Updated in January 2023

Contentious politics and social movements
Conflict processes
Public opinion and survey methods
Authoritarian politics
Asian politics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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, 2020-2022

  • 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.