Research
Over the past decades, members of the GRC have conducted interdisciplinary research on gender and social change in Hong Kong, Asia, and beyond. Our major research interests include:
- Gender and Health;
- Gender, Development and Globalization;
- Gender Equality and Civil Society;
- Gender, Identity and Culture
Since the 1990s, our work has addressed evolving issues ranging from family, labor, migration, and gender-based violence to sexuality, health, civil society, and, more recently, digital intimacy, online harms, and gender diversity. Our research is supported by competitive and commissioned funding from bodies such as the Research Grants Council (General Research Fund), the Health and Medical Research Fund, and organizations including the Equal Opportunities Commission.
2020s（2020–2029）
- Transing Pacific Asia: Gender, Sexuality, and Oceanic Cinema (2026–2027, GRF)
PI: Prof. Tan, Jia - Gender, Power and Online Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of Four Cities in East Asia (2024–2026, GRF)
PI: Prof. Choi Susanne Yuk-ping; Co-I: Prof. Nakano Lynne et al. - Women Managing Families in Urban East Asia: An Anthropological Study of Personal, Social, and Financial Strategies of Women Primary Earners in Osaka and Hong Kong (2024–2026, GRF)
PI: Prof. Nakano Lynne - Social minority, identity and self-expression: Hong Kong transgender people and gender pronouns (2024–2026, GRF)
PI: Dr Suen, Yiu-tung - Both sides now: Expressed and perceived gender (non)conformity and psychosocial wellbeing in Chinese community children (2023–2027, GRF)
PI: Dr Wong, Wang Ivy - Enhancing global self-esteem of breast cancer survivors: a randomized controlled trial (2023–2026, GRF)
Co-I: Prof. So Winnie Kwok Wei - Forbidden Desires, Intersectional Inequalities: Gay and Lesbian Lives in China (2023–2025, GRF)
PI: Prof. Choi Susanne Yuk-ping - Cyber Dating Abuse Among Young Adults in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei (2023–2025, GRF)
PI: Prof. Choi Susanne Yuk-ping; Co-Is: Prof. Nakano Lynne et al. - For love, or for what? The paradox of same-sex couples living in places where same-sex marriage is not legally recognized going overseas to get married (2022–2024, GRF)
PI: Dr Suen, Yiu-tung - Boys’ and Girls’ Empathic Accuracy in Ongoing Parent-Child Interactions: Performance and (Mis)perception in Everyday Mind-Reading (2021–2025, GRF)
PI: Dr Wong, Wang Ivy - Effects of decision aids on the participation of South Asian women in cervical cancer screening: A randomised controlled trial (2021, HMRF)
Co-I: Prof. So Winnie Kwok Wei
2010s（2010–2019）
- Toys are us? Cross-lagged study on gender-typed play and abilities (2019–2023, GRF)
PI: Dr Wong, Wang Ivy - Sexuality and (im)mobility: A mixed-method study on lesbian and gay business professionals living abroad in an era of unequal lesbian and gay rights development across the globe (2019–2022, GRF)
PI: Dr Suen, Yiu-tung - An exploration of the challenges and enablers of parental HPV vaccination decision for adolescent daughters among South Asian ethnic minorities in Hong Kong (2018–2022, commissioned by EOC)
Co-I: Prof. So Winnie Kwok Wei - “He can’t help noticing her”: Gender salience and other-gender relationships in single-sex versus coeducational school students (2018–2021, GRF)
PI: Dr Wong, Wang Ivy - Mediating quan: Human Rights and Feminist and Queer Media Culture in China (2018–2021, GRF)
PI: Prof. Tan, Jia - A Study on Public Attitudes towards Female Political Leadership (2018–2019, commissioned by EOC)
PI: Prof. Song Jing; Co-I: Dr. Sally Ka-wing Lo - Moving Desires: Migration, Sexuality and Family in China (2016–2018, GRF)
PI: Prof. Choi Susanne Yuk-ping - Love’s Refuge: The Meanings of Intimacy for African Asylum-seekers and Refugees in Hong Kong (2016–2018, GRF)
PI: Prof. Cheng Sea-ling - Digitized Engagements: Feminist and Queer Media Activism in China (2015–2017, GRF)
PI: Prof. Tan, Jia - Increased Opportunities for Gender-Typed Play for Richer Kids: Implications for Gender Differences in Spatial and Social Abilities (2014–2018, GRF)
PI: Dr Wong, Wang Ivy - Feasibility Study on Legislating against Discrimination on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status (2013–2014, commissioned by EOC)
Investigators: Prof. Suen Yiu-tung & Prof. Wong Wai-ching - Masculinities in Transition: Comparing Gender Identity Construction among Male Migrant Workers in the Manufacturing, Service, and Construction Sectors in South China (2012–2015, GRF)
PI: Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi - Exploratory Study on Gender Stereotyping and Its Impact on Male Gender (2011–2012, commissioned by EOC)
Investigators: Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi et al. - The Status of Women and Girls in Hong Kong (2011–2012, commissioned by The Women’s Foundation)
Investigators: Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi & Prof. Fanny M. Cheung
2000s（2000–2009）
- Women Negotiating Cultures: Family Values, Religion and Chinese Patriarchy (2009–2012, GRF)
PI: Prof. Angela Wai-ching Wong - Care for the Disadvantaged—Civic Education and Transnational Cultural Learning (2008–2009, HKSAR Quality Education Fund)
PI: Prof. Angela Wong - The Study on History of Women’s Development in Hong Kong in the 20th Century (2007–2008, commissioned by Women’s Commission)
Investigator: Prof. Fanny Cheung - The Project on Contribution of Exhibition Materials to the China Women and Children’s Museum (2007–2008, commissioned by Women’s Commission)
Investigator: Prof. Angela Wong - Christian Right and the Discourse of Family in Hong Kong (2006–2009, Direct Grant, CUHK)
PI: Prof. Angela Wong - Sex Work in the Era of AIDS in Hong Kong: Structure, Identity and Strategy (2006–2008, RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)
PI: Prof. Susanne Choi - Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History (2006–2008, RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)
PI: Prof. Angela Wong - Female Entertainers in Macau: Health Behaviour Assessment, Education and Prevention (2006–2007, Health Bureau Macau SAR)
PI: Prof. Susanne Choi - Which Comes First? Poverty and ill Health in China (2006–2007, CUHK Direct Grant)
PI: Prof. Susanne Choi - Oral History Project on Hong Kong Left-Wing Trade Union Activities from 1940s to 1950s (2006, funded by Centre of Asian Studies, HKU)
Co-interviewer: Prof. Yip Hon-ming - Survey on Public Awareness of Beijing Declaration (2005, Commissioned by the Hong Kong Federation of Women)
Investigator: Prof. Fanny M. Cheung - Work-family Balance for Women Leaders in Chinese and US Societies: Implications for Enhancing Women Leadership (2004–2005, research awarded by the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program)
Investigator: Prof. Fanny M. Cheung - Delayed or Indefinitely Postponed Marriage in Japan and Hong Kong: A Study of Never Married Women and Changing Social Values (2002–2004, RGC)
PI: Prof. Lynne Nakano - Rainlily’s Built-in Study (2002–2004, Commissioned by Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women)
Investigators: Prof. Fanny M. Cheung - A Study of Chinese Islamic Women in Hong Kong (2001, CUHK Research Committee Funding Direct Grants)
PI: Prof. Angela Wai-ching Wong - A Study on the Working Condition of Male and Female Church Workers in Hong Kong (2001, Commissioned by Hong Kong Christian Council)
Investigators: Prof. Angela Wong & Ngo Hang Yue
1990s（1990–1999）
- Family Status Discrimination Research (1999-2000, Commissioned by Equal Opportunities Commission)
Convenor: Catherine Tang. Qualitative Research Section Convenor: Siumi Maria Tam - A Research Study on Family Status Discrimination (1999-2000)
Investigators: Catherine Tang, Winton Au, Maria Tam, Sidney Cheung, Sunny Kwong, Joyce Ma, Ngo Hung Yue, Clement So, Stephen Tang, Wilson Wong, and Kenneth Chau - Volunteerism in Japan: Why Ordinary People Take Public Roles (1999)
Investigator: Lynne Y. Nakano. - Survey on Child Sexual Abuse among University Students in Hong Kong (1999)
Investigator: Catherine Tang - The Influence of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors on Rates for Cervical Screening: A Comparison of Perceptions of Hong Kong Chinese Women and Practitioners (1998-2000)
Investigator: Sheila Twinn - Matrifocal Astronaut Families (part of “Globalization Local Identity: Hong Kong Immigrant Families in Australia”) (1998-1999).
Investigator: Siumi Maria Tam - Interface of Gender and Migration: Hong Kong, Fujian, and the Philippines (part of “Tradition, Change and Identity: A Study on the Minnan People in China and Southeast Asia”) (1997-2000)
Investigator: Siumi Maria Tam - Child Abuse in Hong Kong: Associative Factors and District Differences (1997-1999)
Investigators: Catherine Tang, Pun Shuk Han, and Kelly Lai - Increasing Women’s Knowledge of the Prevention of Cervical Cancer and the Uptake of Cervical Screening: The Implementation of a Nurse-Led Community Outreach Programme (1997-1999)
Investigator: Sheila Twinn. - Survey of Public Attitude towards Sex as a Genuine Occupational Qualification (1997-1998)
Investigators: Catherine Tang, Winton Au, Pun Shuk Han, and Ngo Hang Yue - Violence against Women: A Comparative Study of Chinese Societies in Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan (1996-1998)
Investigators: Catherine Tang and Fanny Cheung - Gender and the Professionals in Hong Kong: The Politics of Work and the Social Construction of Gender (1994-1998)
Investigators: Maria Tam, Eliza Lee, Lee Ching Kwan, Fanny Cheung and Kimberly Chang