Hon Leung Clement Chan

Profile

Project Title: “Home Konger?”, “Repat?”: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Identity Construction of Hong Kong Transmigrants.

Supervisors: Dr Agnieszka Lyons, Dr Deborah Darling (since August 2026) and Professor Devyani Sharma (2023-2025).

Previous qualifications:

MA in English Language Arts (Distinction), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2015-2016)

BA in English, Chengdu University of Technology (2011-2015)

Teaching

2025-2026: Teaching Associate, Queen Mary University of London, LIN4214: Myths and Debates about Human Language. Course Convenor: Dr Luisa Martí Martnez

2024-2025: Teaching Associate/TA Rep, School of the Arts, Queen Mary University

2020-2023: Research Assistant/Programme Secretary, Asian Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC), The Education University of Hong Kong

2018-2019: Research Assistant, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2017-2018: Research Assistant, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research

Research Interests:

Sociolinguistics,

Migration and Identity,

Identity Construction,

Chronotopes and Chronotopic Identities,

Narrative Analysis,

Linguistic Ethnography,

Discourse Analysis,

Mixed Methods Research,

Qualitative Research,

Reflexive Thematic Analysis.

Publications

Chan, H.L.C. (2023). Identity Construction of Hong Kong Returnees: Stance Taking and Self-labelling in Narratives. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2023(281), 129-159. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2021-0106

Chan, H.L.C. (2019). A Trajectory-based Analysis of Identity Reconstruction and Linguistic Practice of Hong Kong Returnees. In E.H.GE., P.C.W., Lee, K.C., Li & C.S.H., Wong (eds.), The ICLLS 2019 (Fifth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies) (pp.14 -25). Hong Kong: The Chartered Institute of Linguists Hong Kong Society. Retrieved from https://iclls-2019.wixsite.com/iclls-2019/eproceedings 

Public Engagement

Journal Reviewer for Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hon-Leung-Clement-Chan

ORCID: 0000-0002-9075-7917