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Research Interests of Staff
Department of Chinese
Prof. LAU Yin-ping, Grace, Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs) and Professor; BA, MPhil, CertEd, PhD
(HKU)
Classical Chinese literature (especially fiction and drama); Myth and literature; Cantonese opera and film.
Prof. CAI Zong-qi, Lee Wing Tat Chair Professor of Chinese Literature and Head of Department; MA (Zhongshan);
MA (UMass Amherst); PhD (Princeton)
Classical Chinese poetry and poetics; Literary theory; Comparative literature; Aesthetics; Philosophy.
Prof. HSU Tzu-pin, Professor and Master of Arts in Chinese Programme Director; BA, MPhil (CUHK); PhD (HKU)
Linguistics; Confucian classics; Classical Chinese literary; Bibliography.
Prof. KWONG Yim-tze, Charles, Professor; BA, MPhil (HKU); MPhil (Oxon); MA, PhD (Yale)
Classical Chinese poetry and fiction; Comparative literature and ideas; Literary translation.
Prof. LEE Hung-kai, Professor; BA, MPhil, PhD (HKU)
Etymology; Linguistics; Classical Chinese language and literature.
Prof. WANG Chunhong, Professor; BA, MA (Nankai); PhD (Fudan)
Classical Chinese literature; Bibliography; History of thought in ancient China.
Prof. XU Zidong, Professor and Master of Arts in Chinese Associate Programme Director; MA (East China
Normal); MA (UCLA); PhD (HKU)
Modern Chinese literature; Contemporary Chinese literature; Hong Kong literature.
Prof. CHAN Wai-ying, Associate Professor; BA, MPhil, PhD (HKU)
Modern Chinese literature; Contemporary Chinese literature; Media writing; Documentary writing; Creative writing.
Prof. SI TOU Sau-ieng, Associate Professor; BA, MPhil, PhD (HKU)
Classical Chinese literature (especially classic drama literature and Ci poetry).
Prof. WONG Shuk-han, Mary, Associate Professor; HonDip (HKBU); MA (Leicester); MA (East Anglia); PhD (HKU)
Literature and cinema; Chinese literature and world literature.
Prof. CHIN Wan-kan, Assistant Professor; BA, MPhil (CUHK); PhD (Göttingen)
Folklore studies; Cultural policy; Business writing; Language in public domain; Stylistics and rhetoric; Chinese folklore
and mythology.
Prof. WEI Yan, Vivien, Assistant Professor; BA (Nanjing); PhD (Harvard)
Modern Chinese literature; Visual culture studies; Popular culture studies.
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Department of Cultural Studies
Prof. CHAN Ching-kiu, Stephen, Associate Vice-President (Academic Affairs) and Registrar, and Professor;
BA, MPhil (HKU); PhD (UC San Diego)
Cultural criticism and education; Cultural representations and cultural politics; Literary and cultural theories;
Cultural policy and citizenship; Cinema studies; Hong Kong cultural studies.
Prof. LI Siu-leung, Associate Professor and Head of Department; BA, MPhil (HKU); PhD (UMass Amherst)
Gender and Chinese opera; film; Hong Kong popular culture.
Prof. MORRIS Meaghan Elizabeth, Distinguished Adjunct Professor; BA (Sydney); MLett (Paris); PhD (UTS)
Cinema studies; Popular culture and social memory; Popular historiography; International cultural studies;
Globalisation and “national” questions in cultural studies.
Prof. NIRANJANA Tejaswini, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Humanities; BA (Bangor); MA (Bombay);
MPhil (UOP); PhD (UCLA)
Post-colonial studies; Translation studies; Inter-Asian cultural theory and higher education; Gender and
performance studies.
Prof. WANG Xiaoming, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Humanities; MA (East China Normal)
Modern Chinese literary and cultural studies; Chinese intellectual history and modern Asian thoughts; Asian
cultural studies.
Prof. DAI Jinhua, Adjunct Professor; BA (Peking); PhD (LU)
Popular culture; Third world studies; Film studies; Gender studies.
Prof. ERNI John Nguyet, Adjunct Professor; BA (Whitworth Coll.); MA (Oregon); LLM (HKU); PhD (Illinois)
International and Asia-based cultural studies; gender and sexual politics related to media and visual culture;
criticism of global public health; human rights discourse and politics; youth popular culture in transnational
contexts.
Prof. CHEN Yun-chung, Associate Professor; BEng, MPhil (National Taiwan); PhD (UCLA)
Innovation studies; Culture-creative industries; Critical urban studies.
Prof. HUI Po-keung, Associate Professor and Master of Cultural Studies Programme Director; BSc, MPhil
(CUHK); PhD (SUNY Binghamton)
Education and cultural studies; Cultural economies; Politics of knowledge; Historical capitalism; Populism.
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Department of Cultural Studies
Prof. LAU Kin-chi, Associate Professor; BA, MPhil, PhD (HKU)
Critical pedagogy; Translation and cultural studies; Gender studies; Contemporary China studies; Comparative
literature.
Prof. LAW Wing-sang, Associate Professor; BSocSc, MPhil (CUHK); PhD (UTS)
Historical cultural studies of colonialism; Comparative social thought; Hong Kong cultural formation; Citizenship;
Cultural theory.
Prof. LEUNG Yuk-ming, Lisa, Associate Professor and Master of Cultural Studies Deputy Director; BSocSc
(HKBU); DPhil (Sussex)
Media studies; Television and (transnational) audience studies; Journalism and cultural studies; Popular culture
and social movements; Ethnic minorities and the media.
Prof. YAU Ching, Associate Professor; BA (HKU); MA (New School Soc. Res.); PhD (London)
Gender and sexuality studies; Cinema studies; Hong Kong studies; Technocultures; Youth cultures; Media
production; Comparative literature; Art theory; Documentary and video art.
Prof. CHAN Shun-hing, Adjunct Associate Professor; MDev’t Studies (Hague); MA, PhD (Peking)
Modern Chinese literature and literary history; Gender and cultural studies; Contemporary China studies; Hong
Kong studies; Peace studies and everyday life.
Prof. MA Kwok-ming, Adjunct Associate Professor; BA (CUHK); MPhil (HKU)
Urban studies; Hong Kong studies.
Prof. MOK Chiu-yu, Augustine, Adjunct Associate Professor; BEcon (Adelaide Univ.)
Drama; Community culture.
Prof. IP Iam-chong, Assistant Professor; BSocSc, MPhil (CUHK); PhD (National Taiwan)
Urban studies; Contemporary China studies; Modern Chinese thought; Ethnography; Media studies.
Prof. HOYNG Rolien Susanne, Visiting Assistant Professor; BA, MA (UvA); PhD (UNC)
Cultural studies; Technology and culture; Discourses and practices of networking; Urban governance; Global
cities; Istanbul.
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Department of English
Prof. BERRY Roger Stephen, Professor and Head of Department; BA (UC North Wales); MA (Leeds); PhD
(Adam Mickiewicz)
Applied linguistics; Pedagogic grammar; Corpus linguistics.
Prof. DING Ersu, Professor; BA (Jiangsu Teachers’ Coll.); MA (Suzhou); PhD (Minnesota)
Literary theory; Comparative literature; Semiotics.
Prof. HO Hung-lam, Elizabeth, Associate Professor; BA (Smith Coll.); MA (Vermont); PhD (Rutgers)
Contemporary global literatures in English; Postcolonial fiction and theory; Neo-Victorian Studies; The graphic
novel.
Prof. INGHAM Michael Anthony, Associate Professor; BA, MA (Oxon); PGCE (Avery Hill Coll., London); RSA
CertTEFL (Bell School Cambridge); PhD (HKU)
Drama (text and performance); Film studies; Hong Kong writing in English; Literary linguistics.
Prof. KANG Munkyung Agnes, Associate Professor; BA (Cornell); MA, PhD (UC Santa Barbara)
Discourse; Discourse and identity; Gender and discourse; Interactional sociolinguistics.
Prof. HIRADHAR Preet Pankaj, Assistant Professor; BA, MA (South Gujarat); GNIIT (NIIT); CertTEFL (i-to-i,
UK); PhD (Sardar Patel U)
Technology-enabled language learning; E-learning and ICT in English language education; Online literacies and
digital practices; Multimodal analysis.
Prof. HUI Wai-yi, Diane, Assistant Professor; BEd (Stirling); MSc (Edinburgh); PhD (Wash U, WUSTL)
Discourses; English across the curriculum and language education; First and second language acquisition;
Popular culture and mediated-learning enhanced by technology; Socio-linguistic and cultural studies; Learning
sciences; Innovation and pedagogy; Assessment for learning.
Prof. SEWELL Andrew John, Assistant Professor; BSocSc (Birmingham); RSA CertTEFL (Angloschool
London); MA (Leicester); PhD (LU)
Phonetics and phonology; World Englishes; English as a lingua franca; Language education.
Prof. SUNG Chit-cheung, Matthew, Assistant Professor; BA, MPhil (HKU); MA (CUHK); PhD (Lancaster)
Sociolinguistics; English as a lingua franca; Language and identity; Gender and discourse; Second language
education.
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Department of History
Prof. DAVIS Richard Lee, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Chair Professor of History; BA, MA (SUNY
Buffalo); MA, PhD (Princeton)
Middle period China (Five Dynasties, Song & Yuan): political, social, cultural; Military history.
Prof. HAN Xiaorong, Professor and Head of Department; BA (Xiamen); MA (CASS); MA (Tulane); PhD
(Hawaii)
Modern China and Vietnam; Communism and Nationalism; Peasant movements; Ethnic relations; Chinese
diaspora; Intra-Asian interactions.
Prof. CHOU Grace Ai-ling, Associate Professor; BA, MA (Colorado); PhD (Hawaii)
Modern Chinese intellectual history; Hong Kong educational history; Contemporary Confucianism; Comparative
intellectual and educational history; East-West cultural interactions.
Prof. HAMPTON Mark Andrew, Associate Professor; BA (Middle Tennessee State); MA, PhD (Vanderbilt)
Modern Britain and British Empire; Media history; Anglo-American cultural and intellectual history; Hong Kong.
Prof. LAU Chi-pang, Associate Professor; BA, MPhil (HKU); PhD (Washington); JP
Hong Kong history; Ming and Qing China; Modern China; Chinese intellectual history.
Prof. PIANCIOLA Niccolò, Associate Professor; MPhil (UNITO); PhD (UNISOB)
Russian and Soviet history; Inner Asian history; Comparative history of empires; Agrarian history; Communism
and Nationalism; Environmental history.
Prof. POON Shuk-wah, Associate Professor; BA, MPhil (HKBU); PhD (HKUST)
History of Hong Kong; History of modern China; Chinese religion in China and Hong Kong; Heritage preservation
in Hong Kong and China.
Prof. LEMBERG Diana Lucy, Assistant Professor; BA (Princeton); MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale)
Twentieth-century US history; Twentieth-century European history; Colonial and imperial formations; Humanrights history; Cultural history; History of technology; Global English.
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Department of Philosophy
Prof. LIVINGSTON Paisley Nathan, Chair Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department; BA (Stanford);
PhD (Johns Hopkins)
Aesthetics; Philosophy and literature; Philosophy of language; Action theory; Epistemology; History of Western
philosophy.
Prof. ROWBOTTOM Darrell Patrick, Professor; BSc (Bristol); PgDip, MA, PhD (Durham); MSc (LSE, London)
Philosophy of science; Foundations of probability; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Philosophy of education.
Prof. SESARDIC Neven, Professor; BA, PhD (Zagreb, Croatia)
Philosophy of science; Philosophy of biology; Philosophy of mind; Political philosophy.
Prof. WONG Wai-ying, Associate Professor; BA, MPhil, PhD (CUHK); MA (York, UK)
Meta-ethics; Confucian ethics; Business ethics; Pre-Qin Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism; Contemporary NeoConfucianism; Cultural transformation in modern China.
Prof. ZHANG Jiji, Associate Professor; BA (Peking); MSc, PhD (Carnegie Mellon)
Philosophy of science; Logic; Epistemology; Artificial intelligence.
Prof. ZHENG Yujian, Associate Professor and Master of Arts in Practical Philosophy Programme Director;
BSc (Jiaotong, Shanghai); MA (Renmin); PhD (Bowling Green)
Rationality and dynamic choice; Philosophy of action; Political and moral philosophy; Philosophy of science and
of social science.
Prof. DE CLERCQ Rafael, Adjunct Associate Professor; MPhil, PhD (K. U. Leuven)
Aesthetic properties; Architecture; Music perception; Criteria of identity; Presentism; Perceptual indiscriminability.
Prof. BAKER Derek Clayton, Assistant Professor; BA (UC Berkeley); PhD (Princeton)
Action theory/Moral psychology; Ethics and metaethics; Epistemology; Political philosophy; Nietzsche; Early Heidegger.
Prof. CHIU Wai-wai, Assistant Professor and Master of Arts in Practical Philosophy Assistant Programme
Director; BA, MPhil (CUHK); PhD (New South Wales)
Daoist ethics; Pre-Qin Daoism, Pre-Qin Mohism; Pre-Qin epistemology.
Prof. NADO Jennifer Ellen, Assistant Professor; BA (Pomona); PhD (Rutgers)
Epistemology; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of psychology.
Prof. NAIR Gopal Shyam, Assistant Professor; BA (ASU); PhD (Southern California)
Epistemology; Normative and metaethics; Philosophical logic; Philosophy of language.
Prof. PETTERSSON Mikael, Assistant Professor; MA, PhD (Stockholm)
Aesthetics; Metaphysics (in particular “minor entities”); Philosophy of depiction; Philosophy of perception.
Prof. RICE James Andrew, Assistant Professor; BA (Wisconsin); BA, MA, LLM (Cambridge)
Philosophy of law; Political philosophy; Human rights law; Social and legal issues.
Prof. SAUCHELLI Andrea, Assistant Professor; BA, MA (Pisa); PhD (SNS)
Modality; Aesthetics and philosophy of art; Personal identity and ethics.
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Department of Translation
Prof. CHAN Tak-hung, Leo, Professor and Head of Department; BA (HKU); MA, PhD (Indiana)
Translation theory; Literary and translation studies; Chinese/English/Japanese translation traditions.
Prof. CHANG Nam-fung, Professor; BA, MPhil (HKU); PhD (Warwick)
Descriptive and theoretical translation studies.
Prof. KWONG Yim-tze, Charles, Professor; BA, MPhil (HKU); MPhil (Oxon); MA, PhD (Yale)
Classical Chinese poetry and fiction; Comparative literature and ideas; Literary translation.
Prof. LUNG Wai-chu, Rachel, Professor; HighDip (CPHK); PhD (Essex)
Interpreting studies; History of Translation.
Prof. SUN Yi-feng, Professor; BA (Nanjing); MLitt (Cantab); PhD (Leiden); FRSA
Literary theory; Comparative studies; Translation theory and criticism; Literary translation.
Prof. CHAN Mei-hung, Red, Assistant Professor; BA (PolyU); MA (Warwick); DPhil (Oxon)
Translation and China studies; Contemporary culture and translation; Identities and translation; Media and
translation; Legal interpreting/translation.
Prof. HUI Ting-yan, Issac, Assistant Professor; BA, PhD (HKU)
Literary and translation studies; Literary and cultural theory; Translation theory.
Prof. RAINE Roberta Ann, Assistant Professor; BA (Skidmore Coll.); PhD (CityU)
Translation history; Translation of Buddhism in Tibet and China; Minority languages and translation.
Prof. WONG Wai-yi, Dorothy, Assistant Professor; HonDip, BA (HKBC); MPhil (HKBU); MEd (UWA); PhD (HKU)
Comparative literature; Theatre and translation; Shakespeare and translation.
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Department of Visual Studies
Prof. HJORT Mette, Associate Vice-President (Academic Quality Assurance and Internationalisation) and
Chair Professor of Visual Studies; BA, MA (McGill); PhD (EHESS, Paris)
Environmental aesthetics; Creativity under constraint; Small national cinemas; Philosophy and film; Contemporary
documentary filmmaking in Hong Kong & the PRC; Film schools.
Prof. DE CLERCQ Rafael, Associate Professor and Head of Department; MPhil, PhD (K. U. Leuven)
Aesthetic properties; Architecture; Music perception; Criteria of identity; Presentism; Perceptual
indiscriminability.
Prof. LAW Suk-mun, Sophia, Associate Professor; BA, MPhil, PhD (HKU)
History of 20th century Chinese painting; Modernity in Chinese painting; Aesthetics of Chinese painting and
Chinese calligraphy; Art and community; Arts and health; History of Hong Kong Art.
Prof. ARCHER Carol, Assistant Professor; BA, DipEd (Sydney); AssocDip (ANU); MAhons (UWS); PhD (HKU)
Contemporary art; Collaborative art; Environmental art and aesthetics; Political art; Sociology of the art world;
20th century arts.
Prof. HUANG Ying-ling, Michelle, Assistant Professor; BBA, MA (HKUST); MLitt, PhD (St Andrews)
Cross-cultural exchange on art and curation; Collecting and display of Chinese painting; Art of the Chinese
diaspora; Art and globalisation.
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Department of Accountancy
Prof. CHAN Koon-hung, J K Lee Chair Professor of Accountancy, Head of Department and Master of
Accountancy and Postgraduate Diploma in Accountancy Programme Co-Director; BCom (CUHK); MAccSc
(Illinois); PhD (Penn. State); FCPA (HK)
Chinese taxation; Auditing and International accounting.
Prof. LIN Zhen-pin, Kenny, Professor; BA (Jiangxi Fin. & Econ. Univ.); MSc (Strathclyde); PhD (Glasgow
Caledonian); CGA
Auditor decision-making; China auditing and taxation.
Prof. LO Wai-yee, Agnes, Associate Professor; BA (PolyU); PhD (LU); FCCA (UK); CPA (HK)
Hong Kong and PRC taxation; Transfer pricing.
Prof. LUI Man-ching, Gladie, Associate Professor; BSc (Brigham Young); MBA (Northeast Louisiana); MAcct
(Washington State); PhD (CUHK); CPA (US); CPA (HK)
Financial accounting; Behavioural accounting.
Prof. SHAFER William Eugene, Associate Professor; BBA, MSc (Sam Houston State); PhD (Houston); CMA
(US); CPA (US)
Professionalism and ethics in accounting; Corporate social responsibility.
Prof. SIMMONS Richard Stanley, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Business Programmes; BA
(Exeter); MSc, DIC, PhD (London); FCA (UK); FCPA (HK); ATIHK
Hong Kong taxation; International taxation; Business, accounting and tax ethics.
Prof. SHUM Chun-yau, Clement, Visiting Associate Professor; LLB (HKU); LLM (Queen Mary, London);
Barrister-at-Law of the High Court of the HKSAR
Comparative law: Hong Kong, China, UK and Australia.
Prof. CHENG Lai-sheung, Suwina, Assistant Professor; BBA, MBA (OUHK); MPhil (PolyU); PhD (Bath);
AICPA; CMA; CGMA
Corporate governance; Firm performance; Management compensation; Corporate social responsibility.
Prof. WONG Wai-yee, Pauline, Assistant Professor; BA, PhD (PolyU); MBA (HKUST); FCCA (UK); CPA (HK);
MHKSI (HK); ATIHK
Auditing and taxation; China accounting; Corporate governance.
Prof. YIP Wing-yue, Rita, Assistant Professor; BBA, PhD (CUHK); ACCA
International capital markets; Financial accounting; Accounting ethics.
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Department of Computing and Decision Sciences
Prof. LIU Liming, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Chair Professor of Computing and Decision Sciences;
BEng, MEng (Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.); PhD (Toronto)
Logistics; Supply chain management; Stochastic models; Port operations and economics.
Prof. LENG Mingming, Professor and Head of Department; BEng (Shenyang Inst. of Tech.); MEng (Wuhan
Univ. of Tech.); PhD (McMaster)
Supply chain management; Game theory; Stochastic processes; Operations research.
Prof. LOO Wai-sing, Alfred, Associate Professor; BSc, PgDip (CUHK); MSc (NYU-Poly); CertEd (PolyU); PhD
(Sunderland); MBCS; CITP; CEng; C.Math. MIMA; Chartered Scientist (UK)
Computer security; Distributed computing; Mobile forensics.
Prof. SHANG Weixin, Associate Professor; BSc (THU); PhD (HKUST)
Operations management; Supply chain management; Stochastic models.
Prof. WONG Man-leung, Associate Professor; BSc, MPhil, PhD (CUHK); MIEEE; MACM
Data mining and knowledge discovery; Machine learning; Evolutionary algorithms; Knowledge-based systems;
Fuzzy sets theory.
Prof. YEUNG Wing-lok, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Business Programmes; HighDip
(HKPoly); PgCert (Northumbria); MSc (Salford); PhD (CNAA); MBCS
Web services; Business process management; Multi-agent systems.
Prof. LIANG Liping, Assistant Professor; BSc (South China Univ. of Tech.); MSc, PhD (British Columbia)
Operations management; Supply chain management; Incentive mechanism design; Game-theoretic modeling;
Service operations.
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Department of Finance and Insurance
Prof. FIRTH Michael, Hong Kong Economic Journal Chair Professor of Finance and Head of Department;
BS (Metro. State); MA, MBS (Colorado); MPhil (Warwick); MSc, PhD (Bradford); FCA; FCPA; CTA; CFA; CIIA;
MHKSI
Auditing; Financial accounting; Corporate finance; Corporate governance and organisation; Investments; Law
and finance.
Prof. LI Jingyuan, Associate Professor; MA (Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.); PhD (Texas A&M)
Theory of risk and uncertainty; Theory of insurance.
Prof. POON Pui-han, Winnie, Associate Professor; DBA (Mississippi State); MHKSI
Credit ratings; International financial market.
Prof. WONG Man-lai, Sonia, Associate Professor; BSocSc, MPhil (CUHK); PhD (HKU)
Corporate governance; Economics of transition; Chinese financial market reforms; Corporate finance.
Prof. GAO Jin, Assistant Professor; BSc (UIBE); MA (Wayne State); PhD (Georgia State); ASA; CFA
Corporate finance; Financial risk management; Actuarial science.
Prof. ZHANG Yuanyuan, Karen, Assistant Professor; BA (Jilin); MSc, PhD (Lancaster)
Corporate finance; Derivatives; Market microstructure.
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Department of Management
Prof. TJOSVOLD Dean William, Henry Y W Fong Chair Professor of Management; BA (Princeton); MA, PhD
(Minnesota)
Cooperative teamwork; Conflict management; Decision making; Leadership; Power and other management
issues in China.
Prof. SNELL Robin Stanley, Professor; BA (Sheffield); MA, PhD (Lancaster)
Qualitative research methodology in organisational behaviour research; Organisational change and
organisational learning; Business ethics; Organisation studies.
Prof. WONG Shiu-ho, Alfred, Associate Professor and Head of Department; HighDip (HKPoly); MBA (East
Asia); PhD (Sheffield Hallam)
Supply chain management; Buyer and supplier relationships; Leadership and teamwork; Cooperation and
competition; Strategic management.
Prof. CHEN Yifeng, Nancy, Associate Professor and Master of Science in Human Resource Management
and Organisational Behaviour Programme Director; BA (Shandong); PhD (LU)
Cross-cultural management; Conflict management in joint ventures; Leadership and teamwork; Cooperation
and competition; Relationships, social capital and other management issues in China.
Prof. WONG Mei-ling, May, Associate Professor; BA (HKU); MA (Hitotsubashi); PhD (City, London); MIHRM
International human resource management; Cross-cultural management; Japanese and Chinese management;
Human resource management; Organisational behaviour.
Prof. WONG Yui-tim, Edward, Associate Professor; BBA (CUHK); MSc (LSE, London); PhD (CUHK)
Organisational behaviour; Human resources management.
Prof. CHEN Tingting, Assistant Professor and Master of Science in Human Resource Management and
Organisational Behaviour Associate Programme Director; BEcon, MEcon (Zhongshan); PhD (CityU)
Leadership; Work motivation; Creativity; Chinese indigenous management issues; Human resource management;
Justice; Goal interdependence.
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Department of Marketing and International Business
Prof. CHAN Tsang-sing, Shun Hing Chair Professor of Marketing; BBA, MBA (Wisconsin); DBA (Indiana); BBS
The application of strategic marketing planning to business; International marketing with special focus on export
channels; Marketing issues in China; Marketing education.
Prof. CUI Geng, Professor; BA (Peking); MPS (Cornell); PhD (Connecticut)
China consumer market; FDI strategies and performance; Interactive marketing; E-commerce; Data mining using
machine learning.
Prof. CHOW Kong-wing, Clement, Associate Professor and Director of Business Programmes; BSocSc (CUHK);
MA (Queen’s); PhD (Western Ontario)
International trade and investment; Productivity; Labour issues; Civil aviation research of China.
Prof. LI Ling-yee, Esther, Associate Professor, Head of Department and Master of Science in Marketing and
International Business Programme Director; Dip (HKBU); MBA (Wales); PhD (UWA)
Sustainable marketing and firm competitiveness; Market entry strategies and performance; Channel and trade
show marketing.
Prof. LUI Hon-kwong, Associate Professor; BSc (Econ) (London); MSocSc, PhD (HKU); DipM (Chartered Inst.
of Marketing)
Labour economics; Applied marketing research; Hong Kong economy.
Prof. PENG Ling, Associate Professor and Master of Science in Marketing and International Business Associate
Programme Director; BEng (Renmin); MEcon (Zhongshan); PhD (Alberta)
Marketing measurement; New product and innovation management; E-commerce and social media; Consumer
behaviour.
Prof. POON Shing-chung, Patrick, Associate Professor; METM, PhD (Queensland)
Cross-cultural marketing; Services marketing; Consumer behaviour; New product development; Social marketing.
Prof. CHEN Yu-jen, Assistant Professor; BSc (NCTU); MBA (NCKU); PhD (UMD)
Consumer behaviour; Word-of-mouth communication; Social influence; Persuasion knowledge; Online consumer
communication.
Prof. WHITLA Paul A, Assistant Professor; BA (Manchester Metropolitan); MBA (Manchester); PhD (PolyU)
Globalisation in service industries; Multinational business strategy; Marketing strategy in Asia-Pacific; Sports
marketing and internationalisation.
Prof. WONG Hiu-kan, Ada, Assistant Professor; BA, MPhil, PhD (PolyU)
Marketing capabilities in transition economies; Supply chain management; Distance effects on marketing strategy;
Market orientation; Social marketing; Practical significance in academic research.
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Department of Applied Psychology
Prof. SIU Oi-ling, Professor and Head of Department; BEd (Strathclyde); AdvDipEd, MPhil (HKU); PhD (Liverpool)
Occupation health psychology (Occupational stress, Work-family/life balance & Psychology of safety);
Positive psychology.
Prof. CHEUNG Yue-lok, Francis, Associate Professor and BSocSc (Hons) Associate Programme Director; BA
(HKBU); PgDip, MPhil, PhD (CUHK)
Organisational psychology; Occupational health and well-being.
Prof. LI Yau-wai, Simon, Assistant Professor; BSc, MSc, PhD (UCL)
Human-computer interaction; Applied cognitive psychology; Psychology of technology; Human error; Interruption.
Prof. LUN Miu-chi, Vivian, Assistant Professor; BSocSc, MPhil (CUHK); PhD (VUW)
Cross-cultural psychology; Social psychology; Social cognition; Education psychology; Critical thinking and
creativity.
Prof. YEUNG Wai-lan, Vicki, Assistant Professor; BSocSc, MPhil (HKU); PhD (Melbourne)
Cross-cultural psychology; Social psychology; Consumer psychology; Social cognition; Communication.
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Department of Economics
Prof. CHENG Leonard K, President and Chair Professor of Economics; BSSc (CUHK); MA, PhD (UC Berkeley)
Applied game theory; Market structure; Currency crisis; International trade and investment; Technological innovation
and imitation; China’s inward and outward foreign direct investment.
Prof. SEADE Jesús, Sydney S W Leong Chair Professor of Economics; BSc Chem. Eng. (UNAM Mexico); BPhil,
DPhil (Oxon)
China’s and global financial markets; China-Latin America economic relations; Public finance theory and policy;
International trade and the WTO system.
Prof. WEI Xiangdong, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor; BSc (Zhongshan); MSocSc, PhD
(Birmingham)
Labour economics with special interests in personnel economics; Economics of education and workplace health and
safety policies; Chinese and Hong Kong economy.
Prof. HO Lok-sang, Professor and Head of Department; BSocSc (HKU); MA, PhD (Toronto)
Social economics (social security/health economics/justice); Urban economics (transportation, housing, poverty,
environmental economics, etc); Macroeconomics (fiscal/monetary policy); Public finance/public economics; Economy
of Hong Kong; International monetary systems.
Prof. FAN Cheng-ze, Simon, Professor; BSc, MSc (Xiamen); MA, PhD (Brown)
Development/comparative economics; Labour and population economics; International economics; Macroeconomics.
Prof. LIN Ping, Professor; BSc (Shandong); MA (Chinese Academy of Soc. Sc.); PhD (Minnesota)
Industrial organisation; Competition law/policy in East Asia; Industrial economics; Innovation, FDI, and technology
transfer in China; Banking.
Prof. JIANG Liangliang, Associate Professor; BSc (Univ. of Shanghai for Sci. and Tech.); MA (Maine); MA, PhD
(Florida)
Banking and financial institutions; Economics of regulation and corruption; Environmental economics; Development
economics.
Prof. RAN Qiming, Jimmy, Associate Professor; BA (Xinjiang); MA (SUNY Buffalo); PhD (W. Virginia)
International finance and trade; Monetary and macroeconomics; Development; Financial economics; Applied econometrics.
Prof. VOON Jan-piaw, Thomas, Associate Professor; BAgrSc, Ph D (La Trobe)
Cost-benefit analysis; Agricultural economics; Public finance.
Prof. ZHANG Yifan, Associate Professor; BA, MA (Renmin); PhD (Pittsburgh)
Chinese economy; Development economics; Applied industrial organisation; International trade and FDI.
Prof. WHITTEN Gregory William, Assistant Professor; BA, MA (Wisconsin-Milwaukee); MSc (WisconsinMadison); PhD (Pittsburgh)
Currency unions; International trade; Exchange rate regimes; Macroeconomics; Applied econometrics.
Prof. WONG Ho-lun, Assistant Professor; BA (UCLA); PhD (Stanford)
Development economics; Education economics; Health economics; Chinese and Hong Kong economy.
Prof. ZHANG Tianle, Assistant Professor; BSc (Zhongshan); MSc (HKUST); PhD (Colorado)
Information economics; Economics of innovation; Intellectual property.
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Department of Political Science
Prof. SHARMA Shalendra, Acting Vice-President and Lee Shau Kee Foundation Chair Professor of Political
Science; BA, MA (Simon Fraser); PhD (Toronto)
International relations; International political economy; Globalisation; International organisations; American
politics and post-war US foreign policy; Comparative politics of South Asia; Economics, politics and society
in India.
Prof. WONG Yiu-chung, Professor and Head of Department; BA, MPhil (CUHK); MA (SUNY Binghamton); PhD
(Queensland)
Chinese politics; Modernisation and China; Cross-strait relations; Political sociology; Democratic transition
in Hong Kong; Politics and society in Hong Kong.
Prof. CHUNG Chien-peng, Professor; BA (Calgary); MA (Toronto); MA, PhD (Southern California)
Politics and history of China; Chinese and Asian foreign and security relations; Ethnic relations in China; Dynamics
of political change in Asia; Domestic-international nexus of diplomatic bargaining.
Prof. ZHANG Baohui, Professor; BA (Foreign Service Inst.); PhD (Texas)
Democratisation; US-China relations; International security in the Asia-Pacific.
Prof. LI Pang-kwong, Associate Professor; BA (National Chengchi); MA (York, UK); PhD (LSE, London); BBS; JP
Voting behaviour and elections; Legislative studies; Politics of budgeting; Public choice and politics; Hong Kong
politics.
Prof. CHAN Che-po, Assistant Professor; BA (National Taiwan); MA (Iowa); PhD (UC Santa Barbara)
Comparative politics; Chinese politics; Youth politics and socialisation; Political culture and public opinion;
Chinese state-society relationship; Chinese administrative reform.
Prof. TAM Wai-keung, Assistant Professor; BA (CityU); MPhil (HKUST); MA (Stanford); PhD (UChicago)
Comparative politics; Law and society; Public policy; Political economy of development; Chinese politics; Hong
Kong politics.
Prof. PARK Jeongwon, Visiting Assistant Professor; BA, MA (Ewha); MPhil (Cambridge); MSc, PhD (LSE, London)
International relations; Global environmental governance; Public policy; Politics of ethnic relations; Regional
politics of Northeast Asia; Comparative politics of Japan; Environmental studies.
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Research
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Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Prof. PHILLIPS David Rosser, Lam Woo & Co Ltd Chair Professor of Social Policy and Head of Department;
BScEcon, PhD (Wales)
Social gerontology; Asia-Pacific ageing; Population, health and development; Social epidemiology; Global
health; Health and environment.
Prof. BAEHR Peter, Chair Professor of Social Theory; BSocSc, PhD (Leicester); CertEd (Manchester)
Social and political theory; Islam in Western societies; Dynamics of scholarly collaboration.
Prof. CHAN Cheung-ming, Alfred, Chair Professor of Social Gerontology; BA (East London); MSc (Edinburgh);
CertPsy (Lond.); PhD (Surrey); CQSW; RMN; MHKAG; RSW (HK); BBS; JP
Social gerontology; Quality of life and elderly depression; Social services programme evaluation;
Intergeneration solidarity; Service-Learning.
Prof. DAVID Roman, Professor; BA, MA, MSc (PalackýU); PhD (MasarykU)
Political sociology and political psychology; Collective memory and transitional justice (apologies, reparation
of victims, lustrations, trials and amnesties, second chance, forgiveness, revenge); Corruption; Law and society.
Prof. CHAN Hau-nung, Annie, Associate Professor and BSocSc (Hons) Programme Director; BSocSc, MPhil
(HKU); MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Gender; Sexuality; Family; Domestic work.
Prof. LAW Wing-kin, Kenneth, Associate Professor; BSocSc, MPhil, PhD (CUHK)
Pre-retirement preparation and planning; Social perception of later life; Ageing and elderly problems; Population
problems and policies; Social construction of social problems; Gender socialisation; Social indicators.
Prof. BURAK HO Beste Esra, Assistant Professor; BA (Cornell); MA, PhD (Stanford)
Inequality; Social stratification; Distributive justice; Public opinion; Social policy.
Prof. CHEN Hon-fai, Assistant Professor; BSocSc, MPhil, PhD (CUHK)
Religion; Civil society; Social theory; Qualitative research; Historical sociology.
Prof. SIU Leung-sea, Lucia, Assistant Professor; BSc (CUHK); MSc, PhD (Edinburgh)
Sociology of money; Performativity; Urban sociology; Technology and society.
[Note: Other academic staff members not listed above may work as co-supervisors.]
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