The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) of CityU is pleased to announce that a funding of HK$6.07 million in total has been granted under the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (Special Round), launched by the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office of the HKSAR Government, to 16 projects proposed by CLASS.
Among all the institutions and think tanks which have made their applications for the funding, CityU has the highest number of projects awarded (18 out of 79) and all but two of the projects are from CLASS faculty members. Details of the projects are as follows:
| Dept | PI | Title |
| CAH | Dr CHAN Hok-yin | The Making of “Hongkongers”: A Study of Post-Secondary Students’ Collective Identity |
| COM | Dr Stella CHIA | Use Fact Checking to Reduce Misinformation, Misperception and Rebuild Social Trust |
| COM | Dr Tetsuro KOBAYASHI | Where is Halfway? Identifying the Common Policy Ground and its Effects on Attitudinal Change among Hong Kong Citizens |
| COM | Dr SHEN Fei | How to Reduce Political Polarization Hong Kong? A Pilot Experiment of Deliberation |
| POL | Dr Edmund CHENG Wai
| The Socioeconomic and Political Origins of the Hong Kong Protests |
| POL | Dr Bill TAYLOR | New Unions as Old Binaries or New Directions |
| POL | Prof RayYEP Kin-man
| Radicalization of the Educated: Moving Towards Extremism? |
| POL | Prof Richard M WALKER | Knowledge Illusion, Community of Knowledge and Citizens’ Extreme Attitudes in Politics and Public Policy |
| SS | Dr Oliver CHAN Heng-choon
| Exploratory Study of Attitudes toward Violence among Hong Kong People |
| SS | Dr Jacky CHEUNG Chau-kiu | Removing Radicalism through Deradicalization Engagements among Youth |
| SS | Prof CHUI Wing-hong | (Non-)Violence in the Name of …? Exploring Protester-Police Conflicts during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement with the Elaborated Social Identity Model |
| SS | Dr Annis FUNG Lai-chu
| The Underlying Causes and Characteristics of Aggression and Victimisation among Participants in the Recent Social incidents |
| SS | Dr KWAN Chi-kin | Psychosocial Investigation of Youth Unrest in Hong Kong |
| SS | Dr Eileen
TSANG Yuk-ha
| The Home as a Barometer of Society: 'Practices of Intimacy' to Moderate Family Intergenerational Conflict in Anti-Extradition Law Protests in Hong Kong |
| SS | Dr YUE Xiaodong | Enhancing Compatibility between National and Local Identities for Hong Kong Youth: Survey Studies and Policy Recommendations for Social reconciliation strategies |
| SS | Dr Andrew LOW Yiu-tsang | Adolescents’ Voices Are Heard: Conflict Resolution Strategies and Preferred Parenting Style of Hong Kong Chinese Adolescents to Resolve Parent-Adolescent Conflicts in the Current Social Situation |
(updated as of 8 April 2020)
It is believed that CLASS faculty members will continue striving for academic and research excellence. They will keep gearing the research standards to new heights and contributing their knowledge for the betterment of society.
