| Principal Investigator / Co-Investigator | Funding Source | Duration | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Chen Junjun | General Research Fund | 1 January 2025 – 30 June 2026 | “Getting into the Zone: Patterns, Interplays, and Outcomes of Principal Flow” in the amount of HKD$542,050 |
| Dr Keung Pui Chi Chrysa | General Research Fund | 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2026 | “Understanding professional agency for Hong Kong kindergarten teachers: A mixed methods study” in the amount of HKD$649,710 |
| Dr Luo Jiahui Jess | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2026 | “Investigating teacher evaluative judgement in an AI-mediated assessment landscape: a phenomenographic study”in the amount of HKD$779,200 |
| Dr Tsang Kwok Kuen | General Research Fund | 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2027 | “Unpacking the Impacts of Accountability on Teachers’ Emotions in Hong Kong” in the amount of HKD$828,942 |
| Dr Ewan Wright | Public Policy Research | 25 July 2024 – 24 July 2025 | "A Higher Education Hub for Doctoral Education: The Case of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme" in the amount of HK$392,150 |
| Dr Gümüş Sedat | General Research Fund | 1 January 2024 - 30 June 2026 | "“Social justice leadership for learning”: A new conceptualization of school leadership" in the amount of |
| Dr Chen Junjun | General Research Fund | 1 January 2024 - 30 December 2025 | "The missing link: Principal well-being literacy and its drivers and outcomes" in the amount of HK$613,585 |
| Dr Wong Koon Lin Linnie | General Research Fund | 2 January 2023- 31 December 2025 | "A Comparative Study of School Leadership for Civic Learning in Secondary Schools in Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei" in the amount of HK$834,900 |
| Dr Chen Junjun | General Research Fund | 1 January 2023- 30 December 2024 | "Principal Resilience and its Influential Occupational Drivers in Hong Kong: Developing and Validating the Principal Resilience Inventory" in the amount of HK$711,074 |
| Dr Ewan Wright | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2023 | International Schooling and the Re/production of A ‘Global Middle-class’ in China's Greater Bay Area |
| Dr Keung Pui Chi Chrysa | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2023 | Professional Agency of Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers Working with Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Children: A Phenomenographic Study |
| Dr Ko Yue On James | General Research Fund | 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2023 | Identifying Professional Growth and Trajectories of Development of Teachers and School Leaders in Contexts: A Mixed-method Study |
| Dr Lee Tsz Lok Trevor | Public Policy Research | 9 February 2021 – 8 February 2022 | "Home-School Collaboration as Online Learning Support System: A Case Study of Primary Schools amid Class Suspension in Hong Kong" in the amount of HK$670,450 |
| Dr Chen Junjun | General Research Fund | 1 January 2021 - 30 December 2012 | Investigating the Occupational Well-being of Hong Kong School Principals and Influential Psychosocial Risk Factors: A Mixed-methods Approach |
| Dr Lee Tsz Lok Trevor | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2021 - 30 June 2023 | "Investigating Alternative Middle-Class Choice: A Qualitative Study of Homeschooling in Two Chinese Cities" in the amount of HK$604,776 |
| Dr Qian Haiyan | General Research Fund | 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2022 | "An Exploration of the Role of Leadership in Successful Systemic Improvement in China" in the amount of HK$543,500 |
| Principal Investigator: Dr Darren Weight Dr Ewan Wright Co-Investigators: Prof Allan Walker Team Members: Dr Chrysa Keung Dr Gail Yuen Dr Sylvia Tang |
International Baccalaureate Research | 21 December 2020 - 1 April 2022 | "Personal Project: How Does the IB Middle Years Programme’s Capstone Experience Impact Students, Educators, and School Communities?" in the amount of USD80,000 |
| Dr Tang Hei Hang Hayes | General Research Fund | 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2022 | "Reconsidering Academic Entrepreneurialism in East Asia: Diverse Voices and Critical Insights from the Academic Profession of Flagship Universities" in the amount of HK$548,064 |
| Dr Miron Bhowmik | Public Policy Research | 17 April 2020 - 16 October 2020 | "Ethnic Minorities and Hong Kong's Current Protests: Non-Chinese "Hongkonger" Communities and Their Values" in the amount of HK$498,870 |
| Prof Christine Halse | Public Policy Research | 19 March 2020 - 18 September 2020 | "Investigating Hong Kong Students’ Aspirations for the Future " in the amount of HK$482,750 |
| Dr Choi Tae Hee | General Research Fund | 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2022 | "New Education Privatisation (NEP) in English Education for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): A Four-nation Comparative Study" in the amount of HK$1,143,854 |
| Principal Investigator: Dr Ewan Wright Co-Investigators: Prof Allan Walker Dr Darren Bryant Prof Moosung Lee |
Round Square Grant | 1 January 2020 - 1 January 2021 | "A cross-cultural study of student leadership in Round Square schools" in the amount of HK$310,000 |
| Dr Lu Jiafang | General Research Fund | 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2021 | "Antecedents, Mediator, and Moderators of Teacher Innovation in Schools: Evidence from Hong Kong" in the amount of HK$616,024 |
| Dr Chen Junjun | General Research Fund | 1 January 2020 - 30 June 2021 | “The Psychological Well-being of PhD Students in Hong Kong: A Territory-Wide Study and an International Comparison” in the amount of HK$693,000.00 |
| Dr Yuen Wai Kwan Gail | Public Policy Research | 1 July 2019 - 30 November 2020 | " Investigating Space in Kindergartens under the Free Quality Kindergarten Education Scheme " in the amount of HK$537,050 |
| Dr Ko Yue On James | General Research Fund | 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2021 | "Effective Teaching and Their Effects on Early Childhood Development: A Comparative, Longitudinal, Mixed-method Study of Hong Kong and Finnish Kindergartens" in the amount of HK$1,369,000 |
| Dr Lee Hui Lin Daphnee | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2020 | "Teacher Leadership: Influences of Hierarchical Chinese Contexts on the Capacity of Professional Learning Communities to Empower the Classroom Teacher" in the amount of HK$656,872 |
| Dr Wong Koon Lin Linnie | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2019 - 30 June 2021 | "An Analysis of the Role of Hong Kong School Principals in Supporting the Teaching of Civic Education" in the amount of HK$550,992 |
| Dr Lee Tsz Lok Trevor | Internal Research Grant | 27 December 2018 - 26 December 2019 | "Examining Social Class Difference in Parenting in Hong Kong" in the amount of HK$99,400 |
| Dr Tang Hei Hang Hayes | Internal Research Grant | 27 December 2018 - 26 August 2019 | "Exploring the Meanings of ‘Impact’ of University: Perspectives from Academic Profession and Good Practices of Knowledge Transfer" in the amount of HK$99,870 |
| Dr Szeto Sing Ying Elson | Public Policy Research | 25 June 2018 - 24 September 2019 | "Career and Life Planning for Hong Kong Youth Development: Challenges and Opportunities " in the amount of HK$499,627 |
| Dr Choi Tae Hee | Internal Research Grant | 8 June 2018 - 7 June 2020 | "Privatizations in School Education: Exploratory Cases in Australia, Greece and Hong Kong" in the amount of HK$100,000 |
| Dr Qian Haiyan | General Research Fund | 1 January 2018 - 30 June 2020 | "Promoting Teacher Learning and Improving Instruction: What is the Role of Cross-school Instructional Leadership?" in the amount of HK$504,000 |
| Dr Szeto Sing Ying Elson | Internal Research Grant | 8 June 2018 - 7 December 2018 | "Learning in Blended Communities of Inquiry: Conceptualizing a Model of E-Pedagogy in Experiences of Two Universities" in the amount of HK$100,000 |
| Dr Wong Koon Lin Linnie | Internal Research Grant | 8 June 2017 - 7 December 2018 | "School Leadership for Civic Learning: Preparing Students to Becoming ‘Good Citizens’ for Complex World" in the amount of HK$96,964 |
| Dr Choi Tae Hee | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2017 - 30 June 2019 | "State-funded Outsourcing of English Language Education: Does New Education Privatisation Ensure “Quality Education for All” in Hong Kong Secondary Schools?" in the amount of HK$767,782 |
| Dr Poon Mcbrayer Kim Fong | General Research Fund | 1 January 2017 - 30 June 2019 | "Conceptualizing and Contextualizing the 3-Tier Support Model for Inclusive Education in Hong Kong" in the amount of HK$1,370,461 |
| Dr Darren Bryant | International Baccalaureate Research | July 2016 - December 2017 | "A Distributed Perspective on Middle Leadership in International Baccalaureate Continuum Schools in Northeast Asia" in the amount of HK$388,249 |
| Dr Szeto Sing Ying Elson (Original PI: Dr Cheng Yan Ni Annie) | Public Policy Research | 1 July 2016 - 30 September 2017 | "Hong Kong Youths’ National Identity: Impacts of Mainland Exchange Programmes, Study Tours and Volunteer Activities" in the amount of HK$403,880 |
| Dr Chen Junjun | Internal Research Grant | 8 June 2016 - 7 July 2017 | "Understanding Teacher Emotion Regulation Strategy and its Relationship with Teacher Emotion" in the amount of HK$75,000 |
| Dr Cheng Yan Ni Annie | Internal Research Grant | 8 June 2016 - 7 December 2017 | "University Students’ National Identity: Influences of Study Abroad Experience" in the amount of HK$75,000 |
| Dr Tang Hei Hang Hayes | Internal Research Grant | 8 June 2016 - 7 June 2017 | "Entrepreneurial Orientation and Youth Entrepreneurship by Graduates of Hong Kong Research-Intensive Universities: Incentives and Impediments" in the amount of HK$75,000 |
| Dr Darren Bryant | General Research Fund | 1 January 2016 - 30 June 2019 | “Ideology and Instruction in Global Education: Case Studies of International and Local Schools in Hong Kong, New York, and Singapore” in the amount of HK$773,000.00 |
| Dr Darren Bryant | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2016 - 30 June 2018 | "Understanding Middle Leadership in Hong Kong Secondary Schools" in the amount of HK$574,200 |
| Dr Tang Yee Fan Sylvia | General Research Fund | 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2017 | "Profiling the Teaching Profession: Preservice Student Teachers’ Professional Competence, Teaching Motivation, and Professional Learning in Initial Teacher Education" in the amount of HK$267,460 |
| Dr Ko Yue On James | Internal Research Grant | 28 December 2015 - 27 December 2016 | "Developing Instruments for Studying Inspiring Teachers and Their Teaching Practice in Diverse Contexts" in the amount of HK$99,969 |
| Dr Qian Haiyan | Early Career Scheme | 1 January 2015 - 30 June 2017 | "Leading School-based Research to Improve Student Learning: Lessons from Shanghai" in the amount of HK$429,494 |
| Dr Yuen Yuet Mui Celeste | General Research Fund | 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2017 | "Well-being and Success for All: Mapping the Pathways of Engagement with School and Society among Immigrant, Minority and Mainstream Students in Hong Kong" in the amount of HK$969,188 |
| Dr Choi Tae Hee | Internal Research Grant | 29 December 2014 - 28 May 2016 | "A Pilot Study of the New Education Privatization in Hong Kong Secondary Schools: The Design, Implementation and Impact of an Outsourced English Phonics Program" in the amount of HK$100,000 |
| Dr Cheng Yan Ni Annie | Internal Research Grant | 27 June 2014 - 25 December 2015 | "Investigating influences of school leadership practice and culture and development of teacher leadership" in the amount of HK$100,000 |
| Dr Szeto Sing Ying Elson | Internal Research Grant | 27 June 2014 - 31 December 2015 | "Beginning principals' perspectives of mentorship influences on conception of leadership qualities, understandings of leadership and practice of leadership roles: A pilot study" in the amount of HK$100,000 |
| Dr Lee Tai Hoi Theodore | Internal Research Grant | 24 February 2014 - 23 May 2015 | "Exercising teacher instructional leadership through a formal position: A synergy of formal and personal power of mid-level teacher leaders in Hong Kong Primary schools" in the amount of HK$79,480 |
| Dr Liu Peng | Internal Research Grant | 5 February 2015 - 4 August 2015 | "Motivating Teachers' Commitment to Change through Transformational School Leadership in the Urban Upper Secondary Schools of Shenzhen City, China" in the amount of HK$100,000 |
| Dr Poon Mcbrayer Kim Fong | General Research Fund | 1 January 2014 - 31 March 2016 | "Leadership of Special Educational Needs Coordinators for Inclusive Education in HK Mainstream Primary and Secondary Schools" in the amount of HK$413,000 |