The Department of Public and International Affairs  The Department of Public and International Affairs

Research Grants

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Title Principal Investigator Funder Amount (HK$) Year
Silent Victory: Transnational Redress Movement of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Dr Claudia KIM ECS $567,580 2021
How does Backsliding affect Pushback? Comparing Opposition to Autocratization in the Philippines and Thailand Prof Mark R THOMPSON GRF $831,799 2021
"Caring for carers": A study of the precarity-transnationality nexus in the life course of migrant domestic workers Dr Yuk Wah CHAN GRF $825,734 2021
Unhealthy Populism: COVID-19 in Southeast Asia Dr Diego FOSSATI GRF $1,200,155 2021
The meaning of democracy and democratic consolidation in Indonesia Dr Diego FOSSATI ECS $963,599 2020
How Small Cities Think: Knowledge Systems for Urban Climate Resilience in Thailand Dr Danny MARKS ECS $432,851 2020
The Political Economy of China’s involvements in Kazakhstan: state interests, social conflicts, and economic cooperation Dr Linda TJIA ECS $770,300 2020
Combining Citizenships: How Asia and Europe Intersect to Drive Global Investment Migration Dr Justin ROBERTSON GRF $687,540 2020
The Role of Cities and Provinces in China’s regional relations Dr Nicholas THOMAS GRF $948,230 2020
How Emotions and Networks Unfold in a 'Leaderless Movement'? Public Sentiments and Mobilizing Structure in Hong Kong Edmund CHENG GRF, Research Grants Council $867,000 2020
Anti-social Behavior and Social Disorganization in Housing Communities: A Spatial Multi-level Study in Hong Kong Simon Yau GRF, Research Grants Council $709,500 2020
Making it Real: Nudging Individuals' Risk Perception of Climate Change to Engage in Pro-environmental Behaviors Xiaoling ZHANG GRF, Research Grants Council $666,339 2020
The Role of Authoritative Imposition in Collaborative Actions: An Empirical Assessment of Procedural and Institutional Design Factors Xiaohu WANG GRF, Research Grants Council $446,000 2020
Publicness and Citizen' Attribution of Blame and Success to Politicians in Public Service Delivery: A Comparative Replication Study Richard WALKER GRF, Research Grants Council $573,706 2020
Does Pay for Performance Undermine Satisfaction from Public Service Work? Collecting Survey and Experimental Evidence Through “Full-Circle” Research Chih-Wei HSIEH GRF, Research Grants Council $618,300 2020
Public Health Measures and Crisis Management under COVID 19: A Panel Study in Hong Kong Edmund CHENG KTF, University Grants Commission $200,000 2020
Advancing Professional Development on Economic and Trade Cooperation Zones Along Belt and Road Linda LI PASS, Commerce and Economic Development Bureau $956,000 2020
Knowledge Illusion, Community of Knowledge and Citizens' Extreme Attitudes in Politics and Public Policy Richard WALKER PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $390,080 2020
The Socioeconomic and Political Origins of the Hong Kong Protests Edmund CHENG PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $412,850 2020
New Unions as Old Binaries or New Directions Bill W K TAYLOR PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $440,450 2020
Radicalization of the Educated: Moving Towards Extremism? Ray YEP PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $418,600 2020
Contingency and Political Responsibility in Korean Neo-confucianism Sungmoon KIM Academy of Korean Studies $156,350 2019
Demolish the walls, Rebuild the city: Infrastructural Transformation and the Emergence of Urban Governance in Republican Canton, China Dr Jun ZHANG ECS $957,369 2019
Governance by uncertainty: Assessing the impact of ad hoc enforcement in China Dr Denise VAN DER KAMP ECS $867,112 2019
Government-Sponsored Voluntary Environmental Programs and Firm Exits: A Longitudinal and Comparative Study Ning LIU ECS, Research Grants Council $513,195 2019
Cultivating Conservatives, Clandestinely: The Role of US Covert Action in Building Friendly Regimes in Japan and South Korea Dr Bradley WILLIAMS GRF $206,568 2019
Privatising Development? The International Finance Corporation's impact upon development in Asia Dr Toby CARROLL GRF $486,680 2019
Negotiating Parliamentary Control of the Armed Forces in Praetorian Regimes. Evidence from Myanmar Dr Renaud EGRETEAU GRF $870,344 2019
Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform era China Dr Jun ZHANG GRF $935,279 2019
Institutional Trust and Perceptions of Effectiveness in Corruption Prevention Ting GONG GRF, Research Grants Council $789,000 2019
Comparing State-Diaspora Relations: The Evolving Role of Chinese Hometown Associations in East and Southeast Asia Edmund CHENG GRF, Research Grants Council $875,920 2019
The Political Theory of Confucian Constitutionalism Sungmoon KIM GRF, Research Grants Council $470,000 2019
Blending Topic Modelling and Social Network Analysis: Big Data Analysis of the Hong Kong Protests Edmund CHENG Hong Kong Institute of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong $1,930,000 2019
Developing and Testing a Behavioral Theory of Performance Information Use for Hong Kong: Experimental Evidence on Cognitive Biases Richard WALKER PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $908,293 2019
Environmental Protests and Political Change in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Vietnam Dr Stephan ORTMANN ECS $944,552 2018
Silence Amidst Voices: An Ethnography of Everyday Politics in Hong Kong Edmund CHENG ECS, Research Grants Council $737,000 2018
Changing Patterns of Threat Securitization in Democratic Taiwan Prof Daniel LYNCH GRF $751,000 2018
Business, Human Rights and State Capacity to Regulate in Asia Bill TAYLOR GRF, Research Grants Council $509,440 2018
Contextualizing the 1967 Riots in Cold War Politics: The Roles of the United States and Taiwan in Shaping the Colony's Response to the Leftist Challenge Ray YEP GRF, Research Grants Council $500,000 2018
Attitudinal and Behavioral Consequences of Gendered Emotional Labor in Male- and Female-Dominated Professions: A Comparison between Police and Social Work in Two Cultural Contexts Chih-Wei HSIEH GRF, Research Grants Council $368,900 2018
Public administration research and real-world problems: Topic modelling the changing landscape Richard WALKER GRF, Research Grants Council $474,492 2018
Proper Incentives for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Local and International Study on the Divergent Models Ruiping FAN GRF, Research Grants Council $934,988 2018
Hong Kong Professional Services in the Co-evolving Belt-Road Initiative: Innovative Agency for Sustainable Development Linda LI HSSPFS, Research Grants Council $999,000 2018
Technological Innovation and Institutional Transformation: the Chinese Automotive Industry and Regional Development He WANG ECS, Research Grants Council $742,997 2017
The Rise of Illiberal Populist Rule in the Philippines Prof Mark R THOMPSON GRF $610,680 2017
Environmental Contention in China: Mapping its Evolution and Political Geography Wanxin LI GRF, Research Grants Council $830,476 2017
How Green Turns into Gold? Optimizing the Dual Effect of ‘Price Premium for Green’ and ‘Cost Premium for Green’ of HK-BEAM Plus Certified Housing Xiaoling ZHANG GRF, Research Grants Council $709,429 2017
The Quest for Joined-up Government: Structural Relationships and the Problem of "Silos" in Hong Kong Ting GONG GRF, Research Grants Council $429,000 2017
The Mechanisms of Performance in Social Enterprises Yanto CHANDRA GRF, Research Grants Council $387,765 2017
Business, Human Rights and State Capacity to Regulate in Asia Bill W K TAYLOR GRF, Research Grants Council $509,440 2017
The Quest for Joined-up Government: Structural Relationships and the Problem of Silos in Hong Kong Ting GONG GRF, Research Grants Council $450,450 2017
Hong Kong Professional Services in the Co-evolving Belt-Road Initiative: Innovative Agency for Sustainable Development Linda LI SPPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $3,400,000 2017
China's Alternative Public Sphere in the 20th Century Edmund CHENG Tremplin-ERC Fund, French National Research Agency $800,000 2017
"I Want this Place to Survive and Thrive" Territorialization, Moral Citizenship, and Mobile Cultural Workforce in China Jun WANG ECS, Research Grants Council $580,920 2016
Accommodating Global Finance: The Integration of Emerging Markets within the Offshore Economy Dr Justin ROBERTSON GRF $491,060 2016
Old Neighbourhoods, New Spaces: Urban Reconstruction and Governance in China’s Urbanization Dr Jun ZHANG GRF $611,180 2016
Hospital Autonomy in Vietnam Dr Jonathan LONDON GRF $478,700 2016
Local Actors, Institutions and Mechanisms: Unraveling Inter-governmental Dynamics of Climate Governance in China Dr Bo MIAO / Dr Justin ROBERTSON GRF $607,000 2016
The curvilinear link between environment strategies and financial performance in the real estate firms: beyond static dichotomy of allies or adversaries Xiaoling ZHANG GRF, Research Grants Council $576,075 2016
Outcomes of Urban Movements and Local Governance Bart WISSINK GRF, Research Grants Council $405,613 2016
An Empirical Study of Political Trust in Post-Occupy Hong Kong Edmund CHENG GRF, Research Grants Council $974,988 2016
Negotiating Autonomy: The MacLehose Era (1971-1982) and the Nature of Colonial Rule Ray YEP GRF, Research Grants Council $385,100 2016
The Evolution of Confucian Virtue Politics: From Mencius to Xunzi Sungmoon KIM GRF, Research Grants Council $151,800 2016
Organizational Design and Public Management: Extending the Experimental Methods Agenda Richard WALKER GRF, Research Grants Council $842,517 2016
A Tale of Three Cities: Public Attitudes towards Corruption and Anti-corruption Policy Ting GONG KTF, University Grants Commission $200,000 2016
World Values Survey Wave 7: Generating Data for Trust Maintenance, Repair, and Better Governance in Hong Kong Edmund CHENG PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $1,025,243 2016
The ‘Citizen Satisfaction Assessment Tool’: Applying Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory to Public Services in Hong Kong Richard WALKER PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $961,400 2016
Performance Information Use: Experiments on Performance Dimensions, Communication and Data Sources in Education and Solid Waste Recycling Richard WALKER PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $842,517 2016
Study on Factors Leading to the Development of Corruption-free Hong Kong Ting GONG The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Research Grant $498,884 2016
Workshop on "Asian Migration and Diasporas: Mobility, Diversity and Development" -- Expert Meeting and Book Series Launch, 2016 Dr Yuk Wah CHAN CCK $171,600 2015
A Comprehensive Test of Policy Innovation Theses: The Taiwanese Bookstart Program Richard WALKER Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation $544,810 2015
Improving Chinese Public Services: Theory and Empirical Evidence Richard WALKER Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation $132,600 2015
Willingness of Residents to Pay and Motivations for Reducing Household Carbon Emission at Community Levels in the Compact City of Hong Kong Xiaoling ZHANG ECF, HKSAR Government $450,600 2015
Muslim Voices in Buddhist Myanmar: A Comparative Study of Indo and Sino-Burmese Islam Dr Thomas PATTON ECS $468,000 2015
Does Corporate Nationality Still Matter in the Era of Globalization? Investigating Ownership and Power in the Twenty-First Century Dr Sean STARRS ECS $998,040 2015
China and the Caribbean in the 21st century Dr Ruben GONZALEZ VICENTE / Dr Justin ROBERTSON GRF $664,200 2015
The Rise and Decline of Thailands Royalist Order: A Study in the (De-)Legitimation of Power Dr Federico FERRARA GRF $295,600 2015
Neighbourhood in an Increasingly Mobile Society Ngai Ming YIP GRF, Research Grants Council $927,500 2015
Evaluating the Performance of Property Management Agents in Apartment Buildings in Hong Kong Simon Yau GRF, Research Grants Council $462,793 2015
Institutional Development and Budgetary Decision Making - the Case of Hong Kong Xiaohu WANG GRF, Research Grants Council $363,494 2015
Exploration and Evaluation of Policy options for Tackling the Illegal Subdivided Unit Problem in Hong Kong Simon YAU PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $212,175 2015
Sustainability and Social Mobility in Professional Services: A Case Study of Accounting Profession in Hong Kong Linda LI PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office $548,775 2015
Anatomy of a "Friendly Spy": Japan and Intra-alliance Intelligence with the United States Dr Bradley WILLIAMS ECS $766,775 2014
The Unnamable Archipelago: Insular Readings in Contemporary Japanese Literature Dr Dennitza GABRAKOVA GRF $70,000 2014
Environmental information transparency in China: Analysing individual, organizational and regional disparities in supply and demand Wanxin LI GRF, Research Grants Council $569,600 2014
Tripartite Efficacy Beliefs, Institutional Settings and Collectivism in Multi-owned Housing Governance in Hong Kong and Macau Simon Yau GRF, Research Grants Council $368,700 2014
Public Perceptions of Corruption in Hong Kong Ting GONG GRF, Research Grants Council $663,500 2014
Democratic Perfectionism: Liberal and Confucian Perspective Sungmoon KIM GRF, Research Grants Council $154,000 2014
Institutional Policy and Practice of Student Intellectual Property Management in Hong Kong Higher Education PJ IVANHOE UGC/EDB 70%; CityU 30% $280,000 2014
Religious Minorities in Asia: Assessing Legal and Social Approaches to Diversity Dr Chiara FORMICHI ECS $379,000 2013
Alpha territoriality in Hong Kong and London: The socio-economic implications of transnational real estate investment by the super-rich Bart WISSINK, Co-I: Ray ESRC/RGC Joint Research Scheme, Research Grants Council $350,000 2013
Madness and Mental Illness in Chinese Literature: A Contribution to Cross-Cultural Medical Humanities Dr Birgit LINDER GRF $308,000 2013
Democracy and its Discontents in Southeast Asia Prof Mark R THOMPSON (Principal) & Prof William CASE (Associate) GRF $853,920 2013
Asian Diseases in International Affairs Dr Nicholas THOMAS GRF $959,800 2013
Elevating the Peasants: Spatial Realignment, Property Rights and Local Accountability in Rural China Ray YEP GRF, Research Grants Council $804,818 2013
Making cultural cities in China: policy mobility, assemblage and mutations Jun WANG GRF, Research Grants Council $560,600 2013
Publicness: A Comprehensive Survey of Managerial and Organizational Antecedents in Hong Kong Richard WALKER GRF, Research Grants Council $684,454 2013
Eastern and Western Conceptions of Oneness, Virtue, and Human Happiness PJ IVANHOE John Templeton Foundation $2,517,846 2013
The Significance of Taiwan's Subnational Relations with Japan Dr Nicholas THOMAS (Principal) & Dr Bradley WILLIAMS (Associate) CCK $609,021 2012
Regional Organizations and Responses to the Global Financial Crisis in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia Prof Paul CAMMACK GRF $477,654 2012
Chinese or Vietnamese? The Chinese Vietnamese Diaspora in Vietnam Dr Yuk Wah CHAN CCK $100,104 2010
The Political Economy of Rice: A Comparative Analysis of the Success and Failure of the Green Revolution in Southeast Asian Countries Dr Yin Hlaing KYAW GRF $461,756 2010
Gender, Ethnic Culture, and Household Decision-Making in Urban China Prof Xiaowei ZANG GRF $686,424 2008
Executive Accountability under Authoritarian Rule: The Role of Southeast Asia's Legislatures Prof William CASE GRF $530,544 2008
TOTAL: $68,012,032