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At Lingnan University, we strive to innovate for society,

especially for those who are in need. We conduct Research

and Knowledge Transfer for promoting social innovations

with high social impact. Our School of Graduate Studies,

Department of Sociology and Social Policy and research

centres house social policy and policy studies experts. Our

research teams conduct comparative and international

research in social development and policy studies from

interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary

approaches. We welcome regional and international research

collaborations.

Major Policy Studies Units @ Lingnan University• School of Graduate Studies

• Department of Sociology and Social Policy

• Centre for Social Policy and Social Change

• AsiaPacificInstituteofAgeingStudies

• Lingnan University-South China University of Technology

Joint Research Centre for Greater Bay Area Social Policy

and Governance

• Lingnan University-Wuyi University Joint Research Centre

for Ageing in Place

• AsiaPacificHigherEducationResearchPartnership

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Our Social Policy / Policy Studies Research Team

School of Graduate Studies

Professor MOK Ka Ho, JoshuaDean, School of Graduate StudiesLam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy

Key research areas:• InternationalHigherEducationandGovernance• Policy and Comparative Development Studies• GreaterChinaandEastAsianStudies

Recent projects:• UKInternationalStudentsandGraduatesfromEastAsia:Careers,Earnings,JobsandMobility(UKESRC)

• A Study of Contracting out Social Services and ChangingWelfareGovernanceinChina(GeneralResearchFund)• OneCountry,DiverseEmploymentSystems:MeasuringEmploymentRegulationsinSub-nationalChinaBasedonEmploymentProtectionLegislationIndex(EPLI)(LU)

• LUJockeyClubGerontechnologyandSmartAgeingProject(JockeyClub)

Selected publications:• Mok,K.H.,&Qian,J.W.(2019)Anewwelfareregimeinthemaking?

Paternalistic welfare pragmatism in China. Journal of European Social Policy,29(1),100-114.doi:10.1177/0958928718767603

• Mok,K.H.,Kühner,S.,&Huang,G.(2017).Theproductivistconstruction of selective welfare pragmatism in China. Social Policy & Administration,51(6),845-856.doi:10.1111/spol.12337

• Mok,K.H.(2018).Promotingnationalidentitythroughhighereducationandgraduateemployment:realityintheresponsesand implementation of government policy in China. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management,40(6),583-597.doi:10.1080/1360080X.2018.1529127

• Mok,K.H.,&Qian,J.(2018).Massificationofhighereducationandyouthtransition:skillsmismatch,informalsectorJobsandimplications for China. Journal of Education and Work,31(4),339-352.doi:10.1080/13639080.2018.1479838

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Professor LAU Ka Wai, Maggie Research Associate Professor

Key research areas:• PovertyandSocialExclusion• Child Well-being Studies• Child Poverty and Social Policy

Recent projects:• PovertyandSocialExclusioninHongKongProject(HKRGCandUKESRC)

• TrendsandImplicationsofPovertyandSocialDisadvantagesinHongKong(StrategicPublicPolicyResearch)

• TheVoicesofEthnicMinorityChildrenintheirLivesandWell-beinginHongKong(HongKongCommitteeforUNICEF)

Selected publications:• Lau,M.K.,Gordon,D.,Zhang,M.F.,&Bradshaw,J.(2019).Children’sandadults’perceptionsofchildnecessitiesinHongKong.Social Policy and Administration.doi:10.1111/spol.12539

• Lau,M.K.W.,&Chou,K.L.(2019).Targeting,universalismandchildpovertyinHongKong.Child Indicators Research,12(1),255-275.doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-018-9540-9

• Lau,M.,&Bradshaw,J.(2018).Materialwell-being,socialrelationshipsandchildren’soveralllifesatisfactioninHongKong.Child Indicators Research,11(1),185-205.doi:10.1007/s12187-016-9426-7

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Professor JIANG JinResearch Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• EducationalInequalityandIntergenerationalMobility• InternationalHigherEducationandStudentMobility• Labor Markets and Social Policy

Recent projects:• TheGreaterBayAreaandCareerOpportunityforHongKongYouth:IntegratingBigDataAnalysisandSurveryExperiments(PublicPolicyResearch)

• SeriesofOpinionSurveysonHongKongCitizens’PerceptionsandEvaluationsonDevelopmentOpportunitiesandChallengesintheGreaterBayAreainChina(LU)

• TheMassificationofHigherEducationandChangingLabourMarketsinUrbanChina:APilotStudyofGraduateEmploymentfrom2003to2015(LU)

• PromotingtheWell-beingofChildrenandYoungPeopleinHongKong(KT,LU)

• UKInternationalStudentsandGraduatesfromEastAsia:Careers,Earnings,JobsandMobility(UKESRC)

• “AllbyMyself?”-AStudyontheSituationsofSinglesinTwoChineseCities(GeneralResearchFund)

Selected publications:• Jiang,J.,&Shen,W.(2019).Internationalmentorshipandresearchcollaboration:evidencefromEuropean-trainedChinesePhDreturnees. Frontiers of Education in China,14(2),180-205.doi:10.1007/s11516-019-0010-z

• Jiang,J.,Qian,J.,&Wen,Z.(2018).SocialprotectionforinformalsectorworkersinurbanChina:institutionalconstraintsandself-selection behaviors. Journal of Social Policy.47(2),335-357.doi:10.1017/S0047279417000563

• Mok,K.H.,&Jiang,J.(2018).Massificationofhighereducation,graduateemploymentandsocialmobility:EastAsianperspectives.International Journal of Educational Development,63,44-51.doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.02.003

• Jiang,J.(2017).HighereducationinChina.Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.doi:10.1093acrefore/9780190264093.013.207


Dr. Padmore Adusei AMOAH Research Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• SocialEpidemiologyandHealthServicesResearch• SocialPolicy(healthinequalities)• Africa and Greater China Studies

Recent projects:• PromotingtheWell-beingofChildrenandYoungPeopleinHongKong(KT,LU)

• SocialEpidemiology,UniversalHealthCoverageandHealthandWell-Being(LU)

• A Comparative Study of Multidimensional Aspects of Well-being among Developed and Developing Countries

Selected publications:• Amoah,P.A.,&Phillips,D.R.(2019).Socio-demographicandbehavioralcorrelatesofhealthliteracy:agenderperspectiveinGhana.Women & Health,59(6).doi:10.1080/03630242.2019.1613471

• Amoah,P.A.(2019).LocalpatternsofsocialcapitalandsustenanceoftheCommunity-BasedHealthPlanningandServices(CHPS)Policy:AqualitativecomparativestudyinGhana.BMJ Open,9(1).doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023376

• Amoah,P.A.,&Phillips,D.R.(2018).Healthliteracyandhealth:rethinking the strategies for universal health coverage in Ghana. Public Health,159,40-49.doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2018.03.002

• Dankwah,K.O.,&Amoah,P.A.(2018).Gaugingthedispositionsbetween indigenous, Chinese and other immigrant traders in Ghana:towardsaninclusivesociety.Asian Ethnicity,20(1).doi:10.1080/14631369.2018.1490173


Dr. XIONG Weiyan Research Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• InternationalandComparativeHigherEducation• IndigenousEducationandLiberalArtsEducation• HigherEducationManagement

Recent projects:• UKInternationalStudentsandGraduatesfromEastAsia:Careers,Earnings,JobsandMobility(UKESRC)

Selected publications:• Jacob,W.J.,Xiong,W.,Ye,H.,Wang,S.,&Wang,X(2018).Strategicbestpracticesofflagshipuniversityprofessionaldevelopment centers. Professional Development in Education,1-13.doi:10.1080/19415257.2018.1543722

• Jacob,W.J.,Mok,K.H.,Cheng,S.Y.,&Xiong,W.(2018).ChangesinChinesehighereducation:financialtrendsinChina,HongKongand Taiwan. International Journal of Educational Development,58,64-85.doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.03.006

• Xiong,W.,Jacob,W.J.,&Ye,H.(2016).MinoritylanguageissuesinChinesehighereducation:PolicyreformsandpracticeamongtheKorean and Mongol ethnic groups. Frontiers of Education in China, 11(4),455-482.doi:10.1007/BF03397136

• Jacob,W.J.,&Xiong,W.(2016).Highereducationcapacityforwhat?Balancingissuesofequity,efficiency,choice,andexcellence.InThe Palgrave Handbook of Asia Pacific Higher Education(pp.345-364).PalgraveMacmillan,NewYork.doi:10.1057/978-1-137-48739-1_23


Dr. HUANG Genghua Research Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• PoliticalEconomyofWelfareState• Comparative Social Policy• LaborPolicyandNGOs

Recent projects:• OneCountry,DiverseEmploymentSystems:MeasuringEmploymentRegulationsinSub-nationalChinabasedonEmploymentProtectionLegislationIndex(LU)

• ExpandingHongKongPeople’sSpace:PromotingCross-borderEmploymentandEntrepreneurshipintheGreaterBayArea(LU)

Selected publications:• Mok,K.H.,Kühner,S.,&Huang,G.H.(2017).Theproductivist

construction of selective welfare pragmatism in China. Social Policy & Administration,51(6),876-897.doi:10.1111/spol.12337

• He,A.J.,&Huang,G.H.(2015).Fightingformigrantlaborrightsintheworld’sfactory:legitimacy,resourceandstrategiesofgrassrootsmigrantlaborNGOsinSouthChina.Journal of Contemporary China, 24(93),471-492.doi:10.1080/10670564.2014.953851

• Ngok,K.L.,&Huang,G.H.(2014).Policyparadigmshiftandthechangingroleofthestate:ThedevelopmentofsocialpolicyinChinasince2003.Social Policy and Society,13(2),251-261.doi:10.1017/S1474746413000602

• Huang,G.H.,&Mok,K.H.(2013).Universitystudents’perceptiononsocialstratificationandsocialopportunities.Apost-elitistperspective. Journal of Zhejiang University,43(4),182-195.doi:10.3785/j.issn.1008-942X.2012.12.291


Dr. ZHU Yuefeng, Alex Research Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• FamilyandYouthEconomicIssues• FinancialCounselingandPlanning• YouthWell-beingandSocialPolicy

Selected publications:• Zhu,A.Y.F.(2019).FinancialrisktoleranceofHongKongadolescents:Ahierarchicalmodel.Children and Youth Services Review,102,193-200.doi::10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.05.014

• Zhu,A.Y.F.,Yu,C.W.M.,&Chou,K.L.(2019).Improvingfinancialliteracyinsecondaryschoolstudents:Anrandomizedexperiment.Youth & Society.doi:10.1177/0044118X19851311

• Zhu,A.Y.F.(2018).Themediationalroleofparentingintherelationship between family poverty and social-emotional competence in Chinese adolescents. Child Indicators Research. 1-22.doi:10.1007/s12187-018-9609-5

• Zhu,A.Y.F.(2018).Linksbetweenfamilypovertyandthefinancialbehaviorsofadolescents:Parentalroles.Child Indicators Research, 12(4),1259-1273.doi:10.1007/s12187-018-9609-5

• Zhu,A.Y.F.,&Chou,K.L.(2018).FinancialliteracyofHongKongadolescents:Testingthevalidityofascaleandevaluating two conceptual models. Youth & Society.doi:10.1177/0044118X17753813


Other Faculty Researching on Social Policy / Policy Studies

Professor LUI Hon-KwongProfessor

Key research areas:• HigherEducationPolicy• PovertyandInequality• HousingPolicy

Selected publications:• Jiang,J.,&Lui,H.K.(2019).Highereducationexpansionandcollegeearningspremium:AcomparativestudyoftwosystemsinoneCountry.PaperpresentedatThe16thAnnualConferenceoftheEastAsianSocialPolicy(EASP)ResearchNetwork.Taipei,Taiwan.02July2019

• Lui,H.K.(2019).Ageingpopulationandrisingincomeinequalityinpost-handoverHongKong.Review of Integrative Business and Economics Research,8(1),51-63

• Lui,H.K.(2016).Growingsocio-economicinequalities.InT.Lui.,S.W.K.Chiu.,&R.Yep.(Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong(pp247-258).London:Routledge

• Frank,R.H.,Bernanke,B.S.,&Lui,H.K.(2015).Principles of Economics.NewYork,N.Y.:McGraw-HillAsia.

• Lui,H.K.(2013).Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong.London:Routledge

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Professor Ray FORREST Research Professor

Key research areas:• UrbanPoliticalEconomy• Socio-spatial Change in the Contemporary City• HousingMarketsandTheMacroEconomy• HousingPolicyandSocialInequality• TheFamilyandSocialChange

Recent projects:• ChineseUrbanismExploringtheLivedExperienceofShenzhen

through a Major Survey of Residents• NewMotilitiesandNeighbourhoodChange• RetirementTrajectoriesintheKnowledgeEconomy• VerticalUrbanismandHighRiseCommunities

Selected publications:• Forrest,R.,Koh,S.Y.,&Wissink,B.(Eds.).(2017).Cities and

the Super-Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies.Springer.doi:10.1057/978-1-137-54834-4

• Xian,S.,&Forrest,R.(2019).Thepost-80sgeneration:Exploringthe attitudes toward family and housing. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-17.doi:10.1080/13676261.2019.1636949

• Forrest,R.,&Xian,S.(2018).Accommodatingdiscontent:Youth,conflictandthehousingquestioninHongKong.Housing Studies, 33(1)


Professor David PHILLIPS Research Professor

Key research areas:• GlobalHealth• Ageing,HealthandtheEnvironmentEpidemiologicalTransition• Age-friendly Cities

Selected publications:• Gyasi,R.,&Phillips,D.(2019).Agingandtherisingburdenof

noncommunicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa and other low-andmiddle-incomecountries:Acallforholisticaction.The Gerontologist.doi:10.1093/geront/gnz102

• Gyasi,R.M.,Adam,A.M.,&Phillips,D.R.(2019).Financialinclusion, health-seeking behavior, and health outcomes among older adults in Ghana. Research on Aging,41(8),794-820.doi:10.1177/0164027519846604

• Feng,Z.,Jones,K.,&Phillips,D.R.(2019).Socialexclusion,self-ratedhealthanddepressionamongolderpeopleinChina:Evidencefrom a national survey of older persons. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics,82,238-244.doi:10.1016/j.archger.2019.02.016


Professor CHAN Chak Kwan, Dickson Research Professor

Key research areas:• SocialCarefortheElderly• Social Service Management• SocialPolicyinChinaandHongKong

Selected publications:• Chan,C.K.,Vickers,T.,&Barnard,A.(2019).Meaningthroughcaregiving:Aqualitativestudyoftheexperiencesofinformalcarers.The British Journal of Social Work.doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcz039

• Chan,C.K.&Lei,J.(2018)PublicAssistanceEligibilityandtheWell-Being of Poor People in China. Journal of Social Service Research. DOI10.1080/01488376.2018.1476294.

• Lei,J.andChan,C.K.(2018).China’s Social Welfare Revolution: Contracting out Social Services.Oxford:Routledge.

• Chan,C.K.&Lei,J.(2017).ContractingsocialservicesinChina:ThecaseoftheIntegratedFamilyServicesCentresinGuangzhou.International Social Work.doi:10.1177/0020872817725135.


Professor Stefan KÜHNER Associate Professor

Key research areas:• Comparative and Global Social Policy Analysis• SocialInvestmentandProductiveWelfarePolicy• Child Well-being

Recent Projects:• ThevoicesofEthnicMinorityChildrenontheirLivesandWell-beinginHongKong(UNICEF)

• PromotingtheWell-beingofChildrenandYoungPeopleinHongKong(KT,LU)

• Children’sViewsontheirLivesandWell-beinginHongKong(LU)

Selected publications:• Kühner,S.,&Chou,K.L.(2019).Povertyalleviation,coverageandfiscalsustainability:InvestigatingtheeffectofanewsocialpensioninHongKong.International Journal of Social Welfare,28(1),89-99.doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12321

• Kühner,S.(2018).Partisanideology,vetoplayersandtheircombinedeffectonproductiveandprotectivewelfarepolicy:howtheleftstillmatters?Policy Studies,39(2),165-187.doi:10.1080/01442872.2018.1451499

• Mok,K.,Kühner,S.,&Yeates,N.(2017).Introduction-Managingwelfareexpectationsandsocialchange:PolicyresponsesinAsia.Social Policy & Administration,51(6),845-856.doi:10.1111/spol.12335

• Mok.K.H.,Kühner,S.,&Huang,G.(2017).Theproductivistconstruction of selective welfare pragmatism in China. Social Policy & Administration,51(6),876-897.doi:10.1111/spol.12337


Dr. Gizem ARAT Research Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• SocialInclusionofEthnicMinorityYouth• Cultural Diversity

Selected publications:• Arat,G.,Jordan,L.P.,&Wong,P.W.C.(2019).ExploringtheculturallyspecificfactorsofmentalhealthinSouthAsianminoritystudentsinHongKong.European Journal of Social Work,1-14.doi:10.1080/13691457.2019.1605978

• Arat,G.,&Kerelian,N.N.(2019).Reshapingthesocialworkeducationsystemtowardsculturalcompetency:TheHongKongcase.International Social Work,62(1),316-329.doi:10.1177/0020872817725133

• Arat,G.,&Wong,P.W.(2019).Examiningtheassociationbetweenresilience and risk behaviors among South Asian minority students inHongKong:Aquantitativestudy.Journal of Social Service Research,45(3),360-372.doi:10.1080/01488376.2018.1480561

• Arat,G.,&Wong,P.W.C.(2019).Commentaryon:Howschoolsenhance the development of young people’s resilience, ungar, connelly,liebenberg,andtheron,2017.Social Indicators Research, 143(1),319-324.doi:10.1007/s11205-018-1971-7


Professor WEN Zhuoyi, Vincent Research Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• PolicyAnalysis,SocialPolicyinHongKongandChina,State-society

Relations and Social• Citizenship• SocialProtectionforInformalSectorWorkers,SocialCitizenship

Building, Government Purchase-of-services, and Social Trust and Volunteerism

Selected publications:• Wen,Z.,&Ngok,K.(2018).GoverningthepoorinGuangzhou:

Marginalisation and the neoliberal paternalist construction of deservedness. China Information,33(2),210-233.doi:10.1177/0920203X18786876

• Jiang,J.,Qian,J.,&Wen,Z.(2018).SocialprotectionfortheinformalsectorinurbanChina:Institutionalconstraintsandself-selectionbehavior. Journal of Social Policy,47(2):335-357.doi:10.1017/S0047279417000563

• Wen,Z.(2017).GovernmentpurchaseofservicesinChina:Similarintentions, different policy designs. Public Administration and Development,37(1):65-78.doi:10.1002/pad.1792

• Wen,Z.(2015).Towardssolidarityandrecognition?:ChangingsocialcitizenshipinChinaafteradecadeofsocialpolicydevelopment. Asian Journal of Social Science.43(1-2),103-125.doi:10.1163/15685314-04301006


Dr. TANG Mun Yu, Vera Research Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• PovertyandSocialSecurity,SocialCapitalandSocialExclusion• Well-beingandQualityofLife,Grandparenting,ProgramEvaluation

Selected publications:• Saunders,P.,&Tang,V.(2019).AdultandchilddeprivationinHong

Kong. Social Policy & Administration.doi:10.1111/spol.12533• Zhang,Y.,Wong,H.,Chen,J.,&Tang,V.(2019).Comparingincomepovertygapanddeprivationonsocialacceptance:Amediationmodel with interpersonal communication and social support. Social Policy & Administration.doi:10.1111/spol.12536

• Chung,R.,Chung,G.,Gordon,D.,Wong,S.,Chan,D.,&Lau,M.,andTang,V.al.(2018).Deprivationisassociatedwithworsephysicalandmentalhealthbeyondincomepoverty:apopulation-basedhousehold survey among Chinese adults. Quality Of Life Research, 27(8),2127-2135.doi:10.1007/s11136-018-1863-y


Professor TANG Lynn Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• MentalHealth• InequalitiesandDiversities• Work and Wellbeing• Suicide Prevention• Civil Society

Selected publications:• Tang,L.(2019),Thedoublehazardinrecoveryjourney:The

experiences of UK Chinese uaers of mental health services, International Jouranl of Social Psychiatry,doi:10.1177/00207640/9840059

• Tang,L.(2018).Recovery,hopeandagency:Themeaningofhopeamongst Chinese users of mental health services in the UK. The British Journal of Social Work,49(2),282-299.doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcy033

• Tang,L.(2017).Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality: Chinese Ethnic Minorities as Mental Health Service Users.NewYork:Routledge.doi:10.1080/09687599.2017.1414303


Professor AU YEUNG Tat Chor Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• ActivationandIn-workBenefits• PrecarityandPrecariousEmployment• Social Security and Labour Market Policies

Selected publications:• AuYeung,T.C.,&Chan,K.K.(2019).Craftingthefinancial-subject:Aqualitativestudyofyoungworkers’experiencesinfinancialisedpensioninvestmentinHongKong.Journal of Social Policy,1-19.doi:10.1017/S0047279419000345

• Wong,V.,&AuYeung,T.C.(2019).Autonomousprecarityorprecariousautonomy?DilemmasofyoungworkersinHongKong.The Economic and Labour Relations Review,30(2),241-261.doi:10.1177/1035304619838976

• Wong,V.,&AuYeung,T.C.(2019).Expeditingyouth’sentryintoemploymentwhilstoverlookingprecariousness:Flexi-employabilityanddisciplinaryactivationinHongKong.Social Policy & Administration,53(5),793-809.doi:10.1111/spol.12418

• Wong,V.,&AuYeung,T.C.(2018).Howdoideasanddiscoursesconstructyouthpolicies?ThecaseofHongKong.International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy,38(3/4),280-294.doi:10.1108/IJSSP-08-2017-0104


Professor WONG Pui Yun, Paulina Assistant Professor

Key research areas:• AirPollution,UrbanClimate,GISModelingandEnvironmentalHealth

• EnvironmentalImpactAssessmentswithParticularReferencetoHealth-relatedProblemsinHongKong

Selected publications:• Low,C.T.,Stimson,R.,Chen,Si.,Cerin,E.,Wong,P.Y.P.,Lai,P.C.(2017)PersonalandNeighbourhoodindicatorsofqualityofurbanlife:acasestudyofHongKong,Social Indicators Research,136(2),751-773

• Low,C.T.,Lai,P.C.,Li,H.D.,Ho,W.K.,Wong,P.P.Y.,Chen,S.,Wong,W.C.(2016)Neighbourhoodeffectsonbodyconstitution-acasestudyofHongKong.Social Science and Medicine,158,61-74

• Zhang,J.J.,Wong,P.P.Y.Lai,P.C.(2018)Ageographicanalysisofhosts’ irritation levels towards mainland Chinese cross-border day-trippers, Tourism Management,68,367-374

• Thach,T.Q.,Tsang,H.,Lai,P.,Lee,R.S.,Wong,P.P.Y.(2019)Long-termeffectsoftrafficexposuresonmortalityinaChinesecohort,Journal of Transport and Health,14,100609


Visiting / Adjunct Professors

Professor Dean NEUBAUER East-WestCentre,USAVisiting Professor

Professor Shafiqu HUQUE McMaster University, CanadaVisiting Professor

Dr. LAI Wan Lung, Kent LingnanUniversity,HongKongSARAdjunct Associate Professor

Professor Jack CHAN SunYat-SenUniversity,ChinaAdjunct Associate Professor

Professor NG Mee Wah, Eugenia LingnanUniversity,HongKongSARAdjunct Professor

Professor Simon MARGINSON University of Oxford, UKVisiting Professor

Dr. Glenn HUI CityUniversityofHongKong,HongKongSARVisiting Scholar


International Book Series and Journal edited by colleagues of Lingnan University


Editors-in-chief:Ka Ho Mok, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR

IanHolliday,TheUniversityofHongKong,HongKongSAR

Ray Forrest, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR

Book Series:Comparative Development and

Policy in Asia by Routledge

SeriesEditors:

Ka Ho Mok, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SARRachel Murphy, Oxford University, UKMisaIzuhara,UniversityofBristol,UK

Book Series:Research in Comparative and Global

Social Policy Series by Bristol University Press

SeriesEditors:

HeejungCHUNG,UniversityofKent,UKAlexandraKAASCH,UniversityofBielefeld,GermanyStefan Kühner, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR

Book Series:Social Policy and Development

Studies in East Asia by Springer

SeriesEditors:

Ka Ho Mok, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SARQianJiwei,NationalUniversityofSingapore,

Singapore

Book Series:Higher Education in Asia: Quality,

Excellence and Governanceby Springer

SeriesEditors:

AngelaYungChiHou,FuJenCatholicUniversity,Taipei,TaiwanAkiyoshiYonezawa,TohokuUniversity,

Sendai, JapanSheng-JuChan,GraduateInstituteofEducation,

NationalChungChengUniversity,Chiayi, Taiwan

Ka Ho Mok, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR

Journal of Asian Public Policyby Routledge

Recent Research Grants / Research Projects

1) Research grants related to policy studies

a) Prof.RayFORREST,CentreforSocialPolicyandSocialChange• HK$0.87 million Public Policy Research Fund from the PolicyInnovation and Co-ordination Office (PICO) for the project“Housing as an Intergenerational Project-parental Resources, Parental Strategies and the Housing Opportunities of Young People in Hong Kong”

• HK$0.86 million General Research Fund from the ResearchGrants Council for the project “Frontier City: Place, belonging and community in contemporary Shenzhen”

b) Prof.IPLamChong,DepartmentofCulturalStudies• HK$0.27millionPublicPolicyResearchFundfromPICOforthe

project “Privacy Challenges and Big Data in Smart City”

c) Prof.MOKKaHoJoshua,Vice-President• Undertaking the Lingnan portion of the HK$4.37 millionStrategic Public Policy Research Fund 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”fundedbyPICOincollaborationwithHKUST,HKUandEdUHK

• HK$0.93millionPublicPolicyResearchFundfromPICOfortheproject “Hong Kong Non-Governmental Welfare Organisations in Mainland China: Services, Challenges and Opportunities”

• Undertaking, together with Prof. Maggie LAU of APIAS, theLingnanportionof theHK$3.25millionStrategicPublicPolicyResearchFundproject“Trends and Implications of Poverty and Social Disadvantages in Hong Kong: A Multi-disciplinary and Longitudinal Study” funded by PICO in collaborationwith theUniversityofYork,UniversityofBristol,UniversityofNewSouthWalesandCUHK

d) Prof.LAUKaWaiMaggie,Asia-PacificInstituteofAgeingStudies• HK$0.7millionPublicPolicyResearchFund fromPICOfor theproject “Relationship between Poverty and NeurocognitiveSkills”


• Undertaking, together with Prof. Joshua MOK, the Lingnan portionoftheHK$3.25millionStrategicPublicPolicyResearchFund project “Trends and Implications of Poverty and Social Disadvantages in Hong Kong: A Multi-disciplinary and Longitudinal Study” funded by PICO in collaborationwith theUniversityofYork,UniversityofBristol,UniversityofNewSouthWalesandCUHK

• TogetherwithProf.StefanKÜHNERofDepartmentofSociologyandSocialPolicy,receivedafundingofHK$0.77MfromtheHongKongCommitteeforUNICEFfortheproject“The Voices of Ethnic Minority Children on Their Lives and Well-Being in Hong Kong”

e) Prof.JIANGJin,SchoolofGraduateStudies• HK$0.5 million Public Policy Research Fund from PICO for

the project “The Greater Bay Area and Career Opportunity for Hong Kong Youth: Integrating Big Data Analysis and Survey Experiments”

f) Prof.CUIGeng,HongKongInstituteofBusinessStudies• HK$0.49millionPublicPolicyResearchFundfromPICOforthe

project “Construction of Mainland China - Hong Kong Economic Integration Index and Its Application to Facilitate Public Policy Research in Hong Kong”

g) Prof.WinniePOON,DepartmentofFinanceandInsurance• HK$0.69millionPublicPolicyResearchFundfromPICOforthe

project “Deriving Public Policy for Hong Kong as an Infrastructure Financing Hub and Super-connector in Project Finance: The Belt and Road Initiative”

h) Prof.ZHANGBaohui,DepartmentofPoliticalScience• HK$0.47millionPublicPolicyResearchFundfromPICOfortheproject“OneBeltOneRoad:China’sMotivesandHongKong’sRoles”


i) Prof.LIPangKwong,DepartmentofPoliticalScience• HK$0.44millionPublicPolicyResearchFundfromPICOforthe

project “The Governing System of Pre-1997 Hong Kong: Archival Study of Selected Policies / Events”

2) Grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK ESRC) LUisplayingaprominentpartinthe£4.9millioninternationalresearchproject “Future of HE: Centre for Engaged Global Higher Education” which is led by University College London and participated by other 11universitiesintheUK,theUSA,Australia,theNetherlands,Japan,SouthAfrica,Ireland,andthemainlandChina.This60-monthprojectisfundedbytheEconomic&SocialResearchCouncil(ESRC)ofResearchCouncilsUK and theHigher Education FundingCouncil for England(HEFCE). The LUpart of theproject “UK Interantional Students and Graduate from East Asia: Careers, Earnings, Jobs and Mobility” is led by ProfessorJoshuaKaHoMok,theUniversity’sVice-PresidentandLamMan Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of School of Graduate Studies, and Sociology and Social Policy Department. 3) Funds from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust Prof.MOKKaHoJoshua,Vice-President

• HK$19.68millionundertheChiefExecutive’sCommunityProjectList2018for the“LU Jockey Club Gerontechnology and Smart Ageing Project” to promote Smart Ageing and Active Ageing through social innovations and socialpreneurs development

• HK$8.8millionfor“The Hong Kong Jockey Club Intergenerational Communication and Health Promotion Programme”

• HK$7.13million for the “Jockey Club Age-Friendly City Project (Pilot Phase for Two Districts)”

• HK$7.12million for the “Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project (Second Phase) Baseline Assessments, Training, District Engagement and Professional Support for Two Districts”


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