Cheung Ka Ching, Kason is an Assistant Professor of Science Education/STEM Education at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD (DPhil) in Science Education at the University of Oxford and a MPhil degree with distinction at the University of Cambridge. His has received research fundings from Early Career Scheme, Research Grant Council and Quality Education Fund, Education Bureau.

He completed his PhD degree as an Oxford Clarendon Scholar (top 2% of the cohort) and a Hong Kong Jockey Club Oxford Graduate Scholar (£140,000). He has also secured Cambridge Trust PhD International Scholarship. Apart from his PhD, his MPhil degree was supported by The Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Scholarships.

He welcomes enquiries from potential EdD students, with the focus on science education and STEAM education (with science education as the focus).

He has various editorial roles in different educational research journals:

• Associate Editor of Studies in Science Education (2026-)
• Associate Editor of European Journal of Education (2025-2026)
• Associate Editor of Curriculum Journal (2025-)
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Research in Science Teaching (2026-)
• Editorial Board Member of Research in Science and Technological Education (2023-)

Before pursuing his PhD degree, he undertook science teaching training in Hong Kong and United Kingdom, and received his PGCE (Distinction) in Chemistry Education at Durham University. He also obtained First Class Honours for Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Science at the University of Hong Kong. He taught science across two subsidized secondary schools in Hong Kong, as well as teaching science in more than nine diverse primary and secondary schools in Cambridgeshire, England.

His work has received the United States National Association Research in Science Teaching (NARST) RAISE Worth Reading Award. He was invited to be one of the keynote speakers in European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Conference 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark, presenting research on intersection between GenAI and nature of science.

Kason's research interests focus mainly on science education:

Use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in science education

Equitable Scientific Practices in K-12 education

Language and literacy in science education (multimodality, reading and writing, translanguaging/transpositioning)

Epistemology of STEAM (nature of science, nature of AI)

Science Communication in K-12 setting and public education (misinformation and framing)

Future thinking in K-12 education

The following list shows his current/past externally funded projects (as PI):

• Developing a multimodal STEAM (m-STEAM) kit to promote effective scientific inquiry in the new primary science curriculum- Funded by Quality Education Fund, Education Bureau (Amount: HK$1,064,500) (01/09/2026-28/02/2028)
• Supporting Students’ Understanding of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Science Learning: The Affordance of an Epistemic-Dialogic Approach- Funded by RGC Early Career Scheme (Amount: HK$676,800) (01/01/2026-31/12/2027)

The following list shows his current/past internally funded projects:

• Devising a GenAI-powered feedback platform to foster pre-service teacher’s culturally responsive lesson planning (Amount: HK$60,000) (01/04/2026-30/06/2027)
• Creating AI avatar videos: Enhancing students’ peer collaboration in communicating educational theories- Funded by FEHD Innovative Teaching Grant (Amount: HK$60,000) (01/04/2025-30/06/2026)
• Exploring the Effectiveness of the Sci-GiFD Platform: Science GenAi-Feedbacked Drawing (Sci-GiFD) in Supporting Students’ Scientific Modelling- Funded by FEHD Internationalization and Partnership Grant (Amount: HK$50,000) (01/03/2025-31/12/2025)
• Examining Relationships between Students’ Uncertainty and Science Identity in the New Primary Science Curriculum in Hong Kong: A Mixed Methods Approach- Funded by FEHD Partnerships for Active International Research Scheme (PAIRS) (Amount: HK$100,000) (01/07/2025-31/12/2026)
• Developing students’ future-oriented climate optimism and socio-epistemic mitigation through transdisciplinary STEAM education (Amount: HK$300,000) (1/4/2025-31/03/2026)

His research has been published in a range of journals in the areas of science education, science communication and language education:

• Science Education
• Studies in Science Education
• International Journal of Science Education
• Research in Science Education
• Journal of Science Education and Technology
• Cultural Studies in Science Education
• Science and Education
• Research in Science and Technological Education
• International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
• Public Health
• Transaction in GIS
• Humanities and Social Science Communications
• Language and Education
• Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

He is also a peer reviewer for a range of journals in the fields of science communication, science education, research method and applied linguistics:

• Studies in Science Education
• Journal of Research in Science Teaching
• Science Education
• Public Understanding of Science
• British Educational Research Journal
• Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
• Cogent Education
• Journal of Mixed Methods Research
• International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
• Science and Education
• Journal of Science Education and Technology
• International Journal of Science Education
• Research in Science Education
• International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
• Educational Psychology
• International Journal of STEM Education
• Field Methods
• Asia-Pacific Educational Researcher
• Journal of Biological Education  
• Research in Science and Technological Education
• London Review of Education
• Journal of Further and Higher Education
• European Journal of Education

He also acts a grant reviewer for grant application for the following university/scheme:

• Reviewer for Collaborative Internal Grant, Qatar University
• Reviewer of Israel Science Foundation Grant Proposals
• Members of UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College

He also has responsibility in the following international science education conferences/associations:

• Strand Chair of Strand 20 Methods and methodological aspects in Science Education research for the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) 2025 Conference
• Committee member of Professional Learning and Institutes Committee (PLIC), National Association Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Association

One of his publications, "The use of intercoder reliability in qualitative interview data analysis in science education" (with Dr Kevin Tai from HKU), is the second most read all the time in Research in Science and Technological Education.