Angus Chan contributes to the teaching of English Language and Linguistics and Language and Communication courses in the School. He is concurrently a Project Manager in the School and oversees the administrative and research functions of the HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (RIICH) . He read English Studies at the University of Hong Kong, during which period he was awarded a one-year visiting studentship to study 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), variationist sociolinguistics and World Englishes (especially in Asian contexts). Other areas of interest include discourse analysis and pragmatics.