DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

The Department’s main strengths include primarily policy-relevant research on international financial markets as well as labour, industrial, and population economics, international trade and trading system, and public finance. As for area expertise the department has considerable depth on the economies of Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Prof. Ma Yue
1. International banking and finance regulations
2. Corporate finance and financial contracting
3. Exchange rate systems of Mainland China and Hong Kong
4. International trade and investment flows

Professor Jesús Seade
1. International financial markets; international financial centres
2. Public finance--tax theory; tax and macrofiscal policy; applied analysis
3. International trade and the trading system
4. Area expertise: emerging markets; emerging capital markets; developing countries; East   Asia

Prof. Fan Chengze, Simon
1. Population/Labor Economics
2. Development/Comparative Economics
3. International Economics
4. Economy of the Greater China
5. Macroeconomics

Prof. Ho Lok-sang (On Leave from 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2012)
1. Social Economics (Social Security/Health Economics/Justice/Education)
2. Urban Economics (Transportation, Housing, Poverty, Environmental Economics etc.)
3. Macro Economics and International Finance (Fiscal/Monetary Policy/Exchange Rate Regimes and Policy)
4. Public Finance/Public Economics
5. Economy of Hong Kong

Prof. Lin Ping
1.  Industrial Organisation
2.  Economics of Innovation
3. Competition Law/Policy and Regulation
4. Theory of Banking
5. FDI and Technology Transfer

Prof. Wei Xiangdong (On Leave from 1 July 2011 to 31 December 2011)
1. Economics of Labour Market
2. Personnel Economics 
3. Education and Manpower 
4. Hong Kong Economy 
5. Chinese Economy 

Dr. Cheung Kui-yin
1. Applied Economics
2. International Trade
3. Economic Issues in Hong Kong

Dr. Ran, Jimmy
1. International Finance
2. Macro & Monetary Economics   
3. Financial Economics
4. Economic Development

Dr. Voon Jan-piaw, Thomas
1. Cost-Benefit Analysis
2. Economic Integration
3. Agricultural Economics
4. Economic Development
5. Chinese Economy
6  Behavioral Economics
7. Job Insecurity Studies
8.  Impacts of Financial Crisis

Dr Jiang Liangliang
1. Banking and Financial Institutions
2. Corporate Finance
3. Economics of Regulation and Public Policy
4. Development Economics

Dr Zhang Yifan
1. Applied Industrial Organization 
2. Economy of China 
3. Development Economics 
4.  International Economics

Dr. Zou Lin
1. Financial Economics 
2. Risk Management 
3. Applied Econometrics

Dr. Lei Kai-cheong
Applied Econometric Studies on Foreign Trade & Other Macroeconomic Issues with regard to:
1. Hong Kong Economy 
2. Taiwan Economy
3. South Korea Economy

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Department’s main fields of expertise are in Hong Kong politics, Chinese politics and foreign policy, international relations, regional cooperation, and global environmental politics.

Professor Brian Bridges
1. Japan: Politics & Foreign Policy
2. Korea (South and North)
3. Security Issues in Asia Pacific 
4. Sport and Politics 
5. European Relations with Asia 

Prof. Wong Yiu-chung
1. Chinese Politics
2. Modernization and China
3. Political Sociology 
4. Cross-straits Relationships 
5. Politics and Society in Hong Kong

Dr. Chung Chien-peng
1. Ethnic Politics of China and Chinese Nationalism
2. Foreign and Security Relations of China
3. Foreign and Security Relations of Asian Countries
4. Political-economy of Asian countries
5. Politics and International Relations of Southeast Asia
6. Political Change in Asia
7. Domestic-International Nexus of Diplomatic Bargaining

Dr. Li Pang-kwong
1. Voting Behavior & Elections
2. Legislative Studies
3. The Politics of Budgeting 
4.  Public Choice & Politics
5. Hong Kong Politics

Dr. Zhang Baohui (On Leave from 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2012)
1. Theories of democratization
2. Political development of  Hong Kong and China
3. U.S.-China relations
4.  International relations of East Asia

Dr. Chan Che-po
1. Chinese Politics
2. Political Culture and Socialization
3. Youth Politics and Orientation 
4.  State-Society Relationship
5. Administrative Reform in China
6. Social and Political Mass Movements

Dr Jonathan Symons
1. Climate change: politics and ethics
2. Global environmental politics
3. Energy security
4. Theories and processes of norm change in international relations
5. Theories of sociological legitimacy.
6. Constructivist international relations theory

Dr. Ho Ka-ki, Lawrence
1. Public administration
2. Public policies
3. Criminal justice system
4. Policing
5. Public order management

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY and SOCIAL POLICY

The Department’s main areas of expertise lie in the fields of Social Gerontology (ageing), Health, Occupation and Stress Management, Social Stratification (class, gender, ethnicity) and Population Studies. Behavioural Science (Psychology) is integral to the Department’s offerings.

Prof. Peter Baehr
1. Social and Political Thought
2. Mass Emergency Response
3. History of Regime Types (dictatorship, despotism, Caesarism, Bonapartism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism)

Professor Chan Cheung-ming, Alfred
1. Gerontology (Ageing)
2. Programme evaluation and measurements
3. Service-learning
4. Health and Social Welfare Policies and Services
5. Ethnic Minority Studies (e.g. new immigrants)

Professor David Phillips
1. Social Gerontology (Ageing) (HK; Asia-Pacific; international).
2. Health, Infectious and other Diseases and Health Services (HK and international)
3. Health Care and Health Systems
4. Population, Health and Development; Urbanization and Environment ( Asia-Pacific and HK)
5. Social Problems; Housing in HK and Asia-Pacific

Prof. Lee Keng-mun, William
1. Social & Economic Development in Hong Kong and Singapore
2  Income Distribution and Income Inequality
3. Gender Issues
4. Stratification and Class Issues
5. Social Gerontology (Ageing)

Dr. Chan Hau-nung, Annie
1. Gender Studies
2. Domestic Labour, Women’s Employment
3. Consumer Culture, Popular Culture
4. Social Stratification, Social Mobility

Dr. Kwok Hong-kin
1. Family
2. Education
3.  Mass Communication and Mass Culture
4. Social Gerontology (Ageing)

Dr. Law Wing-kin, Kenneth
1. Population Problems and Policies
2. Ageing and Elderly Problems
3. Social Perceptions and Stereotype of Older Persons
4. Social Construction of Social Problems

Dr. Siu Leung-sea, Lucia
1. Economic Sociology
2. Technology, Risks and Society
3. Urban Sociology

Staff from the Department of Sociology and Sociology specializing in Behavioural Science

Prof. Siu Oi-ling
1. Occupational Stress and Employee Well-being
2. Occupational Safety & Health
3. Psychology of Ageing
4. Environmental Psychology
5. Work-family balance studies

Dr. Cheung Yue-lok, Francis
1. Emotional Labor: Conceptualization and theoretical modeling
2. Occupational Health, Stress, and Burnout
3. Work/Family Interference and Balance
4. Older Workers Psychological Well-being

Dr. Li Yau-wai, Simon
1. Human-Computer Interaction/Human Factors (human error; interruption; attitude towards technology; usability)
2. Cognitive/Experimental Psychology (application of memory, attention, decision making)
3. Health/Medical Informatics (human error in healthcare, decision-making in healthcare, eHealth technology)

Dr. Lun Miu-chi, Vivian
1. Cross-cultural psychology
2. Social psychology
3. Social cognition
4. Education
5. Critical thinking and creativity

Dr. Yeung Wai-lan, Vicki
1. culture and communication process
2. social cognition
3. stereotyping
4. evolutionary psychology
5. Self-deceptive Psychological Illusion