The Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies (SSPS) emphasizes academic rigor, professional relevance, and social impact in our research and development work. SSPS fosters multi-disciplinary research to expand the scope of disciplines, enrich research capacity, and deliver a more comprehensive approach to social issues and public policies. We strive to promote knowledge transfer for educational development, professional improvement, policy formulation, and community cohesion in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and Asia.
The Department's faculty members have been recognized for their scholarship with the award of various competitive, peer-reviewed grants, including grants from the Research Grants Council; Public Policy Research Grant and Strategic Public Policy Research Grant (Hong Kong); Australian Research Council (Discovery & Linkage Grant Scheme); National Natural Science Foundation of China; Ministry of Education Academic Research Grants Scheme (Singapore); and the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), among others.
| Year | Project investigator / Coordinator | Project Title | Funding source | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Mr BONG Ngan Wing Adam | Self-efficacy of catering SEN pupils: The impact of service-based learning courses in higher education | Cross-Institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning Support Programme for Service-Learning Action Research 2018 – 2019 (1st Round) | $10,000 |
| 2018 | Prof CHIU Wing Kai Stephen | The Professionalization of Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong Since the SAR: A Social Movement Perspective | General Research Fund | $464,976 |
| 2018 | Dr PEI Qing | Climate change and economic vulnerabilities in early modern China | Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council. | $271,038 |
| 2018 | Dr MA King Hang Matt (Co-Investigator) | 「非物質文化遺產項目—傳統正一儀式：生命禮儀與社區儀式教育及保育計劃」(Intangible Cultural Heritage Item: Traditional Zhengyi Rituals: Rites of Passage and Community Rituals Education and Conservation Project) | Lord Wilson Heritage Trust Fund | |
| 2018 | Dr CHAN Kit Wa Anita | Global Childhoods: Lifeworlds and Educational Success in Australia and Asia | Australian Research Council/Discovery Projects | |
| 2018 | Dr CHAN Kit Wa Anita | Recycling Working Daughters? Hong Kong Older Women’s Divergent Lives and Subjectivities | General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong | |
| 2018 | Dr HO Ka Ki Lawrence | "Home" and "Away" in Hong Kong: How to Utilize Communal Identities for the Sustainable Development of Sports in Hong Kong | Funded by Dean’s Research Fund, May 2018 | |
| 2018 | Dr HO Ka Ki Lawrence | Colonial and Post-colonial Policing: Hong Kong and Macau | Self-funded project, supported by SSC for my Development Leave in March 2018 | |
| 2018 | Professor CHOU Kee Lee | The Effects of Old-age Public Transfer on Older Persons: The Case of Social Pensions in Hong Kong | RGC: General Research Fund | HK$1,658,960 |
| 2018 | Dr Kelvin Cheung Chi Kin | Enhancing Executive Functioning in Children Living in Low-income Families: Cantonese Opera and Social-emotional Learning Intervention 提升低收入家庭兒童的執行職能：粵劇訓練和社交情感學習的介入研究 | RGC: General Research Fund($1,022,550) |