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PIA Newsletter

We congratulate our awarded Principal Investigators: Professor Jun ZHANG, Professor Mark THOMPSON, Professor Richard WALKER, Professor Wanyang HU and Professor Bert GEORGE on their remarkable accomplishments, and look forward to their publications and contributions to society.

RGC – General Research Fund (GRF) / Early Career Scheme (ECS) / Humanities Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
Principal Investigator Project Title Grant Awarded
Professor Jun ZHANG An ethnographic, processual study of  platformized lives: WeChat in China as a case study $      1,158,890
Professor Mark THOMPSON Competing Nostalgias: The Rise of the Marcos “Golden Age” and the Decline of the EDSA "People Power" Narrative in the Philippines $      756,052
Professor Richard WALKER Management Innovation in Public Service Organizations: Adoption, Implementation and Performance $      570,941
Professor Wanyang HU “This is not what I imagined!”— The role of unmet expectations in repeat migration $      558,052
Professor Bert GEORGE Burdening our brain? Neurological effects of administrative burden $      431,500