Prof YU Wai Mui Christina

Professor Christina Yu Wai-mui is currently Professor (Practice) of the Social Sciences and Policy Studies Department at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). She completed her BEd (Business Studies) and MA (Educational Management) degrees in UK. She further completed her PhD Study in Australia.

Prof Yu was formerly the Associate Vice President (Student Learning) (2017-2020) at the Education University of Hong Kong and the Director of the Office of School Partnership and Field Experience Office (2011-2017). She has been dedicated to the field of business education and teacher education since 1986 and, Prof Yu has been developing business-related programmes and courses in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She co-led the undergraduate common core curriculum review and the internationalization of curriculum. Her major teaching areas are pedagogical content knowledge and contemporary issues in business-related disciplines including entrepreneurship, personal finance, workforce competence and organizational performance management. Her teaching focuses on stimulating students' active learning and knowledge transfer in the real context through the use of blended learning.

Professor Yu's research and publication cover a wide range of areas including competence development, pedagogical strategies, business education, entrepreneurship education, personal finance education, gender in education, field experience and career education.

Professor Yu received many teaching awards from The Education University of Hong Kong, including the Certificate of Merit of the Distinguished Teacher's Award in 2003-2004, the Certificate of Merit of the Scholarship of Teaching Award in 2009-10, the President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching (Team Award) and a nomination of UGC Teaching Award in 2017-18, Outstanding Performance in Administrative Services (Team Award) in 2019-20 at EdUHK, and the Award for Excellent Field Experience Supervision in 2020-21.

On behalf of EdUHK, Prof Yu and her team won the Financial Education Champion and Quality Award 2021 from the Hong Kong Investor and Financial Education Council, the Gold Award for Corporate Financial Education and ESG Leadership Awards 2022 from The Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong (IFPHK). 

In the past 10 years, Professor Yu devoted herself to promoting financial education in Hong Kong.  She successfully led the projects on 'Using E-Portfolio in Advancing Field Experience Learning’, 'School-University-Reaching-Enterprises Partnership Project (SURE)’, ‘Development of the Hong Kong Financial Competency Framework 1.0 & 2.0’ and adapted the "US Consumer Education Programme - FoolProof" to a local online Personal Financial Education Programme for schools to use. Currently, she is leading a team from The Education University of Hong Kong to participate in “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Financial Education Programme" project created and funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to further promote financial education in Hong Kong primary schools.