Congratulations to the following awardees in securing research funding from RGC in 2024/25 Exercise:
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
|
Principal Investigator |
Scheme |
Project Title |
Fund Awarded ($) |
|
Dr Huijing LU |
HSSPFS |
Impact of Environmental Harshness and Unpredictability on Individual Development: A Comprehensive Analysis |
305,000 |
Early Career Schemes (ECS)
|
Principal Investigator |
Scheme |
Project Title |
Fund Awarded ($) |
|
Dr Vincent CHENG |
ECS |
Impact of Later Life Events on Criminal Trajectories Among Older Offenders in Hong Kong: A qualitative mixed-methods approach |
685,000 |
General Research Fund (GRF)
|
Principal Investigator |
Scheme |
Project Title |
Fund Awarded ($) |
|
Dr Julie ZHU |
GRF |
Parent–Adolescent Discrepancy in Perceived Parenting: Developmental Changes and Longitudinal Associations with Developmental Outcomes among Chinese Early Adolescents | 1,171,390 |
|
Dr Camilla LO |
GRF |
Efficacy of a mentalization-informed motivational interviewing group intervention for concerned significant others of adolescents at risk of gaming disorder: A randomized controlled trial | 1,106,500 |
|
Dr Xiang LI |
GRF |
Well-being of early career academics in Hong Kong: A longitudinal mixed methods study |
1,015,028 |
|
Prof. Xue BAI |
GRF |
Integrating Motivational Interviewing and Photovoice to Enhance Future Care Preparation for Older Singletons and Doubletons: A Three-Arm Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial | 1,107,212 |
|
Dr Bryant HUI |
GRF |
Prosociality as a Natural Sleeping Pill? Examining the Reciprocal Relationship between Acting Kindly and Sleeping Well |
976,776 |
|
Prof. Sylvia CHEN |
GRF |
Leveraging Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence to Foster Cooperative Behavior: A Game Theoretical Approach | 914,347 |
|
Dr Karita KAN |
GRF |
Frontiers of Rural-Urban Development: Land Politics and Agrarian Change in China | 748,000 |
|
Dr Catrina LIU |
GRF |
The Impact of Home Literacy Environment on Chinese Children’s English Reading Literacy in Economically Disadvantaged Areas: The Roles of Family Risk and Protective Profiles | 615,748 |
| Dr Iris LO |
GRF |
Does sexuality matter at work? A narrative enquiry into the negotiations between vocational identity and sexual identity among young LGB adults | 424,164 |
The total funding awarded in RGC GRF/ECS 2023/24 Exercise is $9,069,165
APSS houses a large group of interdisciplinary professorial and teaching staff in the social sciences in Hong Kong. Our colleagues include world-renowned scholars and veterans in their fields, as well as young, promising scholars with tremendous talent and passion. We are dedicated to advancing knowledge for effective and humanistic social policies and services through education and research excellence.
