Educational Qualifications

1995
Ph.D. in Social Psychiatry (Victoria U. of Manchester, UK)

1991
M.Sc. in Psychiatric Social Work (Victoria U. of Manchester, UK)

1984, 1986
DipSW, BSW (HKP)

Academic and Professional Experience

Sep 2026 - current
Visiting Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore.

Sep 2023 - Feb 2026
Research Professor, Saint Francis University, Hong Kong

Mar 2022
Visiting Professor, Bolton U (Renamed as U of Greater Manchester)
Supervising PhD students

Jan 2017 - Dec 2021
Associate Professor (Tenured), Applied Social Sciences/ Social and Behavioural Sciences, CityU (HK)
Research Degree Coordinator (MPhil & PhD)

Jun 2012 – Dec 2016
Associate Professor (Tenured), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Deputy Head, Department of Social Work, NUS (Nov 2012 - Aug 2015)
Graduate Coordinator for Graduate Studies (Research Masters & PhD) (Sep 2015 – Dec 2016)

Sep 1997 – Apr 2012
Asst. Professor (1997), Asso. Professor (2005) HKBU
Convenor, Graduate Studies

Feb 1996 – Aug 1997
Lecturer in Social Work, Department of Applied Social Studies, HKPU

Awards and Honours

2022 - 2025
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health & Society, Bangor University, Wales.

2015 - 2016
Research Excellence Award grant by Deputy President (Research & Technology) (ODPRT), National University of Singapore.

2016
Visiting Scholar to Fudan University, China

2014
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Swansea, UK

2012
Honorary Associate Professor, Yale University

2012 - 2022
Honorary Fellow, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI), Hong Kong Baptist University

2008 - 2010
Honorary Professor, The Soul Cyber University, South Korea

2005 - 2009
Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University.

2004 - 2005
Honorary Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University.

2000 -2002
Honorary Research Fellow, Public Health & Social Psychiatry Unit, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK

1995 - 1997
Honorary Research Associate, School of Psychiatry & Behavioural Science, University of Manchester

1991 - 1992
Departmental Research Scholarship, University of Manchester

1990 - 1991
British Returned Hong Kong Student Association Scholarship

1990 - 1991
LPC(HK) Overseas Post-graduate Scholarship

1984 - 1986
Round Table No.6 Bursary

Selected Publications

Lo, S. K. W., Chong, A. M. L., Lo, T. W., Li, K. K., Yeung, D., & Chiu, M. Y. (2026) Involving Caregivers of Older People in Qualitative Evaluation Research: Examining the “Caregiver Support Project” in Hong Kong. Research on Social Work Practice, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10497315251398459.

Cudjoe, E. and Chiu, M.Y.L. (2025) “She wants to hit me…but I love my mother”: Subjective experiences of children living with parental mental illness. Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 18(1) :15-30. https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr20252615.

Leung, C.L.K, Li, K.K., Yeung ,D.Y., Chong, A.M.L., Chiu, M.Y.L., Guan, X., & Lo, T.W. (2025) The Caregiver Support Model for Informal Caregivers of Frail Older Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Aging 2025; 8:e71638. https://doi.org/10.2196/71638.

Chiu, M.Y.L., Ghoh C., Wong, C., Wong, K.L. (2021) Dying in a Foreign Land—A study of Completed Suicides among Non-residents in 2011–2014 in Singapore. Transcultural Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615211023672.

Zhou, R.D.H., Chiu, Y.L.M, Chui, W.Y. (2017) Development and Validation of the Marital Metaphor Questionnaire (MMQ-10) for Urban Chinese Women. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 43(1): 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12181

Chiu, M.Y.L., Davidson, L., Lo, T.L., Yiu, G.C. and Ho, W.W.N. (2013)"Modeling self-agency among People with Schizophrenia: empirical evidence for consumer-based recovery".  Psychopathology, 46(6):413-20.  Article first published online: 14 Feb 2013. https://doi.org/10.1159/000345834.

Chiu, M.Y.L., Wei, G. F.W., Lee S., Choovanichvong, S., Wong, F.H.T. (2013) Empowering caregivers – Impact analysis of FamilyLink Education Programme (FLEP) in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Bangkok. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 59(1):28-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764011423171

Lee, S., Lee, M.T.Y., Chiu, M.Y.L. & Kleinman, A. (2005) Experience of Social Stigma by People with Schizophrenia in Hong Kong. British Journal of Psychiatry, 186:153-157.  

Chiu, M.Y.L. (2004) Why Chinese Women did not seek help: a cultural perspective on the psychology of women. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 17(2): 155-166.


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