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Research Title
Lived Political Uncertainty: The Everyday Affective Life of Political Transition in Urban Living and Public Space in Hong Kong’
- More about Henry
Academic Background
- PhD in Geography, UCL, (UCL ORS-GRS funded) 2021-ongoing
- MSc (Distinction) in Urban Studies, UCL, 2018-2019: Dissertation: Going Out: Everyday Urban Sociality and Public Outing Experience of Migrant Domestic Worker in Hong Kong
- BSocSc in Sociology, Politics and Public Administrations, University of Hong Kong, 2011-2015
- Teaching
I have teach on the following modules:
Postgraduate
- Urban Geography (GEOG0028)
- Publications
- Chan, H. Y. (2023). Reworking of care during workday outings: On migrant domestic workers’ everyday negotiation of migration infrastructure in the global city of Hong Kong (.pdf). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
- Chan, H. Y, & Latham, A. (2021). Working and dwelling in a global city: Going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–19.
Conference Presentation
- Chan, H. Y. Cared/Un-cared Care Migrants: The (Everyday) Making of Caring and Uncaring Migration Infrastructures in the Global City Hong Kong. Presented in RGS-IBG 2021, London, 31 Aug – 3 Sep, 2021
- Chan, H. Y. Cared/Un-cared Care Migrants: The (Everyday) Making of Caring and Uncaring Migration Infrastructures in the Global City Hong Kong. Presented in Society of Hong Kong Studies Work-in-progress Workshop, Hong Kong, 23 July, 2021
- Lau, K.W. & Chan, H.Y. ‘Active Families’: Reconsidering the Family in Intergenerational Housing Welfare Provision amidst Intensifying Housing Affordability Crisis. Presented in The 17th Annual Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network & The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security, Hong Kong, 2 – 4 July, 2021.
- Chan, H.Y. & Lau, K.W. To Help or Not to Help: Some Cross-generation Concerns on the Giving and Taking of Intergenerational Financial Housing Support. Presented in Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Meeting 2021, Hong Kong, 25 – 26 June, 2021
- Research Interests
Taking Hong Kong as a case study, my project seeks to understand the different processes through which everyday political illiberalism and political uncertainty is (re-)produced, expressed, felt, and endured across everyday geographies. The project is primarily interested in the everyday spatiality of political illiberalism and political uncertainty, the creative and non-contentious ways ordinary people used to ‘live with’ radical political transformations, and the ways these mundane acts of endurance, coping and adjustment are spatially afforded across everyday spaces in the city.
I am also working a small research project about recent Hong Kong family migrants (parents who recently migrate with under-18 children via the BNO scheme) in London – tentatively titled: Recent Hong Kong Family Migrants to London: A Study into Migrant Families Educational, Career, and Household Strategies. The main research objective is to understand the different ways (short-notice) family migration decisions and post-arrival settlement strategies are made and materialized by Hong Kong middle-class families.
- Research Grants, Prizes and Awards
- 2022-2024: Overseas Research Scholarship (UCL-ORS), UCL
- 2022-2024: Graduate Research Scholarship (UCL-GRS), UCL
- 2019: The Frank Carter Postgraduate Dissertation Prize, Department of Geography, UCL
- 2019: Dean’s List for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, UCL
- 2015: Dean’s List for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
