Susanne Yuk Ping Choi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include migration, gender, family, and sexuality in Chinese societies. She received her D.Phil. in Sociology from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She was a RGC-Fulbright Senior Award recipient and visiting scholar at Department of Sociology, Harvard University, and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore.
Her lead-authored book monograph Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China was published by the University of California Press. The book received the Best Book Award of the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration Section (RC31). She received the Chinese University’s Young Researcher’s Award (2012), Exemplary Teaching Award (2016), Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award (2016), Research Excellence Award (2017), and Research Mentorship Award (2018). She served as an appointed member of Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) between 2015 and 2021, during which she was elected convener of EOC’s Policy, Research and Training Division, and convener of its Anti-Sexual Harrassment Working Group.
Susanne organizes and leads a ‘Gender and Sexuality Study Group’ with the following members:
- Alicia M. Barry (PhD candidate), thesis title: Between Ideals and Intentions: A Comparative Political Economic Analysis of Fertility Decision-making among Highly Educated Couples
- Lingxi CHEN (PhD candidate), thesis title: Navigating Motherhood and Work in Post-Reform China
- Saoussane Rachel Sarah Ghali (PhD candidate), thesis Title: Building skill and intimacy in France and in Japan: Highly educated international migrants
- Wang Jing (PhD candidate), thesis title: Platform Employment in Contention: Transforming Labour Relations in China?
- Xiaomin Cai (PhD candidate), thesis title: Inventing New Family Forms with Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Case of Lesbian and Single Mothers in China
- Dr Tangi Yip (postdoctoral fellow), research areas: Gender and housing inequalities, gender and cyber violence
- Gender
- Family
- Migration
- Sexuality
2016 | Choi, S.Y.P. & Y.Peng. Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China. University of California Press. (Recipient of the International Sociological Association RC31 2018 Best Book Award) |
2018 | Choi, SYP., Yeoh, B. and Lam, T. (eds.) Children, Migration and Family in Asia. Population, Space and Place. |
2017 | Choi, S.Y.P. & Fong, E. (eds.) Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong. New York: Routledge. |
2016 | Fong, E., Verkuyten, M., Choi, S.Y.P.(eds.) Migration and identity: Perspectives from Asia, Europe, and North America. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(5-6), 559-790. |
- SOCI 1001 Introduction to Sociology
- SOCI 1002 Approaching Sociology
- SOCI 3208 Gender & Society
- SOCI 4010 Graduation Thesis I
- SOCI 4020 Graduation Thesis II
- SOCI 6004 Advanced Qualitative Methods
- SOCI 6010 Guided Studies I
- SOCI 6020 Guided Studies II
College Coordinators
- Shaw College, Department of Sociology
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- Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Sociology
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- Student Affairs Committee, Department of Sociology
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- Scholarships & Awards Committee, Department of Sociology
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- Executive Committee, Gender Research Centre, HKIAPS, CUHK
Appointed Member
- Task Force on Gender and Family Friendly Policy
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- Panel against Sexual Harrassment
Appointed Board Member
- HKSAR Equal Opportunities Commission (May 2015-April 2019)
Elected Convenor
- Policy, Research and Training Committee, Equal Opportunities Commission, HKSAR (May 2015-April 2019)
Elected Convenor
- Working Group on Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign, Equal Opportunities Commission, HKSAR (May 2015-April 2019)
Member
- Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Jan 2017- Jan 2020)
Elected Associate Board Member
- Sociology (October 2015-Sept 2018)
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- International Advisory Board, Asian Population Studies (July 2015-June 2018)
Elected Associate Board Member
- Work, Employment and Society (Jan 2015-Dec 2017)