Carrie LUI
22 April 2021
專門研究罪犯側寫的香港城市大學人文社會科學院社會及行為科學系副教授陳慶泉博士指出，罪犯側寫可讓我們了解嚴重罪案的背後成因，幫助避免同類型案件再次發生。15 April 2021
食物不但具有最基本的果腹作用，還可顯示享用者的社會地位及身分，甚至可視作一種軟實力，發展美食外交。城大公共及國際事務學系副教授陳玉華博士講述數個相關觀察。8 April 2021
中國古代女性予人備受壓迫的印象，但城大中文及歷史學系一級導師盧嘉琪博士指出，這只是性別史的一部分。事實上，部分女性生活仍有多姿多采的一面。4 March 2021
Dr LI Bin of CityU’s Department of Linguistics and Translation conducted a survey on ethnic minority students in Hong Kong to examine their proficiency levels and attitudes of the main languages in use. 4 March 2021
Dr Stella CHIA of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication has conducted a research study to investigate whether people’s evaluations and reactions to crowdsourced vigilantism are subject to media and social influences. 4 March 2021
The distribution of public opinion signals social preferences. People make many decisions in their daily lives based on their perception of the opinion climate. Similarly, policymakers formulate policy proposals based on their understanding of public opinion. With digital and social media becoming an integral part of people’s daily lives for information and communication, the proliferation of digital technologies is changing not only how public opinion can be represented, but also how it can be studied. By adopting a big data-based approach, Dr Chris SHEN Fei, Department of Media and Communication, specialising in the social and political impact of new media technologies, has proposed ways of understanding public opinion through online textual mining.25 February 2021
A research team led by Professor Christine HUANG Yihui, Chair Professor of Communication and Media, conducted a poll to find out citizens’ willingness to get vaccinated and any correlation between their tendencies and backgrounds.24 February 2021
Dr Ben LI Kin-kit and his collaborators conducted a study to investigate Hong Kong nurses’ influenza vaccine uptake rate, their intention to have COVID-19 vaccine and the psychological underpinnings of their vaccine hesitancy.24 February 2021
Spatial inequality in basic service provision can negatively affect living standards, economic security, and human rights, and have wide policy implications. Thus, the issue needs to be considered when developing strategic planning for smart city development. Professor ZHANG Xiaoling and her team presented a new methodology to evaluate the distribution of resources in metropolitan cities based on small-area-level analysis, and proved the effectiveness of this methodology using New York City as an empirical case. 24 February 2021
城大一項由媒體與傳播系講座教授黃懿慧進行的調查顯示，逾4成有大學程度或以上人士表明「唔打針」，亦發現對政府不信任是拒打針的關鍵。23 February 2021
Professor Mark R THOMPSON opines that Rodrigo Duterte is more closely linked to People Power than often thought, and most Filipinos continue to support Duterte’s claim even though his promises for ‘real change’ have proved hollow.21 January 2021
香港心理衛生會的調查發現23%受訪者有中等至嚴重抑鬱程度，17%受訪者有中等至重度焦慮，城市大學社會及行為科學系副教授趙雨龍形容，情況「非常非常值得關注」。15 January 2021
Adopting a structured and clear clinical handovers can largely reduce any miscommunication about patient that leads to avoidable incidents, says Dr Jack PUN of CityU’s Department of English. 12 January 2021
安徒生會過去6年與香港城市大學針對有潛在攻擊行為的兒童，展開全球首創的「故事介入治療法」研究，發現故事小組長遠可減少兒童的攻擊行為指數逾四成，成效令人鼓舞。21 December 2020
(Video in Cantonese only with bilingual subtitles) In this video, Dr Dannii Yeung and Dr Tse Chun-yu of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences introduce the eye tracker and EEG machine, examples of equipment that are being used in psychology research studies. They also share their research studies on people’s emotional reactions to intergenerational workplace conflicts and the cognitive mechanism of individuals in detecting environmental changes.25 November 2020
Omega-3 supplementation may help reduce childhood antisocial and aggressive behaviour in females, and in children with high psychopathic-like personality, in an East Asian population, a study conducted by Dr Annis FUNG Lai-chu suggested.29 October 2020
CLASS Faculty investigated how to assess the multimodal compositions, which go beyond expression through language alone, by interviewing teachers on a CityU course in English for science, about how they assess students’ digital video scientific documentaries.11 October 2020
This paper models the statistical relationship between PM2.5 concentration and air pollutant emissions (SO2, NOx, etc.), together with wind and neighboring transfer impacts at the city level, to identify ways of calculating intended maximum emission levels in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area.11 October 2020
本文將小城鎮置於新的理論框架—社會-生態系統之中，從行動者的行為邏輯和制度框架視角出發，提出相應的轉型治理模式，並展望未來可能的發展方向，提倡將「以人為本」和「生態保護」作為新型城鎮化道路的基本準則。11 October 2020
Global responses to the hotly debated China-Africa ivory trade in the past decade offer an entry point to examine whether and how African elephants have come to matter in China ethically. This article highlights the complexity of more-than-human ethics across geographic spaces and politico-cultural boundaries.