The Research Grants Council (RGC) has announced the 2022-2023 results of the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS). A funding of HK$8.377 million in total has been granted to 16 research projects of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS).
CityU ranked second among all local tertiary institutions in term of the overall success rate of the GRF proposals. Social and Behavioural Science subject disciplines ranked top 3 in term of the success rate of the GRF proposals submitted by CityU.
On ECS grants, CityU ranked top for funding in the subject discipline Psychology and Linguistics in terms of the number of grants, amount of funding, and the success rate of the ECS proposals submitted.
Details of the funded CLASS research projects are as follows:
| Dept | Scheme | PI | Title |
| AIS | GRF | Dr Linda TJIA | Learning soft power: Chinese and Japanese aid projects in Mongolia |
| CAH | GRF | Dr CUI Wendong | Genre Reconfiguration and Cultural Production: The Making of Critical Biographies in China, 1902–1919 |
| CAH | GRF | Dr TSUI Lik-hang | An Analytical History of the Early Years of Digitising Chinese Historical Sources (1980‐2009): The View from Five Foundational Database Projects |
| CAH | GRF | Dr ZHANG Wanmin | 宋代《詩經》比興詮釋中的鳥獸草木知識 |
| COM | GRF | Dr Nancy DAI | Mitigating Prejudice toward South and Southeast Asian Immigrants in Hong Kong: A Mixed‐Method Investigation of the What, How, and If |
| EN | GRF | Dr Eric Peter SANDBERG | Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Tropes, and the Representation of Second World War‐Era Atrocities |
| EN | ECS | Dr LAN Ge | Grammatical complexity in discipline‐specific student writing: Writing development, writing quality, and functional description |
| EN | ECS | Dr Esterina NERVINO | Mapping sustainability in the luxury sector: A social semiotic analysis of environmental, social and governance multimodal discourse |
| LT | GRF | Dr Lydia CATEDRAL | Caring transnationally: A spatiotemporal model of moral discourse and action |
| LT | ECS | Dr MAI Ziyin | Input and caretaker proficiency in early bilingual development: mothers, helpers and toddlers |
| POL | GRF | Dr LIU Ning | Hidden User Influence, Disruptive Technologies, and Service Quality of Third‐Party Professionals: Experimental Evidence from Public Legal E‐Services |
| POL | GRF | Prof WANG Xiaohu | The Influence of System Context on Collaborative Actions |
| SS | GRF | Prof Sylvia KWOK LAI Yuk-ching | Examining the effectiveness of Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (NECT) and Enhanced Wellfocus Positive Psychotherapy for the people with schizophrenia |
| SS | GRF | Dr Eileen TSANG Yuk-ha | When a Professor Becomes a Predator: Sexual Harassment, Symbolic Power, and Students’ Empowerment in China |
| SS | GRF | Dr TSE Chun-yu | A Generic Fronto‐sensory Cortical Brain Network in Prediction Violation: A Simultaneous Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Event‐related Optical Signal Study on Pre‐attentive Change Detection |
| SS | GRF | Dr Dannii YEUNG Yuen-lan | Retirement planning: Feeling closer and doing more for our future-selves |
The funding results are encouraging to CLASS faculty members. It also reflects that both senior and junior academics of CLASS have been striving for continuous improvement in education and research. Their research projects will provide insightful solutions and ideas for knowledge enhancement and contribute various benefits to mankind.
