Date: 03 June, 2026 (Wed)
Time: 04:30 PM– 05:45 PM HK
Type: Hybrid
Venue: RMS204, Runme Shaw Building, HKU & Zoom
Registration: Scan the QR code or use the link
Speakers:
Dr Hayes Tang, Associate Professor and Associate Head of Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong
Dr Gordon Tsui, Course Tutor in Common Core Curriculum at the University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
Future employment of doctoral holders is too often framed as a matter of individual responsibility. This workshop challenges that assumption by opening a collective, imaginative space for dialogue—inviting participants to explore possibilities beyond what has previously been thinkable. It encourages creative and critical reflection on academic life, including alternative ‘arts of living’ for doctoral holders that extend beyond conventional career trajectories.
Through dialogic and participatory sharing and co-creation, the workshop serves as a generative platform for reimagining doctoral futures. It foregrounds doctoral graduates as global citizens equipped with advanced expertise and methodological capacity, capable of exploring meaningful and socially responsive pathways.
By convening doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and practitioners of doctoral education, the workshop aims to catalyse collective agency and foster a global community of practice. Reimagining doctoral futures is not peripheral, it is central to the future of global higher education itself.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Hayes Tang is an Associate Professor (Sociology of Higher Education) and Associate Head (Quality Assurance and Enhancement) of Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is a sociologist specialising in the fields of higher education policy, academic profession and youth studies. His research reconsiders the sociological role of higher education and future imaginaries of the academic profession in the rise of ‘academic entrepreneurialism’, focusing on world-class universities in East Asia and the ecological paradigm of the ‘post-entrepreneurial university’. He is committed to creating new knowledge to reimagine the university in the age of the Anthropocene.
Dr. Gordon Tsui is a course tutor in Common Core Curriculum at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests, from the comparative perspective, touch on higher education and multicultural/intercultural education. Gordon is currently the Doctoral and Early Career (DEC) Representative of The Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA) under World Education Research Association (WERA).
Remark: The workshop involves some hands‑on activities and group discussions.