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Congratulations to the Financial Education Team at SSPS for winning the Bronze prize (Teaching Division) of IFEA 2024

12 March 2025

Congratulations to the Financial Education Team at SSPS (Prof. Christina Yu, Dr. Tan Weiqiang, Dr. Eric Law, Dr. Ray Lee) for winning the Bronze prize (Teaching Division) of IFEA 2024 by the Investor and Financial Education Council (IFEC) under the Security and Futures Commission (SFC).

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SSPS and AspirE Co-hosted the workshop on the challenges and future of transnational mobility

11 March 2025

The Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies (SSPS) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), and the AspirE co-hosted the workshop entitled The challenges and future of transnational mobility from 27 February to 2 March 2025. The workshop attracted 36 academic researchers from 14 countries spanning from Asia, Europe, Oceania to North America, has drawn attention to the urgency of understanding challenges and opportunities of contemporary migration and mobility.

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Congratulations to Dr Amanda Chu for awarded HMRF

25 February 2025

I am thrilled to share with you all that Dr Amanda Chu's innovative project titled, "Using an Automatic Speech Analytics Program (ASAP) to Perform Early Detection of Psychosocial Distress in Young People: Acoustic and Linguistic Analysis," has been awarded by the Health and Medical Research Fund with a funded amount of HK$968,520.

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IFPHK Confirms Course Exemptions for BA(PF) Students in CFP Certification

14 February 2025

The Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong (IFPHK) has announced that students and graduates of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Personal Finance Programme [BA(PF)] are now eligible for course exemptions in the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Certification. This prestigious recognition affirms the high standards of the BA(PF) curriculum and its alignment with the professional certification requirements in the financial sector.

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Congratulations to Professor Chou Kee Lee

30 December 2024

Professor Chou’s project “Alleviating Loneliness in Older Adults Living in Poverty: A Multi-level Intervention” received HK$5.3 million in funding from the RGC. In this four-year project, Professor Chou’s team seeks to conduct a single-blinded cluster, four-arm randomized controlled trial designed to test the effect and cost-effectiveness of a multi-level intervention to alleviate loneliness among Hong Kong Chinese older adults living in poverty. This study will lay a solid foundation for the large-scale implementation of such an effective, accessible, affordable, and scalable intervention shortly by capitalizing on community social capital.