Humanities and Social Sciences Panel (Joint Research Schemes)
(as at 12 March 2025)
Member Sphere of Interest

Chairman

Professor Gigi Luk*

Bilingualism; cognitive development; lifespan development; neuroimaging

Deputy Chairman

Professor Puiwa Lei*

Educational psychology; counselling and special education; educational psychology; educational measurement and statistics; psychometrics

Members

Professor Jinfa Cai*

Mathematics Education, Educational Assessment and Teacher Education

Professor Dennis Kat-hung Cheng

Sinology and sinological studies across history, philosophy and literature

Professor Yin-cheong Cheng

Education reforms, education management, paradigm shift in education, teacher education, innovation and creativity

Professor Bonnie Wing-yin Chow*

Developmental psychology with an emphasis on language and literacy development and second language and foreign language learning

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

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

 

Professor Yiqun Gan*

 

Health psychology, stress and coping, trauma and resilience

Professor Gemma Yang Gao

Health promotion; disease prevention; disease management; rehabilitation; exercise; physical activity; nutrition; behaviour change; epidemiology; non-communicable disease; obesity; diabetes

Professor Piper Gaubatz*

Urban geography; China; regional development; urban environment, urban form, urban planning

Professor Shenjing He

Urban Studies and Planning, Urban and Regional Development, Housing Studies, Urban Governance, Urban Geography, Health Geography

Professor Pasha L. Hsieh*

Asian legal and comparative studies; public international law; regional and trade law

Professor Ann Katherine Isaacs*

History, national, transnational and world history; higher education, higher education reform

Professor Daniel W. L. Lai

Social work, Public Health (Multicultural/ Multiracial Research, Health/Mental Health, and Gerontology)

Professor Wai-yee Li*

Early Chinese literature and historiography

Professor Angel Mei-yi Lin

Second Language Education, English As an Additional Language Education, Discourse Analysis, Critical Sociolinguistics

Professor Edward Yan-yung Ng

Sustainable design; green architecture; urban climate; thermal comfort; Earth architecture; daylighting; sustainable urban design and planning

Professor Jiayan Pan

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Mental Health; Post-migration Growth; Internet-delivered Psychological Intervention

Professor Céline Yunya Song

Global communication, computational social science, cyber-psychology and behaviour

Professor Wilson Wai-san Tam*

Epidemiology, Statistics, Environmental Health, Nursing Research

Professor William Shiyuan Wang

Cognitive decline due to aging; evolutionary linguistics; language endangerment

Professor Hong-biao Yin

Education: Curriculum Reform, Teacher Emotion, Teacher Change, Learning Environments, Student Motivation, and Learning & Teaching in Higher Education

Professor Carine Yiu

Syntax; semantics; typology; Chinese linguistics (Cantonese); Chinese dialectology

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

Professor Shuhua Zhou

Media and Communication (audience research, digital news, media effects, and psychology)

Secretary

Ms Milly NG

Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC

*Non-local Members