何式凝，香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系教授，研究領域涵蓋男同性戀、女性情慾和多元關係等課題，致力拓展對於情慾和親密關係中對正義的理解以及社會運動如何重塑個人與家庭。 何教授是中港兩地少有的性別及性慾研究專家，與曾家達合著，「由香港大學出版社與中國社會科學出版社合作出版」的Sex and Desire in Hong Kong和《情慾、倫理與權力：香港兩性問題報告》 ( 2012)。繁體字版為《從情慾、倫理與權力看香港的兩性問題》(2013) 。 2007年開始藝術發展，發表紀錄片《香港廿二春：師奶列傳》、《半世紀茶跡》、《愛與罰》、《港佬列傳》。2013年創作並主演多媒體劇場《何式性望愛》，同年出版自傳 《我係何式凝，今年五十五歲》。 雨傘運動後出版《抗命時代的日常》，與未來民主大學合著《雨傘政治四重奏》，2016年創作並主演《辛苦女協作劇場》, 希望重新思考個人與群體的關係, 把女性的經歷寫進歷史。何教授還認真學習跳芭蕾舞，58歲時考獲皇家芭蕾舞8級。
Petula, Sik Ying HO is Professor in the Department of Social Work & Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. She is at the forefront of gender and sexuality, qualitative research and cross-cultural comparative studies. Her work has centred on identifying injustice and discrimination, whether hidden or evident, in different aspects of social life and she is keen to produce research that challenges dominant ideas through new theoretical lens and innovative research methodologies. Her recent work include, Love and Desire in Hong Kong, co-edited with Ka Tat Tsang. She is also author of I am Ho Sik Ying, 55 years old (2013), Everyday Life in the Age of Resistance (2015), and co-author of Umbrella Politics Quartet (2015). Her research projects include using documentary films to explore the integration of arts and scholarship. They include: 22 Springs: The Invincible (2010); The “Kong-lo” Chronicles and The Umbrella Movement: A Collaborative Focus group Analysis” (2016). Her research based multi- media theatre “Sex Love and Hope: Ho Style (2013) and “Labouring Women Devised Theatre” (2016) call for the imagination of new modalities of social action beyond those that are historically recognized or culturally sanctioned as being “political” to include various forms of cultural interventions.
