Research Grants/ Projects

Principal Investigator Title Funder Amount Year
Edmund CHENG Public Health Measures and Crisis Management under COVID 19: A Panel Study in Hong Kong KTF, University Grants Commission HKD$200,000 2020
Edmund CHENG The Socioeconomic and Political Origins of the Hong Kong Protests PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office HKD$412,850 2020
Bill W K TAYLOR New Unions as Old Binaries or New Directions PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office HKD$440,450 2020
Ray YEP Radicalization of the Educated: Moving Towards Extremism? PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office HKD$418,600 2020
Edmund CHENG How Emotions and Networks Unfold in a 'Leaderless Movement'? Public Sentiments and Mobilizing Structure in Hong Kong GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$867,000 2020
Ting GONG Institutional Trust and Perceptions of Effectiveness in Corruption Prevention GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$789,000 2019
Edmund CHENG Comparing State-Diaspora Relations: The Evolving Role of Chinese Hometown Associations in East and Southeast Asia GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$875,920 2019
Edmund CHENG Blending Topic Modelling and Social Network Analysis: Big Data Analysis of the Hong Kong Protests Hong Kong Institute of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong HKD$1,930,000 2019
Ray YEP 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 GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$500,000 2018
Edmund CHENG Silence Amidst Voices: An Ethnography of Everyday Politics in Hong Kong ECS, Research Grants Council HKD$737,000 2018
Bill TAYLOR Business, Human Rights and State Capacity to Regulate in Asia GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$509,440 2018
Ting GONG The Quest for Joined-up Government: Structural Relationships and the Problem of "Silos" in Hong Kong GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$429,000 2017
Edmund CHENG China's Alternative Public Sphere in the 20th Century Tremplin-ERC Fund, French National Research Agency EUR$99,997 2017
Edmund CHENG An Empirical Study of Political Trust in Post-Occupy Hong Kong GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$974,988 2016
Ray YEP Negotiating Autonomy: The MacLehose Era (1971-1982) and the Nature of Colonial Rule GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$385,100 2016
Edmund CHENG World Values Survey Wave 7: Generating Data for Trust Maintenance, Repair, and Better Governance in Hong Kong PPR, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office HKD$1,025,243 2016
Ting GONG Study on Factors Leading to the Development of Corruption-free Hong Kong The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Research Grant HKD$498,884 2016
Ting GONG A Tale of Three Cities: Public Attitudes towards Corruption and Anti-corruption Policy KTF, University Grants Commission HKD$200,000 2016
Ting GONG Public Perceptions of Corruption in Hong Kong GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$663,500 2014
Ray YEP Elevating the Peasants: Spatial Realignment, Property Rights and Local Accountability in Rural China GRF, Research Grants Council HKD$804,818 2013