Dr. Sam S.S. Lau 劉信信博士
Principal Lecturer; Director, Research Management Office
Teaching Areas
Course(s) taught:- You and Your Health
- Microbiology and Laboratory
- General Chemistry
Research Interests
- Environment and Health, Climate Change, Public Health, Environmental Education, Career Education, Virtual Exchange, Health Literacy, STEM, Wetland Conservation
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Professional Qualifications
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA)
- Associate Member, Association for Learning Technology
- Honorary Member, Institute of Horticulture (HK)
Selected Publications
- Lau SSS, Fong JWL, Zsido AN, Browning MHEM (2026). Examining the multi‐disciplinary origins of biophobia towards threatening and non‐threatening wildlife in a highly urbanised city in China. People and Nature. Advance online publication. doi.org
- Lau SSS, Fong JWL, Lawrance EL, Chui AWL, Zhang W, Lin S, Yıldız B, & Zsido AN (2026). Extreme weather salience as a climate crisis signal: Examining the role of extreme weather fear in adaptive and maladaptive responses to eco-anxiety. Global Environmental Change, 88, 103179.
- Zhu XQ, Sun Y, Lin R, Luo YN, Li JX, Zhang YD, Bloom MS, Browning MHEM, Lau SSS, Fan SJ (2026). School greenspace and myopia incidence and burden in Chinese children and adolescents: The Guangzhou children and adolescents cohort study. Environmental Research, 124062
- Yeung LKC, Chow DPL, Wong PH, Lau SSS (2026). In ChatGPT they trust: a study of students’ perceptions and misuse of ChatGPT in higher education. AI and Ethics.
- Lau SSS, Fong JWL, Zsido AN, & Soga M (2025). Impacts of more immediate and less immediate nature experiences on young adults’ mental health: The mediating role of nature connectedness in a compact city in China. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 129160.
- Lau SSS, Choi RPW, Reid A (2025). How nature experience and nature connectedness matter to school students' attitudes towards biodiversity. Biological Conservation, 111493.
- Qiu HL, Xie YT, Zhou GL, Zhu SF, Zhao T, Heinrich J, Bloom MS, Huang WZ, Lau SSS, Zhang YD (2025). Greenspace mitigates the global disease and economic burdens of non-communicable diseases. One Earth, 101412
- Lau SSS, Appiah K, Ho CC, Cheng MC, Yang BY (2025). Measuring Chinese negative emotion towards climate change: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Climate Change Anxiety Scale. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 21, 100364.
- Tuohetasen S, Qu Y, Hopke PK, Zhang K, Liu Y, Lin S, Gu H, Wang X, Lau SSS, Lin X (2025). Potential Impact of Maternal Nighttime Light Exposure and Its Interaction With Sociodemographic Characteristics on the Risk of Various Congenital Heart Diseases. Epidemiology, 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001883.
- Lau SSS, Fong JW, & Cheng MC (2025). Psychological cost of Hong Kong’s zero-COVID policy: three-wave repeated cross-sectional study of pandemic fatigue, pandemic fear and emotional well-being from peak pandemic to living-with-COVID policy shift. BJPsych Open, 11(2), e68.
- Padmore BB, Leung AYM, Okyere J, Lau SSS, Dadaczynski K, Okan O (2025). Health literacy and mental well-being of school staff in times of crisis: A path analysis of sense of coherence, work-related stress, & health-protective behaviours. Public Health, 105749.
- Lau SSS & Chui AWL (2024). Fostering Environmental Health: From Human-Wetland-Connection to Climate-Mitigating Actions among Young People. Presented at the 2024 Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting - Wetlands and Global Change: Mitigation and Adaptation, organised by the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS).
- Li C, Lau SSS, Hui T, Tang A (2024) Rethinking Virtual Exchange: Aligning Frameworks with Learning Outcomes. 2024 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education, 3-5 July 2024.
- Lau SSS, Li C, Tsui M, Fan V (2024) AI-backed Student Advising in tackling the Employability Gap of University Students under Global Workplace Transition to an Upskilled Workforce. 2024 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education, 3-5 July 2024.
- Lau SSS, Fong JW, van Rijsbergen N, McGuire L, Ho CCY, Cheng MC, Tse D. (2024). Emotional responses and psychological health among young people amid climate change, Fukushima's radioactive water release, and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the mediating roles of media exposure and nature connectedness: a cross-national analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health, 8(6), e365-e377.
- Lau SSS (2023) Building Institutional Capacity to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education. 2023 AAC&U Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, 8-11 Mar 2023
- Lau SSS, Leung SSK, Wong JWC, Lee TCP, Cartwright SR, Wong JTC, Man J, Cheung E and Choi RPW (2023) Brief repeated virtual nature contact for three weeks boosts university students’ nature connectedness and psychological and physiological health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pilot study. Frontiers in Public Health.
- Lau SSS, Ho CCY, Pang RCK, Su S, Kwok H, Fung SF, Ho RC (2022) Measurement of burnout during the prolonged pandemic in the Chinese zero-COVID context: COVID-19 burnout views scale. Frontiers in Public Health. 10.
- Lau SSS, Shum ENY, Man JOT, Cheung ETH, Amoah PA, Leung AYM, Dadaczynski K, Okan O (2022) Teachers’ Well-Being and Associated Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study in Hong Kong, China. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 19, 14661.
Professional / Community Services
- Member, Expert Group on Conservation for Sha Lo Tung, Environment and Ecology Bureau, HKSAR Government
- Environmental Committee for San Tin Technopole, Civil Engineering and Development Department, HKSAR Government
- Governing Board, Hong Kong Organic Resource Centre
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