ESRC/RGC Joint Research Scheme - Fifth Round
Proposal No. Proposal Title Hong Kong Principal Investigator/
Institution
UK Principal Investigator/
Institution
Project Duration (month) Total Amount from RGC
(HK$)
ESRC Contribution (80% Full Economic Cost)
(£)
ES/K010107/1 Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code: English and Chinese Perspectives Dr Dechao Li/
PolyU
Dr Richard Xiao/
Lancaster University
18
327,968
79,975
ES/K010255/1 A Cross-Cultural Study of Family Influences on Executive Functions in Late Childhood Prof Florrie Fei-yin Ng/
CUHK
Dr Michelle Ellefson/
University of Cambridge
15
348,200
79,961
ES/K010263/1 Alpha territoriality in Hong Kong and London: The local implications of transnational real estate investment by the super-rich Dr WL Wissink/
CityU
Dr Rowland Atkinson/
University of York
24
350,000
74,546
ES/K01031X/1 Cross Cultural Differences in Biased Cognition Dr Timothea Toulopoulou/
HKU
Dr Jenny Yiend/
King's College London
36
305,050
79,155
ES/K010409/1 (Re)Imagining Youth: A Comparative Sociology of Youth Leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong Dr Allistair Fraser/
HKU
Dr Susan Batchelor/
University of Glasgow
24
349,998
79,986
ES/K010425/1 Language-Specific and Language-General Influences on Reading Comprehension Development: Comparisons between an Alphabetic and Morphographic Script Dr Xiuli Tong/
HKU
Dr Kate Cain/
Lancaster University
12
348,692
79,004
ES/K010433/1 Hong Kong as a Source for Education Policy in England: Rhetoric and Reality Prof Robert Damian Adamson/
HKIEd
Prof Paul Morris/
Institute of Education
24
343,680
78,218
ES/K010468/1 China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s in Global Perspective Dr Priscilla Mary Roberts/
HKU
Prof Odd Arne Westad/
London School of Economics and Political Science
36
177,000
82,713
Total:
2,550,588
633,558