Page 28 - Research and Impact Newsletter Issue 4

25 Greater Bay Area
Roles of Public Research Universities in Hong Kong
In the $4.37 million project “Accelerating the Development of a Global Innovation and Technology Hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area: The Roles of Public Research Universities in Hong Kong” which is funded by the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office of the HKSAR Government under the Strategic Public Policy Research Funding Scheme 2018-19, Lingnan is a collaborator with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as the lead institution. Prof Ka Ho MOK our Vice-President and his team will work closely with researchers of the collaboration to help strengthen the roles of public research universities in Hong Kong in this strategic development initiative.
Responding to the exciting development opportunities that the GBA may present, Lingnan and the South China University of Technology (SCUT) bring together social scientists with a wide variety of disciplinary skills and experience to co-launch this Joint Centre. Under the four interconnected themes - Well-being and Quality of Life, Higher Education, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Economic & Social History, and Comparative Bay Area Studies, the Joint Centre serves as a platform for faculties, students, policy analysts and practitioners in the wider community to engage in research and KT projects on understanding the people in the 11 cities in the Area as they become more mobile in the region and what will then be the implications for social policy and governance.
New Joint Research Centres
Lingnan-SCUT Joint Research Centre for Greater Bay Area Social Policy and Governance
The first release of research findings by the Joint Centre in the project “Surveys on Youth and University Students’ Perceptions on Development Opportunities in the Greater Bay Area” was broadcast by the TVB and widely cited by media channels such as the Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Pao Daily, Sing Tao Daily, Bastille Post, THINK HK, Orange News, Wen Wei Po, Headline Daily and Hong Kong China News.
Professor Ka Ho MOK, Dean of School of Graduate Studies and Co-Director of this LU-SCUT Joint Research Centre, was invited by the Professional Development & Training Division of the Education Bureau, HKSAR Government to provide professional training for more than 100 school teachers to prepare them to go for field visits in the GBA. Prof Mok shared about the policy context, development strategies and recent developments of the GBA, and how Hong Kong young people perceived and evaluated the development opportunities in the GBA based on the above-mentioned joint survey with SCUT.