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Chinese name: 陳潔華
Variants: Chan, A., Chan, A. K. W.
Dr. Anita Kit-wa Chan is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong. She is an expert in gender and education and has examined various gender issues in Hong Kong's education system, such as the feminisation of primary school teaching; gendered identities of young girls, school teachers and principals; and gender differences in choosing STEM subjects. She is also passionate about family and migration studies and has done research on parenting, motherhood, transnational fatherhood, changing families and intimacies, and cross-border students. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Mobilities; Gender and Education; Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education; History and Education, and so forth. Her current research projects include Global Childhoods; Transnational Families; and Hong Kong Older Women’s subjectivities.
Research interests
Gender and Masculinities Studies; Gender and Sexuality issues in Education; Family Studies; Migration Studies (esp. Cross-border Students and Families); and Qualitative Methods
Professional information
ORCID : 0000-0002-5805-8948
Scopus ID: 55465242200
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Research Outputs 1995 2019
The disappearance of community, work and everyday life in late capitalism: Private housing advertisements from 1961 to 2011 in global Hong Kong
CHOI, K. W. Y., CHAN, A. H. N. & CHAN, K. W. A., May 2019, In : Journal of Consumer Culture.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Capitalism
late capitalism
community work
Hong Kong
everyday life
A study on knowledge of sexual harassment and experience of being sexually harassed in the service industries: Comparing recent female Mainland Chinese immigrants with locally-born women
CHAN, H. N. A., CHAN, K. W. A., CHEUNG, Y. L. F., CHOI, W. Y. K., LUN, M. C. V. & CHEN, P., Mar 2018, Hong Kong : Equal Opportunities Commission.Research output: Other contribution
Gender and schooling in Asia: Prospects and challenges
CHAN, K. W. A., 2018, Routledge international handbook of schools and schooling in Asia. KENNEDY, K. J. & LEE, J. C-K. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 759-763Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
gender
education
North Africa
East Africa
South Asia
Gender differences in choosing STEM subjects at secondary school and university in Hong Kong
CHAN, K. W. A. & CHEUNG, K. L. A., Jun 2018, Hong Kong : The Women's Foundation.Research output: Other contribution
Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students
CHAN, K. W. A. & NGAN, L. S. L., 2018, In : Mobilities. 13, 1, p. 142-156Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
student
experience
migrant
migration
family policy