Vivian Wing Yeung Leung

VIVIAN WING YEUNG LEUNG BSocSc (Honours), MA, PhD (Candidate) (647) 856-7833 wingyeung.leung@mail.utoronto.ca

EDUCATION

2016 –Present

2012 –2013

2009 –2012

2020 2019 2018 2017 2013

Doctor of Philosophy, Social Work (PhD)

University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dissertation: Cultural Socialization by Chinese Parents in Canada and the United States: The Role of Discrimination, Ethnic Density, and Social Capital

Master of Arts, Social Policy (MA), Dean’s List

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Social Work Shatin, Hong Kong Dissertation: How Does Maternal Employment Affect the Happiness of Mothers in Hong Kong? – Shared Parenting as Moderator.

Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences (Major in Psychology, Minor in Social Work and Social Administration)

The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2019 –2020 2016 –2021 2017 –2018 Pokfulam, Hong Kong Tammy and Jerry Balitsky Scholarship ($2,390) Mary H. Beatty Fellowship ($10,000) University of Toronto Fellowship (~$133,000) Council of Friendship Fund ($2,185) PPEF –Dollars for Global Scholars ($2,388) The Yip Scholarship ($1,481) SGS Conference Grant ($750) Distinguished Academic Scholarship for Master of Arts in Social Policy Students 2012-13

2012 2009 Jan 2017 –Present Aug 2018 –Present Oct 2016 –Apr 2020 HKU Worldwide Undergraduate Student Exchange Scholarships

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

HKU Foundation Scholarships for Outstanding Students

Research Assistant, University of Toronto

Project #Queery: The Influence of ICTs on the Resilience, Social Support and School Engagement of Canada's and The United States’ Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (PI: Prof. Shelley L. Craig) • Research objectives: To explore the role of ICTs (information and communication technologies) on sexual and gender minority youths’ resilience and mental health through mixed-method online survey • Responsibilities: Analyze quantitative and qualitative data, write reports and publications, prepare presentations

Research Assistant, University of Toronto

Project Youth AFFIRM, Public Health Agency of Canada HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund (PI: Prof. Shelley L. Craig) • Research objectives: To explore the effectivenessof AFFIRM (Affirmative Coping Skills Training) across Ontario, a communitybased affirmative CBT group intervention for sexual and gender minority youth • Responsibilities: Work as a team to coordinate the delivery and clinical evaluation of AFFIRM, analyzelongitudinal survey data with multiple time points, prepare reports and presentations, write publication

Research Coordinator, University of Toronto

Intra-group Dynamics and Social Exclusion: Experience of Mainland Chinese Immigrants to Canada (Toronto PI: Prof. Ka Tat Tsang) • Research objectives: To understand the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area through individual interviews, focus groups, participatory observations,and media analysis • Responsibilities: Coordinate and manage research team and activities, develop funding proposals, ethics applications, conduct data collection (interviews and focus groups), conduct qualitative analysis (grounded theory), write up findings, prepare reports and presentations, supervise research assistants

Nov 2017 –July 2019

Mar 2015 –Aug 2016

Nov 2013 –Mar 2015

May 2013 –Nov 2013

Research Assistant, University of Toronto

Analysis of Governance Structures and Policy Discourses Shaping Migration and Resilience: An Examination of Canada’s Federal, Provincial and Municipal Governments (under the supervision of Co-I: Dr. Rupaleem Bhuyan) • Research objectives: To understand the policy discourse of migrant resilience in documents of different levels of government • Responsibilities: Design study, conduct archival search and sample policy documents, conduct interviews with government officials, perform discourse analysis, write publications and reports

Research Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Social Work (Full-time)

Raising Children in Hong Kong: A Mixed-Methods Study of Generational Shifts in Parental Beliefs and Practices (PI: Prof. Ching Man Lam) • Research objectives: To understand the shifts of parenting experiences and practices of Hong Kong parents from five different generations, throughlife-story individual interviews • Responsibilities: Coordinate and manage all research activities, conduct individual interviews, code, and analyze qualitative data, develop measurement instrument from qualitative interviews, write reports and publications

Senior Research Assistant, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Applied Social Sciences (Full-time)

Project X: Learning Excellence (PI: Prof. Ming Lin Alice Chong) • Research objectives: To provide and evaluate learning activities to first-year undergraduate social sciences students to facilitate their adjustment and development • Responsibilities: Plan and assist student development activities, manage, and conduct evaluation research, design and collect longitudinal quantitative surveys, conduct focus groups and individual interviews, clean and analyze data, write reports and publications

Research Assistant, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Applied Social Sciences (Full-time)

The Women’s Foundation Life Skills Program – Hope and Emotion Regulation Project (under the supervision of Co-I: Dr. Dannii Yeung) • Research objectives: To understand the role of hope and emotion regulation on adolescents’ psychosocial well-being through crosssectional survey and dot-probe task experiment • Responsibilities: Perform literature review, data collection (survey and dot-probe task experiment), data analysis (mediation model &

SEM) and report writing

PUBLICATIONS

Craig, S.L., Iacono, G., Austin, A., Eaton, A.D., Pang,N., Leung, V. W. Y., Frey, C. (Accepted). The role of facilitator training in intervention delivery: Preparing clinicians to deliver AFFIRMative group cognitive behavioural therapy to sexual and gender minority youth. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services.

McInroy, L. B., Beaujolais, B., Leung, V. W. Y., Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., & Austin, A. (Accepted). A comparison of asexual and non-asexual sexual minority youth: Stressors, suicidality, and mental and behavioral health risk outcomes. Psychology and Sexuality.

Craig, S. L., Austin, A., Levenson, J., Leung, V. W. Y., Eaton, A. D., & D’Souza, S. A. (Accepted). Frequencies and patterns of Adverse Childhood Events in LGBTQ+ youth. Child Abuse and Neglect.

Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., McInroy, L. B., D'Souza, S. A., Krishnan, S., Wells, G. A., Twum-Siaw, L., & Leung, V. W. Y. (2020). Navigating negativity: A grounded theory and integrative mixed methods investigation of how sexual and gender minority youth cope with negative comments online. Psychology and Sexuality, 11(3), 161-179.

Leung, V. W. Y., Lam, C. M., & Liang, Y. (2020). Parents’ expectations of familial elder care under the neoliberal Hong Kong society. Journal of Family Issues, 41(4), 437-439.

Leung, V. W. Y., Zhu, Y., Peng, H., & Tsang, A. K. T.(2019). Chinese immigrant mothers negotiating family and career: Intersectionality and the role of social support. The British Journal of Social Work, 49(3), 742-761.

Craig, S. L., McInroy, L. B., Eaton, A. D., Iacono, G., Leung, V. W. Y., Austin, A., Dobinson, C. (2019). An affirmative coping skills intervention to improve the mental and sexual health of sexual and gender minority youth (Project Youth AFFIRM): Protocol for an implementation study. JMIR Research Protocol, 8(6), e13462.

Mclnroy, L., Craig, S., & Leung, V. W. Y. (2019). Platforms and Patterns for Practice: LGBTQ+ Youths' Use of Information and Communication Technologies. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 36(5), 507-520.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION

Tsang, A. K. T., Leung, V. W. Y., Tan, W., Chuang, D., & Hu, R. (under review). Decentring the majority-minority paradigm: A multi-dimensional conceptualization of inter-ethnic relations based on a study of Chinese Canadians.

Bhuyan, R., & Leung, V. W. Y. (under review). Framing migrantresilience as a social responsibility: A case study of municipal and provincial immigrant integration policies in Toronto, Ontario.

Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., McInroy, L. B., Leung, V. W. Y., & Krishnan, S. (under review). Exploring the impact of media engagement on LGBTQ youth: Development of the social media wellbeing scale (SMWS).

Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., Leung, V. W. Y., Iacono, G., Pang, N., Dillon, F, & Austin, A. (under review). Affirmative cognitive-behavioural group therapy for sexual and gender minority youth: Community effectiveness.

Leung, V. W. Y., Tan, W., Chuang, D., Tsang, A. K. T., & Lai, D. (in preparation). A multi-dimensional approach to explore ethnic matching experiences among Chinese practitioners in the Greater Toronto Area.

Leung, V. W. Y., Peng, H., Chuang D., Tan, W., & Tsang, A. K. T. (in preparation). The ecology of ethnic identity development among 1.5- and 2nd-generation Chinese/Taiwanese Canadians.

Huang, Y., Leung, V. W. Y., Craig, S. L., & Chui, C. (in preparation). Adapting a cognitive behavioral therapy for Chinese sexual and gender minority youth: Perspectives from practitioners and target users.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Leung, V. W. Y. (Accepted). Cultural socialization by Chinese parents in Canada and the United States. Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) 66th Annual Program Meeting.

Hu, R., Leung, V. W. Y., & Lyons, O. (Accepted). Fostering social justice through educational methods in social work: A scoping review. Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) 66th Annual Program Meeting.

McInroy, L. B., Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., Beaujolais, B., & Leung, V. W. Y. (Accepted). Comparing the mental and behavioral health of asexual-identified LGBTQ+ youth to their non-asexual LGBTQ+ peers. Preaching to the Choir: An International LGBTQ Psychology Conference. Prague, Czech Republic.

Leung, V. W. Y. (2020, June 1-4). The ecology of cultural socialization by immigrant parents and the role of racism: A conceptual framework. Annual conference of CASWE-ACFTS, London ON (conference canceled).

Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., Leung, V. W. Y., Iacono, G., Pang, N., Austin, A., Dobinson, C., Frey, C., & Dillon, F. (2020, May 1-2). An affirmative coping skills intervention to improve mental & sexual health of

sexual & gender minority youth (AFFIRM): Interim results of an implementation study. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Online.

Craig, S. L., Iacono, G., Eaton, A. D., Pang, N., Frey, C., Austin, A., Leung, V. W. Y., & Dillon, F. (2020, May 1-2). Building community capacity in affirmative cognitive behavioural therapy for sexual and gender minority youth: Effectiveness of AFFIRM facilitator training. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Online.

Leung, V. W. Y., Chuang, D., Tan, W., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2020, January 15-19). Cultural competence of ethnic minority practitioners who serve Chinese immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. Paper presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, Washington DC.

Craig, S., Iacono, G., Austin, A., Eaton, A., Pang, N., & Leung, V. W. Y. (2020, January 15-19). Delivering empirically-supported interventions to sexual and gender minority youth: Evaluating the effectiveness of AFFIRM facilitator training. Paper presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, Washington DC.

Chuang, D., Leung, V. W. Y., Tan, W., Zhang, W., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2019, June 3-6). Shifting traditional family values: The perception and display of familism among Chinese seniors in the Greater Toronto Area. Paper presented at the annual conference of CASWE-ACFTS, Vancouver BC.

Chuang, D., Tan, W., Leung, V. W. Y., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2019, June 3-6). Inter-group dynamics between Chinese immigrants and other ethnicities in the Greater Toronto Area: From service providers’ perspective. Paper presented at the annual conference of CASWE-ACFTS, Vancouver BC.

Leung, V. W. Y., Chuang, D., Tan, W., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2019, January 16-20). The interplay between parental and peer cultural socialization and its impact on ethnic identity development of 1.5- and second-generation Chinese/Taiwanese immigrants in Toronto, Canada. Paper presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco CA.

Chuang, D., Leung, V. W. Y., Tan, W., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2019, January 16-20). Shifting traditional family values: The perception and display of familism among Chinese seniors in the Greater Toronto Area. Paper presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco CA.

Craig, S., Eaton, A., McInroy, L, … Leung, V. W. Y. (2019, January 16-20). Navigating negativity online: How gender and sexual minority youth cope with cyber discrimination. Paper presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco CA.

Leung, V. W. Y., & Chuang, D. (2018, October 11-13). Family enculturation and ethnic identity trajectory of Chinese 1.5- and second-generation immigrants in Toronto. Paper presented at the 25th Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Banff, AB.

Mesana, V., Boutin, D., Bhuyan, R., Leung, V. W. Y., & Veronis, L. (2018, August 6-10). Multi-level comparative analysis of immigration and resilience within provincial and municipal discourse across Ontario and Quebec. Paper presented at the 2018 International Geographical Union (IGU) Regional Conference, Quebec, QC.

Leung, V. W. Y. (2018, July 15-21). Discriminatory media reports against Mainland Chinese new immigrants in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto ON.

Leung, V. W. Y., & Peng, H. (2018, July 15-21). Family v.s. Career: Negotiating Experience and Mobility of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in Toronto. Paper presented at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto ON.

Leung, V. W. Y. (2018, January 25-26). Contemporary parent sponsorship policies in Canada, Australia and the United States: The unwelcomed elderly parents. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference, Toronto ON.

Leung, V. W. Y., Peng, H., Chuang, D., Huang, Y., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2018, January 10-14). Negotiating between family and career: Chinese immigrant mothers' experience and the role of community support in Toronto, Canada. Paper presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, Washington DC.

Peng, H., Chuang, D., Leung, V. W. Y., Huang, Y., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2018, January 10-14). Professionalization and colonized body? The career rebuilding of Chinese immigrants in Toronto Canada. Poster presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, Washington DC.

Huang, Y., Chuang, D., Leung, V. W. Y., & Tsang, A. K. T. (2018, January 10-14). Intra-group dynamics among Chinese immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area: From service providers' perspective. Paper presented at the annual conference of Society for Social Work and Research, Washington DC.

Leung, V. W. Y., Chong, M. L. A., & Chen, H. F. (2015, April 16-20). Peer Network Scheme: A threestage program enhancing collegians' sense of community in school. Paper presented at the AERA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2020

Fall 2020

Fall 2020

Summer 2020

Fall 2019 –2020

Summer 2019

Teaching Apprentice. SWK4606 Diversity, Access, and Equity in Social Work Practice. (Online)

Graduate, University of Toronto, Factor-InwentashFaculty of Social Work, Toronto, ON. • Co-instruct course under the supervision of faculty teaching mentor • Course design, deliver lecture, facilitate class discussion and activity

Graduate Assistant/Teaching Assistant. SWP538 Social Work Research Part I. (Online)

Undergraduate, Ryerson University, School of Social Work, Toronto, ON. • Facilitate weekly break-out group discussion • Grade assignments and provide consultation and support to students

Research Assistant. SWK4103 Elements of Social Work Practice & SWK4105 Social Work Practice Laboratory. (Online)

Graduate, University of Toronto, Factor-InwentashFaculty of Social Work, Toronto, ON. • Support the transition of social work practice courses to an online teaching environment • Provide support and consultation on online teaching strategies • Produce recordings and materials for synchronous and asynchronous learning

Guest Lecture Speaker. SWK4658 Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees.

Graduate, University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Toronto, ON. • Deliver online lecture and facilitate class discussion

Teaching Assistant. HST405/CHL5113 Global Migration and Health.

Undergraduate/Graduate (cross-listed), University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, ON. • Grade essays and assignments, provide consultation and support to students

Teaching Apprentice. SWK4658 Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees.

Graduate, University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Toronto, ON. • Course design, deliver lecture, facilitate class discussions, mark essays, and provide support to students

INVITED SPEAKER

2019 Feb 2019 –Mar 2020 Jul –Aug 2012 Jun –Aug 2011 Mar –Apr 2011 2019 –Present 2019 –Present 2018 –Present 2017 –Present Leung, V. W. Y. (2019, Sep 27 -Nov 1). Parenting group: The power of

COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE

empathy @ home. St. Agnes Tsao Catholic Church.

Project Coordinator (Continued as volunteer from Mar 2020 to Present)

Butterfly - Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Support Network, Toronto, ON • Conduct research and draft manual and resource guide for outreach work • Policy advocacy and community mobilizing • General support to community members and translation of materials

Internship Student

Professional Teachers’ Union, Hong Kong • Assist Legislative Council election campaign • Conducted research on social and educational issues

Internship Student

Action for Reach Out, Hong Kong • Assist daily operation of drop-in centre, conduct research onsex work • Perform outreach

Volunteer

St Barnaba’s Society and Home, Hong Kong • Assist fund-raising activities and daily operation of drop-in centre

SERVICE RELATED TO RESEARCH

• Outreach work Manuscript Reviewer –Journal of LGBTYouth Manuscript Reviewer –Social Policy and Society Member –Canadian Association for Social Work Education

Member –Society for Social Work Research