2025 “Mindfulness Workshop: React vs Response”. AsiaTEFL 2025 Conference, the Education University of Hong Kong.
2024 "Mindfulness as a relational practice" Oxford Mindfulness Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.
2024 "Mindfulness: Resilience and Mental Well-Being for Grad Students" Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan.
2024 "Discussion" key discussant at the Language Education Conference: Dissolving the Theory-Practice Dualism, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
2023 “Creating a positive classroom climate and inspiring learning with mindfulness”, Keynote, the 6th CLE Conference on Teaching and Learning, Southern University of Science and Technology.
2023 “Teaching online reasoning and critical thinking in the infodemic era" Public lecture, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
2022 “Mindfulness for wellbeing and English language teaching: an exploration” Public lecture, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
2021 "Transnationality and language worlds of a family of Indonesian Chinese" Public lecture, Ministry of Education Bay of Bengal Countries Research Centre, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
2021 "Research and methodologies in language and gender" Lecture for MA students, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
2021 "How can mindfulness improve teacher wellbeing" Keynote, the Macao Association for the Advancement of English Language Teaching Conference.
2021 "Our beliefs about the English languages, and why do they matter?" Public lecture (starts at 1:19:00) Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. and Xu, JQ. 2025 "Transforming Reactivity: Discourse of Awareness in a Mindfulness intervention for Postgrads in HK and Macau" MBCT 30 years on - Oxford Mindfulness Annual Gathering, UK.
Chen, K. and Xu, JQ. 2025 “How Mindfulness Intervention can transform reactivity and reduce emotional disturbances for Research Postgraduate Students in Hong Kong and Macau” AsiaTEFL 2025 Conference, the Education University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. and Xu, JQ. 2024 "Transforming Reactivity: A Discourse Analysis of Mindfulness Insights in MBI Classes" International Conference of Mindfulness, University of Bangor.
Chen, K. and Xu, JQ. 2024 "Transforming Reactivity: Discourse of Awareness in a Mindfulness-based Intervention (MBI) Programme" AILA World Congress, Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics.
Xu, JQ and Chen, K. 2024 "Transformative Power of Online Mindfulness Training for Research Postgraduate Students: A Mixed Methods Randomized Controlled Trial" International Conference of Mindfulness, University of Bangor.
Yang, H. and Chen, K. 2024 "Reducing foreign language anxiety in a mindfulness-integrated university English classroom: An ethnographic observation" Poster. International Conference of Mindfulness, University of Bangor.
Xu, JQ and Chen, K. 2022 "Effects of an eight-week online mindfulness program on wellbeing in research postgraduate students: preliminary quantitative and qualitative results from a randomized controlled trial" International Mindfulness Conference Asia Pacific, University of Monash.
Xu, JQ and Chen, K. 2022 "網上八周靜觀課程對提升研究生幸福感的成效：隨機候補名單對照試驗的初步結果" 中国生命关怀协会静观专业委员会, 北京大学第六医院临床心理中心, 北京回龙观医院静观中心主办, 第三屆中國靜觀應用發展論壇。
University of Macau Multi-Year Research Grant – Level II (MYRG-GRG 2024). A Discourse Analysis of Inquiry in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.
Macau SAR Government DSEJ. Specialized Subsidy Scheme for Macao Higher Education Institutions in the Area of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences of Higher Education Fund. Project “Discourse Analysis of Mindfulness-based Intervention”.
Macau University Start-up Research Grant. "Discourse Analysis of Mindfulness-based Intervention".
Hong Kong Government Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) “Indonesian Chinese as rootless transnationals: a sociolinguistic ethnography of their 60-year journey from Indonesia to China and Hong Kong.”
Hong Kong Government Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) “Coming home as strangers: A sociolinguistic ethnography of transnational bilinguals in Hong Kong.”
University of Hong Kong Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, “Rootless transnationals: A sociolinguistic ethnography of returned Indonesian Chinese's 60-year-journey from Indonesia to China and Hong Kong.”
University of Hong Kong Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, “Overseas returnees’ linguistic strategies in multilingual Hong Kong: a corpus and sociolinguistic analysis.”
Some papers are available at Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
Xu, JQ., Tang, YM.J. & Chen, K. (2025) Impact of an Online Mindfulness-Based Program on Wellbeing and Trait Mindfulness for Research Postgraduate Students: A Randomized-Controlled Trial. BMC Psychology 13, 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02233-3. SJR Q1.
Chen, K. (2018) "Ideologies of Language Standardization: The case of Cantonese in Hong Kong" In James Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. UK: Oxford University Press.
Kang, A. and Chen, K. (2017) “Gender stereotype as a vehicle for social change? The case of the Kong Girl”. Journal of Gender and Language (Journal of the International Gender and Language Association). 2017, Vol 11, no.4, pp.460-481. USA: Equinox Publishing. SJR Q1.
Chu, S., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., et al. (2017) "The effectiveness of wikis for project-based learning in different disciplines in higher education". The Internet and Higher Education. Vol 33, pp. 49-60. The Netherlands: Elsevier. SJR Q1.
Chen, K. (2016) "The transnational journey and multilingual repertoire of an Indonesian Chinese couple in Hong Kong: the story of one family, three places, and multiple languages” In Li Wei (ed.) Multilingualism and the Chinese diaspora. pp.237-254. Routledge Critical Studies of Multilingualism. UK: Routledge.
Chen, K. (2015) “Styling bilinguals: Analyzing structurally distinctive code-switching styles in Hong Kong” In Gerald Stell and Kofi Yakpo (eds.) Code-switching between structural and socio-linguistic perspectives. pp.163-183. Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.
Chen, K. and Kang, M.A. (2015) “Demeanor indexicals, interpretive discourses and the “Kong Girl” stereotype: Constructing gender ideologies in social media”. The Journal of Language and Sexuality. Issue 4:2. pp. 193-222. USA: John Benjamins Publishing Company. SJR Q1.
Kang, A. and Chen, K. (2014) “Stancetaking and the Hong Kong Girl in a shifting heterosexual marketplace”. Sage: Discourse & Society. 25(2) pp. 205-220. SJR Q1.
Chen, K (2009) “The Academic Debate on the Standardisation of Cantonese” in Kingsley Bolton and Han Yang (eds.). Language in Society in Hong Kong. pp. 137-154. The Open University of Hong Kong Press.
Chen, K (2008) “Positioning and Repositioning: Identity Negotiation of Overseas Returning Bilinguals in Hong Kong” Multilingua. Vol 27, Issue 1-2, pp. 57-75. Walter de Gruyter. SJR Q1.
Chen, K. and Carper, G. (2017, 2005) Multilingual Hong Kong: A Sociolinguistic Case Study of Code-Switching. Documentary film, 30 minutes. USA: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Chen, K. (2017) Multilingual Hong Kong: Coming home as a stranger. Documentary film, 8 minutes. English and Cantonese, with English subtitles.
Chen, K. (2018) Multilingual Hong Kong Corpus. Hong Kong Cantonese-English-Putonghua multilingual adult spontaneous speech corpus. 100,000 words, audio recording synced with three-tier transcription and translation in ELAN format. GRF-funded.