Professor Victor Wong

About

Professor Victor Wong is currently working on the following two funded research projects:  

• Principal Investigator (Community): Community-based interventions of career and life adventure planning for youth, 2015-2020, funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (HKBU/HKJCCT-33-14-211, HK$62,348,769). This project housed at HKBU is part of the Career and Life Adventure Planning project (CLAP for Youth @ JC) which is Hong Kong’s first cross-sectoral support platform that helps students and non-engaged youth navigate their futures. This five-year programme develops an evidence-based intervention model, professional career and life planning teams, a one-stop e-portal and parent and employer engagement – all to foster an enabling environment to create a new paradigm with a new discourse on work, success and talent match. CLAP was launched in May 2015 with a HK$500 million donation funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Click onto the following link for details of the project: https://www.clapforyouth.org.hk/abouts
• Principal Investigator: A study of the role of collective psychological ownership in the relationship between work conditions and workplace well-being among young adult social workers, funded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 2020-2022 (HKBU/GRF/12600819, HK$1,613,252). The focus of this research study is to examine work conditions and psychological factors which may lead to a positive state of workplace well-being such as work engagement and negative states such as burnout and health problems among young adult social workers aged 21-29 in four Chinese cities: Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

Highlights

Achievements

Research Outputs

• Su, X. & V. Wong. “A research on workplace learning program informed by the expanded notion of work: A new perspective for youth career development (in Chinese).” Youth Exploration 225 (2020): 47-58. http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-QLTS202001006.htm
• Wong, V. & T. C. Au Yeung. “Expediting youth’s entry into employment whilst overlooking precariousness: Flexi‐employability and disciplinary activation in Hong Kong.” Social Policy & Administration 53.5 (2019): 793-809.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spol.12418
• Wong, V. & T. C. Au Yeung. “Autonomous precarity or precarious autonomy? Dilemmas of young workers in Hong Kong.” The Economic and Labour Relations Review 30.2 (2019): 241-261.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1035304619838976
• Yuen, J. W., V. C. Wong, W. W. Tam, K. W. So & W. T. Chien. “A one-year prospective follow-up study on the health profile of hikikomori living in Hong Kong.” International journal of environmental research and public health 16.4 (2019): 546. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/4/54
• To, S. M., C. W. V. Wong, M. W. Yan & X. Su, X. “Psychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Version of the Parent Career Behavior Checklist in a Sample of Non-engaged Youth and Their Parents.” Child & Youth Care Forum (2019): 1-19. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10566-019-09540-6