14 September 2022
In the 2022/23 ‘RGC Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector’, HSUHK has secured a total funding of over HK$12.41 million for 13 projects under its ‘Faculty Development Scheme’. Since the launch of the schemes in 2014/15, HSUHK has received the highest funding amount and recorded the highest number of awarded research projects among all eligible self-financing institutions.
An Overview of HSUHK Projects Funded by the RGC
Funding Scheme School/Department Principal Investigator Project Title Funding Amount (Inclusive of On-costs)(HKD)
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Accountancy Dr Vivian ZHANG Does Sharing the Same Auditor with Listed Affiliated Firms Affect IPO Audit Quality? An Analysis at the Audit Firm and Partner Levels $540,600
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Communication Dr Howard SONG Business News Treasures in the Vanishing Old Newspapers in Hong Kong: The History, Characteristics, and Social Impact $641,800
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Computing Dr Carlin CHU Early Detection of Cyberbullying Incidents in Chinese-English Code-Mixed Language with Targeted Emotional Colloquial Slang Phrases: A Transfer Learning Approach $916,650
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Management Dr Kaylee KONG What Really Matters in Achieving Team and Individual Innovative Performance in Different Cultures: Innovation Leadership, Creative Collective and Self-Efficacy, and Initiative Climate $566,848
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Management Dr Amy WANG How do Team Insiders Respond to Newcomer Voice? A Mutual Influence Perspective of Newcomer Entry on Team Innovation $540,600
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Marketing Dr Fanny CHAN Advertising Innovative Products Across Cultures: The Manifestation of Innovativeness Cues and Their Relative Impact $896,985
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Marketing Dr Morgan YANG Feedback Strategy for Motivating Loyalty Program Members in the Digital Era: The Role of Progress Framing $628,920
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Mathematics, Statistics and Insurance Dr Timothy NG Admixture Analysis of Multi-Site Multivariate Time Series $1,529,550
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Mathematics, Statistics and Insurance Dr Tom NG Generalized Fiducial Inference and Model Selection on Multiple Change-point Detection in Autoregressive Time Series $1,324,850
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Mathematics, Statistics and Insurance Dr Carisa YU Joint Sparse Optimization: Nonconvex Penalty Theory and Applications $1,324,850
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Social Science Dr Lucille NGAN Transnational Ageing and Family Processes among Elderly Hong Kong Parents $883,818
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Supply Chain and Information Management Dr Helen MA Minimizing Maintenance Delays by Integrating Aircraft Maintenance Routing and Maintenance Workforce Scheduling with the Consideration of Component Availability $1,359,350
Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) Supply Chain and Information Management Dr WANG Yue MetaConfigurator: A Resource-Effective Method to Develop Needs-Based Configurators for Product Customisation $1,261,600
