COMMITTEE

Office bearers

Secretary - Dr Norman Stockman

Senior Lecturer (Emeritus)

The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science

Department of Sociology

Edward Wright Building,
Kings College Campus

E-mail n.stockman@abdn.ac.uk

Norman Stockman is one of the few British sociologists with a specialised interest in China. He has worked with Chinese sociologists on several collaborative research projects. These include a comparative study of women’s work and family life in China, Japan, Britain and the USA, and a project on rural-urban migration in Shanghai. He has also written on social inequality in China, and is the author of Understanding Chinese Society, a general survey of the sociology of Chinese society. Now retired, his teaching included a fourth-year option course on Chinese Society. From 2000 to 2005 he contributed to the postgraduate course leading to the Master of Chinese Studies at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. He is Honorary President of the University of Aberdeen Chinese Studies Group, and served as Honorary Secretary of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) from September 2005 to September 2011.

Chairman - Dr Martin Mills

 Senior Lecturer

The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science 

 Department of Anthropology,
G1 Edward Wright Building,
Kings College Campus

Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272622
 E-mail: m.a.mills@abdn.ac.uk   
  
Dr. Martin A. Mills is Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and co-founder of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. Author of Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism (Routledge 2003), his principal research focus is the anthropological study of Tibetan communities, in particular its religious and governmental institutions. Over the last twenty years, he has carried out fieldwork in Tibet, Ladakh, China, Northern India and Scotland.

 

Honarary President - Sandy Hamilton

Sandy retired to his wife Jean’s home city of Aberdeen after a period of about 19 years in Hong Kong where he lived and worked as a civil engineer and a practising arbitrator.  In addition, he has visited China, Taiwan, Singapore or Malaysia more than 40 times in a period of over 35 years.  He is a Life Member of the Royal AsiaticSociety Hong Kong Branch and a member of its Friends inthe UK.  Sandy has served as  Chairman and Treasurer of the Chinese Studies Group.

 

Treasurer - Tina Stockman

Educationalist

E-mail pentameter.tina@googlemail.com

Tina Stockman has spent most of her adult life in Aberdeen, working very happily as a secondary school teacher. Her professional areas of interest include fine art, graphic design, media studies and teenage angst! She regularly publishes articles in educational journals and papers mainly on issues concerning Scottish secondary education. Her interest in China lies mainly in the field of the arts, particularly film and theatre. From 2011 she has managed the group's publicity, communication and website.

 

Committee Members

Judith Thrower

Jim Suttie

Dr Isabella Jackson