Lingnan student wins Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Public Administration Data Analytics Contest 2023
Final-year undergraduate student Chen Nuo from the Public Management and Smart Governance programme of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Lingnan University excelled in the recent Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Public Administration Data Analytics Contest 2023 (University Division). Delving into the topic of “Vulnerable Public Housing Community During the COVID-19 Epidemic: Evidence from Sham Shui Po District”, Chen won Hong Kong’s local contest, and was second runner-up in the Greater Bay Area.
This annual contest is jointly organised by the Centre for Digital Governance of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, the Department of Public and International Affairs at City University of Hong Kong, and the Centre for Data Science, University of Macau, with over a hundred teams of predominantly postgraduate students from China and Hong Kong’s leading universities competing this year.
It recognises students’ outstanding data analysis skills and in-depth knowledge of data application in public administration and policy analysis to address the evolving challenges and policy needs of the digital economy and society.
Chen Nuo (middle) with his supervisors at the Institute of Policy Studies, Prof Yau Yung, Professor of the School of Graduate Studies and Professor of Urban Studies of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy (right), and Prof Liang Cong, Research Assistant Professor of the School of Graduate Studies (left).
