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Dr. Herbary Cheung is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Gender Studies and Work Integrated Learning/Internship Coordinator at the Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University. Trained as a feminist sociologist and Southeast Asianist, he earned his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from The Education University of Hong Kong in 2022 as a Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) awardee, an MPhil in Sociology in 2018, and joint first-class honours BA degrees in Social Sciences and Development Studies and Southeast Asian Studies in 2015. His previous appointments include Research Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Research Associate at Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC, CNRS–MEAE) since 2019, and Research Associate and Associate Member at the Centre for East Asian Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles since 2023. He also serves as an executive committee member of The Hong Kong Society for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees since 2018.

Cheung's research examines how gender and sexuality shape migration, family, and health amid social inequalities, development, and policy, focusing on Southeast Asia through ethnographic and qualitative approaches. His scholarship advances intersectionality, ethnography, and qualitative methodologies in gender and migration studies. Key publications include the monographs Engendering Migration Journey: Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and Single Mothers in Thailand: Women, Motherhood, and Going it All Alone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), as well as articles such as Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand (Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2023), Re-defining stigmatization: intersectional stigma of single mothers in Thailand (Journal of Family Studies, 2023), Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women (Qualitative Research, 2023), and Navigating stigmatized motherhood: self-stigma of single mothers with mental illness in Thailand (South East Asia Research, 2024). His work has been recognized with the PVC’s Award for Excellence in Research (Early Career Researcher, Monash University, 2024), New Mandala’s Emerging Scholar Award (2024), IMISCOE GenSeM Best Article Award (2025, with Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot), GenSeM Best Article Award (2024), and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (2025). Cheung serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Qualitative Methods (since 2025) and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and his research has appeared in international media including Deutsche Welle and the South China Morning Post.