She obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Social Work, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the year of 2013. Her PhD thesis is on multi-dimensions of elderly poverty and resilience of the aged poor in China. She then worked at the Sao Po Centre on Ageing, the University of Hong Kong as a post-doctoral fellow from 2013 to early 2014. During her post-doc study, she participated in research projects on aging in place of the low-income elders, elderly poverty from the perspective of household resource distribution, and mental health of the Chinese elders. Her recent research interest mainly includes inequality and poverty, gerontological social work, and qualitative research methods.