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Faculty of Humanities

Continuing Success: FHM's High Achievement in RGC's Research Funding Schemes 2024/25

  • 11 Jul, 2024
  • Recognitions & Achievements
  • Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities (FHM) has demonstrated remarkable success in the 2024/25 exercise of the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) administered by the Research Grants Council (RGC).

In all, 13 projects under FHM were awarded. For the GRF, the Faculty is awarded funding that is the highest amount since the establishment of FHM.

The 13 awarded projects cover diverse subject disciplines, including Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Sociolinguistics, Linguistics, and Language Education.

Principal Investigator

Project title

Dr Jeffrey Clapp (LCS)

Autofiction as Event: Digital Methods and Contemporary Literature in English

Dr Ding Hongdi (CHL)

Colexification of Dragon and Thunder: A Feature of Proto-Sino-Tibetan and the Origin of Dragon

Prof Gu Ming Yue Michelle (ELE)

The Impact of Online Social Networking (OSN) Practices on Adolescents’ Online Identity and Self-concept Clarity (SCC): Patterns and Mechanisms

*Dr Lam Sin Manw (CHL)

Exploring Relationships between Writing Processes and Products of L1 Chinese Learners: A Longitudinal Study

Dr Lee Ju Seong (ELE)

Effect of Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) on Speaking Proficiency, via Anxiety, Enjoyment, and Willingness to Communicate

Dr Qiao Shen (ELE)

Improving ESL Primary School Teachers’ Creativity and Creative Self-efficacy for Using Technology in English Language Classrooms: A Design Thinking Approach

Dr Shang Haifeng Aaron (LCS)

Manifestations of the Idea and Doctrine of "Perfect Enlightenment" (Yuanjue) in East Asian Arts and Literature (11th-15th Century)

Dr Tse Yin Nga Kelly (LCS)

Aesthetics of Water: An Inter-asian Study

*Dr Wang Ying Jamie (LCS)

Situating Care in Sustainable High-technological Urban Farming

Dr Wu Tsz Wing Giovanna (LCS)

The Eight-legged Essay and the Development of Structure in Chuanqi Drama in the Late Ming Dynasty

Dr Xu Xiaoyu (LML)

Towards Inclusivity and Accessibility: Discovering the Linguistic Resources of Museum Texts Preferred by Diverse Audiences

Dr Yip Cheuk Wai (LCS)

The Eye of Distances: Wang Qishu, the Literary and Culture in the Qianlong Era

*Dr Yip Wai Chi Jesse (LML)

Comparing the Portrayals and Medicalisation of Autism in Hong Kong Newspapers with the Perceptions of Individuals with Autism: A Discourse Analytic Study

*Principal Investigator of the Early Career Scheme