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Contents

Message from the Vice-President 1

Significant Support for Research & KT 3

Success in Funds Bidding 5

Innovation & Impact for Intergenerational Well-being 9

Humanities in Innovations 15

Innovation & Impact Fund 20

Plaudits for Achievements 21

Greater Bay Area 24

Global Engagement 27

Lingnan on the Research Map 34

Conferences and Postgraduate Seminars 35

New Books 39

1 Message from the Vice-President

Message from the Vice-President

It has been another year of Lingnan University’s continuous advancement in research and knowledge transfer (KT) work. According to the QS Asia University Rankings 2020, Lingnan’s score of Citations per Paper has risen Professor Joshua MOK Ka Ho from 76.2 to 78.4, which is a further step up from 42.3 to 76.2 in the year before, representing a jump of 29 places from 117th to 88th in that year, and Vice-President a leap of 140 places over the preceding year. In QS terms, Lingnan “performed Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of among the top 21% in the QS Asia University Rankings 2020”. Comparative Policy

Lingnan University, Hong Kong Further encouraging records are marked in the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings 2020 that Lingnan University is ranked world 2nd for Quality Education which measures the social and economic impact of universities based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Among these goals, Lingnan is also among the Top 50 in promoting NO Poverty and Top 100 in promoting Decent Work and Economic Growth. Such international recognitions underpin Lingnan’s core values – Education: Care for Learning, Research: Impact with Care.

With Lingnan’s particular strengths in research and knowledge transfer (KT) of high social value and relevance, cumulative income received in 2018/19 from social projects, and the total contract value of on-going projects, were at record high of $14 million and $101 million, representing increases of 84% and 102% respectively. Of these, two are new projects funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust at a total of $48 million. Overall, the total income received from KT projects and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses rose by 142% from $30 million in the previous year to $74 million. We are glad to see our keen effort bearing fruits in our apt response to changing needs for professional skills in the job market, and our new master’s programmes in health & social services management and comparative social policy having won the UGC Fellowships for Taught Postgraduate Programmes.

We shall continue to make bold and innovative moves to build on our strengths to excel in scholarship and better serving society.

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World Top nd 2 for 50 Quality in promoting Education NO Poverty

THE University IMPACT Rankings 2020

84% 102 % 41,000+ in cumulative in total contract people benefited income from social value of on-going from our KT projects 2018/19 projects 2018/19 activities in 2018/19

RESEARCH at Lingnan University: Impact with CARE

A tagline recently developed by the University encapsulates our research aspirations and summarises succinctly the nature and the scope of research conducted at Lingnan:

Committing to Society Committing to Advancing a common theme of research conducted in our Social Society Entrepreneurship Sciences disciplines

Advancing Entrepreneurship Business research that is of particular importance to our Strategic Plan in student development C A Revitalising Heritage Revitalising Embracing an important area of research conducted in the Faculty of Arts Heritage Sustainability Embracing Sustainability interdisciplinary research programmes (including research conducted by the Science Unit) that focuses on sustainability, a goal that spans many areas of human endeavours R E 3 Significant Support for Research & KT

Significant Support for Research & KT Substantial Donations & UGC's Research Matching Grant

The University Grants Committee (UGC) launched this research projects and student research work. These are Grant in August 2019 to encourage community and good testimonies to community support for our research industry contributions to university research work. and KT work.

In the first processing cycle of the Grant, Lingnan had In the second processing cycle, another $13 million has presented $44 million in donations for matching, been presented for matching, with $8.6 million matching with $42 million matching grants approved. The two grants approved, including the generous donation for the sums will together support worthy causes of building “Lam Woo Research Fund” from the Lam Kei On Memorial up strong Research Centres, economic policy research, Trust for the University to foster junior academic staff in projects to revitalise cultural heritage, intergenerational advancing the University’s scholarly reputation.

$5 Million from Tin Ka Ping Foundation to promote Chinese Culture and Medicine

Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine Project led by Prof Dickson CHAN Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies

Lingnan University Chinese Cultural Project led by Prof CAI Zongqi Department of Chinese Accelerating Research and Impact 4 Meeting pressing societal need for Consulting and Counselling Psychology

With a generous donation by the social entrepreneur Dr Joseph LEE, the Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre (WJLCCPRC) has been established under the leadership of Prof SIU Oi- ling, Dean of Social Sciences and Chair Professor of Applied Psychology.

The Centre not only conducts innovative and impactful research on psychology, but also offers psychological consulting and counselling services and courses for teachers, parents and students. Just months after the Centre’s establishment, seven schools in Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun have been engaged by the Centre as partners in organising regular training Through further collaborations with schools, hospitals and courses on counselling tactics for teachers and parents, non-governmental organisations, the Centre will actively thereby enhancing the well-being of local communities. conduct KT activities to promote mental wellness for positive impact on society.

Lingnan study finds work She suggests the government to take the lead in encouraging communication between employers stress costs Hong Kong and employees, and employers to provide adequate $14.9 billion a year support for their staff, including updating equipment and supplies, more on-the-job training and flexible Hong Kong employees play truant from work for an work arrangements - measures to enhance the work- average of 8.3 days a year, incurring annual economic life balance. losses of $5.3 to $14.9 billion, according to a recent study led by Prof Siu Oi-ling. This survey forms part of The study was widely covered in media channels the research conducted by Lingnan on the “Influence such as The Standard, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, of Work Stress on Society and Economy in Hong Hong Kong China News Agency, Oriental Daily News, Kong”, commissioned by the Occupational Safety and Headline Daily, Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong Economic Health Council. Times, Wen Wei Po, Economic Digest, Liberty Times Net and QS WOW News. Prof Siu says stress at work can lead to absenteeism, family issues or feigned sickness and thus economic losses. 5 Success in Funds Bidding

Success in 69% over the preceding Funds Bidding year in total sum received in GRF and ECS Funds 2019/20 from the Research Success Rates in Early Grants Council Career Scheme (ECS)

100 Sector st 1 Sector 80 nd 2 Sector st Sector 1 Sector 60 71.4 st Rate Sector 1 Rate 40 60 Sector 66.7 Rate Sector 39.9 20 Rate 42.3 66.7

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2015/16 40.2 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19

Success Rate in General Success Rates in Early Research Fund (GRF) Career Scheme (ECS) 2019/20 2019/20

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100 100 100 100 80 80 Sector 60 60 Sector Rate Rate Sector Sector Rate 40 Rate 40 50 20 20 35 27 33.3 0 23.5 0 23 Biology & Business Medicine Psychology & Studies Psychology & Linguistics Linguistics Accelerating Research and Impact 6

Public Policy Research Funding Scheme provided by HKSAR Government’s Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office HK$

Housing as an Intergenerational Project-parental Prof Maggie LAU 868,278 Resources, Parental Strategies and the Housing Centre for Social Policy and Opportunities of Young People in Hong Kong Social Change

The Greater Bay Area and Career Opportunity for Hong Prof JIANG Jin 500,000 Kong Youth: Integrating Big Data Analysis and Survey School of Graduate Studies

Privacy Challenges and Big Data in Smart City Prof IP Iam Chong Department of Cultural Studies 268,870

From Bonding to Bridging: Building Social Cohesion Prof Vincent WEN 374,250 between Mainland Talents and Hong Kong Professionals Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies

Loss of Innocence: Participation of Secondary School Prof Samson YUEN 143,750 Students in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Department of Political Science Bill Movement Ripple Effects of Social Movements: Initial Biographical 435,850 Consequences of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement

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Lam Woo Research Fund Prof Ka Ho MOK 10,000,000 Young Scholar Research and International Higher Education Research Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy

Thanksgiving Research Fund for Ageing Prof Dickson CHAN 2,000,000 Ageing in Place and Care for Carers Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies Wuyi University 300,000 Ageing In Place in Jiangmen

Great Billion Corporation Limited Prof LAU Chi Pang 1,000,000 Research on Lands in the New Territories Hong Kong & South China Historical Research Programme Hong Kong Institute of Construction 588,235 Commemorative Book for the 45th Anniversary of Construction Training in Hong Kong

Jean C.K. Ho Family Foundation Prof Sophia LAW 487,000 Art as intervention in serving child victims of family violence: Department of Visual Studies a parent-child art therapy approach

Oxfam Hong Kong Prof Lisa LEUNG In a Search for An Innovation Collaboration with the Employers - Department of Cultural Studies A New Direction for the Employment Services for the South Asians in Hong Kong 7 Success in Funds Bidding

IT use in Smart Toilet - Timely response to public health concerns

Lingnan’s Faculty of Business is glad to sign an agreement with Triple Faith Engineering & Supply Limited to collaborate on a project using AIoT in Smart Toilet under the Partnership Research Programme of the Government’s Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF).

A total of $3.3 million from ITF and the industry partner is provided for the project “Smart Toilet: An AIoT Based Predictive Maintenance Solution”, a smart solution using Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technologies for predictive maintenance of public toilets. Led by Prof Eric SEE- TO of the Department of Computing and Decision Sciences, the project is an exemplary case of cooperation among the Government, industry, academia and research sector ( 官產學研合作 ).

$6.9 million for Conservation of Environment

Prof Jonathan FONG of the Science Unit has been actively engaging community members and partners in the very attractive “Citizen Scientist” activities for the conservation of amphibians and reptiles through his research and knowledge transfer projects with strong funding support. Accelerating Research and Impact 8

Prof Jonathan FONG HK$ General Research Fund Conservation genomics of two endangered Hong Kong turtles - the big-headed turtle (Platysternon 1,032,078 megacephalum) and Beal’s eyed turtle (Sacalia bealei)

Early Career Scheme Developing environmental DNA approaches to study the ecology and conservation of endangered Hong 827,773 Kong turtles

Environment and Conservation Fund Building a natural history collection of Hong Kong’s amphibians for conservation and education, with a 1,094,304 genetic case-study on the endangered Romer’s tree frog (Liuixalus romeri)

Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong Conservation genomics of the critically endangered golden coin turtle (Cuora trifasciata) and application to 599,722 ex-situ breeding and wildlife DNA forensics

Croucher Chinese Visitorship • Comparison of gut microbiota of wild and captive turtles • Identification for Bellamya species based on DNA sequence 432,000 • Managing captive breeding of Beal’s eyed turtle (Sacalia bealei) Prof SUNG Yik Hei

Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department • Camera Surveillance & Trap Search in Freshwater Turtle Population Key Sites • Study on the Conservation Status of Platysternon Megacephalum in Hong Kong 1,440,000 • Study on the Genetic Provenance of Elaphe taeniura in Hong Kong

Environment and Conservation Fund Uncover the underground - Distribution and population status of endemic blind snakes and Bogadek’s 482,400 burrowing lizards

Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong A data-driven approach to strengthening trade enforcement of turtles 488,544 Prof Paulina WONG

Environment and Conservation Fund Fine particulate matter pollution from incense burning at temples in Hong Kong 499,920

Total: 6,896,741

Prof SUNG Yik Hei and Prof Paulina WONG of the Unit share the same dedication to creating positive impact on society. 9 Innovation & Impact for Intergenerational Well-being

Innovation & Impact for Intergenerational Well-being Accelerating Research and Impact 10

Embracing the young and the old is quite a unique Rediscovering Social feature of many Lingnan University Knowledge Heritage Innovations Transfer (KT) projects where much intergenerational work is involved. This is built on our strengths in KT 傳統新體驗社會事業 generated from research of high social relevance, and 創新 our conviction as a liberal arts university that for the Embracing people whom we seek to benefit in making knowledge theYoung and innovations work for their needs, we treasure their & ideas and participation, whether they are from different Old 耆青 generations or walks of life. The concept of humanities 同行共創 in innovations will pervade the Four Focus Areas of our Greater KT endeavours in the new triennium 2019-22 - Social Bay Area Innovations, Gerontechnology, Rediscovering Heritage, 大灣區發展 Gerontechnology and Greater Bay Area. 研究樂齡科技

Young & Old team up for Social Innovations

With the generous donation of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charitable Trust which supports our “We Care, We Serve & We Learn @ Tuen Mun” Programme, the Office of Service-Learning (OSL) organised the I-Gen Series 2018 to enable university students, secondary school students and the elderly to come together to learn about the concept of social innovation, explore new projects for the ageing population and benefit from being trained as social leaders. Exciting activities in which these participants might not have the opportunity to take part as a team before include:

• visiting the co-working space “Dream Impact”, a community In a social environment where people of different that gathers social entrepreneurs to promote innovative generations struggle to appreciate each other’s thinking and the concept of social enterprise views, these KT activities offer precious chances for • getting some ideas of the business operations and the seem-to-be disparate groups of the young and visions of different start-ups old to learn, innovate and grow together - not only in terms of skills, but also, importantly, in terms of • designing a diverse intergenerational community understanding each other’s ways of thinking, and project under the guidance of Dream Impact facilitators thus promote social understanding. 11 Innovation & Impact for Intergenerational Well-being

Understanding Our Elderly and Promoting Smart Ageing

With the nomination for the HKSAR Chief Executive’s Community Project List, our Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS), the flagship centre of Lingnan in promoting active ageing and providing elderly care training, is supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust with a donation of $19.68 million for the “LU Jockey Club Gerontechnology and Smart Ageing Project” which runs for three years over 2019-2022.

Led by Prof Ka Ho MOK, our Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, the project aims to promote Gerontechnology and support smart ageing Socialpreneurship development. It serves as an educational platform to provide training courses and workshops on “Gerontechnology in Healthcare, Dining, Living and Transport”.

醫食住行 Healthcare Dining Living Transport

Lingnan is teaming up with government and business Building an age-friendly community is a mission put into organisations, and providers of healthcare and social action by APIAS. Significant projects being conducted services to launch a wide array of initiatives such as: in the reporting year included the following which together have so far benefited more than 18,000 people • LU Jockey Club Gerontech-X Lab and 300 households: • Gerontechnology Practitioner Training Courses • Jockey Club Age-Friendly City Project (Pilot Phase), • Socialpreneur Incubation Courses $7.13 million • Gerontechnology & Socialpreneurship Incubator • Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project (Phase Two), • Gerontechnology Public Seminars $7.12 million • Gerontechnology Mobile Lab • Jockey Club Intergenerational Communication and Health Promotion Programme, $8.8 million • Social Enterprise Intelligent Hub

The “Business Genius in Silver Age” project which is newly funded by the Elder Academy Development Foundation will provide our senior citizens with new learning opportunities in multimedia production. Accelerating Research and Impact 12

LU Jockey Club Gerontech-X Lab

Establishing the LU Jockey Club Gerontech-X Lab on the Lingnan campus in Tuen Mun is a significant milestone. It is the first lab of its kind in the New Territories West area, with indoor and outdoor facilities spanning an area of 2,000 square feet where the elderly can try out gerontechnology products on the spot. In turn, the user experience recorded will plough back to baseline studies for building a database on Gerontech products and services, social innovations and start-ups, and thus addressing the actual needs of the users and contributing to our vision in offering policy recommendations for the industry and Government.

'Old Camp' at Lingnan for elderly-youth harmony

Lingnan University endeavours joined hands with RTHK Radio 5 to organise this first ever two-day, one-night university camp for 100 seniors, bringing together Lingnan student ambassadors and 90 secondary school students to fill the Lingnan campus with energy.

Woo Fung, honorary fellow of Lingnan University, shared his experience in using smart products and encouraged fellow elders to memorise phone numbers as a way to train up their memory. The over-80-year-old said he was living his best life through lifelong learning. 13 Innovation & Impact for Intergenerational Well-being

‘Gerontechnology Development Blueprint’ Public Seminar

Exciting opportunities that gerontechnology can bring in enhancing elderly care were enthusiastically shared by Dr LAM Ching-choi, Executive Council Member and Chairman of the Elderly Commission.

‘HealthCare with eHealth’ Public Seminar

Mr Clube NG, CEO of eHealth Research Institute Limited, and Mr Ivan WAN, co-founder of Qualify Hong Kong Limited were invited to share their experience in the use of technology in healthcare management and to promote innovative gerontechnology products and services for domestic use. Accelerating Research and Impact 14

Rural Neighbourhood Development

A Sharing Session cum Certificate of Recognition Presentation Ceremony was held to raise public awareness towards older people residing in the Tuen Mun and Yuen Long rural areas in this university-led district-based programme. There was sharing of experiences and good practices, as well as recognition for Rural Befrienders of this project.

Gerontech Carnival 15 Humanities in Innovations Humanities in Innovations Accelerating Research and Impact 16 17 Humanities in Innovations

LEI Platform

It was a ground breaking move of the University to set up the Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative (LEI) - a collaborative platform to develop students into social entrepreneurs in a liberal arts context and to cultivate an entrepreneurial culture on campus. Unlike conventional entrepreneurship centres working on inventions of science and technology for the development of commercial products, the LEI well distinguishes itself in what it nurtures students to:

• create holistic and practical solutions to real-world problems with a human-centred focus, so that there is the humanistic touch to fill possible gaps in pure technology considerations;

• innovate together with the elderly in intergenerational projects for the ageing population, so as to (i) move beyond the traditional thought that entrepreneurship is only the young people’s business, (ii) unlock the creativity of the aged, and (iii) develop products and services that have the participation of the potential beneficiaries, and for their actual needs.

Entrepreneurship at Lingnan echoes what many liberal arts universities like to quote: “It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” (Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone Is Not Enough”)

Facilities and Infrastructure

L.E.I. Beta (β) Lab Social Innovation Hub (SIH) Collaborative work space is available on campus for a The Hub has been established in collaboration with creative and dynamic community of potential social member institutions of the Global Liberal Arts Alliance innovators and entrepreneurs to incubate their projects/ (GLAA), and the Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities start-ups. (AALAU) as initiated by Lingnan. It will be a pioneer in Asia to foster students’ competence in creativity, STEM knowledge and spirit of entrepreneurship. Accelerating Research and Impact 18

Training and Exposure

Asia Design Innovation Meet-up and Gallery with d. school of Stanford University This 2-day workshop was first organised at Lingnan in 2019. More than 40 participants from 8 different countries and 10 Hong Kong NGOs and co-working spaces were attracted to learn more about design thinking and how it can be effectively integrated into the university classroom.

Joint Humanitarian Entrepreneurship Summer Academy 2019 Participants of this programme which took place in Hong Kong and Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2019 gained a deeper understanding of Sustainable Development Goals, develop better research skills in humanitarian work, and receive hands-on training in areas such as arduino, 3D-printing, autonomous devices and under- water robotics. 19 Humanities in Innovations

GLAA Conference on humanitarian innovation and entrepreneurship

Lingnan University hosted this annual conference of discuss Humanitarian Innovation and Entrepreneurship: the Global Liberal Arts Alliance (GLAA) in December Sustainable Development Goals Impact through Service- 2019 at which more than 40 chief members and Learning. Graduation badges were also presented to the scholars from GLAA member institutions gathered to University Innovation Fellows on the occasion.

Merit Award for Lingnan students in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

A team of Lingnan students from the Master of Science in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management programme won the merit award of The 5th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition with their “BB Plan” project. Accelerating Research and Impact 20

Innovation & Impact Fund

For a stronger synergy of Lingnan’s efforts in responding to the advocacy of the HKSAR Chief Executive and the UGC for innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation of research outputs, the Office of Research Support (ORS) has rolled out this new Fund which incorporates the internal KT Project Fund (KPF) and Entrepreneurial KT Fund (EKT), and a new scheme to support faculty members’ entrepreneurial initiatives.

The former KPF and EKT have funded 50 projects and proven to be effective catalysts of innovative ideas for translating research into impact. The new IIF is designed to take the step forward by building an innovative culture and a supportive environment for innovations and social entrepreneurship. Students and staff may use the fund to develop prototypes for a new product or to prove a new concept leading to or aimed at a start-up for impact on humanity.

Two programmes under the IIF: a) KT Programme b) Entrepreneurship Programme Faculty Stream Student Stream 21 Plaudits for Achievements Plaudits for Achievements

To honour the achievements of our faculty and to fuel the energy of research and impact, the Office of Research Support organised the University’s second Research and Knowledge Transfer Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony in 2019. Academics were presented awards for their exemplary cases as supported by our KT Project Fund (KPF) in extending their research findings and expertise to achieving outstanding social and cultural impact. Accelerating Research and Impact 22 Awardees

RGC Competitive Grants Award Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme

Prof CHAN Tak-hung Leo Department of Translation

General Research Fund Early Career Scheme Prof LAU Yin-ping Grace Prof Roberto Carlos CASTILLO BAUTISTA Department of Chinese Department of Cultural Studies

Prof Diana Lucy LEMBERG Prof ZHANG Lei Department of History Department of History

Prof Derek Clayton BAKER Prof Simon David GOLDSTEIN Department of Philosophy Department of Philosophy

Prof ZHANG Jiji Prof MAO Ying Department of Philosophy Department of Accountancy

Prof SU Lixin Nancy Prof QIANG Wei Department of Accountancy Department of Accountancy

Prof ZHANG Tianle Prof WONG Chi Vincent Department of Economics Department of Marketing & International Business

Prof TAM Wai-keung Prof YUEN Wai-hei Samson Department of Political Science Department of Political Science Research Output Excellence Award

Prof HUI Ting-yan Isaac Prof SU Lixin Nancy Prof ZHANG Tianle Department of Translation Department of Accountancy Department of Economics Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award Award-winning Projects & Leaders/Collaborator

Job seeking practices of South Asian Developing intergenerational youths in Hong Kong – Evaluation of education partnerships to employment support services encourage conservation of reptiles and amphibians in Prof LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa Hong Kong Department of Cultural Studies Prof Mark McGINLEY and Prof Jonathan FONG Science Unit 23 Plaudits for Achievements

Honours to the University

International prize for translation work

Head and Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies, Prof Tejaswini NIRANJANA, was awarded DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 for her English translation of No Presents Please, a collection of stories set in Mumbai written in the southern Indian language of Kannada by poet and short story writer Jayant KAIKINI.

This is the first time that a translated work has won the prestigious prize, which rewards the best writing about south Asian culture from writers of any ethnicity and from all over the world. Prof Niranjana and Kaikini shared the US$25,000 (£19,100) prize.

US National Book Critics Circle Award

The book “Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History” of Prof Yunte HUANG, Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of English was listed as a finalist under the “biography” category - along with 31 others - for the National Book Critics Circle Award, which is one of the most prestigious book awards in the US. The book was deemed as one of the Best Books of the Year in 2018 by Newsweek, New York Times, National Public Radio and San Francisco Chronicle.

A Top 5 scholar in international higher education research

Prof Ka Ho MOK, Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, is ranked among the Top 5 scholars in the world in citations relating to research on international higher education (Science Mapping in the Research of Higher Education Internationalisation from 2013 to 2018: Asian Trends).

Prof Mok’s International and transnational education for whose interests? A study on the career development of Chinese students is recognised as a top cited paper in Higher Education Quarterly - “TOP CITED ARTICLE 2018-2019”. Accelerating Research and Impact 24

Greater Bay Area The Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong- Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), published by the Central Government earlier last year, confirms Hong Kong’s strategic position in the Area. Lingnan is committed to making its contributions through a number of collaborations and new initiatives. 25 Greater Bay Area

Roles of Public In the $4.37 million project “Accelerating the Development of a Global Innovation and Technology Hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Research Area: The Roles of Public Research Universities in Hong Kong” which is funded by Universities in the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office of the HKSAR Government under the Strategic Public Policy Research Funding Scheme 2018-19, Lingnan is a collaborator Hong Kong with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as the lead institution. Prof Ka Ho MOK our Vice-President and his team will work closely with researchers of the collaboration to help strengthen the roles of public research universities in Hong Kong in this strategic development initiative.

New Joint Research Centres

Lingnan-SCUT Joint Research Responding to the exciting development opportunities that the GBA may present, Lingnan Centre for Greater Bay Area Social and the South China University of Technology (SCUT) Policy and Governance bring together social scientists with a wide variety of disciplinary skills and experience to co-launch this Joint Centre. Under the four interconnected themes - Well-being and Quality of Life, Higher Education, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Economic & Social History, and Comparative Bay Area Studies, the Joint Centre serves as a platform for faculties, students, policy analysts and practitioners in the wider community to engage in research and KT projects on understanding the people in the 11 cities in the Area as they become more mobile in the region and what will then be the implications for social policy and governance.

The first release of research findings by the Joint Centre in the project “Surveys on Youth and University Students’ Perceptions on Development Opportunities in the Greater Bay Area” was broadcast by the TVB and widely cited by media channels such as the Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Pao Daily, Sing Tao Daily, Bastille Post, THINK HK, Orange News, Wen Wei Po, Headline Daily and Hong Kong China News.

Professor Ka Ho MOK, Dean of School of Graduate Studies and Co-Director of this LU-SCUT Joint Research Centre, was invited by the Professional Development & Training Division of the Education Bureau, HKSAR Government to provide professional training for more than 100 school teachers to prepare them to go for field visits in the GBA. Prof Mok shared about the policy context, development strategies and recent developments of the GBA, and how Hong Kong young people perceived and evaluated the development opportunities in the GBA based on the above-mentioned joint survey with SCUT. Accelerating Research and Impact 26

Lingnan-Wuyi Joint Centre for Ageing in Place

In timely response to ageing issues in the GBA, Lingnan and Wuyi University signed an Agreement of Collaboration for the establishment of this Centre to jointly conduct research on elderly policies in the mainland and Hong Kong and to provide recommendations to the authorities.

Coming up Three Joint Centres in Business

Lingnan University - Lingnan University - Lingnan University - Sun Yat-sen Guangdong South China University Greater University of University of Bay Area Research Technology Technology Joint Institute for Research Centre Research Centre for Insurance and Risk for eBusiness and Management and Management Logistics Decision Sciences 27 Global Engagement

Global Engagement Accelerating Research and Impact 28

Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) funding

The School of Graduate Studies (GS) has secured a partnership of 14 UK and international universities led major research centre grant provided by the Economic by the University of Oxford and the University College and Social Research Council of the UK in collaboration London (UCL) Institute of Education. The research with the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), partnerships involved is expected to further enhance the largest research centre in the world focusing on Lingnan’s international research profile. higher education and its future development. It is a

International Collaborations in the UK

Oxford-Lingnan Higher Education Symposium

Prof Leonard CHENG, President of Lingnan University, led a delegation of Lingnan University to give presentations at this Symposium and discuss with prominent scholars in higher education and China studies under the theme “Expansion of Higher Education in China for Two Decades: Critical Reflections from Comparative Perspectives”.

Centre for Research in Education in China and East Asia

Lingnan University is a key partner of this new Centre, and co-organised the launch event with the University of Bath in 2019. Led by the President, a team of Lingnan scholars joined this event which opened Asian-European dialogues on knowledge exchange, cross-cultural educational trends and methodologies in Education and Social Sciences. 29 Global Engagement

Lingnan-Oxford International Postgraduate Summer School 2019

With successful experiences in the preceding two years, Lingnan’s School of Graduate Studies and the Hertford College of the University of Oxford in the UK co-hosted the three-week Summer School over June and July 2019. It attracted the participation of postgraduate students and faculty members from different universities in mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Scholars and students discussed some critical issues on interdisciplinary studies which enriched the horizon of participants from traditionally discipline-based academic backgrounds. The first week at Lingnan in Hong Kong was followed by a two-week programme at Hertford College. Other co-organisers of the Summer School this year were Ewha Womans University, National Chengchi University, National Chung Cheng University, Peking University, South China University of Technology, and Zhejiang University. Accelerating Research and Impact 30

PhD 96.71% of applicants for Lingnan's PhD Fellowship Applicants Scheme 2020/21 are non-locals from 30 countries from spanning the Europe including the UK, Asia, Africa, 30 North and South America including the US. Countries 31 Global Engagement

Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP)

Since 2018, Lingnan became the new Secretariat of this international partnership originally based in the US, with Lingnan’s Vice-President Prof Ka Ho MOK as the current Co-Director. It is a membership organisation comprising universities, ministries of education and quality assurance entities.

Research team members of APHERP include many from renowned institutions such as the University of Bath, Bath Spa University, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, University College London, King’s College London, National Chung Cheng University and National University of Singapore.

Around 120 speakers and 80 postgraduate students from approximately 30 countries and regions participated in the 2019 Conference for Higher Education Research (CHER) and the Asian Conference on the Liberal Arts (ACLA) co-hosted by Lingnan, APHERP and the International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Accelerating Research and Impact 32

The themes of the three-day conference were Uncertain Futures: Repurposing Higher Education and Uncertain Futures: The Role of Liberal Arts Education, which drew experts from all over the world to explore the precarious nature of global socio-economic development today and suggest solutions.

Earlier in 2019, Lingnan co-hosted the international symposium on “Internationalization and Quality Management in Higher Education” with APHERP in collaboration with the School of Public Administration of South China University of Technology, and School of Education of Guangzhou University. The Symposium invited distinguished scholars from Japan, Malaysia, mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to discuss how tertiary institutions from different regions in the Asia Pacific region responded to internationalization and its challenges to quality management in higher education. 33 Global Engagement

Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities (AALAU)

Research Collaboration Workshop

To promote regional and international research Kunshan University and National Chengchi University collaboration among partnering institutions of the to explore and discuss research collaborations on the Alliance, the Office of Research Support organised topics: (1) Liberal Arts Education: Asian and Comparative the two-day Research Collaboration Workshop under Perspectives; (2) Comparative Culture and Literature; (3) the central theme of Comparative Asian Studies to Ageing Studies in Asian Countries; and (4) Smart Cities, facilitate Lingnan scholars and academics from Duke Digital Culture and Urban Governance.

International Symposium at National Chengchi University

The Symposium with the theme “Economic Globalisation and Regionalisation: Implications for Higher Education, Graduate Employment and Intergenerational Equality” was co-organised by the National Chengchi University, Lingnan University, Tunghai University and the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan. It was part of the collaborative research projects of AALAU with the support of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The event had attracted scholars from Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Haiti and Taiwan. Accelerating Research and Impact 34 Lingnan on the Research Map Research Impact in Numbers

Lingnan Researchers Lingnan's Digital

Collaborated with Scholars Repository Recorded BOOKS Published from by Lingnan Researchers 542 + during 2016-2019 being INSTITUTIONS 1,600,000 Acquired by CUM. DOWNLOADS in COUNTRIES 76 WORLDWIDE from readers in 1500+ LIBRARIES 200+ WORLDWIDE* COUNTRIES * Based on holdings information as of October 2019 from OCLC WorldCat, the union catalog collating holdings information from its as of March 2020 as of March 2020 member libraries worldwide.

2019 Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS) Annual Conference Best Paper Award

Prof Vincent WEN Zhuoyi Prof JIANG Jin Asia-Pacific Institute of School of Graduate Ageing Studies Studies

Words from the President of the Association on the paper: Your contribution “How China Expands Social Insurance Coverage: The Informal Sector as a Testing Ground” makes a very important contribution to the field of research on social insurance coverage in contemporary China. The paper is empirically rich as well as theoretically sound—and opens an inspiring new perspective on the interplay of formal and informal dimensions of Chinese politics!

Hong Kong Sociological Association Best Thesis Awards

Dr Ruby LAI Yuen-shan Mr Gary YIP Yui-fung Research Assistant MPhil graduate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Only one of these coveted annual awards is given to the best theses at the PhD and MPhil levels respectively, submitted by all higher institutions in Hong Kong. 35 Conferences and Postgraduate Seminars Conferences and Postgraduate Seminars Accelerating Research and Impact 36

Exploring ways to build a smarter Hong Kong

In response to the Government’s call for building to big data and the future direction of Hong Kong’s a smarter city in the Smart City Blueprint, Lingnan development as a smart city. Representatives included University and Smart City Consortium held the those from the MTR, HK Electric, Airport Authority, “Smartcity: How Big Data Reinvent Hong Kong Future” Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Observatory, 3 Hong Conference in 2019 at the Hong Kong Productivity Kong, Tai Cheung Holdings, Hong Kong Federation Council to gather together corporations and the public of Industries, Hong Kong Chinese Manufacturers for a better understanding of the various issues related Association, Cyberport and more.

Postgraduate Conference on Interdisciplinary Learning supported by the RGC Grant

With a firm conviction to positioning the young and City University of Hong Kong. Overseas speakers academic scholars for excellence, the Conference and postgraduate students from University of Bristol, brought together over 100 speakers and participants University of York, National University of Singapore, Fu not only from Lingnan University but also other Jen Catherine University, Central China Normal University local universities like the University of Hong Kong, and University of Shanghai for Science & Technology The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong also joined the conference. Baptist University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University 37 Conferences and Postgraduate Seminars

Competition Commission and Lingnan University co-organises Inaugural Competition Enforcers and Academics Summit

The Hong Kong Competition Commission and the leading academics and competition enforcement Centre for Competition Policy and Regulation of agencies in joint projects such as market studies and Lingnan University hosted the Competition Enforcers merger reviews. This regional summit was held in Hong and Academics Summit to foster collaboration among Kong on 1-2 August 2019.

More Conferences 7. Improvising Space: A symposium on Creativity, Pedagogy, and Music Improvisation 1. Academy of International Business Southeast (12 September 2019) Asia Regional Conference 2019 (5-7 December 2019) 8. Competition Enforcers & Academic Summit 2019 (1-2 August 2019) 2. Lingnan-Peking-Wisconsin Education Forum (11 November 2019) 9. The Sixth South-South Forum on Sustainability (24 June - 3 July 2019) 3. The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research 2019 (8-10 November 2019) 10. International Conference on “Facing the West: Circulation, Cooperation and Contestation in 4. Symposium on “Proactivity: Past, Present, and the Post-War Development of Sociology in Asia” Future” (8 November 2019) (5-6 June 2019)

5. The 6th International Conference of Social 11. 《嶺南學報》復刊學術會議之七：「中國 Policy and Governance Innovation cum The 文學抒情和敘事兩個傳統的交響共鳴」 Launch Conference of the LU-SCUT Joint 國際研討會 Research Centre for Greater Bay Area Social (31 May - 1 June 2019) Policy and Governance (22-23 October 2019) 12. International Conference on “Western Critical 6. Creating an Impact: Lingnan Transfer Pricing Theory and Chinese Literary Scholarship” Forum (20 September 2019) (23-24 May 2019) Accelerating Research and Impact 38 Postgraduate Seminars

Surfacing ‘Southern’ Perspectives on Student Engagement with Internationalisation: Doctoral Theses as Alternative Forms of Knowledge 6 May 2019 by Professor Catherine MONTGOMERY, Academic Director of International Partnerships, the University of Bath Online Ethnography: Youth and Political Engagement in Hong Kong 18 April 2019 by Professor Iam Chong IP, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University Breaking Boundaries: cross-cultural trade and integration of Africans in China 11 April 2019 by Professor Roberto CASTILLO, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University “It’s our version of Arabic”: Connecting the global and the local through design 21 March 2019 by Professor Kristiane LINDLAND, University of Stavanger Translating an idea to a top journal publication 13 March 2019 by Professor Alex HE Jingwei, The Education University of Hong Kong Strategic Spatial Planning and the Greater Bay Area 7 March 2019 by Professor Roger CHAN, Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong Poverty, deprivation and health inequalities in Hong Kong 28 February 2019 by Professor David GORDON, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bristol Housing Policy Challenges for the 21st Century 21 February 2019 by Professor Ray FORREST, Director, Centre for Social Policy and Social Change, Lingnan University Research Smarter with Citation Databases 14 February 2019 by Ms Maggie LAM, Clarivate Analytics Religion, Policies, and Politics of Migration in European States 31 January 2019 by Dr Konrad PĘDZIWIATR, Cracow University of Economics Fractures in the Education-Economy Relationship: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections 24 January 2019 by Professor Hugh LAUDER, Department of Education, International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM), University of Bath

13. International Symposium on “Deconstructing 20. Symposium on “Internationalization and Inequality and Well-being between China and Quality Management in Higher Education” Africa” (9-10 May 2019) (26 February 2019)

14. United Nations World Press Freedom Day: The 21. Performance Studies x Cultural Studies State of Press Freedom in Hong Kong & Around Colloquium: Cultures in Motion, Performance in the Globe (3 May 2019) Transit (22 February 2019)

15. Postgraduate Conference on Interdisciplinary 22. “Smartcity: How Big Data Reinvent Hong Kong Learning: Positioning the Young Scholar for Future” Conference (23 January 2019) Academic Excellence (29 - 30 March 2019) 23. International Symposium on “Wellbeing and 16. Launch Event of the Centre for Research Inequality in the Digital Age” in Education in China and East Asia: Asian- (10-11 January 2019) European Dialogues (26 March 2019) 24. International Forum on the Change of American 17. Conference on “Modality in Structural/Naturalist Trade Policies and the Possible Responses from Ontologies” (21-22 March 2019) China (18 December 2018)

18. ‘Follow the Practice’: Tracing Formations of 25. Academy of International Business Southeast Culture & Knowledge in Asia (21 March 2019) Asia Regional Conference 2018 (6-8 December 2018) 19. “Ecowriting: Tradition and Modernity” Conference (16-17 March 2019) 26. 中國古典詩學高端論壇 (2 November 2018) 39 New Books

Museum Processes in China: The Institutional Regulation, Production and Consumption of the New Books Art Museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region Author Dr Chui Fun HO Department of Visual Studies Hong Kong’s New Identity Politics: Longing for the Local in the Shadow of China Author Prof Iam Chong IP Department of Cultural Studies Skateboarding and Religion Author Prof Paul James O'CONNOR Department of Sociology and Social Policy

香港哥爾夫球會走過的130 年 Author Prof Chi Pang LAU Department of History

The politics of the past in Early China Author Prof Vincent Sueh Han LEUNG Department of History

Barriers down: how American power and free- flow policies shaped global media Author Prof Diana Lucy LEMBERG Department of History 香港史：從遠古到九七 Authors Prof Chi Pang LAU Department of History Prof Shuyong LIU Hong Kong and South China Historical Research China's new united front work in Programme Hong Kong: Penetrative politics and its implications Authors Mr Hai Chi Jeff LOO Department of Political Science 無處安放：張愛玲文學價值重估 Prof Sonny Shiu-Hing LO Author Prof Zidong XU HKU School of Professional and Department of Chinese Continuing Education Dr Steven Chung-Fun HUNG The Education University of Hong Kong Accelerating Research and Impact 40

福爾摩斯來中國：解構滋味：偵探小說在中國的跨文化傳播香港飲食文學與文化研究論集 Author Prof Yan Vivien WEI Author Dr Yan Ho SIU Department of Chinese Department of Chinese

Gu Hongming’s eccentric The unmasking style in social Chinese Odyssey theory Author Prof Chunmei DU Author Prof William Peter BAEHR Department of History Department of Sociology and Social Policy

East-West Symbioses: Politics of Mega-Events in China's The Reconciliation of Opposites Hong Kong and Macao Author Prof Eugene Chen EOYANG Author Prof Pok CHU Lingnan University Department of Political Science

規範性：思想和意義之基廿一世紀香港詩詞：古典詩詞美學的前瞻與透視 Author Prof Yujian ZHENG Department of Philosophy Authors Prof Yim Tze Charles KWONG Department of Chinese Mr Tsz Hong CHAN Mr Tak Kam CHAN

The instrument of science: 細讀張愛玲 scientific anti-realism revitalized Author Prof Zidong XU Author Prof Darrell Patrick ROWBOTTOM Department of Chinese Department of Philosophy LNU_Research_and_Impact_Cover_v4_Back.pdf 2 8/4/2020 01:21

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