ABOUT US
Deputy Co-ordinator: Prof. Chan, Ching-Kiu Stephen
As a Programme within the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, the mission of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme (KFCRD) is to develop international cultural research networks based at Lingnan University and to link these to training and development projects involving cultural industry and community groups, policy-makers, managers, teachers and students in Hong Kong.
The liberal arts mission of "preparation for life" today means educating students for creativity and innovation in their professional as well as personal lives, and therefore staying in touch with community and industry needs. Using a collaboration-based model of "applied Humanities research", the KFCRD mobilises international research expertise to address cultural development issues vital to Hong Kong, and to identify effective ways of investing locally in cultural and heritage education to meet the needs of the wider Hong Kong community in the 21st century.
The goals of the KFCRD are:
- to generate new knowledge of the international and local dimensions of cultural life around the East Asian region from the unique position of the HKSAR
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to undertake collaborative cultural research projects of regional and global importance and foster new partnerships
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to bring creative cultural research to bear on the needs of business, cultural policy-makers, teachers and community groups in Hong Kong
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to develop new approaches to undergraduate and community education as well as postgraduate research training
In 2003-2008, KFCRD development activities are focussed on three research clusters:
Members of International Advisory Board for KFCRD PROGRAMME , 2006-2009
- Prof. Ien Ang: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia
- Prof. Tony Bennett: Professor of Sociology, the Open University, UK
- Prof. Cheng Kai-ming, Chair Professor of Education, University of Hong Kong
- Prof. Cho Haejoang, Research Centre for Culture and Youth Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
- Prof. Chua Beng-huat, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Dr Chris Connery, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- Prof. Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, University of North Caroline, USA
- Prof. Shunya Yoshimi, Insitute fo Socio-Information and Communication Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Prof. Wang Hui, Institute of Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing
- Prof. Wong Wang Chi, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Singapore