Humanities and Social Sciences Panel (General Research Fund and Other Funding Schemes for Individual Research)
(as at 23 January 2025)
Member Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Gigi Luk* Interests in bilingualism, cognitive development, lifespan development, neuroimaging
Deputy Panel Chairman
Professor Paul Clark* Interests in Contemporary Chinese popular culture, including film and the Cultural Revolution; Contemporary Chinese history
Sub-Panel Chairman
Professor Hua Zhu* Interests in multilingual and intercultural communication and child language
Professor Weiping Wu* Interests in urbanization and migration, urban development and policy, urban infrastructure
Members
Professor Björn Ahl* Interests in Chinese Public Law , Chinese Practice in Public International Law , Legal Transfers and Legal  Culture
Professor Brian James Baer* Interests in theory and practice of translation and cross-cultural communication
Professor Ivica Ico Bukvic* Interests in Immersive Audio, Sonification, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Recontextualizing STEM K-12 Education, Arts + Health
Professor Casey Burkholder* Interests in Participatory visual research methodologies, qualitative and ethnographic research methodologies, cellphilms (cellphone video production); gender; identity, intersectional civic engagement; youth activism; critical social studies education.
Professor Jennifer Chan* Interests in Adult education, Citizenship and democracy, Gender Studies, International and Comparative Education, Multiculturalism, Post-colonial studies
Professor Shirley Chan* Interests in Sinology, Chinese culture, Chinese history, Chinese philosophy, ancient Chinese texts and intellectual history, Chinese excavated texts
Professor Lei Chen* Interests in Comparative private law and international arbitration
Professor Sylvia Xiaohua Chen Interests in personality and social psychology; cultural psychology
Professor May Hung May Cheng Interests in Teacher education and Science education
Professor Alan Cheung Interests in Education Marketization, Higher Education, Quantitative methods, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, School Evaluation, Educational Technology
Professor Sin Yi Cheung* Interests in Migration and refugee integration
Professor May Bo Ching Interests in Social and Cultural History of Modern China, History of South China, Historical Anthropology
Professor Iris Chiu* Interests in Philosophy, Commercial law, Law in context, Private law and civil obligations
Professor Kee Lee Chou Interests in Geriatric psychiatry, Elderly-related policies, Population policy especially immigrant policy, Poverty, welfare reform, income, educational, as well as health inequality and health policy
Professor Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow* Interests in Developmental psychology, with an emphasis on language and literacy development and second language and foreign language learning
Professor Peichi Chung Interests in Game studies, play culture, cultural studies, new media studies, political economy of communication, cultural and creative industries, cultural policy
Professor Joanne Conaghan* Interests in Tort, legal aspects of sexual violence, labour and equality law, jurisprudence and legal theory, human rights, feminism and gender studies
Professor Guobin Cui * Interests in Intellectual property, antitrust, property, and law and economics theory
Professor Cees de Bont* Interests in Management, PhD supervision, Strategic Design
Professor Joseph Dennis* Interests in Pre-modern Chinese studies, History of Chinese legal education and school libraries, History of Chinese print culture, law, and society
Professor Patricia Duff* Interests in Bilingual/multilingual education, Decolonizing methodologies, English as an additional language, Identity, Language Ideologies, Language Planning and Policy, Modern language and heritage language education, Multiliteracy and multimodality
Professor Ronald Egan* Interests in Chinese Poetry, Song dynasty Poetry and literati Culture, the social and historical context of Song dynasty aesthetics
Professor Lianghuo Fan* Interests in Teacher education and professional development in mathematics, Curriculum studies and textbook research in mathematics, Mathematics teaching, learning and assessment
Professor Eric A. Feldman* Interests in Japanese law, comparative public health law, torts law and law and society
Professor Tim Forsyth* Interests in Southeast and South Asia (India; Indonesia; Laos; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam); climate change; environmental policy; social studies of science; social movements and environment; institution and governance
Professor Stuart Gietel-Basten Interests in Population and policy, with a regional focus on Asia
Professor Nan Greenwood* Interests in older people, carers, dementia and stroke, ethnic and cultural diversity
Professor John Haddad* Interests in Ways Americans learned about China in the nineteenth century: museum exhibits, trade objects, travel writing, missionary literature, international expositions, magic lantern shows, and moving pictures
Professor Wen-Jui Han* Interests in Social welfare policy, with an emphasis on children and families; effects of maternal employment and child care on children's cognitive and social and emotional outcomes; impact of welfare reform and child care subsidies on families; precarious parental work, parental work schedules, and child well-being; cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes of children in immigrant families; quantitative research methods; use of large-scale longitudinal data
Professor William Hayward Interests in Cognitive, psychology and cognitive neuroscience, specifically in visual perception of faces and objects, and visual attention
Professor Agnes He* Interests in Applied linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Heritage language
Professor Yi-Hui Christine Huang Interests in Strategic communication management in Chinese societies, Risk communication in health and technology, Crisis communication and management, Relationship management and conflict resolution, Cross-cultural communication
Professor Yunte Huang* Interests in 20th-century American Poetry and poetics, American literature and Transpacific Literature, Translation studies and Modernism
Professor Shirley Suet-lin Hung Interests in Women and Families, Gender and Violence, Social Work Practice: Group Work and Community Development, Narrative Therapy/Collective Narrative Practice
Professor Siu-yung Morris Jong Interests in e-Learning, Mobile Gamified Learning, VR/XR in Education, AI/ STEM Education, Teacher Professional Development on Technology-Enhanced Pedagogies
Professor Rebecca Karl* Interests in Modern China; Intellectual history; women and gender
Professor Ilan Katz* Interests in Parenting, child protection, youth justice, prevention and family support, children, families and communities, comparative child welfare systems, migration, race and ethnicity and evaluation of complex interventions
Professor Suk-Young Kim* Interests in East Asian Performance and Visual Culture, Gender and Nationalism, Korean Cultural Studies, Russian Literature and Slavic Folklore
Professor Jennifer Lau* Interests in Adolescent anxiety and depression, Cognitive biases, Neural substrates of adolescent emotion regulation, Adolescent chronic pain, loneliness
Professor Kimberly J Lau* Interests in Feminist Theory and Gender Studies; Embodiment, Affect, and Identity; Fairy tales, Folklore, and Fantasy; Virtual Worlds; Popular Culture; Discourse Analysis and Ethnographic Methods
Professor Nancy W. Y. Law Interests in Collaborative Learning, Educational Change, Leadership and Administration, Learning Sciences, Technology-enhanced Learning, University-School Partnerships
Professor Tatia Mei-chun Lee Interests in Neuropsychology and human neuroscience, focusing on the neuroplastic underpinnings of neurocognitive and affective functions, especially applicable for older people
Professor Angela Y.M. Leung Interests in Health literacy and health promotion, Technology and aging, Chronic illness prevention, Dementia care, Gerontological nursing
Professor Vincent S. Leung Interests in Intellectual and political history of early China, Historiography and imperialism in early China, Rise of empires in ancient Eurasia, Critical theories and historical methods
Professor Jie Li* Interests in Mediation of memories in modern China
Professor Yu-li Liu* Interests in Communication Law and Ethics, Policy and Regulations of New Media, Media and Communication in the Digital Age, New Media in Greater China, Media Business Model and Marketing Strategy, The Ecology of Telecommunications and Media and Convergence: Opportunities and Challenges
Professor Zhilin Liu* Interests in Urban Policy and Governance, Housing Policy, Urban Social Geography, Sustainable Development, New Institutionalism Theory
Professor Zhao Ma* Interests in Chinese modern history, Urban culture, Women's studies, Film, Politics
Professor Paul Montgomery* Interests in Methodology of Psycho-Social Intervention, Studies and trials related to Behavioural Interventions
Professor Tejaswini Niranjana* Interests in Digital Cultural Studies, Gender and sexuality in Asia, Cultural and social history of Indian music, Music pedagogy; Bilingualism in higher education, Performance studies and performance theory
Professor Michael O’Sullivan* Interests in Comparative literature, humanities education, modernism, phenomenology & literature, literature & philosophy, Irish studies, the philosophy of education, literature and emotions, Michel Henry and James Joyce
Professor Diane Pecorari* Interests in Educational linguistics, English for Academic Purposes and Aspects of second language writing, including source use and intertextuality
Professor Jenny Phillimore* Interests in Access to health, education, employment, training, and housing integration
Professor Anna Puigjaner* Interests in how gender biases are empowered through the built environment, in particular through the relation between domesticity and care
Professor Claire Roberts* Interests in Modern and contemporary Chinese art; the historiography of Chinese art; the history of photography in China; creative flows between China and the world, and between Australia and Asia
Professor James Robson* Interests in History of medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism and is particularly interested in issues of sacred geography, local religious history, talismans, and Chan/Zen Buddhism
Professor Shiho Satsuka* Interests in Politics of knowledge, cultural translation, nature, science, environment, capitalism, tourism, work, commons, subjectivity
Professor Andrew Scharlach* Interests in Systems of Care for Children/ Families/ Older Adults, Aging Policies, Programs and Services, Aging-Friendly Communities, Family Caregiving, Work/ Family Issues, Death, Dying and Bereavement
Professor Shih-Lung Shaw* Interests in transportation, geographic information science, space-time analytics, human dynamics
Professor Xun Shi* Interests in Geographic information systems (GIS), quantitative spatial analysis and modeling, and the geocomputational approach
Professor James Simpson Interests in Language and migration, language education, multilingualism, language policy, creative inquiry in applied linguistics
Professor Kin Wai Michael Siu Interests in Public Design, User Reception, Inclusive Design, Participatory Design, Public Design and Health, Design and Engineering Education
Professor Lois M. Takahashi* Interests in Public and social service delivery to vulnerable populations in the U.S. and in Southeast Asian cities
Professor Beibei Tang* Interests in Local governance, social stratification and state-society relations in urban China
Professor Hongyin Tao* Interests in Mandarin discourse and grammar, applied linguistics, social and cultural linguistics, corpus linguistics. Co-editor of the journal Chinese Language and Discourse and Executive Editor of its companion book series, Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, both with the John Benjamins Publishing Company
Professor Cynthia K. Thompson* Interests in Normal and disordered language and how language recovers in persons with brain damage
Professor George Tsai* Interests in Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy
Professor Fahui Wang* Interests in Spatially-integrated social sciences, public policy and planning (S3P3)
Professor Ping Wang* Interests in Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation
Professor Robert Wicks* Interests in Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant, Existentialism, History of Aesthetics
Professor David Wong* Interests in Population, spatial statistics, Geography of China, Thoughts and Methodology
Professor Laurence James Wood* Interests in Practice based research in Visual Arts, Pictorial 'space' and notions of 'place' and Art and Design curriculum in Higher Education
Professor Dannii Yeung Interests in Aging and work, with emphases on emotional well-being of middle-aged workers, and psychological adjustment to retirement
Professor Lu Yu Interests in positive youth development, quality of life and wellbeing, mental health and behavioral addiction, and family studies
Professor Danhui Zhang* Interests in Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling
Professor Meilan Zhang Interests in the history of Chinese language: the Chan Language; the vocabulary and syntax of Early Modern Chinese Language; Textual collation and criticism on Early Modern Chinese; World history of Chinese Language Education; the Historical Evolution of Common Words in Chinese
Secretary
Ms Milly Ng Assistant Secretary General (Research)1, UGC

*Non-local Members