Research Postgraduate Programmes

Graduate Attributes

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Quality education at Lingnan University aims to instil a sense of civic duty in our students and to cultivate skills, competences and sensibilities that enable graduates to pursue their goals in a rapidly changing social, cultural and economic environment. Lingnan graduates will have breadth and depth of vision, the desire and capacity for public service, an awareness of the complexities that characterise enduring human dilemmas, and, accordingly, maturity of judgement. Excellent as leaders and employees, Lingnan graduates will be the beneficiaries of a multi-dimensional approach to learning.


For postgraduates, student-centred learning, one of the key values of Lingnan education, ensures close and supportive thesis supervision, while at the same time encouraging candidates to exercise intellectual creativity in their research endeavours.

Lingnan has earned a strong reputation through encouraging and requiring staff research, on the premise that far from depleting energies to be spent on teaching, research actually nourishes and inspires outstanding teaching. Its research strengths stretch across different academic areas, i.e. humanities, science, social sciences, business studies, data science and interdisciplinary studies.  Staff publications include articles in premier journals and books published by prestigious academic presses, so that in the global academic scene, the University enjoys a growing reputation in research excellence at home and internationally.

 

For research postgraduate programmes, Lingnan graduates are expected to possess the following attributes:

 

Scholarly and Original

Lingnan graduates will have relevant skills to be leading discipline specialist and contribute to original research.

 

Critical and Analytical Researcher

Lingnan graduates will be analytical and academically rigorous in their application to their research area.

 

Personally and Socially Responsible Researcher

Lingnan graduates will have in-depth awareness of personal, social and ethical responsibilities and its impact in their research fields.