Kylie is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration and an affiliated lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. Her interdisciplinary research examines the intersection of embodiment, politics, and social transformation, particularly within sports sociology, incarceration, masculinity, and youth in Hong Kong.

Kylie received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Hong Kong, where she was fully funded by the HKU Presidential Scholarship (2021-2024). Her dissertation, “Martialling bodies: Sporting territoriality and body politics in Hong Kong, investigated how non-competitive sports groups with opposing political orientations utilize everyday sporting practices to shape collective identities and advance their agendas. This research received the Honorable Mention for the Best Thesis Award from the Hong Kong Sociological Association. She also holds an MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge, fully funded by the Cambridge Trust Scholarship and The Women’s Foundation Hong Kong Scholarship (2018-2019).

As part of her postdoctoral training under Professor Paul W. C. Wong, Kylie contributes as a researcher to the Jockey Club Project ReBond, a three-year initiative designed to localize and adapt the desistance model in Hong Kong, supporting new offenders and ex-offenders within correctional institutions and in the community. She is also involved in the Blue Bus Jockey Club program, which provides critical family support services for those affected by incarceration. Before her doctoral studies, Kylie was a researcher for the JC A-Connect program, adapting the WHO Caregiver Skills Training Program for Hong Kong families with children with autism.

Her recent research explores bodily discipline in youth bodybuilding, the construction of masculinities in Chinese martial arts, and the roles of sports within correctional settings.