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2018/19 “Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award Programme”

05 Jun 2018

 

Two PhD students and one Professor of the University of Hong Kong will be sponsored by the Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award Programme 2018/19 and will undergo research and exchange in the United States. The Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award Programme was first launched in 2006/07. The two PhD awardees of the 2018/19 Programme will each receive a sponsorship of US$1,600 (HK$12,480) per month to conduct research in affiliated institutions in the United States.

Brief biographies of the three HKU awardees:

Ms Ka-man Leung is a PhD candidate in Real Estate and Construction at The University of Hong Kong.  Her PhD thesis is a supply side study of sub-divided units (SDUs) in Hong Kong. She will conduct her research on informal/low-income/affordable housing and institutional analysis on housing at University of California, Los Angeles. Miss Leung is currently conducting a SDU community research project with non-governmental organizations in Hong Kong. She is also the recipient of Swire Scholarship and recently published a research paper on rent determinants of SDUs in Hong Kong. This exchange experience will provide a valuable chance for her to study informal housing, affordability problems and the impacts of poverty alleviation policies of different cities on low-income households and society as a whole.

Ms Huiying Liu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on social determinants of mental health among community adults. Her study “Active life engagement and health outcomes: a micro-longitudinal study of aging adults in the US and China” aims to identify dynamic patterns of active life engagement in different contexts for older adults in the US and China, and to determine the relative importance of these patterns for predicting health outcomes. Each participant will carry a smartphone loaded with an “ecological momentary assessment” (EMA) application to collect psychosocial data, and a smartphone-based electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor for periodical recordings.

Dr. Yee Wan Koon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at The University of Hong Kong.  She received her PhD in Chinese and Japanese art and architecture from New York University. Her primary research concentrates on Ming and Qing paintings with a secondary interest in contemporary art. Her Fulbright research focuses on a new book project, Canton Passages: The Material Lives of Guangdong Trade Paintings, which will be the first in-depth monograph examining trade paintings from the perspective of the Chinese artist.  The book aims to explore how the many different portable artworks piece together a Canton, a place that was only intended as temporary residence and measured no more than a quarter mile, but which came to have the power to be a synecdoche for China. In so doing, the book asks: What can art tell us about how concepts of foreignness were made and circulated, and what is the significance of these concepts in the global imagination of China. 

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