Research

Encouraging results for LU in government research funds bidding

In the 2020/21 Funding Exercise of the University Grants Committee (UGC)’s General Research Fund (GRF), Early Career Scheme (ECS) and Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS), 22 LU projects have received a grand total of $10.6 million.

The results represent a 40 per cent, or HK$3 million increase over last year, and a 22 per cent increase in the number of projects.

LU performed particularly well in ECS with a 140 per cent growth in funding over last year, and the number of projects being financed doubled. In addition, LU’s success rates in the Psychology and Linguistics, Humanities and the Arts, and Biology & Medicine categories are higher than the sector average by 18 per cent, 29 per cent and 69 per cent respectively.

A summary of the projects:

Faculty	Department	Principal Investigator	Scheme	Project Title	HK$
Arts	Cultural Studies	Tejaswini Niranjana	GRF	Digital Intimacy, Young Women, and Social Transformation in Asia	854,040
	English	Janet Ho Nga-man	ECS	How Chinese and English Newspapers Portrayed Migrant Domestic Helpers (2010-2019): A mixed methods analysis of discursive strategies	249,160
	History	Du Chunmei	GRF	GIs and Chinese: Sino-American Interactions at the Grassroots, 1945-1949	525,000
	History	Vincent Leung Sueh-han	GRF	Economic Thought of the Han Empire: A Critical Anthology	170,000
	Philosophy	Derek Clayton Baker	GRF	Skepticism about Practical Reason	190,000
	Philosophy	Darrell Patrick Rowbottom	GRF	Scientific Progress: Foundational Issues	190,000
	Philosophy	Daniel Waxman	ECS	The Justification of Consistency	290,000
	Philosophy	Zhang Jiji	GRF	Parsimony in Causal Inference: Epistemic Justifications and Methodological Implications	605,000
	Visual Studies	Selina Ho Chui-fun	ECS	Art, Museums, and Heritage: The Creative Citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan	480,994
	Visual Studies	Michelle Huang Ying-ling	GRF	Chinese Women Artists in Britain: Chang Chien-Ying, Nancy Kuo, Wendy Yeo, and their Circle of Friends	811,100
Business	Accountancy	Harry Wu Feng	GRF	LIBOR Discontinuation and Bank Lending	338,840
	Computing and Decision Sciences	Leng Mingming	GRF	Incentivizing the System-Wide Adoption of Blockchain Technology in a Food Supply Chain: A Cooperative Game Approach	380,000
	Management	Lewis Jeong In Seong	ECS	Entrepreneurs’ Crisis Experience, Bricolage, and Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: The Moderating Role of Self-identity	350,000
	Management	Yolanda Li Na	ECS	Revealing the Role of the Internet on Employees’ Daily Work: Its Classification and Impacts on Employee Outcomes	430,700
Social Sciences	Economics	Adam Wong Chi-leung	GRF	Market-share discounts and abuse of dominance	176,000
	Applied Psychology	Alan Lee Lap-fai	GRF	Confidence in context: a psychophysical and computational investigation of contextual effects on confidence judgments	560,000
	Applied Psychology	Siu Oi-ling	HSSPFS	Economic, Psychological, and Social Costs of Occupational Stress in the Big Bay Area: Growth Mindset and Psychological Capital as Stress Moderators	585,800
	Sociology and Social Policy	Annie Chan Hau-nung	GRF	Buying, keeping and throwing stuff in small homes: A study on the purchase, storage and disposal decisions and practices of Hong Kong families	823,800
	Sociology and Social Policy	Lynn Tang	ECS	Context, meaning and agency: A study on suicide and political crisis in Hong Kong	442,700
-	Pan Sutong Shanghai-Hong Kong Economic Policy Research Institute	Wang Yonglin	GRF	How Unaffordable is Hong Kong's Housing Market?	580,877
	School of Graduate Studies	Jiang Jin	ECS	Staying in the nest? A study of young adults’ co-residence with parents in the United Kingdom, mainland China and Hong Kong	588,824
	Science Unit	Sung Yik-hei	ECS	Population dynamics of endangered freshwater turtles—from long-term monitoring to tangible conservation actions	979,374
Total (22 projects)					10,602,209