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9 September 2022
Language Ideologies of International Students in a Hong Kong EMI University
Published by Karson Shek at 9 September 2022
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Language Ideologies of International Students in a Hong Kong EMI University

To dissect the language-related experiences and beliefs of international students, Dr Matthew SUNG of CityU’s Department of English launched a research project at an EMI university in Hong Kong. From the perspectives of language policy and critical sociolinguistics, he zoomed in on their ideologies about the roles, the varieties, and the monolingual and multilingual uses of English in the EMI university context.
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23 September 2022
CLASS Survey Reveals Citizens’ Preference to End Hotel Quarantine
Published by Karson Shek at 23 September 2022
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CLASS Survey Reveals Citizens’ Preference to End Hotel Quarantine

Professor Christine HUANG Yi-hui, Chair Professor of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication, conducted a survey along with her research team in August 2022, asking 1,042 local citizens aged above 20, about their opinions on the existing “3+4” quarantine policy.
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21 October 2022
Hope-based Research
Published by Carrie LUI at 21 October 2022
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A Journey of Hope: Impact of Hope-based Research 希望之旅：「希望為本」研究之影響

People often feel helpless and depressed when facing life-altering situations such as a terminal diagnosis, incarceration and even a global pandemic. While many clinical psychologists mainly provide their patients with symptom treatments that focuses on “now”, Prof Samuel HO Mun-yin, Head of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, has dedicated over two decades to his hope-based treatments that focus on the future.
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18 November 2022
Are People Who Perceive Themselves Good Looking More Prone to Behave Selfishly?
Published by Karson Shek at 18 November 2022
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Are People Who Perceive Themselves Good Looking More Prone to Behave Selfishly?

Dr WANG Xijing of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences and her research team launched a series of five studies to identify whether physical attractiveness can predict self-interested behaviours and the mechanism behind it.
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16 December 2022
Political Unfriending: A Comparative Study of Selective Avoidance on Social Media in Western Democracies
Published by Karson Shek at 16 December 2022
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Political Unfriending: A Comparative Study of Selective Avoidance on Social Media in Western Democracies

When people encounter dissonant speech on social media, functions such as hiding comments, unfriending and unfollowing friends may reinforce the behaviour of selective avoidance in order to re-establish more homophilous environments online. Dr Marko SKORIC of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication conducted a comparative study with his team on the selective avoidance behaviour of social media users in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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27 January 2023
Immobility and Pandemic: Examining Diseasescape in the Post-COVID Era
Published by Karson Shek at 27 January 2023
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Immobility and Pandemic: Examining Diseasescape in the Post-COVID Era

Studying global cases of immobility governance strategies in different stages of the pandemic, Dr CHAN Yuk-wah of CityU's Department of Public and International Affairs has published a research article with her research partner on examining how the COVID-inflected diseasescape has impacted the dynamic between mobility and immobility, and how the diseasescape continued to evolve with the disease and the policies.
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23 February 2023
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Effective Ethical Business Pedagogy
Published by Karson Shek at 23 February 2023
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Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Effective Ethical Business Pedagogy

Social entrepreneurship has arisen as a new business model to achieve specific social objectives through entrepreneurial strategies and self-sustaining operations. Dr Yanto CHANDRA of CityU’s Department of Public and International Affairs has conducted a research project to assess the efficacy of applying a multimedia perspective as a complementary approach to the current pedagogy of the topic.
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13 March 2023
Largest Territory-wide Survey on Mental Health of Homeless People in Hong Kong
Published by Karson Shek at 13 March 2023
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Largest Territory-wide Survey on Mental Health of Homeless People in Hong Kong

Dr CHAN Siu-ming of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences conducted a large territory-wide homeless survey in Hong Kong with his research team, aiming to examine the mental health conditions of homeless people and the determinants of mental health problems.Interviewers talked to 1,103 homeless people and successfully collected 711 valid questionnaires for analysis.
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20 April 2023
Detecting Trajectories of Smart City Development in China
Published by Karson Shek at 20 April 2023
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Detecting Trajectories of Smart City Development in China

“Smart city” is the new buzzword aiming for sustainable development among nations. Dr HU Wanyang of CityU’s Department of Public and International Affairs and her research team studied the SMC policies in 341 Chinese prefectural cities to examine how the concept plays out in reality.
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15 May 2023
Published by Luka LUK at 15 May 2023
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New Study on Health Communication Promotes Better Quality of Care for Patients Receiving Chinese-Western Medicine Treatment

As the use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in integrated treatment is gaining increasing recognition and popularity amongst the general public, there is a need to investigate the role of effective clinical communication in TCM context, particularly for communicating with patients who seek both TCM and Western Medical care. Dr Jack PUN, Assistant Professor from the Department of English at CityU, and his team designed a communication intervention based on the Calgary-Cambridge guides for teaching effective doctor-patient communication skills and modified it for TCM context, in collaboration with TCM professors/researchers from School of TCM at HKBU and CUHK.
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15 June 2023
Published by Luka LUK at 15 June 2023
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Collaboration between Corrections and Psychology Blossoms at a Sharing Forum

The partnership between Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (CSD) and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences (SS), City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has been working to bring solace and healing to those in custody. On 30 May 2023, they co-organised a sharing forum titled “Gripping Insights: Recent psychological research on Hong Kong corrections”; over 250 scholars, students, and professionals in correctional services joined the event.
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20 June 2023
Published by Karson Shek at 20 June 2023
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Storytelling Reduces Aggression and Bullying in Young Schoolchildren

Storytelling brings various psychological and educational benefits to young children. Children learn valuable life lessons through listening to an adventure story or a fairy tale. Instead of giving lectures to children to teach them good behaviour and morals, storytelling is a more effective way to instill good deeds in children. Dr Annis FUNG Lai-chu, Associate Professor of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Science, has conducted a first-ever study to investigate the positive impacts of a storytelling intervention based on the social information processing (SIP) model in reducing reactive and proactive aggression among schoolchildren.
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15 July 2023
Published by Luka LUK at 15 July 2023
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Retirement Goal Clarity Leads to Better Financial Preparedness

Hong Kong is grappling with the issue of an ageing population, as there is no universal pension system, and retirement protection is primarily dependent on the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) scheme. To shed light on this daunting issue, Professor Dannii YEUNG of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences has conducted a study aimed at identifying the psychosocial factors that impact working adults’ readiness to financially prepare for retirement.
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15 August 2023
Published by Luka LUK at 15 August 2023
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Effects of Public Housing Neighbourhoods on the Risk of Dementia Among Hong Kong Older Adults

Public housing is a major component of the housing in Hong Kong, with nearly half of the population now residing in some form of public housing. Prof Derrick HO Hung-chak, Assistant Professor of CityU’s Department of Public and International Affairs, has recently published a research article in Public Health journal with Prof Tracy LU Shiyu, Assistant Professor of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences and other researchers to evaluate how form/characteristics in public housing neighbourhoods may be associated with dementia among seniors in Hong Kong.
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15 September 2023
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Published by Carrie LUI at 15 September 2023
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Empowering Novices to become Experts: Impact of the Legal English Project 培養初學者成爲專家：法律英語項目之影響

Learning ‘legal English’, the specialised language that students encounter in law school, is particularly challenging. Law students must learn to use English forms and structures in such a way as to meet the expectations of members of the legal academic community, consistent with the conventions of the legal discipline. Professor Christoph Hafner, Associate Professor of CityU’s Department of English, formed an interdisciplinary project team with legal and language experts in local and overseas universities, in order to develop a digital multimedia resource for legal English based on an analysis of the language needs of Hong Kong law students.
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20 September 2023
Published by Karson Shek at 20 September 2023
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Survey Reveals Hong Kong Citizens Mentally Overcome Pandemic Gloom But Information Fatigue Looms

Since the World Health Organization declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, Hong Kong citizens’ lives have gradually resumed normal. Professor Christine HUANG Yi-hui, Chair Professor of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication (COM), and her research team* conducted online surveys with 1,913 Hong Kong citizens aged 20+ from April to July 2023. The objective is to understand their perceptions of psychological, living and interpersonal well-being.
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15 November 2023
Published by Luka LUK at 15 November 2023
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A Policy Framework for the Circular Economy to Achieve Sustainability

The circular economy (CE) is seen as more environmentally-friendly and in some ways better fits the imperatives of the United Nations Sustainable Goals. Professor Kris HARTLEY, Assistant Professor in CityU’s Department of Public and International Affairs, conducted a study to fill a CE research gap by introducing a policy framework for CE that includes over 100 policy instruments. The article is part of Kris’s broader research agenda to understand new public policy models for 21st century challenges.
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16 November 2023
Published by Karson Shek at 16 November 2023
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Nurturing Medical Professionals to be Pioneer in Medical Education Research

Prof Jack PUN of CityU’s Department of English is an expert in health communication and has extensive experience in conducting qualitative research in medicine. Invited by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, he organised a workshop at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Innovative Centre for Medicine to share his expertise and provide research training to its faculty members and related clinicians in Hong Kong.
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24 November 2023
Published by Luka LUK at 24 November 2023
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Benefits and Challenges of Hong Kong’s First Transitional Social Housing Project

To provide affordable housing to people in need, the government implemented a policy of transitional social housing in 2018 to enhance the livelihood of low-income families. Prof CHAN Siu-ming of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, published his research findings about Hong Kong’s first TSH project Nam Cheong 220 and evaluated the social impact and effectiveness of the project.
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22 December 2023
Published by Karson Shek at 22 December 2023
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First Corpus-based Quantitative Exploration of Verb-Frame Distribution in Chinese Textbooks

Textbooks serve as a vital language input for language acquisition, as indicated by usage-based accounts of language acquisition. Prof LIU Meichun and Prof John LEE Sie-yuen from CityU’s Department of Linguistics and Translation conducted a research project analysing verb-frame diversity and distribution trends by difficulty levels based on a corpus of primary school Chinese textbooks.
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