Lingnan University’s response to Research Assessment Exercise 2020 results

The University Grants Committee (UGC) announced today the results of the Research Assessment Exercise 2020. Lingnan University (LU) President Prof Leonard K Cheng is pleased with the significant enhancement of the local universities’ quality of research in recent years. He says, as compared with the last research assessment exercise, Lingnan scholars have achieved much better ratings for their research outputs. While their research has reached international standards in most areas, in specific fields, the percentage of research output rated as “world leading” (4-star) is also in the top two position in Hong Kong, for example, sociology and anthropology (first), social work and social policy (second), philosophy (second), and accountancy (second). For social work and social policy, 54% research output are rated 4-star or 3-star, the highest among local universities, while accountancy comes second (65%). In terms of research impact, more than half of the impact cases submitted by Lingnan are rated as 4-star or 3-star.

 

President Cheng thanks all LU scholars for their efforts in striving for teaching and research excellence, and LU will continue to contribute to Hong Kong as a regional education hub through offering quality education and impactful research to promote the development of society.