| Member |
Sphere
of Interest |
| Chairman |
| Professor
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia* |
History
of the Protestant Reformation, Catholic
Renewal, anti-Semitism, and the encounter
between Europe and Asia |
| Sub-Panel
Chairman |
| Professor
Jane Duckett* |
Contemporary
Chinese politics, especially welfare,
social security, and health policy and
politics; comparative social policy
and welfare state politics; comparative
politics of development |
| Professor
Maria M. Pinango* |
Neurolinguistivs;
psycholinguistics; cognitive science;
cognitive neuroscience; cognitive neuropsychology |
| Professor
Julien O. Teitler* |
Maternal
and child health; teen fertility; health
disparities; social inequality; family
policy; research methods |
| Members |
| Professor
Chris Berry* |
Cinema
role in the production of national,
transnational, and local cultures and
identities; the connection between cinematic
forms and socio-political developments |
| Professor
John P Burns |
Public
sector human resource management; civil
service reform; party-state relations
and public sector reform |
| Professor
Allen R. Carlson* |
International
relations, Chinese foreign policy and
Asian security |
| Professor
Cecilia LW Chan, JP |
NGO
management; empowerment; program evaluation;
health and social work; psychosocial
oncology; hopsice and bereavement; clinical
psychology, positive psychology, stress |
| Professor
Joseph M Chan |
Intersection
of International Communication, Political
Communication and Journalism Studies |
| Professor
Catherine McBride-Chang |
Studies
of development, including longitudinal
studies, studies on children in general,
and age-related contrasts within a proposed
study design |
| Professor
Lei Chang |
Evolutionary
psychology, child social development,
and applied psychometrics |
| Professor
Sheung-tak Cheng |
Psychology
of aging; Intergenerational relations;
Caregiving; Long-term care |
| Professor
Martha PY Cheung |
Translation
studies; literature; comparative literature |
| Professor
Paul Clark* |
Chinese
films and popular culture, including
culture during the Cultural Revolution
(1966-1976); Chinese youth culture;
Beijing since 1949 |
| Professor
Mark E. Courtney* |
Child
welfare policy and services, welfare
reform, welfare-to-work programs, and
the professionalization of social work |
| Professor
Jacques deLisle* |
Chinese
law, politics and foreign policy; law
and politics of Taiwan-China and China-Hong
Kong relations; international law |
| Professor
Frank Dikotter |
Cultural
and social history of modern China,
including gender, 'race', crime and
punishment, drugs, material objects,
photography |
| Professor
C Cindy Fan* |
Population,
migration, household strategies, regional
development and policy, inequality,
gender, ethnicity in North America,
post-Mao China |
| Professor
Ray Forrest |
Urban
sociology; ; the political economy of
cities; social policy; housing policy;
housing markets and the macro economy |
| Professor
Gary G Hamilton* |
Economic
sociology; comparative and historical
sociology; political sociology; social
theory and complex organization |
| Professor
Emily Hannum* |
Education,
social stratification, poverty and child
welfare, gender and ethnicity, economic
development, Chinese society |
| Professor
Chu-ren Huang |
Computational
linguistics, lexical semantics, ontology,
corpus linguistics, language archives |
| Professor
Nina Lam* |
Geographic
Information Systems; Remote Sensing;
Spatial Analysis; Medical Geography,
Regional Interest in China |
| Professor
James Z. Lee |
Family
sociology; social stratification; demography;
Chinese history; social and economic
history; access to elite education |
| Professor
Thomas Hung-tak Lee |
Language
acquisition; syntax amd semantics; Chinese
linguistics |
| Professor
Puiwa Lei* |
Statistics,
psychometrics, structural equation modeling,
item response theory |
| Professor
Yee Leung |
Spatial
decision support systems; expert systems
and artificial intelligence; geographical
information systems and remote sensing;
theory and application of mathematical
methods to spatial analysis and planning |
| Professor
Wai-yee Li* |
Early
China, cultural history; Chinese literature;
comparative literature |
| Professor
T. Wing Lo |
Criminology
(organised crime, corruption, gangs,
offender rehabilitation, youth justice,
restorative justice); Social Work (group
counseling, youth work and youth services) |
| Professor
Kam H Louie |
Chinese
literature; gender studies; cultural
studies |
| Professor
Tai-lok Lui |
Formation
of the middle classes in East Asia;
industrial restructuring; economic sociology |
| Professor
Magdalena Mo-ching Mok |
Measurement;
assessment and evaluation; psychometrics
and educational research methods |
| Professor
Edward Y Ng |
Environmental
and sustainable design; solar radiation,
solar access, sky types and daylight
design; urban air ventilation and urban
climatology for city planning; outdoor
human thermal comfort studies |
| Professor
On-cho Ng* |
Intellectual
history of Late Imperial China; Confucian
hermeneutics; Confucian historiography;
Confucian religiosity |
| Professor
Alan J Plattus* |
Civic
pageantry; the history of cities; contemporary
American architecture and urbanism;
architecture and urbanism in Asia (especially
China); sustainable urban design |
| Professor
Daniel TL Shek, BBS, JP |
Youth
work, family service, mental health,
prevention, mental health edcuation |
| Professor
Winnie WM So |
Science
education; inquiry learning and integrating
IT in science education/ general studies;
project-based learning and teacher development |
| Professor
Nan Sussman* |
Cultural
and nonverbal behaviour, cultural transitions
among sojourners, immigration, acculturation
and health, remigration of immigrants |
| Professor
Tony HW Tam |
Social
inequality, sociology of education,
economic sociology |
| Professor
Michael J. Tilbury |
The
law of remedies, private law, conflict
of laws, comparative law and legal system |
| Professor
Bosco S. Tjan* |
Object
recognition; scene perception; letter
identification; reading; spatial vision;
bayesian ideal observers; signal detection
theory; visual psychophysics; neural
imaging (fMRI) |
| Professor
Angelina Yuen Tsang, BBS, JP |
Social
support networks and community care;
social work education; social work practice
in China; occupational social work |
| Professor
Lynn T. White* |
China;
Comparative revolutions and reforms,
and comparative organization |
| Professor
Stephen HS Wong |
Nutritional
and metabolic aspects of exercise; Fluid
replacement and exercise performance;
Promotion of physical activity and health |
| Professor
Edwin ML Yiu |
Voice
science and disorders; efficacy of voice
therapy; voice motor learning; acoustic,
perceptual and physiological correlates
of voice qualities; alternative and
complementary medicine in voice therapy |
| Secretary |
| Mrs
Alice Sham |
Assistant
Secretary General (Research)1, UGC. |
