Family Engagement

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Education & The Arts
Thursday, June 26, 2025
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Details

Can parent-child play be a panacea to improve family dynamics and child wellbeing and achieve improved health outcomes for all family members?


Speaker

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Wai Hung Wallace Tsang
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Engaging parents and children in co-creating playful community

Biography

Dr. Wallace TSANG, is the Assistant Professor of Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. He got research funding from Playright Children’s Play Association, completed a research on adopting free-play in families in Hong Kong, and had already published a journal article and a research report on this topic. He is currently conducting a 3-years project on engaging families in co-creating playbase in Hong Kong. He is also serving as the Editorial Board Member of several journals, including ‘Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work’, ‘Research of Social Work Practice’, ‘Social Sciences and Humanities Open’, and ‘Social Sciences’. He has good research experience in the areas of domestic violence, couple relationship, parent-child relationship, mental health, social impact and social capital assessment. With this research background, he has been the principal investigator of research projects on these areas and contributed research journal articles and presentations in local and international conferences.
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