Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Projects

Projects per year 2011 2018 2022 2023 2024 2025 2028

• 5 Curtailed
• 33 Active
• 75 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Cultivating Sexual Agency Through Comprehensive Sexuality Education: The Case of Ethnic Minorities Youth in Hong Kong

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

  LU Research Committee

  31/03/25 → 31/07/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Rethinking abuse and psychological well-being in the digital era: Towards empowering and protecting street youth in Ghana

  AMOAH, P. A. (PI), LAU, K. W. M. (CoI), GWENZI, G. D. (CoI) & FATTORE, T. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  3/03/25 → 31/07/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Music as Reflection or Escapism: Leveraging Spotify Data for Theory Testing in Cultural Sociology

  OLIVOS RAVE, F. J. (PI) & BEYTIA, P. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/25 → 31/07/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Marital and Intergenerational Relationships of Older People: A Relational Perspective

  CHIU, T. Y. J. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  10/01/25 → 10/08/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Exploring the Impacts of Intensified Energy Transition Minerals (ETM) Extractions in Indigenous and Island Communities in Sumbawa Besar, Indonesia

  CUATON, G. P. (PI)

  LU Research Committee, LU Research Committee (Dept/Unit)

  5/01/25 → 4/01/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Beyond Hofstede: The Significance and Implications of Refined Individualism-Collectivism Measures

  AKALIYSKI, P. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/25 → 31/07/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Individualism-Collectivism and Impersonal Prosociality/Cooperation

  AKALIYSKI, P. (PI)

  LU Research Committee, LU Research Committee (Dept/Unit)

  1/01/25 → 30/06/26

  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)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/25 → 31/12/27

  Project: Grant Research

• Negotiating Doing Gender Practice and Femininity Rewards in Digital Entrepreneurship: A Neoliberal Feminism Perspective in Studying Chinese Female Social Media Lifestyle Bloggers

  LI, L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/25 → 31/12/26

  Project: Grant Research

• 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)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/25 → 31/12/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Fertility Intentions in a Globalized world: A Narrative Case Study of African Migrant Women Living in Hong Kong

  GWENZI, G. D. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/25 → 31/12/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Public Deservingness Discourses and Judgements in East Asia: A Vignette-based Qualitative Study

  KÜHNER, S. (PI), AU YEUNG, T. C. (CoI), YEH, C. Y. (CoI), MOON, H. (CoI), PENG, N. L. (CoI), Qian, J. (CoI) & YANG, N. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/25 → 30/06/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Health Inequality in the Digital Age: Mapping the Health Information Landscape of Hong Kong through Big Data and Machine Learning

  WONG, H. C. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/12/24 → 30/11/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Children’s views on their lives and well-being in Hong Kong in the post-pandemic period

  LAU, K. W. M. (PI) & KÜHNER, S. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  15/10/24 → 14/12/25

  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)

  LU Research Committee

  1/10/24 → 30/09/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Capital Visions: Calculative Practices, Social Relationships, and Imagination in Venture Capital Valuations of AI and Blockchain Startups (資本願景： 人工智能和區塊鏈初創公司創業估值中的計算實踐、社會關係和想像力)

  PREDA, A. (PI) & XU, R. (CoI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/10/24 → 30/09/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Ahon: Stories and imaginaries of resilience and progress in a changing climate (LU Part)

  CUATON, G. P. (PI), MINAS, A. (CoI), SEE, J. (CoI) & YEE, D. (CoI)

  The British Academy

  16/08/24 → 29/04/26

  Project: Grant Research

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

  LAI, Y. S. R. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  30/06/24 → 15/08/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Mezzo-level Dataset

  DAVID, R. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  24/06/24 → 23/06/26

  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)

  Harvard-Yenching Institute

  15/06/24 → 14/06/25

  Project: Grant Research

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

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

  LU Research Committee

  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)

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/24 → 31/07/25

  Project: Grant Research

  • Precarity 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Working Life 100%
  • Older Worker 100%
  • Low Wage 100%

• 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)

  LU Research Committee

  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)

  LU Research Committee, LU Research Committee (Dept/Unit)

  1/01/24 → 30/06/25

  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)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/12/23 → 30/11/28

  Project: Grant Research

  • Subjective Well-Being 100%
  • Social Support 100%
  • Stressors 100%
  • Positive Affect 28%
  • Life Satisfaction 28%

• 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)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/12/23 → 30/11/28

  Project: Grant Research

  • Subjective Well-Being 100%
  • Social Support 100%
  • Stressors 100%
  • Positive Affect 28%
  • Life Satisfaction 28%

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

  CHEN, X. (PI)

  Beat Drugs Fund Association

  1/09/23 → 31/10/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Perceived Ageism and Wellbeing among Older People in China

  CHEN, X. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/23 → 31/08/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Fighting for a Country: Testing Current and Historical Explanations

  DAVID, R. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/02/23 → 31/07/25

  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)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Grant Research

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

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

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Grant Research

  • Democracy 100%
  • Liberalism 100%
  • Commitment 28%
  • Democratization 14%
  • Parliament 14%

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

  LAI, Y. S. R. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Grant Research

  • Family 100%
  • Parent 100%
  • Child Rearing 100%
  • COVID 19 Epidemic 100%
  • Child 80%
• Finished

  Consultancy Study of Women’s Helpline Services Statistics

  KÜHNER, S. (PI) & LAI, Y. S. R. (CoI)

  Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres Limited

  18/03/24 → 31/05/24

  Project: Professional Projects (including Consultancy)

  • Sociology 100%
  • Mental Health 100%
  • Statistical Data 100%
  • Data Services 100%

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

  OLIVOS RAVE, F. J. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  18/12/23 → 17/03/25

  Project: Grant Research

• 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)

  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)

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

  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. (PI)

  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. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  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)

• 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)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Grant Research

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

  KÜHNER, S. (CoI)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: Non-LU Projects

• (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

• 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)

  LU Research Committee

  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)

  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. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/22 → 30/04/23

  Project: Grant Research

  • Precarity 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Working Life 100%
  • Older Worker 100%
  • Low Wage 100%

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

  CHAN, H. N. A. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  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

  AU YEUNG, T. C. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  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)

  LU Research Committee

  15/02/22 → 30/09/23

  Project: Grant Research

  • Cultural Logic 100%
  • Teachers 50%
  • Judgement 50%

• Resource Bricolage of Social Enterprises in Turbulent Times

  SHANG, L. E. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  10/01/22 → 9/04/23

  Project: Grant Research

  • Perspective 100%
  • Social Economy 100%
  • Women 100%
  • Process 18%
  • Optical Instrument 18%