The Department’s faculty members are engaged in research addressing the following areas:
• Business, entrepreneurship and personal finance;
• Climate change;
• Energy sector;
• Gender, family changes, and migration
• Global and regional development;
• Public governance;
• Social and public policies;
• Urban, environment, and sustainability;
• Youth, employment, and social mobilities
The Department's faculty are widely published in distinguished international journals and with leading publishing houses.
The Department holds regular research seminars and hosts various research seminars provided by local and international visiting scholars.
| Year | Author / Editor | Title | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Jiang, D., Tang, V. F. Y., Kahlon, M., Chow, E. O. W., Yeung, D. Y. L., Aubrey, R., & Chou, K. L. | Effects of wisdom-enhancement narrative-therapy and empathy-focused interventions on loneliness over 4 weeks among older adults: A randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. |  |
| 2024 | Tang, V. F. Y., & Chou, K. L. | An exploratory study on material deprivation and loneliness among older adults in Hong Kong. BMC Geriatrics, 24: 400. | |
| 2024 | HARRIS, P. G. | COP28: Loss and damage, fossil fuels and the limits of climate diplomacy | |
| 2023 | GUO, H. & <strong>CHIU, W. K. S.</strong> | Parents’ perceptions of education and culture as a context of parental stress: A study of parents of preschool children in Hong Kong | |
| 2023 | <strong>CHU, M. Y. A.</strong>, OMORI, Y., SO, H. & SO, M. K. P. | A multivariate randomized response model for sensitive binary data | |
| 2023 | HO, K. T. H., KWOK, W. H. P., CHANG, S. S-Y. & CHU, M. Y. A. | Gaps between attitudes and behavior in the use of disposable plastic tableware (DPT) and factors influencing sustainable DPT consumption: A study of Hong Kong undergraduates | |
| 2023 | CHAN, K. W. A. & FANG, T. S. | Negotiating masculinity in a post-socialist society: The case of Chinese male nurses | |
| 2023 | NGAN, L. L. S. & CHAN, K. W. A. | Gender equality or just more involved fathering? A critical examination of the division of childcare in Hong Kong’s professional middle-class families | |
| 2023 | ZHAO, C., WANG, X., CHEUNG, T. Y. P. & XU, J. | Influence of external authorities on collaborative frictions | |
| 2023 | XIANG, N. & CHIU, W. K. S. | The school matters: Hong Kong secondary schools’ grade-retention composition, students’ educational performance, and educational inequality | |