Venue: Social Sciences Function Room, 11/F

Theme 2: Creative and Technology Industries as the Future of Work: Identity and Wellbeing

Panellists:

Desiring-production, satisfaction and occupation of Wang Hong: Creative labour in Douyin [TikTok]
Professor Anthony YH Fung
School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ever hopeful? Creative workers’ contested search for meaningful employment through relational sensemaking
Dr Anne Peirson-Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong

AI and automation: New challenges for media professionals in Hong Kong and mainland China
Dr Florin C Serban
Lecturer, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University

Dream a Different Dream of Xi: How Alibaba’s Workers Make Sense of their Clashing Goals
Dr Tommy Tse
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Associate Board Member, Work, Employment and Society

Geopolitical and local responses: A comparison of Hong Kong’s filmmakers in the 1960s-1970s and the 2000s
Dr Victor KW Shin
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong

Moderator:
Dr Victor KW Shin

Venue: Social Sciences Chamber

Theme 3: Mobility and the future of work: Flexible, networked, precarious, sustainable?

Panellists:

Working holiday makers in Australia: Abused, exploited… and essential to Australia’s food security

Dr Benjamin L Iaquinto Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong

Imagining the flying panda: Social factory and the prosaic geographies of China’s mass innovation/entrepreneurship campaign
Dr June Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong

Small city urbanism: Globalism, translocal worlding and urban experimentation
Dr Junxi Qian
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong

Doughnut economics, recommoning and multifaceted wellbeing: The true meaning of mobility and work
Professor Mee Kam Ng  
Director of Urban Studies Programme and Associate Director of Institute of Future Cities and the Hong Kong Institute of Asian Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sharing economy, neoliberalism and sustainable transition: Reshaping space & mobility in urban China
Dr Xiaoling Zhang
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong

Moderator:
Dr Benjamin L Iaquinto

Venue: Social Sciences Chamber

Theme 4: Economic Restructuring, Organisational Practices and Workers’ Responses

Panellists:

Evaluating the agile organisation agenda
Dr Ian Roper
Associate Professor, Department of Management Leadership and Organisation, Middlesex University
Editor, Work, Employment and Society

Online social networks and collective action: platform-based motorcycle taxi drivers in Indonesia
Ms Joanna Octavia
PhD Student, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick

“Pulling sheep’s wool: Digital Money, online thriftiness and organizational misbehaviour in a Chinese factory
Dr Tom McDonald
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,
The University of Hong Kong
Ms Dan Li
PhD Student in Anthropology, London School of Economics

Communicative labour in entrepreneurial activities: Examining interactions between grassroots innovative entrepreneurs and angel investors in Beijing
Ms Yanan Guo
PhD Student, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong

Moderator:
Dr Ian Roper

Venue: Social Sciences Function Room, 11/F

Theme 5: Work, Sustainability, Geopolitics and Social Policy

Panellists:

Precarity, insecurity, and
marginalised young people in
the future world of work
Dr Mark Wong
Assistant Professor, School of Social and Public Policy, University of Glasgow

The challenges of jobless growth and technological unemployment in the contest of automated work
Professor Bridgette Wessels
School of Social and Public Policy, University of Glasgow

Uncertain shores: Urban transformation and livelihood along Mumbai’s coast
Dr Chitra Venkataramani
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Consequences of globalisation: A case study of youth from Kinmen, Taiwan
Ms Gina Yang
PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Moderator:
Dr Jung-Eun Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong