Dr. Isabella Ng Fung-sheung

Biography

Dr. Isabella Ng Fung-sheung is an Assistant Professor and Associate Head (Teaching and Learning) with the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (FLASS) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). She received her PhD in Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. She obtained her MPhil in Journalism from the Hong Kong Baptist University and her MA in Comparative Literature from University College London. Before joining the Department of Asian and Policy Studies, Dr. Ng taught at the University of Macau and the Community College of City University, Hong Kong. Dr. Ng's research interests focus on gender studies including gender in development (GAD), women in development (WID), the anthropology of migration, ethnicity and identity, and media. Dr. Ng’s recent research has addressed ethnographic identities in rural village communities in Hong Kong, where she has explored gender relations, migration, and identity and its manifestations on village life. Dr. Ng's other recent research project is exploring contemporary motherhood in South China and the greater China region. Before pursing her doctoral studies, she worked as a full-time journalist for Time Magazine, based in Hong Kong. In this role, she travelled extensively to cover the Greater China region and the overseas Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. She also wrote for the Post Magazine of South China Morning Post, the Far East Economic Review and the Hong Kong Tatler. She has worked on major news stories including the Hong Kong and Macau handover, the Taiwan election in 2000; the Bali Bombing, the Indonesian ethnic Chinese pogrom between 1997 and 1999; and an exclusive feature story on the infamous Macau dragonhead Broken Tooth Kui. Dr. Ng is also a founder of the Hong Kong Society for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees, which fights for the rights of the asylum-seekers and refugees in Hong Kong and support their needs.

Research Interest

Feminist Geography, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Anthropology of Migration, Indigenous Population, Ethnicity and Identity, Rituals (focus on Hong Kong and Greater China), Walled Villages in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies, Communication and Media Studies,