I am a versatile Hong Kong Chinese who is a doctoral student in the Academic Unit of Social Contexts and Policies of Education, the University of Hong Kong. Prior to commencement of my doctoral studies, I completed a co-terminal double degree programme in English Studies and English Language Education along with a Linguistics minor during my undergraduate studies and completed a research Master’s degree in Applied English Linguistics while serving as a full-time Graduate Master in aided secondary schools in Hong Kong. My research interests in the field of educational studies are higher education, doctoral education, and social reproduction whilst my research interests in the field of applied linguistics are English grammar, second language development, second language instruction, pedagogical grammar, grammar of Hong Kong English, and corpus linguistics. My publications have appeared in myriads of local, regional, and international journals.