Prof. Eric CHUI is appointed as Chair Professor of Social Work and Criminology and Head in the Department of Applied Social Sciences. Since May 2022, he has been appointed as the Co-Director of the Policy Research Centre for Innovation and Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Available at: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/precit/). As of January 2026, he also assumes the role of Associate Director at the Research Centre for Environmental, Social, and Governance Advancement. Prior to these, he was the Dean of Students at City University of Hong Kong and Associate Dean (Undergraduate Education) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong.

Prof. CHUI  has received competitive research grants from non-governmental, governmental, and UGC-funding sources. For example, he received funding from the Society for Community Organization (2013), The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (2014; 2017; 2019; 2020; 2022; 2023; 2024), St. James’ Settlement (2016), Save the Children Hong Kong (2017), Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service (2020), Investor and Financial Education Council (2021; 2022), Hong Kong PHAB Association (2022), Hong Kong Playground Association (2023); Correctional Services Department (2016; 2018), Home Affairs Bureau (2016), and Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (2020); and General Research Fund, RGC (2008; 2011; 2019). 

Since September 2023, Prof. CHUI has been the Principal Investigator of a five-year Trust-Initiated Project entitled Project Bonfire (Available at: https://jcbonfire.hk/en/).  It is co-treated funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.

Regarding his professional activity, Prof. CHUI serves on the editorial board of a number of SSCI journals, including Child & Family Social Work, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and Children and Youth Services Review. He has been appointed as the Associate Editor (East Asia Advisory Board) of the Social Work Education: The International Journal since March 2021. 

He is currently the Series Editor of Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South, and welcomes prospective authors to approach him for a possible research monograph. (Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Crime-and-Justice-in-Asia-and-the-Global-South/book-series/RSCJAGS).

For nearly a decade, from 2012 to 2021, he was on the Hong Kong Social Workers Registration Board as an Assessment Panel Member.

On community and public service, he has served as a member or advisor on various boards and committees in Hong Kong. For example, he is a Member of the Commission on Children, HKSAR (since 2024); Release under Supervision Board, Security Bureau, HKSAR (since 2021), and Mental Health Review Tribunal, Health Bureau, HKSAR (since 2023); and a committee member of Youth Outreach Hong Kong, Sheng Kung Hui St. Christopher’s Home Limited Hong Kong, Tung Wah College, Yan Chai Hospital Social Services Department, and Caritas-Hong Kong.

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
• Master of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
• Bachelor of Social Work, The University of Hong Kong

• Registered Social Worker