Dr. Chan Ka Ming researches Hong Kong cinema, popular culture and music, animal ethics, environment humanities and eco-cinema. His undergraduate studies majored in sociology and psychology in HKU; and he started his master studies in the Department of Sociology of HKU with the research topic related to postcolonial Hong Kong and social identification. With his PhD studies in Hong Kong co-production cinema, he graduated in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He is currently doing research in Hong Kong cinema and Hong Kong subjectivity; and he is also writing a book in the field of eco-cinema studies.
PhD in Cultural Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
MPhil in Sociology
The University of Hong KongBSocSc in Sociology and Psychology
The University of Hong KonHong Kong Cinema
Hong Kong Popular Culture
Hong Kong identity
Animal Ethics and Environmental Humanities
Hong Kong Cinema
Eco-cinema
Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards in the field of Social Science, in July 2023, for 《給下一輪廣東歌盛世備忘錄——香港樂壇變奏（Memos for Canto-Pop in the Next Millennium）》（與吳子瑜及海邊欄合著），香港：突破出版社 (Hong Kong: Breakthrough)，2022年5月出版。
Emerald Publishing “Highly Commended Award”, in June 2018, for “Trivisa or Amphetamine? Hong Kong – China Cinema Co-production during the First Ten Years of CEPA”, in the Journal of Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Dec 2017.
1. 《給香港樂壇寫笑忘書（The Book of Unforgetting Canto-pop）》（與吳子瑜及海邊欄合著），香港：突破出版社 (Hong Kong: Breakthrough)，2024年7月出版。
2. 〈沒有人是孤島——三個台灣媒體節目對「移台港人」的再現分析〉收於《臺灣傳播學刊》，第45期，2024年6月。
3. 《給下一輪廣東歌盛世備忘錄——香港樂壇變奏（Memos for Canto-Pop in the Next Millennium）》（與吳子瑜及海邊欄合著），香港：突破出版社 (Hong Kong: Breakthrough)，2022年5月出版。
4. “A Space out of Unitary Nationalism – Revisiting Hong Kong Cinema”, in Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Dec 2021.
5. 〈孔雀開屏！「兵頭花園」的動物政治任命 (The Cultural and Political Representation of Animals for the Construction of Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens) 收於張少強、鄧鍵一及曾仲堅編 (edited by Cheung Siu-keung, Tang Kin-yat and Tsang Chung-kin) 《香港・格局・變異 (Hong Kong. Structure. Variation.)》, 香港：匯智出版社 (HK: Infolink Publishing Limited)，2020年。
6. 《寫在牠們滅絕之前——香港動物文化誌（Writing in the End Times – Cultural Records for Animals）》，香港：突破出版社 (Hong Kong: Breakthrough)，2018年。
7. “Trivisa or Amphetamine? Hong Kong – China Cinema Co-production during the First Ten Years of CEPA”, in the Journal of Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Dec 2017
8. 〈桃姐打擋台，狂舞派殭屍──香港電影的永劫邊緣，香港身份的驀然回首 (Hong Kong Cinema and Identity in Hong Kong-China Co-production) 〉收於張少強、梁啟智及陳嘉銘編 (edited by Cheung Siu-keung, Leung Kai-chi and Chan Ka-ming) 《香港・社會・角力 (Hong Kong. Society. Struggle.)》, 香港：匯智出版社 (HK: Infolink Publishing Limited)，2017年。
9. 〈亞洲想像：香港亞洲合拍片製作文化 (Asian Imagination: Hong Kong-Asian Co-production Cinema and Culture of Production)〉收於張少強，梁啟智及陳嘉銘編 (edited by Cheung Siu-keung, Leung Kai-chi and Chan Ka-ming)《香港．城市．想像 (Hong Kong. City. Imagination.)》，香港：匯智出版社 (HK: Infolink Publishing Limited)，2014年。
10. 〈志明與宗師──在北上與南下之間的香港電影合拍片 (Hong Kong Cinema Co-production in the Context of Northern and Southern China)〉收於黃慧貞、張歷君、陳澤蕾及高俊傑編 (edited by Angela Wong Wai-ching, Cheung Lik-kwan, Sam Chan Chak-lui and Ko Chun-kit) 《感／觀日常：跨文化研究讀本 (Reading of Trans-Cultural Studies)》，香港：進一步 (HK: Step Forward Multimedia Publishing Limited)，2014年。
11. 〈開放與局限：中港合拍影片的過去與今天 (Openness or Limitation? - Hong Kong-China Co-production: Past and Present)〉收於張少強，梁啟智及陳嘉銘編 (edited by Cheung Siu-keung, Leung Kai-chi and Chan Ka-ming) 《香港．論述．傳媒 (Hong Kong. Discourse. Media.)》，香港：牛津大學出版社 (HK: Oxford University Press)，2013年。
12. 〈香港電影未死──簡論香港電影專才的跨國滲透與文化互動 (Transnational-Cultural Interaction of Hong Kong Film Talents in the Overseas Context)〉收於黃愛玲編 (edited by Wong Oi-ling) 《回歸十五年：香港電影專輯 (Special Issue in the 15thAnniversary of Hong Kong Transition on Hong Kong Cinema)》，《今天 (Today Literary Magazine)》第99期，香港：中文大學出版社 (HK: Chinese University Press)，2012年4月。