HKU Department of Sociology

Research interests: Social Stratification and Inequality, Education and Work, Comparative Social Policy/Comparative Education, Multidimensional Well-being, Family and Marriage, Research Methods

Research interests: Bezabeh’s research interests include diaspora studies, religion and media, religion and the state, as well as issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and class in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Djibouti and Ethiopia, and the southern Arabian Peninsula.,  

Research interests: Cultural sociology, Economic sociology, Healthcare, Globalization, New social movements, Sociocultural changes in China, Qualitative research methods

Research interests: Sociology of Health and Illness/Medical Sociology, Health inequalities, Ageing and social gerontology, Psychosocial factors, Work and Health, Social Science research methods, Quantitative research methods

Research interests: Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Urban sociology

Research interests: Social theory, Criminology, Social movements, Terrorism, Religion

Research interests: Gender and sexuality studies, Cultural and media studies, Contemporary social theory, Qualitative research methods

Research interests: Race and crime, Gender, Gangs and delinquency, Drugs

Research interests: Transnational migration and cities, Criminology of mobilities, Crime and incivilities, Youth and ethnicity

Research interests: State, Empire, Creativity and imagination, Applied entertainment and storytelling, Digital technologies, Precarity, Performance, Globalization, Fandom

Research interests: Anthropology, China, Credit/debt, Communications, Digital money, Internet, Social media, Technology

Research interests: Chinese religion, Daoism and ethnicity in southern China and Southeast Asia, Inter-Asian religious circulations, Civil society, governance and subject formation, Anthropology of ethics and moralities, Comparative and historical sociology, Asian assemblages of science and religion

Research interests: Crisis, Future projections, Resilience, Climate change

Research interests: New media, Social interaction, Social studies of science and technology, Medical sociology, Comparative and historical sociology, Information and communication technology, Cultural sociology

Research interests: Crime and anti-crime, Corruption and anti-corruption, Policing, Bureaucracy and governance, Economic sociology, Law and society, China studies

Research interests: Social determinants of health & well-being, Midlife health and mortality, aging and the life course, Child development, Urban sociology, Migration

Research interests: Social Stratification and Mobility, Migration and Immigration, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Education, Child and Youth Development, Survey and Quantitative Methods