Lingnan scholar presented the Prestigious Fellowship Award

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Issue No. 72 Oct 2017

Lingnan scholar presented the Prestigious Fellowship Award

Prof Tejaswini Niranjana, Professor and Head of the Cultural Studies Department received the award of the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS) from Mr Kevin Yeung Yun-hung, Secretary for Education of the HKSAR Government at the Award Presentation Ceremony organised by the Research Grants Council on 19 October.

 

Prof Niranjana’s award-winning project is entitled “Musicophilia and publicness in Mumbai: A new approach to cultural analysis”.  Her project proposal is one of only 5 successful proposals among the 21 applications in the 2017/18 round of this prestigious scheme from all the eight UGC-funded universities.

Prof Tejaswini Niranjana