The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is glad to announce that 14 of our research projects have secured a total funding of HK$6.977 million from the Research Grants Council's (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) for 2023-2024.
CityU has taken the lead among all local tertiary institutions, taking first place in the success rate of the ECS proposals in social and behavioural sciences and third in humanities and arts.
Details of the funded CLASS research projects are as follows:
Department
| Scheme
| Principal Investigator | Project Title
|
|---|
| Chinese and History | GRF | Prof LU Chia-hui | 善政與勝概:唐代亭記中的吏治與風景 |
Chinese and History
| GRF | Prof CHAN Hok-yin | 白話文在香港的初期發展史(1920-1935) |
| English | GRF | Prof Klaudia LEE Hiu-yen | Port Cities and Housing Stories: Built Forms, the Everyday and Urban Imaginaries, 1890-1965 |
| English | ECS | Prof Jerrine TAN Ee-wen | Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism in Transnational Asian Speculative Fiction |
| Public and International Affairs | GRF | Prof Daniel Christopher LYNCH | The Breakdown in Sino-US Relations, 2003-2023: Explaining PRC Dissatisfaction with the Power Transition Using STMs |
Public and International Affairs
| GRF | Prof KIM Sungmoon | Reconstructing a Confucian Kingdom: The Political and Legal Philosophy of Chŏng Yagyong |
Public and International Affairs
| GRF | Prof Renaud Charles Edouard EGRETEAU | Legislators as Foreign Policy Actors during Democratisation. Insights from Myanmar (2011-2021) |
Public and International Affairs
| GRF | Prof Bert GEORGE | The effect of red tape on emotions: A comparative replication study |
Public and International Affairs
| GRF | Prof WANG Jun | The geo-economic state space through transnational incubators: The politics of infrastructure |
Public and International Affairs
| GRF | Prof Nicolai PETROVSKY
| An Experimental Test of the Satisfaction Mirror between Frontline Public Servants and Citizens |
Public and International Affairs
| GRF | Prof Yanto CHANDRA | Understanding the Governance of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations as a Novel Organizational Form in the Blockchain Economy |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | GRF | Prof TSE Chun-yu | Illuminating the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Somatosensory Pre-attentive Change Detection Brain Networks with the Event-related Optical Signal (EROS) |
Social and Behavioural Sciences
| GRF | Prof Nancy YU Xiaonan | Dyadic coping and outcomes in couples facing chronic illness: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses |
Social and Behavioural Sciences
| ECS | Prof LU Shiyu | Voluntary work design, volunteer engagement and healthy aging in later life: A mixed method study |
The funding results demonstrated the CLASS faculty members' tireless pursuit of excellence in higher education and research. The research endeavours, powered by both seasoned and up-and-coming academics, are poised to uncover cutting-edge insights and bring manifold benefits to global and local communities.
