The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) of CityU is pleased to announce the awardees of two CLASS awards of the academic year 2021-22.
The Knowledge Transfer Award is established to honour knowledge transfer projects of high social impact. Award-winning projects should demonstrate clear evidences on innovation, engagement or impact on the community. Details of this academic year's awardees and their projects are as follows:
| Award/Merit | Name of Awardee | Project Title |
| Excellence in Knowledge Transfer Award | Dr Annis FUNG Lai-chu (Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences) | Group Storytelling Intervention Based on Social Information Processing (SIP) Model to Reduce Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Young Schoolchildren |
| Certificate of Merit, Knowledge Transfer Award | Dr Nancy YU Xiaonan (Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences) | Promoting emotional resilience to prevent parent-child conflicts among newly arrived and cross-boundary families |
| Dr Edmund CHENG (Department of Public Policy) | Risk perceptions and social compliance during the pandemic: A cross-national panel study |
Meanwhile, Dr WEN Bo of the Department of Public Policy won the New Researcher Award. The objective of this award is to recognise research excellence at CLASS and only full-time faculty members who are within five years of the award of their PhD degrees are eligible for consideration.
The College would like to extend a huge congratulations to the awardees, and hope all faculty members will continue to strive for research excellence and contribute their knowledge for the betterment of society.
Cover photo: Congratulations to Dr Annis FUNG Lai-chu (Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences) (upper left), Dr Nancy YU Xiaonan (Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences) (bottom left), Dr Edmund CHENG (Department of Public Policy) (bottom middle) and Dr WEN Bo (Department of Public Policy) (bottom right).
