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Research Interests
Women and Families, Gender-based Violence, Advanced Group and Community Work Practice, Narrative Therapy
Biography
Prof. Shirley Hung is currently Professor & Head and Director of the Social Work Practice and Mental Health Centre, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University. By background, she is a social worker and community worker. She has been practicing community work for about twenty years before she joined the academia. She is teaching community development, gender and social work as well narrative practice at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Her major research interests focus on the integration of theory and practice related to gender, narrative practice and community development, women and family. Recent projects have identified how gender and intersectionality is influencing social capital of low-income women, divorce experience of women in Hong Kong and mainland China and practice research on narrative therapy projects.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Gendering and Intersectionality of Social Capital: Community Development in Beijing and Hong Kong
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research project
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Perception of the underlying causes of the recent social incidents from the perspectives of low-income migrants: Identities and cultural values
17/04/20 → 16/12/20
Project: Research project
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Meanings of divorce: A feminist analysis of the narrative accounts of Chinese divorced women in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China
1/01/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Research project
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Chinese women revising meanings of marriage and divorce: Comparing women who divorced in the 1990s and 2000s
Hung, S. L., Jul 2022, In: International Social Work. 65, 4, p. 638-651 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning for Change
Fung, K. K., Hung, S. L. & Ross, C., Jan 2022, International Community Development Practice. McConnell, C., Muia, D. & Clarke, A. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge, p. 138-168 31 p. (Community Development Research and Practice Series).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Recent research on the interventions for people with dissociation
Fung, H. W., Ross, C. A., Lam, S. K. K. & Hung, S. L., Nov 2022, In: European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. 6, 4, 100299.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reliability and Validity of a Novel Measure of Nonviolent Communication Behaviors
Cheung, C. T. Y., Cheng, C. M-H., Lam, S. K. K., Ling, H. W-H., Lau, K. L., Hung, S. L. & Fung, H. W., 23 Sept 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Research on Social Work Practice. 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Preliminary Psychometric Investigation of a Chinese Version of the Engaged Teachers Scale (C-ETS)
Ho, S. K., Chan, H., Chan, E. S. S., Fung, K. K. & Hung, S. S. L., 10 Jun 2021, In: Frontiers in Education. 6, 8 p., 676835.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus)