Dr Jenny Chan (PhD 2014) is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received the Best Teaching Award from the Department of Applied Social Sciences in 2018. Prior to the PolyU, she was Lecturer in Sociology and Contemporary China Studies (2014-2016) at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, and Junior Research Fellow (2015-2018) of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Her major works, written in English and Chinese, have been translated into French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. 

Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers, co-authored with Mark SELDEN and PUN Ngai, was named the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022 on China, and CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022 in Work and Labor. The book was published by Pluto Press (2020) and Haymarket Books (2020), and was translated into Korean by Narumbooks (2021).

Jenny served as the elected Vice President of Research Committee on Labour Movements, International Sociological Association (2018 to 2023). Currently, she is the Selection Panelist of the HKSAR (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) Government Scholarship Fund, Talent Development Scholarship and Reaching Out Award (2022 to present), and Member of China and Global Development Network (2017 to present). Between 2017 and 2020, she contributed to the “Community, Organization and Globalisation Subjects" Committee on General University Requirements.