Dr Fu is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her PhD in Social Work and Master of Social Work from The University of Hong Kong.

Dr Fu’s primary areas of research interests are migration and resilience. Her work focuses on how parental migration changes family dynamics and influences well-being of children who remain in origin communities. Her current study compares long-term implications of parental migration for children’s health across different settings in Asia. She is also interested in how protective factors at multiple levels of ecosystems work together in individual and family resilience.

Her publications appeared in Child & Family Social Work, Journal of Adolescent Research, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Journal of Social Work etc.

She has participated in diverse consultancy projects with International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Innovations for Poverty Action (USA), as well as intervention programmes funded by The Ministry of Civil Affairs (China), Caring for Children Foundation (HK), and Wofoo Social Enterprises (HK).

• PhD in Social Work, The University of Hong Kong
• Master of Social Work, The University of Hong Kong
• Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Communication University of China