Name CHAN Tak Mau Simon
Title Professor cum Dean of Graduate Studies
Address Rm A631
Telephone 3702 4324
Email tmchan@sfu.edu.hk
School Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences

Biography

Professor Simon Chan holds the position of Professor at the Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences and concurrently serves as Dean of Graduate Studies at Saint Francis University. He previously held academic appointments at the University of Vermont in the United States and at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Professor Chan is a Fellow of the Asian Academy of Family Therapy and maintains multiple professional certifications from both local and international family therapy associations. He was a member of various accreditation bodies (e.g. SWRB Oversea Academics; Assessment Panel for Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector (APSF) for the Humanities and Social Sciences (H) Subject). Currently, he serves as Board of Director of Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service.

With more than two decades of integrated scholarly and practice-based research experience, Professor Chan's work centers on neurodivergence, narrative therapy, special educational needs, and men-in-trauma studies. He is the founder of the Multiple Family Narrative Therapy initiatives and has undertaken extensive empirical research that has shaped theoretical frameworks and informed applied practices in neurodivergence, narrative therapy, and special education.    

Education

Professional Qualifications/Memberships

Teaching

Neurodivergence, Narrative Therapy; Special Education Need, Social Work Practice, Theory and Practice of Counselling & Family Therapy, Qualitative Research

Research

Research interests include neurodivergence, special educational needs, narrative therapy, men-in-trauma, intervention effectiveness.  

Managing editor of Research on Social Work Practice Journal, and editorial board member of the Qualitative Social Work, Australian Social Work, and Psychology of Men and Masculinities.

A total of 36 research projects of which 31 are in the capacity of principal investigator, with a total of HK$26,597,534 of research grants received.  

5 Selected Research Projects in Capacity of Principal-Investigator

Selected Publications

55 refereed journal articles (33 of them are the first or single author), 2 single authored books, 20 research reports, 8 book chapters, 3 digital curriculum and training manuals, 94 conference papers/ presentations (4 keynote speech and 39 invited presentations), and comes to a total of more than 180 publications.

10 Selected Publications:

Community Participation and Achievement/Public Service