Projects
Ongoing Projects
| Funding Scheme | Department Contact (position) | Project Title | Project Code | Amount (HKD) | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FDS | WONG Muk-yan (PI) | The Role of Pride and Shame in the Susceptibility to Misinformation in Social Movements | UGC/FDS14/H13/24 | $306,000 | 2024-2025 |
| FDS | KWONG Ying Ho (PI) | Local E-government Performance, Data Openness, and City Competitiveness: Application of Local Online Service Index in the Greater China Region | UGC/FDS14/H09/24 | $451,245 | 2024-2025 |
| FDS | LI Man-kong (PI) | In Search of Property-Owning Democracy: The Idea of Predistribution in Adam Smith’s and J.S. Mill’s works | UGC/FDS14/H10/24 | $481,260 | 2024-2026 |
| FDS | NGAN Lucille Lok Sun (PI) | Transnational Ageing and Family Processes among Elderly Hong Kong Parents | UGC/FDS14/H15/22 | $883,818 | 2023/01 – 2026/06 |
| FDS | Gary Tang (PI) | An Exploration of Civic Resilience of Hong Kong’s Citizens and Society in Times of Political Change | UGC/FDS14/H15/23 | $1,000,002 | 2024-2025 |
| FDS | Joseph Li (PI) | Cultural Exchanges in the Cold War: Visiting Tours and Affective Connections in Sinophone Asia (1950s-1980s) | UGC/FDS14/H08/21 | $917,455 | 2022/01 – 2024/12 |
| FDS | Gary Tang (PI) | What is the Role of Internet Memes in Political Discussion? | UGC/FDS14/H12/21 | $1,060,975 | 2022/01 – 2024/12 |
| IIDS | Chris Li (PI) | Food Security and Justice amid Geopolitical Challenges in a Polarizing World | UGC/IIDS14/H02/23 | $356,589 | 2024/01 – 2024/12 |
Past Projects
| Funding Scheme | Department Contact (position) | Project Title | Project Code | Amount (HKD) | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPRFS | Lucille Ngan (Co-I) | Educational Experiences, Family Relationships and Sense of Belonging: Cross-border Primary School Children Commuters. | HKIEd8003-PPR-11 | $540,744 | 2012/01 – 2013/09 |
| FDS | Lucille Ngan (PI) | Early Fatherhood among Returnees in Hong Kong: Spousal Relations, Child-rearing and Work | UGC/FDS14/H09/14 | $660,526 | 2015/03 – 2018/08 |
| Lord Wilson Heritage Trust | Rami Chan (Co-I) | Farewell and Solace: A Pictorial Account of Hong Kong Chinese Funeral Rituals | $98,000 | 2017/04 – 2018/07 | |
| Funded by Tate’s Cairn Tunnel Co. Ltd. | Rami Chan (PI) & Joe Poon (Co-Is) | Tate’s Cairn Tunnel 30th Anniversary Research and Publication Project | $300,000 | 2017/06 – 2018/03 | |
| IIDS | Dr Eva HUNG PI | Shadow Silk Road: Non-state Flow of Commodity, Capital, and People Across Eurasia | UGC/IIDS14/H01/16 | $433,650 | 2017/01 – 2017/12 |
| FDS | Dr Eva HUNG PI | The Politics of Gateway: Checkpoint, Brokerage, and Negotiated Crossing | UGC/FDS14/H09/17 | $1,028,660 | 2018/01 – 2020/12 |
| IDS | Prof. KAO Lang Project Leader | Centre for Greater China Studies for the Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities and Social Science | UGC/IDS14/17 | $7,403,799 | 2018/01 – 2020/12 |
| QESS | Dr Michael CHAN Team member | Integrating Service Learning into Classroom Learning | $2,027,167 | 2018 – 2020 | |
| FDS | Lucille Ngan (PI) | Trajectories, Strategies, Practices of Second-generation Hong Kong Transnational Families | UGC/FDS14/H06/18 | $1,012,330 | 2019/01 – 2022/06 |
| QESS | Rami Chan (Project Coordinator) | Establishing the Centre for Asian Languages and Cultures (CALC) at HSUHK | $1,890,000 | 2020-2022 | |
| FDS | WONG Muk-yan | A Temporal Relationship Theory for the Justification of Love | UGC/FDS14/H11/20 | $262,300 | 2021-2022 |
| PICO | Rami Chan (PI) Lucille Ngan (Co-I) | Expatriates and Overseas Returnees’ Perceptions and Reactions towards recent Social Incidents in Hong Kong and their Migratory Plans | SR2020.B12.005 | $234,832 | 2020/04 – 2020/09 |
| IIDS | Victor Chan (PI) | Heritage Conservation along the Belt and Road Zones: Between Politics and Professionalism | UGC/IIDS14/H03/19 | $301,975 | 2020/01 – 2021/06 |
| The Chinese Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong | Eva Hung (PI) Gary Tang (Co-I) | The Situation of Women in the Business Sector 2019 | $200,000 | 2019/08 – 2019/11 | |
| FDS | Gary Tang (PI) | How Does Use of Social Media Affect Public Trust in Police | UGC/FDS14/H11/19 | $603,068 | 2020 – 2021 |
| PICO | Gary Tang (PI) | Examining ‘Mutual Destruction’ (“Larm-Chow”) Discourse in the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement | SR2020.B12.002 | $346,725 | 2020/03 – 2020/10 |
| PICO | Lucille Ngan (Co-I) | Expatriates and Overseas Returnees: Perceptions and Reactions towards Recent Social Incidents in Hong Kong and their Migratory Plans. | SR2020.B12.005 | $234,832 | 2020 |
| PICO | Gary Tang (Co-I) | Police Oversight: International Debates and Exploration of an Appropriate Mechanism for Hong Kong | SR2020.A5.023 | $368,920 | 2020/03 – 2020/10 |
| PICO | Gary Tang (Co-I) | Ripple Effects of Social Movements: Initial Biographical Consequences of Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement | SR2020.A3.006 | $435,850 | 2020/03 – 2020/10 |
| PICO | Gary Tang (Co-I) | Loss of Innocence: Participation of Secondary School Students in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement | SR2020.A3.007 | $143,750 | 2020/03 – 2020/10 |
| CUHK Direct Grant | Gary Tang (Co-I) | Cultural Imagination of Investment and Home-buying under Real-estate- centric Financialization: A Follow-up Study | $50,000 | 2019/07 – 2020/03 | |
| FDS | Gary Tang (PI) | The Impact of the Anti- Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement on Conception of Citizenship in Hong Kong | UGC/FDS14/H07/20 | $830,078 | 2021/01 – 2022/12 |
| IIDS | Shiru Wang (PI) | Innovative Survey and Big Data Approaches to Uprising Populism in the Asia-Pacific Region | UGC/IIDS14/H01/20 | $602,355 | 2021/01 – 2022/06 |
| FDS | Shiru Wang (PI) Gary Tang (Co-I) | Cyber State-Society Relations in China: The Dynamics of Patriotism and Nationalism on the Internet | UGC/FDS14/H10/19 | $1,117,821 | 2020/01 – 2023/06 |
| FDS | Chris LI (PI) | Exploring the Idea of Public Reason: Studying the Later Rawls’s Philosophy by the Archival Approach | UGC/FDS14/H12/20 | $891,385 | 2021/01 – 2024/06 |
Prizes & Awards
Dr NGAN Lok Sun Lucille
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) – Scholarship, founded by the Australian Federal Government, designed to support postgraduate research training, which was awarded to students of “exceptional research potential”. | 2004-2007 |
| The Academy of Hong Kong Studies Award – Outstanding Paper Award for Hong Kong Studies in 2017/2018 [The paper entitled “Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students” was recommended as one of the outstanding papers for 2017/2018.] | 2017/2018 |
| Emerald Literati Network Awards – 2018 Highly Commended Award [The paper entitled, “‘Border’ matters in discussions of cross-border students”, was selected as one of the best papers of the year.] | 2018 |
Dr TANG Kin Yat Gary
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| Top Paper Award, Political Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference | 2023 |
| Social Movement Studies Journal’s 2022 Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize – Honorable Mentioning. | |
| Top Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference | 2013 |
Dr WONG Muk Yan
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| HSUHK Teaching Excellence Award | 2019 |
Dr YU Lai Hang James
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| The Best Paper of the Year Award, Social Service Review (ISSN: 0037-7961) | 2015 |
Dr CHAN Chi Ming Victor
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| HSUHK Teaching Excellence Award | 2023 |
Dr LIE Kin Pou Leo
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| Dean’s Honour List, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong | |
| Sir Edward Youde Memorial Prize, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund |
Dr CHAN Hin Yeung Rami
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| Full Postgraduate Studentship (PhD). Lingnan University, Hong Kong | 2010 – 2013 |
Dr CHAN Wing Ho Michael
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| HSMC Teaching Excellence Award | 2016 |
Dr Li Cho Kiu Joseph
| Prize/Award Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (PF15-12326). Award: HK$720,000. | 2019 |
| Global Humanities Junior Fellowship. Principles of Cultural Dynamics, The Free University of Berlin. | 2018 |
| Research Fellowship. National University of Singapore. | 2010 – 2014 |
Community Engagement
Dr NGAN Lok Sun Lucille
| Community Engagement | Dates |
|---|---|
| Transnational family migration from Hong Kong: The challenges and impacts 跨國香港家庭移民的挑戰與影響 -Erudition 2024 Issue 1 | 2024/05 |
| Bidding Farewell Again – The Staying and Leaving of Second-generation Hong Kong Transnational Families 二次告別－香港第二代跨國家庭的去與留 – Erudition Jan 2022 | 2022/01/31 |
| South China Morning Post ”The ‘split families’ who are leaving HK again” featuring Dr Ngan Lok Sun Lucille’s viewpoint on the trend of ‘reverse migration | 2021/09/18 |
| 信報月刊 《二次移民一去難復返 ——身份危機惡化、為下一代教育》引述觀點 | 2021/08/04 |
| Ming Pao’s Future City: Political Turmoil Coming Away? Gen Z may not be a joker (reporting on the Asian Studies course “Immigration! Where to go?” Seminars) | 2021/7/11 |
| South China Morning Post, “The long goodbye leaves elderly in despair”. | 2021/7/10 |
| Australian Consulate-General Hong Kong, “Migration trajectories and identities: Hong Kong returnees and long-settled ABC’s” | 2020/11/05 |
Dr Chan Chi Ming Victor
| Community Engagement | Dates |
|---|---|
| Hall Fellow, Y. P. Cai Hall, Hong Kong Baptist University |
Dr LI Man Kong Chris
| Community Engagement | Dates |
|---|---|
| South China Morning Post “Letters: ESG evaluations of social impact must reflect reality on the ground.” | 2023/09/03 |
| 明報〈從ESG角度檢視領展社區投資〉 | 2023/06/30 |
| 信報財經月刊〈《國富論》旨在啟蒙 勿矯枉過正〉 | 2023 |
| 明報《全球風險愈不確定 退休保障可作危機儲備》 | 2022/01/31 |
Dr TANG Kin Yat Gary
Mr CHAN Chau
| Community Engagement | Dates |
|---|---|
| The main coordinator, in cooperation with Shiga University in Japan and the Education University of Hong Kong, launching the project named “Japan & HK Tsunagaru Design Forum 2023” (Topic: Thinking about new education in Asia). | 2023/02/18–2023/02/19 |
| Invited by Hong Kong College of Technology (HKCT), being an external examiner for Japanese-related modules offered by the Division of Languages and General Studies. | 2022-2024 |
| Guest speaker for the RTHK radio program “喜慶在心頭 Joy in my Heart”, sharing both classical and contemporary Japanese cultures to the public listeners. | 2020 |
| Guest speaker for the TV program “Joyous Alliance – Fun Facts About History 快樂童盟- 盞鬼教史” which produced by ViuTV, teaching classical Japanese history to Hong Kong students. | 2020 |
| In cooperation with the Consulate General of Japan in Hong Kong, helped to produce and dub famous Japanese folktales into Cantonese: i. 日本民間故事 -「紙芝居」畫劇系列①：桃太郎 ii. 日本民間故事 -「紙芝居」畫劇系列②：竹取物語 | 2020 |
| Invited by the Public Relations & Cultural Affairs Division, Consul General of Japan in Hong Kong (香港日本領事館廣報文化部), being a judge in a screening committee for the Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT，文部科学省奨学金) in 2018, 2021 and 2023 | 2018, 2021, 2023 |
Dr POON Kai Chung Joe
| Community Engagement | Dates |
|---|---|
| 明報《{鬼故達人}潘啟聰 出書分析鬼故點寫先得人驚》訪問 | 2021/10/31 |
| 星島教育《悅讀愈心慌》訪問 | 2021/10/29 |
| 香港佛教月刊《閱讀治療》訪問 | 2020/10/07 |
| 中華書局網上新書講座:「《鬼王廚房》——我做鬼也不會放過吃食的機會」 | 2020/07/25 |
Ms MO Lai Ching Jessica
| Community Engagement | Dates |
|---|---|
| 小跳豆月刊親子天地《激發幼兒對探索星空的好奇和興趣》 | 2023/08/01 |
Dr WONG Tai Tak Andy
| Community Engagement | Dates |
|---|---|
| Delivering a public lecture「生命と思想——ベルクソンの生の哲学とその東アジアにおける展開」(“Life and Thought: An Introduction to Bergson’s Biophilosophy and its development in East Asia”) at Sophia University in Japan. | 2023/06/21 |
| Deliveriing a philosophy course〈基督徒哲學〉(Christian Philosophy) at Holy Spirit Seminary College of Theology and Philosophy. | 2023/04/21–2023/05/19 |
| Delivering guest lectures in “PHIL 5340 Modern Western Philosophy: Philosophy and the Political” MA in Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. | 2019/09/07-2019/12/07 |
Research Output
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