Women and Families, Gender-based Violence, Advanced Group and Community Work Practice, Narrative Therapy

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.