Dr Vicky HO is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Social Sciences. She is the Program Leader of Master of Creative and Cultural Industries Management. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration (First Class Honors) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She also earned her Master of Philosophy and PhD in Communication from the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Creative and Cultural Industries
• Creative Economy and Cultural Policy
• Advertising and Public Relations
• Media Writing
• Cultural Studies and Popular Culture
• Media and Religion

• Reviewer, Global Media and China
• Reviewer, Communication & Society
• Reviewer, The Norient Academic Online Journal

• Principle investigator, Faculty Development Scheme grant, “Creativity in popular music: A study of music-making practices in the busking scene and the YouTube scene”, Research Grants Council, HKD524,960. (Ref: UGC/FDS16/H13/18), 2019-2020.

Journal Articles

• Ho, V. (2013). Thirty years of Contemporary Christian Music in Hong Kong: Interactions and crossover acts between a religious music scene and the pop music scene. Journal of Creative Communications, 8(1), 65-75.

Book Chapters

• Ho, V. (2016). Chinese religions and popular music. In C. Patridge & M. Moberg (Eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music (pp. 175-183). London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Ho, V. & Fung, A. (2016). Cultural policy, Chinese national identity and globalization. In T. Flew, P. Iosifidis, & J. Steemers (Eds.) Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State (pp. 106-121). New York: Palgrave Macmillian.
• Fung, A. & Ho, V. (2016). Animation industry in China: Managed creativity or state discourse? In M. Keane (Ed.) Handbook of China’s Cultural Industries (pp. 276-292). Cheltenham, Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Fung, A. & Ho, V. (2015). Game industries in Asia: Towards an Asian formation of game culture. In L. Hjorth & O. Khoo (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia (pp. 377-390). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
• Ho, V. (2011). Protestant churches in the Stanley internment camp during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (1941-1945). In Baptism by fire: The Chinese church during the Sino-Japanese war (1931-1945). Hong Kong: Alliance Bible Seminary. (In Chinese).

Conference Papers

• Ho, V. (July 2018). Co-creating knowledge of creative industries: A case study of creative industries education of Hong Kong. Creativity, Knowledge, Cities Conference. Bristol, UK.
• Ho, V. (July 2017). Busking practices and social encounters: Potentials and tensions for urban life. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2017. Seoul, South Korea.
• Ho, V. (December 2016). Tracing a Cantopop discourse: What do ‘2000s Hong Kong’ Cantopop say about Cantopop? The 5^th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference. Melbourne, Australia.
• Ho, V. (June 2012). “If only we could choose our fate”: Rock, life stage and society in When Heaven Burns. The 3^rd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference. Taipei, Taiwan.
• Ho, V. (June 2010). The discursive construction of a credible astrology in a call-in radio show. International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference. Singapore. Top paper in the Language and Social Interaction Division.
• Ho, V. (June 2010). Eternity Girls – The church-breed stars: A case study of Contemporary Christian Music’s affiliation with stardom. The 2^nd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference. Hong Kong.
• Ho, V. (August 2009). Evangelistic film as a genre and its reception: The case in Hong Kong. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Convention. Boston, USA.
• Ho, V. (June 2009). Protestant churches in the Stanley internment camp during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (1941-1945). The 6^th Symposium on the History of Christianity in Modern China. Hong Kong Baptist University and Alliance Bible Seminary. Hong Kong. (In Chinese).