Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Projects

Projects per year 2011 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023 2025

• 4 Curtailed
• 20 Active
• 59 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

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

  HUANG, S.

  LU Research Committee

  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)

  HUANG, S.

  LU Research Committee

  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.

  LU Research Committee

  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.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/23 → 28/02/24

  Project: Grant Research

• Perceived Ageism and Wellbeing among Older People in China

  CHEN, X.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/23 → 28/02/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Fighting for a Country: Testing Current and Historical Explanations

  DAVID, R.

  LU Research Committee

  1/02/23 → 31/01/25

  Project: Grant Research

• A Pilot Study of the Job Characteristics and Well-being of Personal Care Workers in Hong Kong's Residential Care Homes of the Elderly

  HUANG, S.

  LU Research Committee

  1/02/23 → 30/09/24

  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., AU YEUNG, T. C. & ZHANG, Y.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Grant Research

• Poverty Dynamics in Hong Kong: Synthetic Panel Approach

  KÜHNER, S.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: Non-LU Projects

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

  CHIU, T. Y. J.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  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.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Grant Research

• Social and Political Impacts of Myanmar's 2021 Military Coup

  DAVID, R. & HOLLIDAY, I. M.

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Grant Research

• 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. & HUANG, S.

  30/09/22 → 30/12/24

  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. & SHANG, L. E.

  LU Research Committee

  1/08/22 → 31/01/24

  Project: Grant Research

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

  CHAN, H. N. A.

  LU Research Committee

  1/04/22 → 30/09/23

  Project: Grant Research

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

  OLIVOS RAVE, F. J.

  LU Research Committee

  15/02/22 → 30/09/23

  Project: Grant Research

  • Fairness 100%
  • Logic 100%
  • Evaluation 100%
  • Treatment 100%
  • Contexts 100%

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

  AU YEUNG, T. C.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/22 → 31/12/23

  Project: Grant Research

  • Work 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Organizations 100%
  • Workers 55%
  • Practice 22%

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

  CHEN, H. F.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/22 → 30/06/24

  Project: Grant Research

  • Sociology 100%
  • History 100%
  • East Asia 100%
  • Western 50%
  • Asians 37%

• 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. & CHOI, W. Y. K.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Grant Research

• Museum and nation-building: Hong Kong history, communities, and identities represented in Hong Kong museums (1997-2017) 香港博物館與國族建構(1997-2017)

  CHOI, W. Y. K., CHAN, H. N. A. & MORRIS, M.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Grant Research

• Finished

  Consultancy Study of 30th Anniversary Free Legal Advice Clinic Service

  KÜHNER, S.

  2/02/23 → 4/03/23

  Project: Professional Projects (including Consultancy)

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

  ARAT, G.

  LU Research Committee

  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

  AU YEUNG, T. C.

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/22 → 30/04/23

  Project: Grant Research

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

  AU YEUNG, T. C.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/22 → 28/02/23

  Project: Grant Research

• Resource Bricolage of Social Enterprises in Turbulent Times

  SHANG, L. E.

  LU Research Committee

  10/01/22 → 9/04/23

  Project: Grant Research

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

  CHIU, T. Y. J.

  LU Research Committee

  15/03/21 → 13/09/23

  Project: Grant Research

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

  KÜHNER, S. & LAU, K. W. M.

  LU Research Committee

  15/03/21 → 30/01/22

  Project: Grant Research

  • Coronavirinae 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%
  • Life 100%
  • Family 66%
  • Experience 33%

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

  ARAT, G.

  LU Research Committee

  15/03/21 → 14/05/22

  Project: Grant Research

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Resilience 83%
  • Ethnic Groups 58%
  • Discrimination 55%
  • Support 47%

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

  AU YEUNG, T. C.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/21 → 28/02/22

  Project: Grant Research

• Women's Experiences of Violence in Hong Kong

  CHAN, H. N. A.

  LU Research Committee

  1/02/21 → 31/01/23

  Project: Grant Research

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Equal Opportunity 66%
  • Sample Survey 33%
  • Research Grants 33%
  • Social Policy 33%

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

  LAI, Y. S. R.

  LU Research Committee

  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. & ARAT, G.

  LU Research Committee

  30/06/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Grant Research

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

  LAI, Y. S. R., CHIU, T. Y. J. & CHOI, Y. P. S.

  LU Research Committee

  15/06/20 → 15/09/21

  Project: Grant Research

• Multiculturalism with Hong Kong Characteristics

  ARAT, G. & Kerelian, N. N.

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/20 → 14/11/20

  Project: Grant Research

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Ethnic Groups 70%
  • Multiculturalism 60%
  • Chinese 50%
  • Asians 40%

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

  AMOAH, P. A., TANG, M. Y. V. & PHILLIPS, D. R.

  LU Research Committee

  16/01/20 → 15/01/22

  Project: Grant Research

• To Claim or Not to Claim: Towards a Better Understanding of the Take-up Rates of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them

  CHOU, K. L. & KÜHNER, S.

  1/12/19 → 1/12/20

  Project: Non-LU Projects

  • Stigma 100%
  • Older Adults 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Old Age 100%
  • Targeting 100%

• Ageing Cities: A Preliminary Exploration of the Social and Spatial Practices of the Near and Recently Retired

  FORREST, R. & WANG, W.

  LU Research Committee

  1/12/19 → 31/05/20

  Project: Grant Research

• One Country, Diverse Employment Systems: Measuring Employment Regulations in Sub-national China Based on Employment Protection Legislation Index (EPLI)

  MOK, K. H. J.

  LU Research Committee

  1/07/19 → 30/06/20

  Project: Other External Research

  • Psychology 100%
  • College Students 50%
  • Volition 25%
  • Mediation Model 25%
  • Career Adaptability 25%

• Contextualizing discourses of sexual violence: Perpetrator's perspectives

  CHAN, H. N. A.

  LU Research Committee

  15/06/19 → 14/12/21

  Project: Other Knowledge Transfer

• The Voices of Ethnic Minority Children on Their Lives and Well-Being in Hong Kong

  LAU, K. W. M. & KÜHNER, S.

  Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF

  1/09/18 → 30/11/21

  Project: Contract Research

• Understanding the Complexities of Gender-based Domestic Violence in Intimate Partner Relations in Ghana

  DAVID, R. & CHAN, H. N. A.

  LU Research Committee

  1/08/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Grant Research

• Knowledge, Experience and Responses to Workplace Sexual Harassment: Comparing Recent Female Migrant Workers in Hong Kong and Shenzhen

  CHAN, H. N. A. & PUN, N.

  LU Research Committee

  1/08/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Grant Research

• Social Epidemiology, Universal Health Coverage and Health and Well-Being

  AMOAH, P. A. & PHILLIPS, D. R.

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/18 → 31/05/20

  Project: Grant Research

  • Health 100%
  • Health Literacy 86%
  • Social Capital 69%
  • Ghana 63%
  • Health Status 53%

• Ageing in the New Urban Areas of Beijing: Developing Methodology and Exploratory Research

  PHILLIPS, D. R., CHENG, Y. & ROSENBERG, M. W.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/18 → 31/07/20

  Project: Grant Research

  • Migrant 100%
  • Health 100%
  • China 80%
  • Economics 70%
  • Area 60%

• Ethnicity and Gender in Hong Kong Skateboarding

  O'CONNOR, P. J.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/18 → 1/04/19

  Project: Grant Research

  • Women 100%
  • Sport 66%
  • Media Analysis 33%
  • Books 33%
  • Ritual 33%

• Attitudes toward a Gender Pay Gap in CEO Pay

  BURAK HO, B. E. & WEISSHAAR, K.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/18 → 1/01/19

  Project: Grant Research

• Scoping Study on High Rise Communities and Vertical Urbanism

  FORREST, R., O'CONNOR, P. J. & WANG, W.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/18 → 31/10/18

  Project: Grant Research

  • Urban Areas 100%
  • Metropolitan Area 100%
  • Practice 80%
  • Life 60%
  • Hong Kong 40%

• Children's Views on their Lives and Well-being in Hong Kong

  LAU, K. W. M., KÜHNER, S. & REES, G.

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/18 → 31/08/19

  Project: Grant Research

  • Children 100%
  • Subjective Well-Being 76%
  • Schools 76%
  • Satisfaction 45%
  • Autonomy 39%

• The Political Liberalism of Rebecca West (Rebecca West 的政治自由主義)

  BAEHR, W. P.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Grant Research

  • Communism 100%
  • Intelligentsia 41%
  • Liberalism 33%
  • Legends 16%
  • Evaluation 16%

• Achievement without Coherence: State-Building, University System and the Formation of Chinese Sociology, 1919-1949 (割裂的成就：國家建設、大學制度與中國社會學的構成，1921-1949)

  CHEN, H. F.

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Grant Research

  • Chinese 100%
  • Sociology 90%
  • Work 43%
  • Sociologist 35%
  • Buildings 34%