DR. LIU SUK CHING
  • DR. LIU SUK CHING

    DR. LIU SUK CHING

     

    Biography

    Liu Suk Ching was born in Po Sheung village of Sheung Shui. She graduated from Fung Kai Primary School in 1962, Fung Kai no. 1 Secondary School in 1974. She was one of the very first batch of students from Fung Kai No. 1 Secondary School’s matriculation class and was accepted by New Asia College of Chinese University of Hong Kong to its Bachelor of Social Science in Sociology program. Upon graduation from her bachelor degree in 1979, she worked for one year in one of the refugee camps for the Vietnamese in Kai Tak. After this work experience, she decided to pursue social work as her future career. She then applied and was accepted by University of Hong Kong in its Master of Social Work degree in Department of Social Work and Social Administration in 1980. Registered as a Social Worker in 1982, she worked for 10 years as a school social worker before she moved on to become a lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies (renamed in 2018 as Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences) of City University of Hong Kong in 1990, teaching courses in social work. Alongside with teaching, she studied part-time for her PhD in University of Hong Kong and was granted a PhD degree in 2000. Now, she is the Associate Professor and Associate Head of Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences in City University of Hong Kong.

    Based on her background as a youth social worker and a teacher, she was committed to organize co-curricular programs for students in and outside her department for promoting students’ cross-cultural learning, community service and international learning experiences. Both inside and outside of the classroom, she emphasizes the interconnectedness of the individual and the community, and strives to create opportunities for students to take action in the community through helping, serving, and involving them in the social causes they feel strong about, thus facilitating a process of transforming the students to be socially committed and inclusive. One example of these programs is the “City-Youth Empowerment Project” founded by her in 2005 for offering community service opportunities to students from all departments in her University. She created an effective model for organizing, training and coaching students to sustain their long-term commitments to serve several target groups, including children and youth from low-income, single-parent and newly arrived families; physically, mentally and intellectually challenged children and youth; children and youth from ethnic minority background; single elderly; homeless; parents, etc. The project has also extended to international level by serving several groups of deprived children and youth in Cambodia and Myanmar, for as long as 8 years already. The program started with only 150 enrollment of students up to recently enrolled with over a thousand volunteers each year. Accumulatively over the years, its total service hours has reached over 200,000, and number of volunteers reached over 10,000, with similar number of service recipients too. To award her contribution to students’ learning, University Grants Committee had granted her the UGC Teaching Award in 2014.

    In leisure, she enjoys outdoor activities, hiking, cooking, baking and gardening. She moves back and lives in Sheung Shui recently, enjoying its truly dark evenings, noisy bird-singing mornings, and the local vegetables from its morning market.

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