Research Awards
RGC Competitive Grants Award 2022-23
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2022-23 round.
Principal Investigator(s) |
Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof LEUNG Shi Chi | Cultural Studies |
“Waste Commons” in Motion via Hong Kong’s Light Rail Loop: Exploring the Multiple Routes for Community-Oriented Food Waste Management |
ECS |
| Prof LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa | Cultural Studies |
Ethnic Minority Workers, Platformed 'Precarities' and Tactics of Resilience in Hong Kong - an intersectional and interdisciplinary study |
GRF |
| Prof TANG Tse-shang Denise | Cultural Studies |
Not Just Another Guy: Transgender Men in the Workplace |
HSSPFS |
| Prof HAMILTON Peter Evan | History |
Managing Modern China: A Global History |
ECS |
| Prof LEUNG Vincent Sueh Han | History |
Homosexuality in Early China: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents |
GRF |
| Prof LIU William Guanglin | History |
Warfare and State Finance in China, Stage 1, AD 1127–1294 |
GRF |
| Prof TSUI Chung Man Carmen | History |
The Third Way of Housing Production: A History of Housing Cooperatives in Post-War Hong Kong, 1940s–1980s |
GRF |
| Prof BRADLEY Adam Lee | Philosophy |
Affect, Concern, and the Sense of Self |
ECS |
| Prof BRAUER Ethan Erich | Philosophy |
A New Theory of Relevance |
ECS |
| Prof CHAN Wing-ching Elton | Philosophy |
Realist Confucianism: From Dirty Hands to Political Virtues |
ECS |
| Prof MARSHALL Daniel Graham | Philosophy |
Resemblance and Grounding |
GRF |
| Prof LIN Qingyang Lynn | Translation |
The Heuristics of Translational Sinography: Examining the Cultural Formations of Classical Chinese Poetry in English Translation, 1890s-1920s |
ECS |
| Prof LI Yu-chieh | Visual Studies |
Live Art 1993-2020: Beyond Black Box and White Cube, Between Asia and Europe |
ECS |
| Prof ZENG Hong | Visual Studies |
The Contemporary Art Ecosystem in the Pearl River Delta: A Case Study of Region-building and Worlding Practices |
ECS |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
RGC Competitive Grants Award 2021-22
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2021-22 round.
Principal Investigator(s) |
Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
Prof GONG Haomin |
Chinese |
Ethnicity and Ecology in Chinese Cinema since 1949 |
GRF |
Prof HSU Tzu-pin |
Chinese |
Theoretical Construction and Strategic Application of "Ritual Context" in Confucian Classics: A comprehensive Study of Zheng Xuan's Commentary of the Analects 「禮制語境」的理論建構及實踐策略― ― 《論語鄭氏注》禮說綜合研究 |
GRF |
Prof STEVIC Aleksandar |
English |
Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment, Moral Universalism, and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature |
GRF |
Prof HAMPTON Mark Andrew |
History |
The Far Right Press in Britain, 1934-2014 |
GRF |
Prof CHIU Wai-wai |
Philosophy |
Nature and Self-cultivation in the Zhuangzi and the Commentary on the Zhuangzi |
GRF |
Prof HAWKE Peter Michael |
Philosophy |
The Semantics of Knowledge and Ignorance |
ECS |
Prof STERK Darryl Cameron |
Translation |
Minority Autoethnobotany: The Role of Translation in Seediq-Language Descriptions of Plants |
GRF |
Prof DI CROCE Alessandra |
Visual Studies |
Fragments of Truth. Images, Objects, and Words after the Council of Trent |
ECS |
Prof YEH Yueh-yu Emilie |
Visual Studies |
Cinema and the Colonial Dispositif: Early Screen Culture in Hong Kong (1897 to 1925) |
HSSPFS |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
Research Output Excellence Award 2021-22
Prof TANG Tse-shang Denise (Department of Cultural Studies)
Young Researcher Output Award 2021-22
Prof HO Nga-man Janet (Department of English)
RGC Competitive Grants Award 2020-21
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2020-21 round.
Principal Investigator(s) |
Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
Prof NIRANJANA Tejaswini |
Cultural Studies |
Digital Intimacy, Young Women, and Social Transformation in Asia |
GRF |
Prof HO Nga-man Janet |
English |
How Chinese and English Newspapers Portrayed Migrant Domestic Helpers (2010-2019): A mixed methods analysis of discursive strategies |
ECS |
Prof DU Chunmei |
History |
GIs and Chinese: Sino-American Interactions at the Grassroots, 1945-1949
|
GRF |
Prof LEUNG Sueh-han Vincent |
History |
Economic Thought of the Han Empire: A Critical Anthology |
GRF |
Prof BAKER Derek Clayton |
Philosophy |
Skepticism about Practical Reason |
GRF |
Prof ROWBOTTOM Darrell Patrick |
Philosophy |
Scientific Progress: Foundational Issues |
GRF |
Prof WAXMAN Daniel |
Philosophy |
The Justification of Consistency |
ECS |
Prof ZHANG Jiji |
Philosophy |
Parsimony in Causal Inference: Epistemic Justifications and Methodological Implications |
GRF |
Prof HO Chui-fun Selina |
Visual Studies |
Art, Museums, and Heritage: The Creative Citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan |
ECS |
Prof HUANG Ying-ling |
Visual Studies |
Chinese Women Artists in Britain: Chang Chien-Ying, Nancy Kuo, Wendy Yeo, and their Circle of Friends |
GRF |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Research Output Excellence Award 2020-21
Prof ROWBOTTOM Darrell Patrick (Department of Philosophy)
Young Researcher Output Award 2020-21
Prof HO Chui-fun Selina (Department of Visual Studies)
RGC/PICO Grants Award 2019-20
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council and the HKSAR Government's Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office in the 2019-20 round.
Principal Investigator(s) |
Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
Prof Anjeline Eloisa Javate DE DIOS |
Cultural Studies |
Transpopular Musics: Diasporic Filipino Musicians in Hong Kong & Singapore, 1960s-1980s |
ECS |
Prof IP Iam Chong |
Cultural Studies |
Privacy Challenges and Big Data in Smart City |
PPR |
Prof TANG Tse-shang Denise |
Cultural Studies |
Being Trans and Masculine: A Comparative Ethnography of Trans Men in Bangkok and Hong Kong |
GRF |
Prof Preet HIRADHAR |
English |
Science Fiction (SF) and the Techno-urban Imaginary: Science, City, and SF Narratives in Colonial India |
GRF |
Prof HUANG Yunte |
English |
Chinese Whispers: Poetry, Translatability and Risk |
GRF |
Prof Andrew SEWELL |
English |
The 'falling standards' debate: Metalinguistic discourse, language ideologies and stories of English in Hong Kong |
GRF |
Prof ZHOU Feifei |
English |
Personhood, Power and Sense of Place: A Linguistic Landscape Study of Chinese Writing and Place-making in Transitional China |
ECS |
Prof Niccolo PIANCIOLA |
History |
Borderlands Lives: An Oral History of Migrations from China to Soviet Central Asia, 1949-1976 |
GRF |
Prof LIANG Wen-chun |
Translation |
When AI Meets TCM: Neural Machine Translating Traditional Chinese Medicine Texts |
GRF |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Public Policy Research (PPR)
Research Output Excellence Award 2019-20
Prof NIRANJANA Tejaswini (Department of Cultural Studies)
Young Researcher Output Award 2019-20
Prof WAXMAN Daniel (Department of Philosophy)
RGC Competitive Grants Award 2018-19
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2018-19 round.
Principal Investigator(s) |
Department | Project Title | Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|
Prof LAU Yin-ping Grace |
Chinese |
Originality versus Performability: Edition Study of Tong Di-sang’s （唐滌生）Plays of the Mud Print Version |
GRF |
Prof Roberto Carlos CASTILLO BAUTISTA |
Cultural Studies |
Made-in-China Nollywood: New Geographies of African Diasporic Imagination |
ECS |
Prof Diana Lucy LEMBERG |
History |
Applied Linguistics in the American Century |
GRF |
Prof ZHANG Lei |
History |
Night-soil Lords: Manure Collectors and Urban Waste Disposal in Beijing, 1900-1950 |
ECS |
Prof Derek Clayton BAKER |
Philosophy |
Expressivism about Modals and Reasoning |
GRF |
Prof Simon David GOLDSTEIN |
Philosophy |
New Work in Dynamic Semantics |
ECS |
Prof ZHANG Jiji |
Philosophy |
Logical Investigations of Causal Models and Counterfactual Structures |
GRF |
Prof CHAN Tak-hung Leo |
Translation |
Free Translation, Adaptation, and Sino-Japanese Transcultural Rewriting |
HSSPFS |
General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
Research Output Excellence Award 2018-19
Prof HUI Ting-yan Isaac (Department of Translation)
Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award 2018-19
Prof LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa (Department of Cultural Studies)