1. ICM2210: Creative Advertising Copywriting (2nd Sem, Core)

2. ICM2110: Introduction to Public Relations and Advertising (1st Sem, Core)

3. ICM3440: Television and Hong Kong Society (1st Sem, Elective)

4. ICM3230: Advertising and Society (2nd Sem, Core)

5. ICM3110: Integrated Marketing Communication Campaign (1st Sem, Core)

6. ICM2270: Media Business Environment (2nd Sem, Elective)

7. ICM2220: Public Relations and Media Writing (2nd Sem, Core)

8. ICM3330: Strategic Public Relations (1st Sem, Elective)

9. ICM3460: Fashion Communication (1st Sem, Elective)

1. SOCI2015: Hong Kong Popular Culture (Core for MCS Major; Elective for SOCI Major)

2. SOCI3024/SOCI6008: Modern Social Theory/Modern Theory and Sociological Analysis (2nd Sem, Core for SOCI Major and SOCI RPg students)

3. SOCI4095/4098: Capstone Project in Sociology/Media and Cultural Studies (Core for SOCI Major)

4. CCGL9008: Cyber Societies: Understanding Technology as Global Change (Common Core Global Issues)

5. *CCGL9052: Some We Love, Some We Eat: Human-Animal Relationships in the Global Marketplace (2nd Sem, Common Core Global Issues) [*A new course Dr. Carmen Tong and I developed in 2016]

6. SOCI7006: Research Methods in Media, Culture and Creative Cities (Core for TPg)

7. SOCI8024: New Media and Digital Culture (Elective for TPg)

8. SOCI8030: Capstone Project (Core for TPg)

1. Unit 2: Practice, Policy and Markets (Core for MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise)

1. GPEC6803: Methodology in Social Sciences (Core for MSocSc in Global Political Economy)

1. Ethnographic Research Methods (AIHR PhD Skills Workshop)

2. 159421046Y: Research Project (Core for MA Film Studies)

3. 159410050Y/159412040Y: Master’s Thesis (Core for MA Film Studies and MA Television and Cross-Media Culture)

4. 160519010Y: Research Master’s Thesis Media Studies (Core for RMA Media Studies)

5. 119221002Y: Advanced Topics in Media & Culture: The Cinematic Worlds of Women across Cultures and Societies (Core for Media Studies Major)

6. 119221036Y: Philosophy of the Humanities 2 (Media & Culture) (Core for BA Media & Culture Major)

7. 159422066Y: TV Research Seminar: Audience Research and the Humanities (Elective for MA Television and Cross-Media Culture)

8. 119210056Y: Media, Time and Space (Elective for BA Media Studies Major)

9. 160521002Y: Beyond Europe: Asia, Aesthetics and Politics (Elective for ASCA MA students)

10. 119229000Y: Research Seminar/Bachelor’s Thesis Media &Culture (Core for BA Media & Culture Major)

11. 118121006Y: Doing Media Studies 2 (Elective for BA Media Studies Major)

Postdoctoral Fellows (UvA ASCA):

1. Dr. Johanna von Pezold (2023 – 2026); ERC CoG 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship awardee Project sub-topic: Authenticity, Cultural Mediation, and Consumption: Ethnography of African Fashion Marketplace

2. Dr. Jupiter Wei Wang (2023 – 2026); ERC CoG 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship awardee Project sub-topic: Creativity, Authenticity, and Cultural Mediation: Ethnography of ChinaAfrica Fashion Production

1. Ms. Shao Shao (PhD [2021 – 2025]; Co-supervisor: Prof. Esther Peeren) Dissertation topic: Celebrating the Chinese Rural? A Postfeminist Analysis of Female Ruralbased Online Celebrities in China

2. Ms. Jialing Song (PhD [2022 – 2026]; China Scholarship Council’s (CSC) 4-year Full Overseas PhD Scholarship awardee; co-supervisor: Prof. Jeroen de Kloet) Pilot study topic: Gendering Digital Cultural Production in Chinese Platform Economy: RED (Xiaohongshu) as Case Study

3. Mr. Qidi Feng (PhD [2023 – 2027]; ERC CoG 4-year Full PhD Scholarship awardee; cosupervisor: Prof. Jeroen de Kloet) Pilot study topic: Wig Trade in Guangzhou: Entangled Beauty, Authenticity, and Identity

4. Ms. Fairuzah Atchulo (PhD [2023 – 2027]; ERC CoG 4-year Full PhD Scholarship awardee; cosupervisor: Prof. Patricia Pisters) Pilot study topic: Whose XL Is It? Examining the Exclusion of An African Size Chart on Online Platforms

1. Ms. Natalie Leung (MPhil [2015-2017]; Co-supervisor [Primary supervisor: Dr. Denise Tang]) Dissertation topic: “What is a good farmer?”—An ethnographic study of alternative farming in Hong Kong Status: completed

2. Dr. Li Xiao-tian (PhD [2017-2022]; HK UGC PhD Fellowship Scheme awardee (4-year full scholarship); Primary Supervisor) Dissertation topic: The Labour Process in China’s Internet industry Progress to date: Graduated with distinction; now Postdoc at HK Polytechnic University (Department of Applied Social Sciences)

3. Dr. Johanna von Pezold (PhD [2018-2022]; HK UGC PhD Fellowship Scheme awardee (4-year full scholarship); Primary Supervisor) Dissertation topic: Co-creating South-South Fashion: Authenticity and Cultural Mediation in the Chinese-Mozambican Garment and Textile Trade Progress to date: Graduated with distinction; now ERC-funded Postdoc at UvA Media Studies https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/e/j.e.von-pezold/j.e.von-pezold.html

4. Ms. Kwan Hiu-lap, Haley (PhD [2018-2023; final year student]; Primary Supervisor) Dissertation topic: The Feminist Gig Labour Process Theory: Exploring Women’s Struggle, Resistance, and Solidarity in China's Ride-hailing Platforms https://sociology.hku.hk/people/kwan-hiu-lap/

5. Ms. Shum Hoi-Ki, Holy (PhD [2019-2023; final year student]; Co-supervisor) Dissertation topic: In a Relationship with Things: Mediation of Arts and Technology in Transforming Hong Kong’s Cultural Industry https://sociology.hku.hk/people/holy-shum/

1. Ms. Vasilisa Grišina (MA TVCMC [2021-2022, completed]) Topic: Fan agency and star identity: how do fans of the K-pop group BTS contribute to the metanarrative of the group’s star persona

2. Ms. Debora Santos D’Alo de Oliveira (MA TVCMC [2020-2022, completed]) Topic: Reality shows on social media and Western audience engagement in Korean popular culture on social media: The case study of The Return of Superman

3. Ms. Syun Li (MA Film Studies [2020-2022, completed]) Topic: Whither the unremembered? A transworld view on Jia Zhangke’s cinematic “realism” in pieces and layers

4. Ms. Lucinia Philip (MA Film Studies [2020-2021, completed]) Topic: “May our cries be not forgotten”: Remembering doubly-colonised women’s resistance in New Korean Cinema

5. Ms. Chong Zhou (Research Master Media Studies [2019-2021, completed] Topic: The impact of alternative film screening spaces on the diversity of film culture in mainland China

1. Dr. Tsang, L.T. (MSocSc [2014-2016, completed; Distinction] Topic: Looking through the “imperial gaze”: Understanding HK’s food culture and its implications on the development of HK identity throughout the decades, 1980 to 2010 Community Partner: British Airways Further study: Tsang is now a PhD graduate from the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), London. He is currently a full-time lecturer/demonstrator at Department of Sociology, HKU.

2. Ms. Joyce Choi J.T. (MSocSc [2014-2016, completed; graduated with distinction]) Topic: Technology and social change: The interaction between aviation development and Hong Kong society Community Partner: British Airways

3. Ms. Elizabeth Wang H.T. (MSocSc [2014-2016, completed]) Topic: The representation and projection of HK and Asia through corporate branding: British Airways as case study Community Partner: British Airways

4. Ms. Shirley Sing (MSocSc [2014-2016, completed]) Topic: The impact of arts education to the local art scene of Hong Kong Community Partner: Asia Art Archive

5. Mr. Charles Fong (MSocSc [2014-2016, completed] Topic: Development of Hong Kong’s commercial art scene Community Partner: Hong Kong Art Gallery Association