Dr Esther CHO Yin Nei

Biography

Esther Cho is an Associate Professor at Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences. Her research interests center on the wellbeing of children and young people. Her scholarly work has covered a range of areas, including comparative child wellbeing, child poverty, comparative child benefits, financial literacy and wellbeing of ethnic minority young adults, transition to work for ethnic minority youth, and defamilisation. Her recent research study focuses on the wellbeing of primary schoolchildren in Hong Kong. Dr. Cho's teaching interests include social research methods, life span development, and diversity and equality. Before joining CIHE, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work and Associate Director of Centre for Youth Research and Practice at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Education

PhD in Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
MSW, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
BSW, Hong Kong Baptist University

Teaching

Courses taught:

1. SSC301 Social research methods
2. SSC601 Social work research methods
3. SSC201 Diversity and equality

Research

Research Interests

• Child and youth wellbeing
• Child and female poverty
• Child benefits
• Transition to work for EM youth
• Financial literacy and wellbeing of EM young adults
• Defamilisation

Selected externally funded research projects

• Adapting Student Wellbeing Framework to an Asian Context and Prioritizing the Wellbeing of Schoolchildren in Hong Kong. General Research Fund, University Grants Committee. 2021 – 2022. Principal Investigator. HK$737,000.
• An Exploratory Study on the Financial Literacy and Financial Decision Making of Ethnic Minority Young Adults in Hong Kong. Funded by Investor and Financial Education Council. 2020 – 2021. Principal Investigator. HK$299,970.
• A Study on Education and Career Pathways of Ethnic Minority Youth in Hong Kong. Funded by Equal Opportunity Commission. 2018 – 2020. Co-Investigator. HK$750,000.
• Blended Approach for Social Work Learning: A Reflection-Based and User-Oriented Pedagogical Model. Funding Scheme for Teaching and Learning Related Proposals (2016 – 2019 Triennium), University Grants Committee. 2017 – 2020. Co-Investigator. HK$5,260,000.

Selected Publications

• Cho, E. Y. N. & Wong, V. C. W. (2022). Children's lived experience of poverty in Hong Kong as a high-income Asian society. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 
• Chan, T. M. S. & Cho, E. Y. N. (2021). Discourse analysis of conception of masculinity among Chinese male sexual abuse survivors. International Social Work. Advance online publication. 
• Cho, E. Y. N. & Yu, F. Y. (2020). A review of measurement tools for child wellbeing. Children and Youth Services Review, 119. Advance online publication. 
• Cho, E. Y. N. & Chan, T. M. S. (2020). Children's wellbeing in a high-stakes testing environment: The case of Hong Kong. Children and Youth Services Review, 109. Advance online publication. 
• Cho, E. Y. N. (2019). A multilevel analysis of life satisfaction among secondary school students: Do school-level factors matter? Children and Youth Services Review, 102, 231–242. 
• Cho, E. Y. N. (2018). Links between poverty and children's subjective wellbeing: Examining the mediating and moderating role of relationships. Child Indicators Research, 11(2), 585–607. 
• Cho, E. Y. N. (2017). Child benefit portfolios across OECD countries. Social Indicators Research, 132(3), 1099–1115. 
• Cho, E. Y. N. (2015). Children's wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia: A preliminary comparison. Social Indicators Research, 123(1), 183–201.
• Cho, E. Y. N. (2014). Comparing children's wellbeing across countries: A clustering approach. Child Indicators Research, 7(3), 553–567. 
• Cho, E. Y. N. (2014). Defamilisation typology re-examined: Re-measuring the economic independence of women in welfare states. Journal of European Social Policy, 24(5), 442–454.
• Chan, K. L. & Cho, Y. N. (2010). A review of cost measures for the economic impact of domestic violence. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 11(3), 129–143. 

Community Participation and Achievement / Public Service

• Member of Media Publicity and Community Research Sub-Committee (MPCRSC) of Citizens Advisory Committee on Community Relations (CACCR) of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). 2020 – current.
• Member of Advisory Board for Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Science of Lingnan University. 2020 – current.
• Reviewer of Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) under Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector, Research Grants Council. 2022.
• External Examiner of Yi Jin Diploma Programme at Hong Kong Institute of Technology. 2012 – 2016.