Professor Adrian Bailey received his PhD degree in 1989 from Indiana University, USA and then joined Dartmouth College, USA as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1995. He moved to the University of Leeds UK in 1999 as Senior Lecturer and was promoted to Reader in 2004 and Professor of Migration Studies in 2007. In 2010 he joined Hong Kong Baptist University as Professor of Geography and Dean of Social Sciences, being promoted to Chair Professor in 2011. In 2020 he moved to Chinese mainland as Associate Vice President for Internationalization and Dean of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at HKBU-BNU United International College.
Professor Bailey’s research is on transnationalism, migration, and lifecourse theory. He has conducted a wide range of quantitative, qualitative, and ethnographic research in diverse field settings that include the US, Mexico, El Salvador, the UK, the Netherlands, Czechia, Italy, Georgia, Moldova, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and China.
The Awards and Honours received include election as Fellow (Academician) of National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies, and Practitioners in the Social Sciences, UK (FAcSS) in 2013, election as Member of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the leading Geography Honors Society for undergraduate teaching in the USA in 2004, election as Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS, UK) in 2000, and the Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award, Indiana University, USA in 1989.
In addition to his scholarship, Professor Adrian Bailey has a wealth of experience in university administration at a senior level. He has served as Head of School or Dean since 1998 in the US, UK, Hong Kong SAR, and Chinese mainland, and as Acting Director of Center for Advancement of Social Science Research, Acting Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI), and Acting Provost at HKBU.
