Angus Chan tutors courses in English Language and Linguistics and Language and Communication. He read English Studies at HKU, and was a visiting student in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. His teaching and research interests centre broadly on sociolinguistics, with particular foci in historical sociolinguistics (from the eighteenth century to the present day), lexical sociolinguistics and World Englishes (especially in East Asian contexts). He also has research interests in (multimodal) discourse analysis and linguistic (im)politeness, focusing particularly on genres of mass and professional communication. From 2022 to 2024, he served as a Research Assistant and, latterly, a Project Manager for the HKU Research Impact and Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (RIICH), where he provided administrative and research support for two government-funded research projects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university graduates’ transitions to the (post-pandemic) workforce in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. He remains an Affiliated Researcher with HKU RIICH.