On 14 April 2025, the Year 2 Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) students in Social Entrepreneurship and Development studies came together for a milestone event – the Capstone Project Pitching Presentation. This presentation marked the culmination of months of ambition stages, all the way to developing pitches for investors.
The presentation brought together students, faculty members and special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges, including: Mr Jason Cheung (Co-founder of Edutainment), Ms Joyce Wong (Co-founder and Director of Better Futures), Mr Edwin Li (Assistant Entrepreneurship Development Manager of Knowledge Transfer Sub-Office, The Education University of Hong Kong) and the course instructor Mr Cyron Chan (Executive Director of MakerBay).
Each team was tasked with identifying a social issue, researching, creating the solution and designing sustainable social enterprise models. The presentation served as the final platform to showcase their work as academic projects and viable, scalable interventions to create lasting social impact.
🎉 Congratulations to our winning teams:
🥇 1st Place – Neuroplay Labs, awarded cash prize of HK$3,000.
🥈 2nd Place – DigiZero, awarded cash prize of HK$2,000.
🥉 3rd Place – Dream Portal, awarded a cash prize of HK$1,000.
We thank our SEDS students for their hard work, creativity, and commitment to making a difference.
Hong Kong faces various demographic challenges including an ageing society, decline in birth rate, middle-class brain drain, and talent and labour shortage. As early as 2002, a government task force recommended setting population policy targets to respond to changing demographic conditions and market situations. How has Hong Kong's population policy fared over the past two decades — to address demographic issues, reorganise and improve services, and groom and attract a broad range of talent necessary for social and economic development?
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).
The award-winning project is "On-Campus Project of "Training the Trainer" to enhance the Financial Well-being of the Hong Kong Society." The project aimed to equip student educators with financial knowledge and pedagogical skills, and to allow them to create educational materials and financial education activities on campus and in the community.
香港教育大學社會科學與政策研究學系於2月27日至3月2日聯同AspirE聯合舉辦 “The challenges and future of transnational mobility”工作坊。工作坊吸引來自亞洲、歐洲、大洋洲及北美洲共14個國家，36位學者參與。
歐盟駐港澳辦事處主任盧效偉大使、香港教育大學副校長（研究與發展）陳智軒教授、博文及社會科學學院院長李偉強教授、社會科學與政策研究學系署理系主任胡智勇副教授出席2月28日舉行的開幕典禮。盧效偉大使提到歐盟致力與香港緊密合作，共同應對有關移民的問題。而Horizon Europe研究計劃提供獨特機會，促進知識交流、推動創新，並共同應對移民所帶來的挑戰。
陳智軒副校長在致詞時歡迎來自世界各地的與會者出席。他認為，透過舉辦此工作坊，一眾青年學者及國際知名學者互相交流，在會議上分享見解及研究成果，促進對跨國流動、移民政策及相關議題的探討。
為期兩日的專題討論涵蓋社會網絡圖譜、跨國聯繫與移民網絡，以及技術移民與人才政策為主題。客席研究講座教授、前副校長（研究與發展）呂大樂教授JP、胡智勇副教授，及學系副主任（研究）陳潔華副教授亦出席工作坊，為兩日專題討論擔任討論嘉賓及主持。
AspirE項目首席研究員、比利時法語區科學研究基金會研究員、布魯塞爾自由大學高級講師Asuncion Fresnoza-Floz博士；意大利團隊首席研究員、米蘭大學Paola Bonizzoni教授；芬蘭團隊首席研究員、芬蘭科學院研究員、坦佩雷大學高級講師Mari Korpela博士；菲律賓團隊首席研究員、Scalabrini Migration Center主任、Asian and Pacific Migration Journal編輯Maruja M.B. Asis博士擔任第二日專題討論的討論嘉賓。這場促進了國際化與包容性的跨國、跨文化學術交流，並將持續成為本系的標誌性特色。
香港教育大學社會科學與政策研究學系於2月27日至3月2日聯同AspirE聯合舉辦 “The challenges and future of transnational mobility”工作坊。工作坊吸引來自亞洲、歐洲、大洋洲及北美洲共14個國家，36位學者參與。
Dear Colleagues,
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.
This remarkable outcome attests to Dr Chu's excellence in and long-term dedication to pursuing impactful research.
Please join me in congratulating Dr Chu on this well-deserved recognition and funding success. Her hard work and commitment to advancing healthcare research serve as an inspiration to us all.
Well done, Dr Chu!
Best,
Fox