Posts tagged academic
【Video】Jason Ho | Gender studies researcher - Life after leaving academia

Jason Ho is a locally educated queer studies researcher. From a young man that happened to enter the University of Hong Kong to leaving in 2018 after teaching there for many years, he always thought that academia was his calling. Two years ago, he resolutely left for an administrative position at Hong Kong Baptist University which has led him to rethink life.

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【Video】Winsome Lee | Forensic anthropologist - Unveiling the truth for the dead

Winsome is a forensic anthropologist. Her work often comes into contact with corpses and skeletons. She has participated in different humanitarian works to ‘speak up’ for the dead, and to restore the hidden truth. In recent years, she made a number of publications as well as hosted some radio programmes, hoping to enlighten the public about her job and to promote death education.

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Sharon Yam | A Hong Kong academic in the US —“We need to document our own history”

Sharon is a 30-year-old professor at the University of Kentucky, who teaches and researches politics and rhetoric. At a place with few Hongkongers nearby, she finds every possible way to stand with Hong Kong: from getting an umbrella tattoo on her arm, to advocating for the social movement in Hong Kong through teaching and public speaking.

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