Community activities
I have been actively participating in a wide range of professional activities as follows.
Service to the Wider Community
- Member of Assessment Panels of Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence (2015/16)
Journal article / Book reviewer
- Journal of Happiness Studies
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Asian Education and Development Studies
- Educational Researcher and Policy and Practices
- Multicultural Education Review
- New Horizons in Education.
- Springer (Book reviewer)
Postgraduate Thesis Examination
- Doctor of Education for Graduate School, University of Nottingham
- Doctor of Education for Graduate School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Ph.D. for Graduate School, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Professional Consultancy
- Consultant – Global Citizenship Education, Oxfam Hong Kong Interactive Education Centre
- Consultant – Hong Kong Unison for Ethnic Minorities
- External grant reviewer for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
- International grant reviewer for National Institute of Education, Singapore
South China Morning Post
School life is happier if you're South Asian
The survey found that pupils with religious beliefs were more satisfied with various aspects of their life, including their living environment, family, school and relationships with friends. Those who prayed every day were most content with their "self" or who they were.
Dr Celeste Yuen Yuet-mui, associate professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education's department of education policy and leadership, carried out the survey from the end of last year to this summer. She collected 1,920 questionnaires from five secondary schools whose students had different backgrounds.
asiancorrespondent.com
HK: Beliefs, less pressure make South Asians happier than Chinese schoolmates
Based on survey results, it turns out that South Asian children are generally happier and have higher levels of confidence and satisfaction. For instance, on a scale of six, South Asian students rated satisfaction at school at 4.45 while local-born Chinese counterparts had 3.81 and mainland-born children had 3.96 rating.
“South Asians tend to come from religious families, which give them different values from Chinese families,” according to Dr Celeste Yuen Yuet-mui, associate professor at the HKIE’s department of education policy and leadership who was motivated to conduct the survey amid rising number of students committing suicide.
南方周末
由香港规划署和深圳市统计局联合委托进行的一项调查显示，近6.2万港人已在深圳安家。“深港间的跨境学童每年以10％的速度快速攀升。”香港教育学院袁月梅博士已从事多年跨境学童研究，而在十年前，整个深圳仅有500跨境学童。
袁月梅博士认为，“跨境学童实际上没有真正融入香港社会中，下了课就走了，也不会参加很多课外活动”，“但他们比较独立，能力不比香港孩子差。不少深港边境学校的成绩第一二名的，都是跨境学童，这是一个有趣的现象”。