Gillian Chu (alumna 2019 & 2023 UCSIA Summer School) has had a very productive stretch, with several new publications and a conference presentation.
In Caregivers Who Left: Hong Kong Older Adults, Their British Migrant Children, and Hong Kong Christian Communities — A Group Study from Psychological and Theological Perspectives (with Claire Hiu-ching Cheung, Social Sciences), she examines how left-behind older parents and their church communities navigate the emigration of their adult children to Britain.
In Nobody Left Behind: Older Adults and Hong Kong Baptist Churches, she explores the experiences of older adults within Hong Kong’s Baptist communities.
She also presented “Autonomous Artificial Intelligence, Work, and Vocation: An Analysis of Hong Kong Christian Communities” at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Chinese Christianity’s inaugural Global Theological Conference.
In addition, she contributed the chapter Left-behind Elderly Parents: Psychology-Informed Theology and Older Adults in Hong Kong Whose Adult Children Migrated through the British National (Overseas) Visa Scheme to Migration Psychology, Volume II: Global Dynamics of Family, Policy, and Inclusion (Palgrave Macmillan).
She published a further article on Social Media and Hong Kong Christian Communities: Diversity and Equality.
Finally, her new book, Hong Kong Christianities and Civic Life, is now available open access.
Gillian is also co-editing a special issue on AI and the psychology of spirituality, and warmly invites fellow UCSIA Summer School alumni and researchers to contribute. More information and submission guidelines.