PROFILE
| I am a passionate academic psychologist, educator, counselor, researcher, and data analyst, who is eager to not only teach undergraduate and postgraduate students about the discipline of psychology but also reach out to teenagers, parents, and the general public, such that more people can be aware of their need for psychological well-being and how to achieve that. My eclectic teaching, research, work, life, and educational experiences in the USA and Hong Kong have equipped me with a rather broad knowledge base and teaching experiences on many topics in psychology, education, applied research, and practice, particularly in the field of career and developmental psychology and the psychology of teaching and learning. After giving birth to my son (b. 2007), I chose to raise him as a full-time mother for some periods of time during my doctoral study and engagement in volunteer/part-time/full-time research and teaching work. Besides teaching and counseling, my career objective is to design research projects (e.g., literature review and empirical study) to investigate parenting effects on various kinds of short-term and long-term child and adult outcomes and promote its implications and applications. I am particularly interested in creating psychoeducational self-help information on effective parenting style/methods for the purpose of helping people, students, and practitioners understand the psychology of development and the powerful influence of context (e.g., family) on human behavior. |
WORK EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW
| Founder-Producer: HOIDEOLOGY.COM, 2024-present ➤ Self-financed Educator-Researcher/Data Analyst: THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, 2017-2023 ➤ FT Position: Research Director, CLAP@JC-Schools, Impact Research on the Hong Kong Benchmarks (HKBM) for Career-and-Life Development (CLD) Education Whole-School-Approach Intervention (funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust), Research & Development Office, 2022-2023 ➤ FT Position: Lecturer I (Developmental-Educational-Career Psychology), Department of Psychology, 2017-2022 ➤ PT Position: Research Associate, CLAP@JC-Schools, Impact Research on the Alternative Pathways Finder Scheme (APFS), a career intervention for students at risk of dropout (funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust), Research & Development Office, 2021-2022 ➤ Co-Principal Investigator, Gamification of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Teaching Development Grant (TDG), with Dr. Ka-Wai Leung & Ms. Terri Chan, 2020-2022 ➤ Academic Advisor/Year Coordinator, Year-3/Year-4 Senior-Entry Students, Department of Psychology, 2017-2019, 2021/22 Educator-Data Analyst: THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, 2009-2011, 2013 ➤ FT Position: Research Assistant I, Department of Educational Psychology, 2010/11, PT: 2013 ➤ PT Position: Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Educational Psychology, 2009/10 Educator-Researcher/Data Analyst: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, 2001-2009, 2016-2017 ➤ FT Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research, City-Youth Empowerment Project (CYEP), Department of Behavioral & Social Sciences, 2016/17 ➤ FT Position: Deputy Program Director/Instructor I, Project X, a Learning Excellence Program for Year-1 and Final-Year Social-Science Students, Department of Applied Social Sciences, 2008/09 ➤ PT Position: Course Examiner & Instructor, Summer Professional Internships, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Summers 2006, 2007, 2008) ➤ FT Position: Instructor I (Psychology), Department of Applied Social Sciences, 2004-2005 ➤ FT Position: Demonstrator I (Psychology), Department of Applied Social Sciences, 2001-2004 Youth Minister: GREATER BOSTON CHINESE ALLIANCE CHURCH, 1999-2001 ➤ PT Position: Youth Ministry Director (Intern), Youth English Worship Service & Youth Sunday School, 2000-2001 ➤ Founder-Director, West-Boston Tutoring Program for Chinese American Youths, 1998-1999 Data Analyst: VISION NEW ENGLAND, 1998 ➤ PT Contractor Position: Research Consultant, Church Attitude Survey Project 1997-1998, 1998 Data Analyst: OCKENGA INSTITUTE, GORDON-CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 1997 ➤ PT Contractor Position: Research Scholar, New England Research Project 1997, 1997 Data Analyst: THE HAY GROUP/MCBER & COMPANY, 1995-1996 ➤ FT Contractor Position: Data Analyst, World-Wide Resource Center, Boston, 1996 ➤ PT Contractor Position: Research Associate, World-Wide Resource Center, Boston, 1995 |
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