BA (First Class Honors), PGDE (Distinctions in course work and practice-teaching), MA (Dean’s List), PhD (CUHK)
Academic & Professional Experience
| 2017-present | Assistant Professor, Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 2014-2017 | Research Assistant Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong |
| 2013-2014 | Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Research Interests
- Migration and education
- Youth
- Globalization
- Religion
- Culture and identity
Research Grants
2018-2019 PI of “Enhancing Intercultural Competence of Pre-service Teachers” (HK$92,782, Pilot Project Scheme supported by Community of Practice on Internationalization of Teaching and Learning [CoP-ITL])
2018-2019 PI of “Can China Attract the Best International Students in Higher Education from around the World?” (HK$49,989, Faculty Research Grant Category I, Ref. FRG1/17-18/052, 2018-2019)
2017-2018 PI of “A Study of Low-Income Mainland-Hong Kong Cross-Border Families” (HK$44,000, Funding Programme of Research Projects, Equal Opportunities Commission, Reference No.: R-20 17/18-106r)
2015-2018 PI of “A Longitudinal Study of Mainland Chinese and South Asian Teenage Immigrant Students in Hong Kong” (HK$301,022, Research Grants Council General Research Fund, Project Number: 17608715)
Academic & Professional Activities/ Consultancy/Community Services
- Co-chair, Committee on International issues, (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Citizenship in Educational Contexts, Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association, 2012-2016
- Organizer and advisor, Ethnic Minority Students Mentoring Programme, HKU, 2016-2017
- Member, American Anthropological Association
- Member, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas
- Member, East Asian Anthropological Association
- Member, The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2018. (McHale, Timothy, Peter Gray, Ka-chun Chan, David Zava, and Wai-chi Chee). “Salivary Steroid Hormone Responses to Dyadic Table Tennis Competitions Among Hong Kongese Juvenile Boys.” American Journal of Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23190. Link (Impact factor: 1.575; 2017 Ranking 28/85 [Anthropology]; 42/85 [Biology])
2018. (McHale, Timothy, Wai-chi Chee, Ka-chun Chan, David Zava, and Peter Gray). “Coalitional Physical Competition: Acute Salivary Steroid Hormone Responses among Juvenile Male Soccer Players in Hong Kong.” Human Nature 29(3): 245-267. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-018-9321-7. Link (Impact Factor: 2.661)
2018. (McHale, Timothy, Peter Gray, Ka-chun Chan, David Zava, and Wai-chi Chee). “Acute Salivary Steroid Hormone Responses in Juvenile Boys and Girls to Non-physical Team Competition.” Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 4(3): 223-247. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-018-0089-0. Link
2018. “Experienced Efficacy and Experimented Efficacy: The Westernization of Chinese Medicine through the Eyes of a Practitioner.” The Asian Review of Histories 6: 136-156. Link
2017. “Opportunities, Challenges, and Transitions: Educational Aspirations of Pakistani Migrant Youth in Hong Kong.” Children’s Geographies 16(1): 92-104. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1380782. Link (2017 Impact Factor: 1.867; Ranking: 49/79 [Geography])
2017. “Model of and Model for Ethnic Minorities: Individualization of the Model Minority Stereotype in Hong Kong.” In Stephen Chu, ed. Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as Method, pp. 193-211. Singapore: Springer. Link
2017. “Trapped in the Current of Mobilities: China-Hong Kong Cross-Border Families.” Mobilities 12(2): 199-212. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292777. Link (2016 Impact Factor: 2.043; Ranking: 25/78 [Geography]; 13/31 [Transportation])
2017. “‘Lose at the Starting Line, Win at the Finishing Line’: The Narratives Behind Beating Academic Adversity.” Social Indicators Research Online First: 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1574-8. Link (2016 Impact Factor: 1.743)
2016 (with Gordon Mathews). “Detaining the Immigrant Other in Hong Kong.” In Rich Furman, Douglas Epps, and Greg Lamphear, eds. Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues, pp. 105-116. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Link
2015. “The Perceived Role of Religion in the Educational Attainment of Pakistani Immigrant Secondary Students in Hong Kong.” Asian Anthropology 14(1): 33-42. DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2015.1025592. Link
2013. “In the Name of God: South Asian Muslims in a Chinese Temple Fair in Hong Kong.” In Chiara Formichi, ed. Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia, pp. 93-112. New York: Routledge. Link
2013. “The Making and Unmaking of ‘Ideal Immigrant Students’: Working Class South Asian Teenagers in Hong Kong.” In Lesley Bartlett and Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, eds. Refugees, Immigrants, and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion, pp. 211-225. New York: Routledge. (2014 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society) Link
2012. “Envisioned Belonging: Cultural Differences and Ethnicities in Hong Kong Schooling.” Asian Anthropology 11(1): 89-105. DOI:10.1080/1683478X.2012.10600858. Link
2012. “Negotiating Teacher Professionalism: Governmentality and Education Reform in Hong Kong.” Ethnography and Education 7(3): 327-344. OI:10.1080/17457823.2012.717201. Link (2017 Citescore 0.92 – values from Scopus)
2011. “Neoliberalism and Multicultural Education: How Market Force Creates a Cultural Niche for Ethnic Minority Students.” Multicultural Education Review 3(1): 75-98. DOI:10.1080/2005615X.2011.11102880. Link
2010. “When the Cultural Model of Success Fails: Mainland Chinese Teenage Immigrants in Hong Kong.” Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 8(2): 85-110.
Book Reviews
2014. Review of ‘Tibetanness’ Under Threat? Neo-Integrationism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China. By Adrian Zenz. Asian Anthropology 13(2): 153-155. DOI:10.1080/1683478X.2014.967030. Link
2013. Review of Media, Social Mobilization, and Mass Protests in Post-Colonial Hong Kong: The Power of a Critical Event. By Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan. Journal of International and Global Studies 5(1): 123-125. Link
Others
2017. “Celebrating Cultural Diversity in a Multi-ethnic School.” In Siumi Maria Tam and Wai-man Tang, eds. What Are We Celebrating? Multicultural Festivals in Hong Kong, pp. 156-167. Hong Kong: Wheatear Publishing Co Ltd. Link
2015. “Celebrating Cultural Diversity in a Multi-ethnic School in Hong Kong.” Hong Kong Discovery 91: 56-61.
2014. “跨境媽媽” (Cross-Border Mothers)。《明報月刊》(Mingpao Monthly)，四月號 (April Issue)，頁43-48。
