Sabrina Luk Ching Yuen

Dr. Sabrina Ching Yuen LUK joined School of Social Sciences in July 2017. Prior to this, she was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Open University of Hong Kong (January-June 2017), Visiting Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University SPEED (January-June 2017), and Associate Professor at Kunming University of Science and Technology, China (2013-2016). She holds both Bachelor of Social Science (First Class Honours) and M.Phil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom.

At NTU, she has designed and taught the following courses: HA2009 The Making of E-govenrment, HA3026 Crisis Ledership and Management, HA4026 Selected Topics in Health Care and Ageing, and HA4040 Health, Disease Outbreaks and Politics.

Dr. Luk was a recipient of the 2012 Michael O'Rourke PhD Publication Award at the University of Birmingham for her research contributions and publication record. She was also the Highly Commended Award Winner of the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Healthcare Management Category.

She was the leading contributor to the UNESCAP report on Evolution of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development: The Experiences of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore. The report was officially launched on March 18, 2019. In March 2019, Dr. Luk presented her knowledge and expertise on STI policies for frontier technologies in the Training Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which was jointly organized by UNESCAP and the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) of the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with the Asia Research and Training Network on Science Technology and Innovation Policy (ARTNET on STI).

Research Interests

• Healthy aging and long-term care
• Health financing reforms
• E-government and smart cities
• Crsis leadership and management
• Public administration
• Public policy analysis
• China studies

Current Grants

• Sustainability of healthcare financing and the importance of healthy ageing: The case study of Singapore

Books

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk, Hui Zhang, and Peter Pok-man Yuen (2022) Ageing and Effecting Long-term Care in China. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk and Peter Preston (2021) Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk (2020) Ageing, Long-term Care Insurance and Healthcare Finance in Asia. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Sabrina Luk (2017) Financing Health Care in China: Towards Universal Health Insurance. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk and Peter Preston (2016) The Logic of Chinese Politics: Cores, Peripheries and Peaceful Rising. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Sabrina Luk (2014) Health Insurance Reforms in Asia. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.