(as at 30 April 2026)
| Member | Sphere of Interest |
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Chairman |
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Professor Gigi Luk* |
Bilingualism; cognitive development; lifespan development; neuroimaging |
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Deputy Chairman |
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Professor Puiwa Lei* |
Educational psychology; counselling and special education; educational psychology; educational measurement and statistics; psychometrics |
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Members |
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Professor Jinfa Cai* |
Mathematics Education, Educational Assessment and Teacher Education |
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Professor Samuel K. W. Chu |
Game-based learning; gamification in education; 21st century skills / transversal competencies; social media in education; digital literacies; School and academic librarianship; knowledge management and intellectual capital |
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Professor Kevin Kien-hoa Chung |
Developing assessment tools and programs to support the learning, such as literacy and mathematics, and well-being of children and adults with dyslexia and other learning disabilities and vulnerable families through home-school-community partnerships
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Professor Yiqun Gan*
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Health psychology, stress and coping, trauma and resilience |
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Professor Gemma Yang Gao |
Health promotion; disease prevention; disease management; rehabilitation; exercise; physical activity; nutrition; behaviour change; epidemiology; non-communicable disease; obesity; diabetes |
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Professor Piper Gaubatz* |
Urban geography; China; regional development; urban environment, urban form, urban planning |
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Prof Jingwei Alex He |
Public policy and administration, Social policy, Health policy |
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Professor Shenjing He |
Urban Studies and Planning, Urban and Regional Development, Housing Studies, Urban Governance, Urban Geography, Health Geography |
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Professor Pasha L. Hsieh* |
Asian legal and comparative studies; public international law; regional and trade law |
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Professor Ann Katherine Isaacs* |
History, national, transnational and world history; higher education, higher education reform |
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Professor Ilan Katz* |
Social Services/Management, Social Work, Social Policy, Social policy research and evaluation, human service systems |
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Professor Daniel W. L. Lai |
Social work, Public Health (Multicultural/ Multiracial Research, Health/Mental Health, and Gerontology) |
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Professor Wai-yee Li* |
Early Chinese literature and historiography |
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Professor Angel Mei-yi Lin |
Second Language Education, English As an Additional Language Education, Discourse Analysis, Critical Sociolinguistics |
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Professor Wing Hung Carlos Lo |
Public Administration & Political Science, Law, Area Studies (including Japanese Studies, China Studies, European Studies) |
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Professor Edward Yan-yung Ng |
Sustainable design; green architecture; urban climate; thermal comfort; Earth architecture; daylighting; sustainable urban design and planning |
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Professor Jiayan Pan |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Mental Health; Post-migration Growth; Internet-delivered Psychological Intervention |
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Professor Céline Yunya Song |
Global communication, computational social science, cyber-psychology and behaviour |
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Professor Wilson Wai-san Tam* |
Epidemiology, Statistics, Environmental Health, Nursing Research |
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Professor Richard M. Walker |
Effective government, Citizen-government relationships, AI in government, Behavioural public administration, Computational social sciences |
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Professor Hong-biao Yin |
Education: Curriculum Reform, Teacher Emotion, Teacher Change, Learning Environments, Student Motivation, and Learning & Teaching in Higher Education |
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Professor Carine Yiu |
Syntax; semantics; typology; Chinese linguistics (Cantonese); Chinese dialectology |
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Professor Xiaoling Zhang |
Environment Science and Management, Sustainable Production and Consumption; Industry Ecology; Environmental, social and corporate goverance (ESG); Energy economics; Urban sustainablity; Social ecological system; Pro-environmental behaviors |
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Professor Shuhua Zhou |
Media and Communication (audience research, digital news, media effects, and psychology) |
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Secretary |
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Ms Edith CHOI |
Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC |
*Non-local Members