Professor Chung holds a B.A. (1^st class)  in History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. After teaching at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she joined HKBU, where her teaching interests include social and economic history. She was a board member of the HKSAR Antiquities Advisory Board (2011-2017) and is currently a council member of the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust (2021-present), a member of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee (2021-present), a panel member of the HKSAR Building Appeal Tribunal (2018-present) and a member of the HKSAR History Museum Panel (2005-present). She has also served as Director of the Modern History Research Centre and has been involved in a number of funded research projects, commissions and consultancy projects (including those for the London-based John Swire and Sons Limited and the Singapore-based Shaw Foundation) - and continues to explore the material and cultural changes associated with trading and diasporic communities, religious traditions, tangible and intangible heritage over the last two centuries.

• Social & Economic History
• Trading Diaspora & Heritage Studies
• Photogrammetry & Heritage Information Modelling