Curriculum Vitae

Hong Kong Baptist University
Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Studies
Director, Comparative Governance and Policy Research Centre
2022 - Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies
2020 - 2022

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Lingnan University
Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Affairs
2017 - 2020

Oxford University
DPhil in Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations
St Antony’s College
2012 - 2017

MPhil in Comparative Government, Department of Politics and International Relations
St Antony’s College
2010 - 2012

EDUCATION

University of Chicago
BA in Economics, minor in Statistics
2005 - 2008

  • Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists, 2020-2026

  • Hong Kong Baptist University President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work (Early Career Researcher), 2021-2022

  • Honourable mention for the 2022 Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize, Social Movement Studies:
    Samson Yuen and Gary Tang. 2021. Instagram and Social Capital: Explaining Youth Activism in Mass Protests. Social Movement Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2021.2011189.

  • International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) 2021 Best Article Prize on Global Hong Kong Studies:
    Samson Yuen. 2021. Native-Place Networks and Political Mobilization: The Case of Post-handover Hong Kong. Modern China 47(5): 510-539.

  • Swire Scholar 2012 -2 017, Oxford University

  • T. D. Allman Scholar 2011 - 2012, Oxford University

  • Chevening Scholar 2010 - 2011, Oxford University

AWARDS

  • Visiting Fellowship, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, September 2022 - December 2022

FELLOWSHIPS

RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Research Grants Council, The Legacies of Political Violence: How do Violence in Protests Shape Citizen Attitudes?, 2022-2024, HKD618,342, Principal Investigator.

  • Hong Kong Baptist University Tier 2 Internal Grant, Reinventing Spaces of Civic Participation: Citizen-led Community Networks in Hong Kong, 2021-2022, HKD217,000, Principal Investigator.

  • Public Policy Research, Ripple Effects of Social Movements: Initial Biographical Consequences of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, 2020, HKD435,850, Principal Investiga- tor.

  • Public Policy Research, Loss of Innocence: Participation of Secondary School Students in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, 2020, HKD143,750, Principal Investigator.

  • Public Policy Research, Examining the ‘Mutual Destruction’ Discourse in the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement, 2020, HKD346,725, Co-Investigator.

  • Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme, Dynamics of participation: A study of youth political participation in post-handover Hong Kong, 2018-2021, HKD519,360, Principal Investigator.

  • Public Policy Research Scheme, Hong Kong Baptist University, Mapping the Networks and Impacts of Civic Engagement: Community Actors, Social Capital, and Urban Governance in Hong Kong, 2018- 2020, HKD1,000,000, Co-Investigator.

  • Research Development Fund, The Open University of Hong Kong, Explaining identity shift in post-handover Hong Kong”, 2017-2018, HKD96,600, Principal Investigator.