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 |