Humanities and Social Sciences Panel (Joint Research Schemes)
(as at 30 April 2026)
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 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

Prof Jingwei Alex He

Public policy and administration, Social policy, Health policy

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 Ilan Katz*

Social Services/Management, Social Work, Social Policy, Social policy research and evaluation, human service systems

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 Wing Hung Carlos Lo

Public Administration & Political Science, Law, Area Studies (including Japanese Studies, China Studies, European Studies)

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 Richard M. Walker

Effective government, Citizen-government relationships, AI in government, Behavioural public administration, Computational social sciences

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 Edith CHOI

Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC

*Non-local Members