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23 ACCELERATING RESEARCH AND IMPACT
Chief Executive appreciates Lingnan’s contributions
The Chief Executive Mrs Carrie LAM visited Lingnan University in July 2021 to look at the latest achievements in age-friendly initiatives, digital media education and humanitarian innovations.
Mrs Lam visited the Gerontech-X Lab and the Animation and Digital Arts Lab to learn about LU’s age-friendly projects and state-of-the-art digital arts teaching and learning facilities. She was then shown LU’s humanitarian inventions, particularly the autonomous UV-C disinfection robot, reusable transparent face-mask and the wheelchair handle sensor system.
Tackling social and labour problems with research
An internationally renowned scholar of labour issues in China, Prof Ngai PUN, Chair Professor of Department of Cultural Studies was the first Asian scholar to win the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award with Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace in 2005. Her highly respected and acclaimed book, Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and Lives of the Chinese Workers, has been translated into several languages.