Mr. LO K.C.

chunglo@hku.hk
(852) 3917 1161
CJT-554
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Assistant Lecturer

Kai-Chung Lo is a registered social worker, Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in front-line, supervisory and social work teaching experiences in NGOs and universities for over 15 years. As a practice consultant at HKU, he mainly supervises BSW & MSW placement students. He is the placement setting coordinator of multicultural social work and community development services.

He was a front-line practitioner and service manager in NGOs for over 12 years, mainly serving ethnic minorities and people with disabilities in Hong Kong. He is a professional affiliate of the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race of the American Psychological Association and WHO-Caregiver Skills Training-HK Service Facilitator. He is also a member of the advisory board in different research projects regarding the employment of ethnic minority women, learning and teaching mathematics for Non-Chinese students and the development of social workers with diverse ethnic backgrounds. Etc.

His research interests lie in multicultural social work, social work with fathers, children with special needs, cultural sensitivity and competency, social work field education, etc. He has published articles and book chapters in Hong Kong, Mainland China and International social work journals.

Publications

Ng, Lu, S., Wang, A., Lo, K. C., Fok, H. K., Xie, W., & Li, H. Y. (2023). Enhancing intergroup relationship between local and mainland college students in Hong Kong - an intensive contact-based intervention. Current Psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04194-5
Kwan, & Lo, K. C. (2022). Issues behind the Utilization of Community Mental Health Services by Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong. Social Work in Public Health, 37(7), 631–642. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2022.2071371
Hoang, Andrew Pau, Lo Kai Chung and Lucy Porter Jordan, "Reclaiming a Macro Lens, Recasting Multilevel Practice" , in The Routledge Handbook of Field Work Education in Social Work ed. Rajendra Baikady , S.M. Sajid , Varoshini Nadesan and M. Rezaul Islam (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022)
So, Lo, K.-C., & Cheung, J. C.-S. (2021). Working on Chinese male carers' "Qing" in a social work group with an innovative approach – 'Emoto. International Social Work, 2087282110454–. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728211045426
Kwan, Baig, R. B., & Lo, K. C. (2018). Stressors and coping strategies of ethnic minority youth: Youth and mental health practitioners' perspectives. Children and Youth Services Review, 88, 497–503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.04.002
Lo, K. C., & Cheung, J. C. S. (2020). Contesting Human Rights: Norms, Institutions and Practice by Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl: Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-020-00600-2

Key Community Services

Advisor of HKSWA Chapter of Ethnically Diverse Social Workers (Since 2021)
Advisor of International Advisory board of the project “The Voices of Ethnic Minority Children on Their Lives and Well-Being in Hong Kong” which is funded by UNICEF (Hong Kong) (since 2019)
Advisor of the Project on "Supporting the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Primary Schools" (Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong) (since 2020)
Professional affiliate member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race of the American Psychological Association (since 2021)
Member of Network on Ethnic Minorities Services, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (since 2020)
Member of Social Service Group, The Convocation of the Convocation of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2018)
Member of The International Association for Social Work with Groups (2018)
Member of International Association for Community Development (2018)
Member of Practice Research Group, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (2016)