Three Faculty Members Awarded Funding by RGC General Research Fund 2026/27

09 Jul 2026 (Thu)

The Department of Media and Communication (COM) at City University is proud to share three faculty members have been awarded General Research Fund (GRF) grants for their research projects, totalling HK$1.72 million in funding.

PI	Project Title	Grant Awarded
Prof Yue (Nancy) Dai	Beyond Pity: Fostering Workplace Inclusion of People with Disabilities through Media-Based Intergroup Contact	$708,346
Prof Li Crystal Jiang	Resisting the Script: Narrative and Participatory Inoculation as Anti-Scam Interventions	$494,500
Prof Xinzhi Zhang	Why Robotic Journalists Backfire: How Authorship, Transparency, and Platform Reach Shape Bias Perceptions and Responses to AI-Synthesized News	$521,720

Congratulations to Prof. Dai, Prof. Jiang, and Prof. Zhang. We eagerly anticipate the results of your research.