Past ACCFs

Director, Social Sciences Research Centre, University of Hong Kong

Professor John Bacon-Shone has taught at The University of Hong Kong for 27 years. He has been Director of the Social Sciences Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) since 1990. He is an applied statistician by training and was the Dean of Social Sciences in HKU from 1990-1996 and is currently also Associate Dean (Research) and Acting Director of the Centre for Criminology. From 1998-2001 he was seconded to the Central Policy Unit, the HKSARG internal think tank, where he worked on a range of policy issues including population, gambling, environment, public opinion and technology. He has been a member of the Law Reform Commission since 2002 and was a member of the LRC privacy subcommittee from 1990-2006, and chairman of the subcommittee from 2002-2006.

He has worked with many market research companies in Hong Kong and Asia on sampling and survey methodology problems and wrote a statistical package for market research companies. He was responsible for introducing Computer-Aided Telephone Interviewing (CATI) systems to Hong Kong.

His research interests including statistical computing, survey methodology, compositional data, privacy, biostatistics, gambling, data archiving, crime statistics and policy research.

He is currently overseeing the fieldwork for three crime surveys in Hong Kong that follow UN protocols: the International Crimes Against Business survey, the International Violence Against Women survey and the International Crime and Victimisation Survey and for a survey of transport use by the disabled for Health, Welfare and Food Bureau.