Name LAU Hok Yin, Jeff
Present Post Lecturer
Ip Ying To Lee Yu Yee School of Humanities and Languages 
Caritas Institute of Higher Education 
Office Address Room A612
Telephone (852) 3702 4551
Email hylau@cihe.edu.hk

Biography

Mr LAU possesses two Master's degrees of Arts, one in linguistics from the University of Hong Kong with distinction and the other one in philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Dean's List designation. Currently, LAU is working on his Ph.D. on discourse analysis of lyrics at the University of Reading (U.K.), while serving as a lecturer at Caritas Institute of Higher Education, teaching institute-wide English courses. Driven by passion for music, especially the music of The Beatles in the 1960s and post-Beatles musicians such as Queen, The Eagles and Elton John, LAU combines music and language studies in his research. He is also passionate about philosophy, Heideggerian philosophy and Chinese philosophy in particular. Other than this, he has started writing a book on philosophical counselling to contribute to the social well-being by applying philosophical ideas to overcome various life challenges.

Education

MA (HKU) Distinction 2020
MA (CUHK) Dean's List Designation 2022
Currently studying PhD (The University of Reading, U.K.) from 2022

Teaching

Research

Publications & Conference Presentations


  1. Lau, H. Y. (Forthcoming). Women's dilemmatic constraints in emerging second-wave feminism: Heideggerian ambivalence and oscillation between authenticity and inauthenticity. Journal of Advanced Research in Women's Studies, 1(2), 19-31. ISSN: 2783-7122
  2. Lau, H. Y. (Forthcoming). Existential relationship between teacher-centred learning and student-centred learning: Inauthentic solicitude as a necessary condition of authentic solicitude. In W. K. Ma (Ed.), Engaged Learning & Innovative Teaching in Higher Education (ELITE 2023).
  3. Lau, H. Y. (Forthcoming). Technology-aided learning at the intersection of presence-at-hand and readiness-to-hand and the fusion of horizons among students, technology and teachers. In W. K. Ma (Ed.), Engaged Learning & Innovative Teaching in Higher Education International.
  4. Lau, H. Y. (2023). Existential relationship between teacher-centred learning and student-centred learning: Inauthentic solicitude as a necessary condition of authentic solicitude. Engaged Learning & Innovative Teaching in Higher Education International Conference (ELITE 2023). Tung Wah College.
  5. Lau, H. Y. (2023). Technology-aided learning at the intersection of presence-at-hand and readiness-to-hand and the fusion of horizons among students, technology and teachers. Engaged Learning & Innovative Teaching in Higher Education International Conference (ELITE 2023). Tung Wah College.
  6. Lau, H. Y. (2023). Problems of exacerbation to Dasein in the modern technological world by use of the early Heidegger's theories: Readiness-to-hand & presence-at-hand.  In K. K. W. Mak (Ed.), Advances in Techno-Humanities: Case Studies from Culture, Philosophy and the Arts. Routledge. ISBN: 9781003376491
  7. Lau, H. Y. (2023). Dilemmatic constraints on women in emerging second-wave feminism: Heideggerian ambivalence and oscillation between authenticity and inauthenticity. The 6th International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences (ICARSS). The U.K.: Cambridge
  8. Lau, H. Y. (2023). Co-presence of readiness-to-hand & presence-at-hand as the shape of things by revisiting technology-aided learning from the Heideggerian perspective. In C. Hong & W. W. K. Ma (Eds.), Applied Degree Education: The Shape of Things to Come (93-106). Springer.  ISBN: 9789811993145, 9811993149
  9. Lau, H. Y. (2022). Heideggerian authenticity of Being-towards-death: A possible road to morality and intersubjectivity to settle death in a Confucian way. In Cheung, C. F. (Chan-Fai). (Ed.), 死亡與年老哲學論文集 (Essay Collection on Philosophy of Dying and Ageing) (pp. 119-156). Noctua Publication.
  10. Lau, H. Y. (2022). Problems of exacerbation to Dasein in the modern technological world by Use of the early Heidegger's theories: Readiness-to-hand & presence-at-hand. Conference on Building a Techno-Humanities Culture in Hong Kong. Caritas Institute of Higher Education.
  11. Lau, H. Y. (2022). On cancel culture from the Heideggerian perspective: Volatility of authenticity & inauthenticity. International Conference of Arts and Humanities (9th).
  12. Lau, H. Y. (2020). Sociolinguistic analysis of the Beatles music within the Dynamic Model of Exchange: Feminism and Beatlemania quantitative and qualitative linguistic approaches (Thesis publication). The University of Hong Kong Libraries. The University of Hong Kong.