| School-based Initiatives |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Albert PARK |
Cohort Comparison of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills and School-to-Work Transitions in Rual China |
HK$111,400 |
2014 |
| Naubahar SHARIF |
Multinationals’ International Patenting Strategies in Developing Economies |
HK$109,650 |
2014 |
| Jin WANG |
To Break the Poerty Trap: The Effects of China’s Western Development Strategy on Local Economy |
HK$68,800 |
2014 |
| Xiaogang WU |
The Role of Marriage and the Family in Contemporary Chinese Stratification |
HK$45,000 |
2014 |
| Naubahar SHARIF |
Exploiting Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Policymaking: Hong Kong and Investment in the Pearl River Delta Region |
HK$153,000 |
2013 |
| David ZWEIG |
The 1000 Talents Program: Is China bringing back the best? |
HK$132,000 |
2013 |
| Naubahar SHARIF |
The Value of Networks in Hong Kong Science and Technology Park: An In-Depth Case-Based Empirical Study of Network Linkages |
HK$30,000 |
2012 |
| Ming SING |
Public Support for Democracy: Duration of Democratic Regimes & General Governance |
HK$50,000 |
2012 |
| Jin WANG |
The Effects of Ownership and Business Environment on Firm Performance: Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Countries versus China |
HK$60,000 |
2012 |
| Barry SAUTMAN |
The Politics of Chinese Business Engagement in Africa: Commercial Regimes in Three Countries |
HK$48,400 |
2012 |
| Xiaogang WU |
Ethnic stratification in transitional China |
HK$33,100 |
2011 |
| John Z MA |
Trends and patterns of migration and schizophrenia in Guangzhou |
HK$33,100 |
2011 |
| Ming SING |
A holistic analysis of democratic breakdown in the world (1946-2003) |
HK$60,000 |
2011 |
| Satoru SHIMOKAWA |
Revisiting the benefits of air pollution control in developing countries: perspectives of agricultural outcome and sectoral inequality |
HK$35,000 |
2011 |
| Michelle YIK |
On defining “feeling good” |
HK$50,000 |
2010 |
| Michelle YIK |
Happiness is a choice |
HK$164,400 |
2008 |
 |
|
UGC – Government’s Matching Grant Scheme
|
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| David ZWEIG |
Conference on resource diplomacy under hegemony |
HK$37,500 |
2011 |
|
| UGC – Strategic Initiatives |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Erik BAARK |
The Political Economy of Eco-innovation in China and Europe:
A Comparative Analysis of Transition Management Issues |
HK$354,000 |
2011 |
| Naubahar SHARIF |
Innovation system and policies for innovative entrepreneurship in Hong Kong |
HK$146,000 |
2011 |
|
| UGC – Targets of Opportunity |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Raymond Sin Kwok WONG |
Hong Kong Study of Undergraduate Learning (HK SOUL): A Panel Study |
HK$360,000 |
2010 |
| Xiaogang WU |
Hong Kong Adolescents and Youth Life Survey : A Pilot Panel Study |
HK$380,000 |
2010 |
| Edward Jow-Ching TU |
The Study of the Long-term Relationship between Mortality, Climatic Conditions and Air Pollution |
HK$360,000 |
2010 |
|
| UGC – Special Research Fund Initiative |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Xiaogang WU |
Social science survey research infrastructure initiatives at HKUST |
HK$400,000 |
2011 |
|
| RGC – General Research Fund |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Cameron CAMPBELL |
Between The Old and the New: Marriage in Rural China During the Middle of the 20th Century |
HK$1,143,500 |
2017-2018 |
| David ZWEIG |
Has Technology Transfer remained a driver of China’s reverse migration? |
HK$496,000 |
2017-2018 |
| Xiaogang WU |
Swimming Against the Tide: Public-Private Partnership in Water Sector in China |
HK$775,600 |
2017-2018 |
| Hye Jee CHO |
Multilateral Lending and Corruption in Developing Countries: The Case of the IMF |
HK$262,000 |
2017-2018 |
| Kellee S TSAI |
The Political Economy of Urbanization in the Context of China’s New Normal |
HK$278,200 |
2017-2018 |
| Guojun HE |
The Economic Impacts of Water Quality Monitoring in China |
HK$364,876 |
2017-2018 |
| Albert PARK |
The Demand for Tasks and Skills in China and the World |
HK$617,253 |
2017-2018 |
| Ming SING |
Explaining the Public Support for Democracy in Hong Kong: Revaluation after the Umbrella Movement |
HK$554,000 |
2016-2017 |
| Kellee S TSAI |
Social Media Campaigns in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas? |
HK$644,698 |
2016-2017 |
| Xiaogang WU |
“Ethnic” Enclaves, Migrant Settlement, and Socio-spatial Differentiation in Metropolitan Shenzhen, 2000-2010 |
HK$436,476 |
2016-2017 |
| Alvin Y. SO |
Anti-Mainland Protests in Hong Kong: A Social Movement Analysis |
HK$466,000 |
2016-2017 |
| Eva CHEN |
Friend or foe? Person perception in preschool children across cultures |
HK$486,260 |
2016-2017 |
| Yongshun CAI |
State and Conflict Resolution in China: The Case of Medical Disputes |
HK$497,465 |
2016-2017 |
| Michelle YIK |
On the relationship between valence and arousal in subjective experience: Modeling cultural and personality variations |
HK$773,680 |
2016-2017 |
| Xiaogang WU |
The Dynamics of Ethnic Stratification amid China’s Economic Transition |
HK$683,148 |
2015-2016 |
| Raymond WONG |
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? Cross-National and Temporal Variations in Occupational Hierarchies |
HK$574,000 |
2015-2016 |
| David ZWEIG |
Coming Home: Reverse Migration of Entrepreneurs and Academics in India and Turkey in Light of the Chinese Experience |
HK$974,387 |
2015-2016 |
| James Z LEE |
Fanshen Revisited: New Perspectives on Land Reform and Rural Collectivization in North China, 1945-1965 |
HK$410,000 |
2015-2016 |
| James Z LEE |
Human Agency and Population Behavior in Historical and Comparative Perspective: New Discoveries from East Asian Panel Data |
HK$637,992 |
2014-2015 |
| Eva CHEN |
The impact of social group membership on Hong Kong Chinese children’s learning and socializing preferences |
HK$524,423 |
2014-2015 |
| Zhongdong MA |
Return Migration and Urbanization in China |
HK$1,293,000 |
2014-2015 |
| Kellee S TSAI |
Local Development and Ethnic Capital in China and India |
HK$850,000 |
2014-2015 |
| Albert PARK |
Longitudinal Study of School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China |
HK$1,000,00 |
2014-2016 |
| Naubahar SHARIF |
Industrial Structures and the Promotion of Collaboration among Regional Clusters: An Analysis of Hong Kong and Tokyo |
HK$388,517 |
2014-2016 |
| Carsten A HOLZ |
The Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan, China |
HK$780,000 |
2013 |
| Barry SAUTMAN |
Going Local While Going Global?: Chinese Enterprise Localization in Africa and in Comparative Perspective |
HK$731,868 |
2013 |
| Kevin K P TAM |
Understanding how values are transmitted in families facing cross-cultural transition |
HK$574,000 |
2013 |
| Jane ZHANG |
“Can the State Influence Beliefs, Preferences or Behavior through Textbooks?” |
HK$493,100 |
2013 |
| John Z MA |
Who Is Migrating and Who Are Left Behind? Social Consequences of Labor Migration in Rural China |
HK$586,084 |
2012-2013 |
| Albert PARK |
Rising Labor Demand(s), Employment, and Industrial Upgrading: The Pearl River Delta Firm-Worker Pilot Survey |
HK$796,933 |
2012-2013 |
| Raymond Sin Kwok WONG |
Contemporary Changes in the American Occupational Structure |
HK$484,605 |
2012-2013 |
| Xiaogang WU |
Consequences of Internal and Cross-border Migration in China for Children: A Mainland-Hong Kong Comparison |
HK$1,150,000 |
2011- 2014 |
| James Kai-Sing KUNG |
Partible Inheritance and Landed Wealth: Commercialization, Family Structure, and Distributive Consequences in Late Imperial China |
HK$969,383 |
2011-2014 |
| James LEE |
Differentiating Community and Family Contextual Influences on
Socioeconomic Attainment and Demographic Behavior: Shuangcheng, 1855-1911 |
HK$1,260,460 |
2011- 2014 |
| Wenkai HE |
Public Interest and Institutional Development in the Early Modern State: England (1550-1688), Japan (1700-1890), and China (1700-1890) |
HK$478,260 |
2011- 2014 |
| Kevin K P TAM |
Anthropomorphizing nature and pro-environmental behavior |
HK$446,972 |
2011- 2014 |
| James Kai-Sing KUNG |
The Political Economy of China’s “Great Leap Famine”, 1959-1961:
An Intra-provincial Analysis of Excess Mortality Variations |
HK$601,019 |
2011- 2013 |
| Xiaogang WU |
Higher Education, Elite Formation, and Social Stratification in Contemporary China |
HK$1,205,568 |
2011- 2013 |
| Ming SING |
Asian Values and Cultural Democratization: A Retest of the Asian Values Thesis |
HK$496,973 |
2010- 2012 |
| David ZWEIG |
Resource diplomacy under Hegemony |
HK$623,392 |
2010- 2013 |
| Raymond Sin Kwok WONG |
Social Stratification and Mobility in East Asia: A Comparative Study of China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan |
HK$1,027,180 |
2009- 2011 |
| Kevin K P TAM |
What values do parents prefer in their children? The role of social norms |
HK$661,520 |
2009- 2011 |
| Xiaogang WU |
Social Mobility and Stratification Dynamics in China Since Mid-1990s |
HK$661,520 |
2008 |
|
| RGC – Direct Allocation Grant |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| John Z MA |
Skilled International Migration to China in the Later 2000s: Explaining Migrants’ Destination Choice by Personal Factors and City Attributes |
HK$30,000 |
2012 |
| Agnes KU |
Cultural and Spatial Practices in the Preservation Movement in Hong Kong |
HK$42,000 |
2012 |
| Barry SAUTMAN |
China in Africa’s agricultural development |
HK$70,000 |
2011 |
| Jin WANG |
The impact of special economic zone on regional economy: micro-evidence from China |
HK$103,300 |
2010 |
| Hye Jee CHO |
Income Inequality, Political Stability, and Development: The implications of country creditworthiness
and income inequality on economic growth |
HK$100,000 |
2010 |
| Barry SAUTMAN |
The politics of localization of Chinese enterprises in Africa |
HK$35,000 |
2010 |
| Carsten A HOLZ |
Chinese statistics |
HK$25,000 |
2010 |
| Yi ZHU |
Child care and the labor supply of women in China |
HK$106,800 |
2010 |
| Li HAN |
Stock market and economic development: causal evidence from local OTC markets in China |
HK$106,800 |
2009 |
| Hye Jee CHO |
Do IMF programs discipline budget deficits? The effects of IMF programs on government budget balance, expenditure, and revenue |
HK$106,800 |
2009 |
| Barry SAUTMAN |
Ethnic Tibetan Cadres in Tibet’s development |
HK$62,858 |
2009 |
| Gerald R PATCHELL |
Japanese origins |
HK$60,000 |
2009 |
|
| CPU – Strategic Public Policy Research |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Xiaogang WU |
Hong Kong panel study of social dynamics (HK-PSSD) |
HK$3,960,000 |
2009 |
|
| CPU – Public Policy Research |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Jimin ZHAO |
Low Carbon Transport Futures in Hong Kong and Shenzhen |
HK$784,776 |
2012- 2014 |
| Naubahar SHARIF |
Tracking Knowledge-Transfer from Universities to Society in Hong Kong’s Innovation System |
HK$372,000 |
2010- 2012 |
| Raymond Sin Kwok WONG |
Occupational segregation, anti-discrimination policies, & gender inequality in Hong Kong |
HK$313,950 |
2009- 2011 |
|
| European Commission |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| Erik BAARK |
Supporting the EU access to Chinese research & innovation programmes |
HK$270,627 |
2010 |
|
| VPRGO’s Departmental Discretionary Fund |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
Amount |
Date |
| John Z MA |
Migration and Schizophrenia: a pilot study in Guangzhou |
HK$100,000 |
2012 |
