Anita Chan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, EdUHK. She is an expert in gender and education and has examined various gender issues in Hong Kong's education system, including the gendered identities of school girls, university males, primary school teachers, principals, and gender differences in choosing STEM subjects among secondary school students. She is also passionate about family and migration studies and has researched parenting, motherhood, fatherhood, changing families and intimacies, cross-border students, and transnational families. She is a qualitative researcher specializing in in-depth interviews and narrative analysis.

Her publications can be found in journals such as Mobilities; Sociological Research Online; Children and Youth Services Review; Asian Studies Review; International Migration Review; Urban Studies; Journal of Consumer Culture; Gender and Education; and Compare.

• Gender and Masculinities Studies
• Gender and Sexuality issues in Education
• Family Studies
• Migration and Transnational Studies

She has taught the following courses at various levels:

• Gender and Society (UG)
• Self and Society (UG)
• Love, Intimacy and Families (UG)
• Hong Kong Society (UG)
• Sociology of Education (Master)
• Gender and Education (EdD)
• Qualitative Research Methods (UG; EdD&PhD)

1. Board Member of Mother's Choice Adoption Committee (since March 2024)
2. Programme Director of the ESD Learning Programme on Gender Equality, Plan International (since Dec 2023)
3. Young Allies Steering Committee Member, The Women's Foundation (since March 2023)
4. Independent School Manager for Fanling Kau Yan College (Aug 2021 to July 2025)
5. External Examiner of PhD and MPhil theses for various universities (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, and the University of Hong Kong) (since 2004)
6. Research Proposal Reviewer for Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (since 2019)
7. Research Proposal Reviewer for Research Grants Council (since 2017)
8. Research Proposal Reviewer for General Research Fund Competitive Research Funding for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector under Research Grants Council (since 2015)
9. Manuscript Reviewer for various academic journals: International Migration Review (since 2024); Women's Studies International Forum (since 2024); Asian Ethnicities (since 2023); Cogent Education (since 2022); Urban Studies (since 2021); Asia Pacific Journal of Education (since 2020); Mobilities (since 2019); Education Journal (since 2018); Political Geography (since 2017); Compare (since 2011); Global Studies of Childhood (since 2011); Families, Relationships and Societies (since 2013)
10. External Examiner for MA Sociology, Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016-19)
11. Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Families, Relationships and Societies (2012-2018)
12. External Examiner for the undergraduate course, ‘Media, Culture and Society’, offered by the School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong (2014-2016)
13. External Examiner for the Associate Degree in Arts, Social Sciences Concentration, Yew Chung Community College (2014-16)
14. Member of the Independent Accreditation Panel for BSSc Programme (Asian Studies), the Hang Seng Management College (2014-15)
15. Accreditation Panel Member for Hong Kong Baptist University (Bachelor of Arts in Liberal and Cultural Studies) (2012-13)
16. External Course Assessor for The Open University of Hong Kong (the Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education) (2012-13)
17. Academic Adviser for The Women’s Foundation (Life Skills Programme) (2011 - 2013)
18. Committee member for Hong Kong Education Examination Authority (Integrated Humanities Subject Committee) (2007-2011)