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2024/25 

General Research Fund
        • Examining Social, Cognitive and Teaching Presences and Learning Outcomes in the Metaverse via an Intelligent Multimodal Learning Analytics Approach
        • On the Multiple-Regime Hysteretic (Buffered) Time Series Models
        • Detecting and Constraining Axion Dark Matter by Using the Data of the Inner Galactic Center
        • Two-photon Excited Photocatalysts for Red/NIR-light Promoted CO2 reduction and Chromoselective Photoredox Transformation
        • Vanishing viscosity solutions to a family of active vector equations for modelling magnetic relaxation
        • How Walk Onset Influences Language Development in Children with Elevated Likelihood of ASD?
Early Career Scheme
        • E-learning through Adaptive Gamification: Effects on Students' Course Engagement, Self-efficacy and Learning Performance
        • Unraveling the Dynamics of Antibiotic-Resistant Genes and Pathogens in Microplastic Biofilm in Marine Aquaculture Environment: Assemblage, Dissemination, and Associated Environmental and Health Implications


2023/24 

General Research Fund
        • Balance Bike: An Evidenced Solution for Better Postural Stability and Control in Children
        • Power of Texts: Inscriptions on Ritual Objects of the Han Period (206 BCE−220 CE)
        • Two-photon Excited Photoredox Transformation with Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
        • From the Non-ergodicity in Physics to the Non-convexity in Optimization – How do They Manifest Themselves in the Variable Space? Implications and Applications
        • Identification of an Effective Two-stage Adaptive Intervention for Reducing Loneliness among Hong Kong Chinese Older Adults
Early Career Scheme
      • The Design and Practice of Synchronous Online Mathematics Instruction: A Visual Learning Analytics-supported Design-based Study 


2022/23 

General Research Fund
        • A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Benefit-finding Intervention for Dementia Family Caregivers
        • Activated Carbon Made from Rice Husks and Coconut Shells as Feed Supplement for Reducing Uptake of Metal/Loids, PAHs and PCBs by Nile Tilapia
        • Detecting Dark Matter Signals by Radio Observations
        • Reducing Loneliness among Hong Kong Older Adults: A Three-arm Randomized Controlled Trial
        • Technocrats and Mid-level Policy Entrepreneurship in China: Explaining Local Policy Innovations in the Social Welfare Arena
        • Wellposedness and Singularity Formation of Inviscid Active Scalar Equations with Even or Odd Constitutive Law
        • Why Does Learning to Ride a Bike Improve Executive Functions in Children with ASD?
Early Career Scheme
        • Examining Hong Kong Older Adult’s Intention in Esports Participation, Using Theory of Planned Behaviors
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme
        • A Bayesian Approach to Precipitation Reconstruction in China During the Little Ice Age Based on Archives of Societies
        • Evaluating the Panentheistic Properties of Our Natural World


2021/22 

General Research Fund
        • A Multi-disciplinary Study of the Multiverse Hypothesis
        • Asymptotic Behavior and Anomalous Dissipation of a General Class of Forced Active Scalar Equations
        • Climate Change and Agrarian-nomadic Migration across the Great Wall during the Little Ice Age
        • Preparation for Post Pandemic Society: Providing Technology-Supported Adaptive Scaffoldings for Students with Mathematics Learning Difficulties in Hong Kong Primary Schools
        • The Japanese Shakuhachi or Chinese Chiba? Investigating the Modern Shakuhachi in China
Early Career Scheme
      • Online SDT Informed Intervention Motivates Children to Exercise at Home: A RCT Study
      • Shaping Students’ Lived Space of Mathematics Learning: How Mathematics Teachers’ Beliefs and Values Affect Their Teaching


2020/21 

General Research Fund
        • Creating connections: A study of the impact and effectiveness of a visual arts teacher-curator pedagogy
        • Design of visible-light-driven photoelectrocatalytic system with high adsorption capacity and removal efficiency as a new route for the ambient reduction of NOx to N2
        • Effect of Game-based High-Intensity Interval Training Program on the Executive Function of Children with ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial
        • High-skilled migration policies of Chinese cities: variation and explanations
        • Income Inequality, Sense of Fairness, and Participation in Democratic Movements: Evidence from Hong Kong
        • Inviscid limit and long time behaviour for a class of active scalar equations with physical applications
        • Pharmaceutical residues in the source water and water treatment system
        • Playing the hardball: Impacts of European regulatory externalization on Asia’s capital markets
        • The Dynamics of Policy Experimentation in the Social Policy Sphere: Policy Innovation and Diffusion in China’s Public Hospital Reform
        • The reconstruction of a Marxist-centred belief system in Chinese state education
Early Career Scheme
      • Design and synthesis of porous coordination polymers for luminescence sensing and towards adsorptive removal of water pollutants – from heavy metals to pharmaceuticals and personal care products


2019/20

General Research Fund
          • Effects of Future-time Perspective and Goal Clarity Intervention on Financial Preparation for Old Age in Hong Kong
          • Policy Transfer and Convergence: Multilateral Agencies and the Transfer of Competition and Regulatory Policy in Asia
          • Immigration Policies and Attitudes toward Highly Skilled Immigrants in Hong Kong
          • A Reappraisal of Ancient Glass in the Han period (206 BCE−220 CE)
          • Hong Kong Art Deco: Theatre Buildings and the Rise of Modern Cinema in Transforming the City’s Socio-cultural Landscape
          • National Education as Cultural Education: Developing Students’ Chinese Cultural Identity with Learning and Teaching Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong and Guangzhou
          • Early 20th Century Mediated Pedagogy: An Historical Study of the Emergence of Music Appreciation
          • Effects of Marathon Participation Experience on Stride-to-stride Variability during Prolonged Running
          • Latent Variable Models for Multifaceted Subspace Clustering
          • A Self-regulated Vocabulary Learning Approach Supported by a Mobile-user-generated-content Tool for Pupils in Hong Kong
          • Estimating the Key Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) by Effect Directed Analysis (EDA) in Children's Urine in Hong Kong and Belgium
          • Emerging Organic Flame Retardants in Marine Wildlife
          • Catalysis for the Photochemical Generation of Hydrogen Peroxide from Dioxygen
          • Resolving the Mystery of Deep Learning by Statistical Physics
          • Remaking Chinese Families: Narratives and Practices of Adoptive Families in Hong Kong
          • Marine Conservation and Recreational Diving Activities in Marine Protected Areas of Hong Kong
          • Power sharing in the School-based Values Education Curriculum: Implications for Critical Pedagogy Practice
Early Career Scheme
          • No Heritage Found on the Map: The Vanishing Villages of Hong Kong
          • Vegetable-based Biochar Added in Fish Feed for Lowering Uptake of Persistent Toxic Substances by Grass Carp