Page 5 - Accelerating Research and Impact - Issue 5

Message from the Vice-President
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Accelerating and
Since the launch of the Research Matching Grant by the University Grants Committee (UGC) in August 2019, the University has presented a total of HK$74.9 million in donations for matching, which has been matched with HK$59.6 million in the three processing cycles. We are grateful for the strong support from our community and the recognition of our research work.
Our response to social needs has been central to our research and KT work. As the world faces a global pandemic, the University has launched the Fighting COVID-19 @ Lingnan since March 2020, which comprises a series of projects and initiatives to care for the local and international community. The initiatives featured in this newsletter span different sectors of our community. These include a survey by the School of Graduate Studies to understand how international students’ learning and wellbeing have been disrupted, a web-based GIS dashboard providing COVID-19 information, studies on health risks and stress levels, and our Project Ultra Violite – the first community-wide programme of its kind, which provides free UV disinfection services to subdivided flats in Hong Kong, and more. In this difficult time when social distancing is required to save lives, the need for caring is ever more needed to alleviate the hardship, and is what we seek to demonstrate in our research and KT work – Impact with CARE: Committed to society, Advances entrepreneurship, Revitalises heritage and Embraces sustainability.
Overall ranking
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QS World University Rankings 2021
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Citations per faculty
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QS World University Rankings 2021
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The days ahead will continue to be challenging, but I am confident that by working together, we will overcome the crisis and emerge from it stronger, more resilient and more united than before.
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My warm wishes for good health go to all who are reading this newsletter!
QS World University Rankings 2021
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21st in Greater China THE UTD BUSINESS SCHOOL RESEARCH RANKINGS (2013-2019)
These results are good indicators of achievement in international research excellence of the Faculty of Business of Lingnan University. Although Lingnan is the smallest in size among the eight statutory public universities in Hong Kong and the Faculty operates on a smaller scale with only around 50 research- and tenure-track faculty members, the Faculty’s rankings are still higher than many larger size or well-known business schools in the world.