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Content Page Volume 4 BSocSc (Hons) Programme NEWSLETTER November 2015 Welcome to the fourth issue of our Newsletter. Here you will find all the updates from our Programme. We welcome contributions and suggestions! See the last page of this newsletter for contact information. Content Page People _____________________________________ page 2-4 Research ___________________________________ page 5—6 Seminar/Talk/Distinguished Lecture______________ page 7—9 Event Highlights _____________________________ page 10—14 Announcement _____________________________ page 15—16 Students’ Achievements ______________________ page 17—20 Students’ Activities __________________________ page 21—22 Content Page 1 ASSOCIATE DEANS, FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Professor CHAN Hau-nung, Annie Professor DAVID Roman Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies Associate Dean, Research & Postgraduate Studies Faculty of Social Sciences Programme Director, BSocSc Programme We are pleased to share with you that with effect from 16 August 2015, Professor Chan Hau-nung, Annie and Professor David Roman have been respectively appointed as the Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) and Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies) of the Faculty of Social Sciences. People 2 New Comers to our Faculty It has been my privilege to join the Lingnan family, the only liberal arts university in Hong Kong. Before joining Lingnan, I was the Vice President (Research and Development) of The Hong Kong Institute of Education, and had been the Associate Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong, and the Founding Chair Professor in East Asian Studies of the University of Bristol. I completed my undergraduate studies in the City University of Hong Kong, and received an MPhil and PhD in Sociology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The London School of Economics and Political Science respectively. Working across disciplines of sociology, political science, and public and social policy, I have published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, comparative development and policy studies, and social development in contemporary China and East Asia. I look forward to working with you together in making Lingnan University a preferred place for learning, research and services. Professor MOK Ka-ho, Joshua Vice President Chair Professor of Comparative Policy Department of Sociology & Social Policy I am delighted to be at Lingnan University amongst a vibrant student population and accomplished and informed faculty. I have been made most welcome in my first few months and feel very much at home on campus. I am originally from the UK obtaining my undergraduate degree from Liverpool University, and an MA from Exeter. I completed my PhD at the University Of Queensland researching Muslim youth in Hong Kong. I went on to publish my first book ‘Islam in Hong Kong’ with Hong Kong University Press in 2012. Before joining Lingnan I taught in Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I have diverse research interests but my key projects involve a focus on ethnic and religious minorities, Islam, cultural hybridity, and skateboarding subculture. I am presently teaching Urban Sociology, Risk Society and Modernity, and Qualitative Methods. I have lived in Hong Kong for the last 13 years. My wife and three sons are all Hong Kong born. I really enjoy talking and meeting with students so feel free to talk to Professor O’CONNOR Paul James me about any projects or interests you may have. Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Sociology & Social Policy People 3 Twenty years at Lingnan: words from retiring faculty, Professor Lok Sang HO Prof. Lok Sang HO, Economics Department P.2 Former Head, Department of Economics Author of Public Policy and the Public Interest; Psychology and Economics of Happiness; Health Policy and the Public Interest; Human Spirituality and Happiness I joined Lingnan in 1995. At the time the Department of Economics was just born, and the Centre for Public Policy Studies was born a year before then, with an outgoing Director who was a preeminent political scientist and policy analyst who was on sabbatical from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I was to head the Economics Department as well as the Centre for Public Policy Studies. While excited about a new start, there was also trepidation, because I had to earn my substantiation all over again. I must be lucky to have joined Lingnan in 1995 though. At the time, the pressure to publish in designated journals was non-existent, and although I always believe in my ability to produce original and good research, publishing in designated top journals can never be taken for granted. Moreover, I would only do research on areas of interest to me, especially on working out policy designs to deal with real world problems. Even worse, my work is all over the place: housing, labour market issues, health, international finance, macroeconomics, regional economics, social security, even democracy. The then Dean of Social Sciences Prof. Y.Y.Kueh warned me “not to spread too thin.” But I preferred to stick to my research interests. That would be an unthinkable luxury today. I had fair success publishing my own work in top interdisciplinary journals from Policy Sciences to Urban Studies and Regional Studies to Social Science and Medicine. But what pleased me most is that I had the fortune at Lingnan to work with several colleagues, and also with my graduate students. Several volumes, including Public Governance in Asia and the Limits of Electoral Democracy, Happiness and Public Policy, and APEC and the Rise of China, reflected this kind of collaboration. One of the projects that I had started was an annual happiness survey which I began to conduct with the help of the Public Governance Programme. The series of surveys was prompted by a conference on happiness that the CPPS organized. It was extremely well received. Not only was it sustained over the years thanks to a generous donation by Mr. Shih Wing Ching, a recipient of Lingnan Fellowship, but I was invited to undertake a big happiness on-line survey by a major insurance company, another project with the HK Productivity Council on happiness-at-work, and still another project with the HK Early Childhood Development Research Foundation on the happiness of children. All this would not have been possible without the support of the Public Governance Programme and without there being a CPPS in the first place. Moreover, with the help of a graduate from the MIBF programme I advanced the ideas I published in World Economy in 2000 to launch a website on the World Currency Unit using the CPPS website. We have been offering daily quotations of this synthetic unit of account on the website since 2008. It was therefore with much disappointment when I got the news that the University was to turn the CPPS and other research centres into “virtual centres” ending all official financial support. But true to my life philosophy, Love plus Insight (wisdom) plus Fortitude plus Engagement make a happy life, the mainstay work of the CPPS managed to survive with commissioned work and donations. I retired from the University at the end of June 2015 feeling proud and lucky for having joined Lingnan and getting to know so many talented colleagues. It is my fortune to be able to continue to serve teaching and research roles on a part- time basis. I have witnessed colleagues with not much to show in the first few years yet eventually producing top research later. My hope is that the University will allow our young colleagues a breathing space. Sometimes conscientious and hard working colleagues may just need more timeto prove themselves. 4 Colleagues in the Congratulatory Notes to Awardees of Faculty of Social GRF/ECS Grants Sciences continue Congratulations to Prof. Simon C FAN for his project “Remedying Education through Information Technology and Teacher Incentives: An Experimental to do well in the Study in Rural China” being granted the General Research Fund (GRF) from the Research Grants Council (RGC) this year. Our congratulations also extend highly competitive to Prof. ZHANG Tianle and Prof. Esra BURAK HO for their respective projects “Competition, Patent Protection and Innovation” and “Attitudes toward Top GRF exercise Incomes in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the United States” being awarded the Early Career Scheme (ECS) of the RGC. Research 5 Economics Department: UGC Research Assessment Exercise 2014 Following the UGC’s 2006 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results that showed Lingnan’s Economics Department was among the top Departments in Hong Kong in research, the 2014 RAE reaffirms our strong performance. Our publications hit 13% of the submitted items rated at 4* submitted and this record is just below that of HKUST and HKU. A total of 32 items of 8 eligible colleagues of Economics Department were submitted and none of which was rated unclassified. Lingnan's 2014 RAE results show the following achievements: (1) Lingnan’s 4* publications (i.e. world leading) hit 13% of the items submitted. This record is just below that of HKUST and HKU., (2) Lingnan’s 3* (i.e. internationally excellent) and higher publications stand at 33%, at par with City University, and behind that of HKUST, HKU, and the Chinese University. (3) Counting 4*, 3*, 2* (i.e. international standing), and 1* (i.e. academic standing)respectively as being worth 4, 3,2, and 1 points, and weighing these points by their respective percentages, Lingnan’s overall score stands at 2.21, behind HKUST, HKU, and CUHK, and (4) Overall, the 8 eligible colleagues of the Department of Economics submitted a total of 32 items, none of which was rated unclassified. Lingnan Economists Awarded €300,000—Euro grant by WOTRO Science for Global Development Assistant Professor of Economics Alex Wong, in partnership with African PhD student Haftom Bayray Kahsay, has been awarded €300,000-Euro research grant by WOTRO Science for Global Development under the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in early 2015 to carry out a research study on “The Cost Effectiveness of Integrating Weather Index Agricultural Insurance into the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia”.
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