Gender Studies Programme - 孫耀東教授
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SUEN Yiu Tung D.Phil. in Sociology, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Swire Scholar 
Position: Associate Professor
Telephone: 3943 6624
Fax No.: 2603 7223
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Research Interest:  Sexualities, LGBT Issues, Gender, Social Policy, Law, Discrimination, Ageing, Health, HIV/AIDS
Introduction:

Yiu-tung SUEN (DPhil in Sociology, University of Oxford) is Associate Professor of the Gender Studies Programme, and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Young Researcher Award (2020) of the CUHK, and Exemplary Teaching Award in the Faculty of Social Sciences (2022) of the CUHK.

His research concerns the impact of sexual orientation and gender identity related laws and policies (and the lack thereof) on the lives of LGBT+ people themselves and the wider society. He founded and directs the Sexualities Research Programme, the first and foremost research programme in Hong Kong dedicated to studying LGBT+ related laws and social policies. His research has led to a paradigm shift in Hong Kong for debates on sexual orientation and gender identity related laws and policies from being based on assumptions and anecdotes to being based on solid quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence.

He has published more than 20 first-authored SSCI and SCIE articles, many of which are in top-ranked international peer-reviewed journals. He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (Sage), Ageing and Society (Cambridge University Press), Sociological Research Online (British Sociological Association and Sage), NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (Taylor & Francis), and Journal of Men’s Studies (Sage). Together with Darius Longarino of Yale Law School, he is editing a special issue on ‘LGBTQ+ parenting in China: Mapping research base and identifying research gaps’ for the journal LGBTQ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Taylor & Francis).

He holds 4 General Research Fund projects of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong as Principal Investigator (2018–2020, 2019–2021, 2021–2022, 2023-24 exercises). Throughout his academic career he has won research funding of HKD 3.78 million/ USD 0.5 million in total as Principal Investigator, and HKD 19.2 million/ USD 2.5 million as Co-Investigator.

He has been a keynote speaker for 8 times since being an assistant professor at CUHK, in US at Harvard University and Yale University, in UK at University College London, University of Birmingham, University of Surrey, School of Oriental and African Studies, and in Asia at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His research is known for being highly impactful. Outside academia, he has been a consultant and written reports for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), and advised the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for their research. Locally, he led the largest-scale research in Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission’s history of commissioned research. He is an appointed member of the Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS of the Department of Health of the HKSAR Government. He is Adviser and Past Vice-Chairperson of AIDS Concern Hong Kong. He frequently addresses a wide range of audiences including policy makers, business leaders, lawyers, healthcare professionals, and service providers. He has also been working with a variety of sectors as diverse as business, law, hospitality, fashion and more. Moreover, he has been interviewed by international media outlets such as the AFP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, and many others for his research.
Publications:

Referred Journal Articles

  • Wong, E. M. Y., Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., Tepjan, S. & Newman, P. (Accepted) Inclusion of LGBTQ+ individuals in Hong Kong: A scoping review. Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
  • Suen, Y. T., Wong, E. M. Y., & Chan, R. C. H. (2024). Relationship between religion and public attitudes toward same-sex marriage: Examining the role of traditional Chinese religions through a case study of Hong Kong. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 21(1), 86–96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-023-00836-w
  • Chan, R. C. H., Wong, E. M. Y., & Suen, Y. T. (2024). Consuming fitspiration content on Instagram as a risk factor for self-objectification and depression symptoms among sexual minority individuals: Exploring the intersection of gender and sexual orientation. Computers in Human Behavior, 108363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108363
  • Chan, R. C. H., Suen, Y. T., & Leung, J. S. Y. (2024). Gender identity differences in the experiences of family stressors and violence among transgender and non-binary individuals in China. Family Process, 63(2), 1046–1067. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12958
  • Suen, Y. T. (2023). A qualitative study of older people living with HIV Hong Kong: Resilience through downward comparison amidst limited social support. Journal of Aging Studies, 64, 101079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101079
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2023). Association between co-residence and loneliness during COVID-19 among sexual minority people in Hong Kong. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 69(2), 483–492. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640221110435
  • Suen, Y. T., Wong, E. M. Y., & Chan, R. C. H. (2023). Chinese lesbian and gay adults’ self-reported experiences of negative treatment and violence from family of origin: Evidence from a larger-scale study in China. Journal of Family Issues, 44(7), 1880–1903. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211064874
  • Chan, R. C. H., & Suen, Y. T. (2023). Effects of identity disclosure on school victimization and long-term educational outcomes among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex students in China. Journal of School Psychology, 98, 96–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2023.02.005
  • Suen, Y. T. (2022). Ageing non-heterosexual migrants: Towards global sexual citizenship. Journal of Aging Studies, 60, 100980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100980
  • Suen, Y. T. (2022). Older gay men in Hong Kong and later life concerns: Identities matter? Sexualities, 25(1–2), 164–169. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720902717
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2022). Heterogeneity in the desire to undergo various gender-affirming medical interventions among transgender people in Hong Kong: Findings from a community-driven survey and implications for the legal gender recognition debate. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51(7), 3613–3625. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02352-1
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2022). Rural-urban sexual divide in China: Quantitative evidence on comparing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people’s lives in rural and urban China. China Review, 22(4), 263–293.
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2022). Sex conservatism, internalized homonegativity, PrEP stigma, and intention to use PrEP: A study of Chinese-speaking gay and bisexual male youth in Hong Kong. AIDS Education and Prevention, 34(6), 467–480. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2022.34.6.467
  • Suen, Y. T., Wong, E. M. Y., & Chan, R. C. H. (2022). Experiences of COVID-19 among Chinese-speaking lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Hong Kong: An inductive thematic analysis of survey response data. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 30(1), 2102537. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2022.2102537
  • Chan, R. C. H., Suen, Y. T., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2022). The influence of concerns about a child’s sexual orientation on mental health among parents of lesbian, gay, and bisexual children in Hong Kong. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51(7), 3497–3512. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02374-9
  • Suen, Y. T. (2021). Sexual minority expatriates as agent of change? How foreign same-sex couples won the recognition of same-sex relationship for immigration purposes in Hong Kong. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(13), 2961–2978. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1690980
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Badgett, M. V. L. (2021). The experiences of sexual and gender minorities in employment: Evidence from a large-scale survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in China. The China Quarterly, 245, 142–164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741020000429
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2021). An exploratory study of factors associated with difficulties in accessing HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic among Chinese gay and bisexual men in Hong Kong. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 106, 358–362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.04.005
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2021). To have or not to have sex? COVID-19 and sexual activity among Chinese-speaking gay and bisexual men in Hong Kong. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 18(1), 29–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.10.004
  • Suen, Y. T., & Chidgey, A. (2021). Disruption of HIV service provision and response in Hong Kong during COVID-19: Issues of privacy and space. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC), 20, 23259582211059588. https://doi.org/10.1177/23259582211059588
  • Suen, Y. T., & Chan, R. C. H. (2021). “Gay brain drain”: Hong Kong lesbian, gay, and bisexual people’s consideration of emigration because of non-inclusive social policies. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 18(3), 739–752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-020-00497-z
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2020). Effects of general and sexual minority-specific COVID-19-related stressors on the mental health of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in Hong Kong. Psychiatry Research, 292, 113365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113365
  • Suen, Y., & Chan, R. C. H. (2020). A nationwide cross-sectional study of 15,611 lesbian, gay and bisexual people in China: Disclosure of sexual orientation and experiences of negative treatment in health care. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-1151-7
  • Suen, Y. T., & Chan, R. C. H. (2020). Prevalence and risk and protective factors associated with HIV-related behavior among transgender people in Hong Kong. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 32(2), 148–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538720.2019.1690609
  • Suen, Y. T., Chan, R. C. H., & Wong, E. M. Y. (2018). Mental health of transgender people in Hong Kong: A community-driven, large-scale quantitative study documenting demographics and correlates of quality of life and suicidality. Journal of Homosexuality, 65(8), 1093–1113. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1368772
  • Suen, Y. T. (2017). Challenging the majority support argument on not introducing anti-discrimination legislation on the ground of sexual orientation in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Law Journal, 47(2), 421–444.
  • Suen, Y. T. (2017). Older single gay men’s body talk: Resisting and rigidifying the aging discourse in the gay community. Journal of Homosexuality, 64(3), 397–414. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1191233
  • Suen, Y. T. (2015). Methodological reflections on researching lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender university students in Hong Kong: To what extent are they vulnerable interview subjects? Higher Education Research & Development, 34(4), 722–734. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2015.1051009
  • Suen, Y. T. (2015). What’s gay about being single? A qualitative study of the lived experiences of older single gay men. Sociological Research Online, 20(3), 48–61. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3716
  • Suen, Y. T. (2015). To date or not to date, that is the question: Older single gay men’s concerns about dating. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 30(1), 143–155. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2014.975922
  • Suen, Y.T. (2012). The Homeshare programme: Critical reflections. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 10(2), 184–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2012.673379
  • Cohen, J., & Suen, Y.T. (2012). Taking stock: Exploring trends in the field of men’s studies through a content analysis of the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) Annual Conference Programs (1993–2012). The Journal of Men’s Studies, 20(1), 73–83. https://doi.org/10.3149/jms.2001.73
  • Suen, Y. T. (2011). Do older women or older men report worse health? Questioning the ‘sicker’ older women assumption through a period and cohort analysis. Social Theory & Health, 9(1), 71–86. https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2010.6

 

Refereed book chapters

Suen, YT and Wong, MY (2016) ‘Male homosexuality in Hong Kong: a 20-year review of public attitudes towards homosexuality and experiences of discrimination self-reported by gay men’ in Lin, X. Haywood, C. and Mac an Ghaill, M. (eds.), East Asian Men: Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Suen YT (2015) ‘Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ageing’ in Twigg, J. and Martin, W. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, p. 226-233. London: Routledge.

Westwood, S, King, A, Almack, K, Suen, YT and Bailey, L (2014) ‘Good Practice in Health and Social Care Provision for Older LGBT people’ in Fish. J. and Karban, K. (eds.), Social Work and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities: International Perspectives, p. 145-158. Bristol: Policy Press.

 

Reports

Suen, YT (2018) LGBTI People and Employment: Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics in China, the Philippines and Thailand. (90pp.). United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organization.

Suen, YT, Wong W. C. et al (2016). Study on Legislation against Discrimination on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status. Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission. (243pp.)

 

Co-edited Book

King, A, Almack, K., Suen, YT and Westwood, S (2019) Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Adults: Minding the Knowledge Gaps. London: Routledge.
Administrative Duties

Associate Director

●Gender Research Centre, the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies

Founding Director

●Sexualities Research Programme, Gender Research Centre, the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies

Adjunct Assistant Professor (by courtesy)

●Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care

Member

●Task Force on Education and Training, Committee Against Sexual Harassment
Community and Professional Service

 

Editorial boards of

  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (Sage),
  • Ageing and Society (Cambridge University Press),
  • Sociological Research Online (British Sociological Association and Sage)
  • NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (Taylor & Francis)
  • Journal of Men’s Studies (Sage)

Appointed council member, Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS, Department of Health, the HKSAR Government

 
CV TBC

 

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