Name CHONG Ming Lin Alice
Title Prof
Address Rm 610
Telephone 3653 6696
Email achong@cihe.edu.hk 
School Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences

Biography

Professor CHONG Ming Lin Alice is the Research Professor at the Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education (CIHE), Hong Kong. Professor Chong has had more than 40 years of fruitful experiences as an educator, researcher, practitioner and manager in social work in general and in social gerontology in particular. She has been the Associate Dean (Student Life and Learning) of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2010, and the Adjunct Professor of the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2018-2022. She retired in 2019 from the role of Professor and Social Work Discipline Leader of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences after joining the academia of the City University of Hong Kong for 28 years. She then engaged in policy research as the Senior Researcher of the newly set up Research Unit of the Labour and Welfare Bureau from 2019 to 2022.

Professor Chong has been participating actively in community and public services. She has been the Chair, Vice-Chair, or committee members of non-government organizations, and an honorary consultant to a few others. She has been invited by the Hong Kong SAR Government to various government advisory committees, including the Elderly Commission, Community Investment & Inclusion Fund, Advisory Committee of the Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged, Public Libraries Advisory Committee, The 'Opportunity for the Elderly Project' Advisory Committee, Committee on Elderly Academy Development Foundation, and the Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions. She was also invited to the International Expert Committee of the China Ministry of Civil Affairs Planning Institute for Senior Care. She is the Founding President of the Hong Kong Association of Schools of Social Work. 
 
Professor Chong has been honoured with many awards for her long and distinguished community and public services, such as the Medal of Honor awarded by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2013 for her contribution to the promotion of social capital and the wellbeing of the elderly. Professor Chong is an excellent teacher and has been awarded the 2012-2013 Teaching Excellence Award by the City University of Hong Kong, and the very prestigious 2013 UGC Teaching Award by University Grant Committee. 

Education

BSocSc CUHK, MSc(Econ) in ASS U Wales, PhD HKU, PGD in ExeMgt CUHK & HKCSS, PMgr Canadian Institute of Management, RSW, M.H. 

Professional Qualifications / Memberships

Teaching

Research

Professor Chong's research interests include social gerontology, caregiving, end of life issues, as well as teaching and learning. She has been awarded nearly 60 research grants including 39 competitive research grants and 8 consultancy / contract research, amounting to a total of more than HK$40 millions research grants.

Professor Chong is a reviewer for General Research Grant (GRF), Public Policy Research and several prestige Journals.

5 Selected Research Projects in the Capacity of Principal-Investigator

  1. Caregiver Support Model and Psycho-education Program on Empowerment: Development and Validation. Commissioned by Simon K.Y. Lee Foundation. Feb 2019 - June 2023. $4,775,375.
  2. Promoting Critical and Innovative Thinking Ability in Ageing Policies in Hong Kong and Other Ageing Societies: the Application of the Design Thinking Model. Teaching Development Grant of the City University of Hong Kong. June 2018 - June 2019. $240,000.
  3. Does work relationship matter? Enhancing the effect of work relationship between frail older people and live-in foreign domestic helpers on subjective well-being of older people. Funded by GRF, HKSAR. Jan 2015 - Dec 2017. HK$779,480.
  4. Life Mentor Scheme for Generation Me – a Cross-University Collaboration for Student Excellence in An Ageing Society. Funded by University Grant Council as the 2013 UGC Teaching Award. Jan 2014 - Dec 2016. HK$450,000.
  5. Life Mentor Scheme – Research & Practice. Funded by UGC Sixth Matching Grant Scheme in connection with Mr. David CHOW's Donation. July 2013 – Dec 2017. HK$1,000,000.

Selected Publications

Published over 90 publications (including 55 peer-reviewed journal articles and 4 books). She has also presented more than 90 papers in international, regional and local conferences (including 23 as keynote or plenary speaker).

Selected Journal Articles

  1. Jiang, D., Warner, L. M., Chong, A. M. L., Li, T., Wolff, J. K., & Chou, K. L. (2020). Promoting volunteering among older adults in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial. The Gerontologist, Vol. 60, No. 5, 968–977. doi:10.1093/geront/gnz076.
  2. Liu, S., Ouyang, Z., Chong, A.M.L., & Wang, H.T. (2018 Oct). Neighborhood environment, residential satisfaction and depressive symptoms among older adults in residential care homes. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development,87(3) 268-288.DOI: 10.1177/0091415017730812.
  3. Lai, J., Evans, P., & Chong, A. (2017) Social Network Cultivation and Diurnal Cortisol Profiles in Healthy Chinese Elders. Neuropsychiatry (London) 7(6), 961–967.
  4. Chong, A. M. L., Kwan, C. W., Lou, V. W. Q., Leung, A. Y. M., Chi, I.. (2016 June). Can domestic helpers moderate distress of offspring caregivers of cognitively impaired older adults? Aging and Mental Health, 8(6), 1-8.
  5. Chong, A. M. L., Kwan, C. W., Chi, I., Lou, V. W. Q., & Leung, A. Y. M. (2014). Domestic helpers as moderators of spousal caregiver distress. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69(6):966-972.
  6. Chong, A. M. L., Rochelle, T. L., & Liu, S. S. (2013). Volunteerism and positive aging in Hong Kong: A cultural perspective. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 77(3):211-231.
  7. Chong, A. M. L. (2012). Cognitive predictors of satisfaction in Hong Kong institutional care residents. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 31(3), 354-376.
  8. Chong, A. M. L., Cheung, C. K., Woo J., & Kwan, A. Y. H. (2012). Availability, use, and cultivation of support networks as predictors of the well-being of middle-aged and older Chinese: A panel study. Scientific World Journal, 2012, 1-8.
  9. Chong, A. M. L., & Cheung, C. K. J. (2012). Factor structure of a Cantonese-version Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 10(2), 118-125
  10. Chong, A.M.L., Ng, S.H., Woo, J., & Kwan, A.Y.H. (2006). Positive ageing: The views of middle-aged and older adults in Hong Kong. Ageing & Society, 26, 243-265
  11. Chong, A.M.L. & Fok, S.Y. (2005). Attitudes toward euthanasia in Hong Kong – A comparison between physicians and the general public. Death Studies, 29, 29-54.
  12. Tse, C.Y., Chong, A.M.L., & Fok, S.Y. (2003). Breaking bad news: A Chinese perspective. Palliative Medicine, 339-343

Selected Book

Chong, A.M.L. & Chi, I. (Ed.) (Feb 2019). Social Work and Sustainability in Asia: Facing the challenges of Environmental Challenges. Singapore: Routledge. Hb: 978-1-138-20022-7.