Department of Sociology and Social Policy

1/10/24 → 30/09/26

Project: Grant Research

Health inequality and the digital divide: The role of digital health and media literacies - a survey of university students

WONG, H. C. (PI)

1/10/24 → 30/09/26

Project: Grant Research

Street Harassment and Gendered Spatial Injustice: An Explorative Study of Public Ejaculation and Emission

LAI, Y. S. R. (PI)

30/06/24 → 15/08/25

Project: Grant Research

Mezzo-level Dataset

DAVID, R. (PI)

24/06/24 → 23/06/26

Project: Grant Research

An Emerging Dimension of Family Life in Urban China - Examining the Roles of Companion Animals

REN, C. (PI) & HUANG, S. (CoI)

1/05/24 → 31/10/25

Project: Grant Research

Ageing, management, and precarity: a qualitative approach to older workers' practices of extended working lives in Hong Kong

AU YEUNG, T. C. (PI) & LEUNG, Y. M. L. (CoI)

Harvard-Yenching Institute

1/03/24 → 28/02/25

Project: Grant Research

A sociological model of cyber victimization among adolescents in Asia: Evidence from cross-national data

CHEN, X. (PI), TENG, W. (CoI), ZHONG, H. (CoI) & KIM, J. (CoI)

1/03/24 → 28/02/25

Project: Grant Research

International Migration, Diasporan Transnationalism and Work-family Intersections of African Migrants in Hong Kong and Chinese Migrants in Ghana

ABREFA BUSIA, K. (PI) & XU, L. (CoI)

1/02/24 → 31/01/26

Project: Grant Research

Institutional logics and subjective well-being across nations: the effect of material practices and meanings of four institutional orders (跨国制度逻辑与主观幸福感：四种制度秩序的物质实践和意义的影响)

OLIVOS RAVE, F. J. (PI), HO, L. S. (CoI) & ROJAS, M. (CoI)

1/01/24 → 31/12/26

Project: Grant Research

Emerging National Cultures and Persistent Heterogeneity: Global and Case-study Analysis

AKALIYSKI, P. (PI)

1/01/24 → 30/06/25

Project: Grant Research

Optimization of Online Survey Experiments Using Eye Tracking: The Effect of Complexity on the Level of Visual Attention

OLIVOS RAVE, F. J. (PI)

18/12/23 → 17/03/25

Project: Grant Research

Improving pandemic preparedness by reflecting on experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic from different perspectives (LU Part-H)

COWLING, B. (PI), YIP, P. (CoPI), HAYWARD, W. (CoPI), KÜHNER, S. (CoPI) & PENG, C. (CoPI)

1/12/23 → 30/11/28

Project: Grant Research

Improving pandemic preparedness by reflecting on experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic from different perspectives (LU Part-K)

COWLING, B. (PI), YIP, P. (CoPI), HAYWARD, W. (CoPI), KÜHNER, S. (CoPI) & PENG, C. (CoPI)

Beat Drugs Fund Association

1/12/23 → 30/11/28

Project: Grant Research

Predictors of drug abuse and relapse among ethnic minorities in Hong Kong: A prospective longitudinal study

CHEN, X. (PI)

1/09/23 → 31/10/25

Project: Grant Research

Perceived Ageism and Wellbeing among Older People in China

CHEN, X. (PI)

1/03/23 → 28/02/25

Project: Grant Research

Fighting for a Country: Testing Current and Historical Explanations

DAVID, R. (PI)

1/02/23 → 31/07/25

Project: Grant Research

Social and Political Impacts of Myanmar's 2021 Military Coup

DAVID, R. (PI) & HOLLIDAY, I. M. (CoI)

1/01/23 → 30/06/25

Project: Grant Research

Ethnic Minority Workers, Platformed 'Precarities' and Tactics of Resilience in Hong Kong - an intersectional and interdisciplinary study (香港南亞少數族裔勞工，平台化「不穩性」與抗逆對策 - 一項跨界別、跨學科研究)

LEUNG, Y. M. L. (PI), AU YEUNG, T. C. (CoI) & ZHANG, Y. (CoI)

1/01/23 → 31/12/24

Project: Grant Research

Gendering Informal Housing: Intersectional Inequalities and the Resilience of Families Living in Subdivided Units in Hong Kong

LAI, Y. S. R. (PI)

1/01/23 → 30/06/25

Project: Grant Research

Migration Decision-Making and the Changing Intergenerational Care Relations in Hong Kong: A Comparative and Intergenerational Approach

CHIU, T. Y. J. (PI)

1/01/23 → 30/06/25

Project: Grant Research

(Non-LU) Empowerment Mechanisms of Disability Policy in Contemporary China (當前我國殘障政策的賦能機制研究)

ZHOU, L. (PI) & HUANG, S. (CoI)

30/09/22 → 30/12/24

Project: Non-LU Projects

Not started

Examining the Bidirectional Links between Social Participation and Psychological Wellbeing in Married Couples: Analysis of Longitudinal Dyadic Data from National Surveys in China (探究配偶間社會參與與心理健康的雙向影響：基於中國全國縱向二元數據分析)

CHEN, X. (PI)

1/01/25 → 31/12/26

Project: Grant Research

Ageing, management, and precarity: a qualitative longitudinal approach to the labour process of extended working lives in Hong Kong (老齡化、管理與零散性：以質性縱向研究探討延長工作生活的勞動過程)

AU YEUNG, T. C. (PI), CHAN, C. K. D. (CoI), FOSTER, L. (CoI) & CHAN, C. K. C. (CoI)

Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres Limited

1/01/25 → 31/12/27

Project: Grant Research

Finished

Consultancy Study of Women’s Helpline Services Statistics

KÜHNER, S. (PI) & LAI, Y. S. R. (CoI)

18/03/24 → 31/05/24

Project: Professional Projects (including Consultancy)

Digital Divide and Social Inclusion of Older Adults (老年人數字鴻溝與社會融入研究)

CHEN, X. (PI) & TANG, Y. (CoPI)

1/07/23 → 30/06/24

Project: Grant Research

Family Care of People with Disabilities in Rural China: Mapping Gaps in Policy and Service (農村殘障人士的家庭照顧：政策和服務差距的研究)

CHEN, X. (PI) & ZHOU, L. (CoPI)

1/07/23 → 30/06/24

Project: Grant Research

The Effect of Work-Family Reconciliation Policies on Gender Inequality in the Labour Market: A Cross-Regional Analysis

KÜHNER, S. (PI)

1/06/23 → 30/08/24

Project: Grant Research

When politics and family collide: Intergenerational political differences and psychological well-being in Hong Kong

CHEN, X. (PI)

1/03/23 → 28/02/24

Project: Grant Research

Consultancy Study of 30th Anniversary Free Legal Advice Clinic Service

KÜHNER, S. (PI)

2/02/23 → 4/03/23

Project: Professional Projects (including Consultancy)

(Non-LU) Poverty Dynamics in Hong Kong: Synthetic Panel Approach

KÜHNER, S. (CoI)

1/01/23 → 31/12/23

Project: Non-LU Projects

The Integration of Social Innovation and Service Learning in Higher Education: A Mainstreaming Approach to Nurturing Youth Changemakers

CHIU, T. Y. J. (PI) & SHANG, L. E. (CoI)

1/08/22 → 31/01/24

Project: Grant Research

Evaluation of LU Undergraduate Students’ Well-Being during the Fourth and Fifth Waves of Covid-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong

ARAT, G. (PI)

15/05/22 → 14/12/22

Project: Grant Research

A qualitative study on older cleaning workers’ labour process during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrated approach

1/05/22 → 30/04/23

Project: Grant Research

Transformative feminist leadership: Evaluating its efficacy in the context of small NGOs

CHAN, H. N. A. (PI)

1/04/22 → 30/09/23

Project: Grant Research

The practices of food assistance in Hong Kong: A micro-institutional approach to frontline service providers

1/03/22 → 28/02/23

Project: Grant Research

Validation of Factorial Surveys as a Measurement Tool to Unveil Non-Declarative Culture

OLIVOS RAVE, F. J. (PI)

15/02/22 → 30/09/23

Project: Grant Research

Resource Bricolage of Social Enterprises in Turbulent Times

SHANG, L. E. (PI)

10/01/22 → 9/04/23

Project: Grant Research

Yenching, Lingnan, Pittsburgh: C.K. Yang and the Transnational History of Chinese Sociology

CHEN, H. F. (PI)

1/01/22 → 30/06/24

Project: Grant Research

Meaning, justification and aspiration: A qualitative study on the moral underpinnings of platform workers’ practices in Hong Kong

1/01/22 → 31/12/23

Project: Grant Research

Exploring the Possible Factors for the Prevention of COVID-19 Cases among Underprivileged Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong

ARAT, G. (PI)

15/03/21 → 14/05/22

Project: Grant Research

COVID-19 Supplement of Children’s Worlds: The International Survey of Children’s Well-being

KÜHNER, S. (PI) & LAU, K. W. M. (CoI)

15/03/21 → 30/01/22

Project: Grant Research

Mobile Ageing: Transborder Mobilities and the Agency of Older Adults in Hong Kong

CHIU, T. Y. J. (PI)

15/03/21 → 13/09/23

Project: Grant Research

Old-age Activation and the Delivery of Employment Services in Hong Kong: Views from Street-level Bureaucrats

1/03/21 → 28/02/22

Project: Grant Research

Women's Experiences of Violence in Hong Kong

CHAN, H. N. A. (PI)

1/02/21 → 31/01/23

Project: Grant Research

Buying, keeping and throwing stuff in small homes: A study on the purchase, storage and disposal decisions and practices of Hong Kong families (在細小的家中買、存和掉東西：一個關於香港家庭購買、存放和棄掉消費品的研究)

CHAN, H. N. A. (PI) & CHOI, W. Y. K. (CoI)

1/01/21 → 31/12/23

Project: Grant Research

The Compressed Family and Cubicle Living: Housing and Family in Postcolonial Hong Kong

LAI, Y. S. R. (PI)

1/01/21 → 30/06/23

Project: Grant Research

Sex and Sensitivity: Understanding the Needs for Culturally Sensitive Sexuality Education in Hong Kong

LAI, Y. S. R. (PI) & ARAT, G. (CoI)

30/06/20 → 31/12/22

Project: Grant Research

Harmony No Longer? Hong Kong Families under the Anti-Extradition

LAI, Y. S. R. (PI), CHIU, T. Y. J. (CoI) & CHOI, Y. P. S. (CoI)

15/06/20 → 15/09/21

Project: Grant Research

Multiculturalism with Hong Kong Characteristics

ARAT, G. (PI) & Kerelian, N. N. (CoI)

1/06/20 → 14/11/20

Project: Grant Research

Health Literacy, Social Capital and Health-related Quality of Life among Older Persons in Hong Kong: A Qualitative Study

AMOAH, P. A. (PI), TANG, M. Y. V. (CoI) & PHILLIPS, D. R. (CoI)