No-one would dispute the need to protect our ecological environment and achieve sustainable development. At the same time, there are growing social and economic demands for expanding development in housing, transport, and other public infrastructures. Balancing development and environment often involves a tradeoff. Reclamation, and using lands within green belt zones and at the fringe of country parks, or even part of the Fanling golf club, for housing development are highly controversial. Are we caught in an irreconcilable dilemma?
Mr. WANG Chaowei and Mr. CHEN Zijun, the students from the Master of Arts in Personal Finance Education Programme [MA(PFE)], won the Outstanding Award in the Quest for Securities & Investment Elites (QSIE) Case Analysis Competition 2022 on 26 November 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic has lasted much longer than most people expected when it first broke out in early 2020. The World Health Organization chief recently said that “We are not there yet, but the end is in sight.” (14 September 2022). While scepticism and uncertainty remain as to how soon that end will come, most countries are making their way back to normal; borders are reopened, and social restrictions lifted for the sake of economic revival. Hong Kong is caught in a conundrum where its Covid regime seems neither here nor there—not stringent enough for reopening to the mainland and too stringent for reconnecting to the world. A policy breakthrough is needed otherwise the city risks losing its vibrancy and international competitiveness. Hence the newly relaxed “0+3” requirement for inbound visitors is a much-welcomed step forward. But is it enough? Is an endgame in sight?
Stanford University recently released an updated list representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines. Among which, four scholars from the Department of Asian and Policy Studies of The Education University of Hong Kong, Chair Prof Stephen Y.L. CHEUNG, Chair Prof CHOU Kee-lee, Prof WOO Chi-keung, Dr He Jingwei Alex are listed in the list of top 2% scientists in Finance, Gerontology, Energy, and Political Science and Public Administration, respectively.
Professor Stephen Y.L. CHEUNG is ranked 174 out of 9,782 scientists in the field of Finance, with a C Score (self-citations excluded, similarly hereinafter) of 3.36 (composite indicator for career-long impact). Highly active in academic research, Prof Stephen Y.L. CHEUNG specializes in corporate finance, investment, and financial market development, and has published widely in international refereed journals. He has been the President of EdUHK since 2016.
Professor CHOU Kee-lee is ranked 17 out of 3,882 scientists in the field of Gerontology, with a C Score of 3.87 (composite indicator for career-long impact). Prof CHOU has published over 170 papers in the areas of geriatric psychiatry, elderly policies, population policy, immigrant policy, poverty, welfare reforms, income inequality, and health policy. He has conducted numerous policy research projects funded by the Research Grant Council (RGC) and the Central Policy Unit (Predecessor of Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office) of The HKSAR government.
Prof WOO Chi-keung is ranked 2,387 out of 321,394 scientists in the field of Energy, with a C Score of 3.22 (composite indicator for career-long impact). Which reflects his widely cited papers on energy economics and applied microeconomics. Prof Woo has won a General Research Fund project, a Teaching Development Grant, a Public Policy Research project, five faculty research prizes, and a gold medal for Online Assessment System for Individual Scores (OASIS) in the International Innovation and Invention Competition (IIIC) Taiwan 2020 and the 2021 Special Edition – Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days.
Dr He Jingwei, Alex is ranked 823 out of 26,717 scientists in the field of Political Science and Public Administration, with a C Score of 2.7 (composite indicator for single-year Impact). Dr He specializes in public policy analysis, health policy and governance, and social policy reforms, with a particular focus on East Asia. Dr He is also the Associate Editor of Policy and Society and Journal of Asian Public Policy.
This recognition places APS on the global map of excellence in various disciplines and brings great pride to the EdUHK. APS looks forward to seeing our faculty members’ research output help contribute to social change.
*The c-score focuses on impact (citations) rather than productivity (number of publications) and it also incorporates information on co-authorship and author positions (single, first, last author). Also. The above c-scores are self-citations excluded.
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This book is a graduation present (at least a belated one) from us, the editors and the department to you.
We all know OUR programme is ending, but it does not mean we must say farewell in tears. This book is our more fun way of recording the growth and progress that we have all been through together. In this book, you will find your stories re-imagined in the different chapters. We follow BA(LSE) as if it was a person on an adventure to the end.
Feel free to go through the book by skipping to the chapter you like. Or you could start from the beginning, where you will experience the memories of the programme from the beginning to the end. We hope you enjoy this memory book!