Page 4 - Research and Impact Newsletter Issue 4

1 Message from the Vice-President
Message from the Vice-President
Professor Joshua MOK Ka Ho
Vice-President
Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
It has been another year of Lingnan University’s continuous advancement in research and knowledge transfer (KT) work. According to the QS Asia University Rankings 2020, Lingnan’s score of Citations per Paper has risen from 76.2 to 78.4, which is a further step up from 42.3 to 76.2 in the year before, representing a jump of 29 places from 117th to 88th in that year, and a leap of 140 places over the preceding year. In QS terms, Lingnan “performed among the top 21% in the QS Asia University Rankings 2020”.
Further encouraging records are marked in the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings 2020 that Lingnan University is ranked world 2nd for Quality Education which measures the social and economic impact of universities based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Among these goals, Lingnan is also among the Top 50 in promoting NO Poverty and Top 100 in promoting Decent Work and Economic Growth. Such international recognitions underpin Lingnan’s core values – Education: Care for Learning, Research: Impact with Care.
With Lingnan’s particular strengths in research and knowledge transfer (KT) of high social value and relevance, cumulative income received in 2018/19 from social projects, and the total contract value of on-going projects, were at record high of $14 million and $101 million, representing increases of 84% and 102% respectively. Of these, two are new projects funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust at a total of $48 million. Overall, the total income received from KT projects and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses rose by 142% from $30 million in the previous year to $74 million. We are glad to see our keen effort bearing fruits in our apt response to changing needs for professional skills in the job market, and our new master’s programmes in health & social services management and comparative social policy having won the UGC Fellowships for Taught Postgraduate Programmes.
We shall continue to make bold and innovative moves to build on our strengths to excel in scholarship and better serving society.
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