Dr Esther CHO Yin Nei

背景簡介

曹博士是湯羅鳳賢社會科學院副教授。她的研究興趣集中於有關兒童和青少年的福祉議題。她的學術研究涉及不同領域，包括跨國兒童福祉比較、兒童貧窮、兒童福利比較、年輕少數族裔人士的理財素養與財務福祉、少數族裔青少年的工作過渡、和去家庭化。她最近的研究專注於香港小學生的福祉問題。曹博士的教學興趣包括社會研究方法、生命全期發展、及多樣性和平等。她曾任香港浸會大學社會工作學系助理教授及青年研究及實踐中心副主任。

學歷

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

教學

• SSC301 社會研究方法
• SSC601 社會工作研究方法
• SSC201 多元性與平等

研究

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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.

代表性著述

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• 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. 

社會服務及獎項 / 公職

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• 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.