General Research Fund (GRF) / Early Career Scheme (ECS)

General Research Fund (GRF)

Year Principal Investigator (PI) Project Title
2026 - on going  Prof. MANNING Matthew Garnet Examining and Mitigating the Current and Future Financial Crime Risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies
2026 - on going Prof. YOUNG kim-wan Multicomponent Intervention with Healthy Lifestyle Psychoeducation and Cognitive Stimulation to Improve Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment—A Double-blind Randomized Control Trial
2025 - on going Prof. CHAN Siu Ming Capability Deprivation and Tragic Choice in the Housing Pathways of the Hong Kong Homeless
2025 - on going Prof. YU Xiaonan Nancy Evaluating the Effects of the We-INtervention among Chinese HIV-serodiscordant Male Couples: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2025 - on going Prof. KWOK LAI Yuk Ching Sylvia Examining the Effectiveness of "Hybrid Wellfocus Positive Psychotherapy and Behavioural Activation" and "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" for the People with Schizophrenia
2023 - on going Prof. YU Xiaonan Nancy Dyadic Coping and Outcomes in Couples Facing Chronic Illness: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses
2023 - on going Prof. YEUNG Dannii Retirement Planning: Feeling Closer and Doing More for Our Future-selves
2023 - on going
 Prof. TSANG Yuk Ha Eileen When a Professor Becomes a Predator: Sexual Harassment, Symbolic Power, and Students’ Empowerment in China
2023 - on going
 Prof. KWOK LAI Yuk Ching Sylvia Examining the Effectiveness of Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (NECT) and Enhanced Wellfocus Positive Psychotherapy for the People with Schizophrenia
2023 - 2024 Prof. TSE Chun Yu Illuminating the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Somatosensory Pre-attentive Change Detection Brain Networks with the Event-related Optical Signal (EROS)
2022 - on going Prof. LAI Chuk Ling Julian Biomarking Psychological Resilience with Salivary Cortisol in Chinese Undergraduates using Piecewise Linear Growth Curve Models
2022 - on going Prof. KWOK LAI Yuk Ching Sylvia
 Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Enhanced WELLFOCUS Positive Psychotherapy and a Hybrid CBSST-SCIT Intervention for the People with Schizophrenia in Half Way Houses
2022 - on going Prof. YU Xiaonan Nancy Joint Forces to Combat HIV: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve the Health-related Quality of Life of HIV-positive Mothers and Children
2022 - on going Prof. SHUM Hei Yan Michelle Neoliberal Beliefs, Managerialism and Welfare Ethics
2022 - 2025 Prof. CHEN Hui Fang A New Class of Multiprocess Responses and Response Time Models
2022 - 2024 Prof. TSE Chun Yu A Generic Fronto-sensory Cortical Brain Network in Prediction Violation: A Simultaneous Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Event-related Optical Signal Study on Pre-attentive Change Detection
2021 - on going Prof. FUNG Lai Chu Annis Reducing Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Children and Adolescents by Enhancing Parenting Efficacy and Parental Involvement: A Randomised, Blinded, Placebo-Controlled, and Repeated Measures Design Study
2021 - 2025 Prof. TSANG Yuk Ha Eileen A “Phoenix” Rising from the Ashes: China's Tongqi, Resistance, and New Life
2021 - 2025 Prof. YE Sam Shengquan Value Similarity and Romantic Relationships: The Differential Roles of Explicit and Implicit Personal Values
2021 - 2024 Prof. LI Kin-Kit (Ben) Time-based Strategies to Enhance Physical Activity Participation among Older Adults
2021 - 2024 Prof. TAM Hau Lin Cherry Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Meaning-centered Approach in Relapse Prevention for Young Psychotropic Substance Abusers in Hong Kong: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2021 - 2024 Prof. LU Shiyu The Effects of the TimeBank Program on Promoting Voluntary Participation among Older Adults
2020 - 2023 Prof. TAM Hau Lin Cherry Perceived Loneliness and Clandestine Up-Skirt Photography among Young Adults in Hong Kong: Implications for Early Education, Prevention, and Intervention
2020 - 2023
 Prof. LAI Chuk Ling Julian Social Network Cultivation, Diurnal Cortisol, and Telomere Length: Testing the Rejuvenation Hypothesis
2020 - 2022 Prof. LO Tit Wing Ghost Marriage: Commodification of Chinese Folklore and Organised Crime
2020 - 2021 Prof. CHOW Wing Yin Anxiety in Learning English as a Foreign Language among Chinese Children: The Roles of Parental Literacy Beliefs and Practices
2019 - 2023
 Prof. HO Wing Chung The 1959–1961 Chinese Famine and Emigration to Hong Kong: A Migrant–Stayer Analysis of Famine Impact on Health and Cognitive Performance
2019 - 2023 Prof. WONG Wing Kuen
 Phonological Encoding In Cantonese-English Bilingual Speech Production: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study
2019 - 2023 Prof. ZHONG Yueying Lena Miscarriages of Justice in Corruption Cases in China: An Achilles’ Heel in Anticorruption?
2019 - 2022 Prof. TSE Chun Yu Improving the Sensitivity of Pre-attentive Change Detection by Motivational Value Association Training
2019 - 2022
 Prof. WU Keung Fai Joseph Understanding Academic Dishonesty among Hong Kong University Students: Influences of Personal and Contextual Factors
2019 - 2022
 Prof. WONG Sing Wing Dennis Restorative Justice for Delinquents in Hong Kong: The Way Forward
2019 - 2021  Prof. CHUI Wing Hong A Panel Study of Social and Political Engagement Among University Students in Hong Kong

Early Career Scheme (ECS)

Year Principal Investigator (PI) Project Title
2026 - on going Prof. KWOK Kim Empowering Chinese Social Workers in Working with Ethnic Minority Children and Youth Through Reducing Racial Prejudice and Enhancing Multicultural Competence
2023 - 2024 Prof. LU Shiyu Voluntary Work Design, Volunteer Engagement and Healthy Aging in Later Life: A Mixed Method Study
2021 - 2025 Prof. KWAN Chi Kin Exploring the Roles of Enterprises in Promoting Workplace Inclusion for People with Disabilities