behaviour, harm reduction interventions and theory, qualitative research methods, youth crime and youth justice, cross-cultural interventions
Carew, K. P. L.   Honorary Lecturer  
Cheng S.L.   Honorary Associate Professor  
Cheng, W. T.   Honorary Lecturer  
Kan, E. K. Y.   Honorary Lecturer  
Kwan, M. T. Kalwan   Honorary Lecturer Drug abuse, working with youth, corrections, prison management, issues in criminology, criminal justice and law enforcement policies, policing studies.
Lam, V. H. M   Honorary Lecturer  
Leung, G. K. H.   Honorary Lecturer Schizophrenia, sex and violent offenders, personality disorders, gambling, internet addiction
Li, L. N. L.   Honorary Lecturer  
Mak, A. W. K.
 
 
Honorary Lecturer Drug Addiction & Treatment; Youth Drug Abuse; Drugs and Crime; Corrections and Prison Management; Security Management
M. Faming L   Honorary Lecturer  
Shearer, D. L.   Honorary Lecturer  
Wan, K. H.
 
Honorary Lecturer Restorative Justice, Juvenile Justice, Sex Offender Recidivism and Rehabilitation, Symbolic Interactionism  
Wong, C. M. H.   Honorary Lecturer  
Yuen, R. Y. K.   Honorary Lecturer
Marriage & Family Therapy, Counselling, Family, Family Violence, & STS