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Current and Recent Projects
RGC General Research Fund (GRF) Exercise
Year   Principal investigator Project Title Amount (HK$)

2024/25

(36 months)

  Dr Ricky Chan Justice in China: Showing the way with forensic voice comparison 794,197

2024/25

(36 months)

  Dr Daniel Weston A Hong Kong study of Research Postgraduate (RPG) Selection Interviews 288,219
2022/23 
(30 months)
  Dr Anya Adair The Language and Style of the Earliest English Law Codes 654,958
2021/22 
(24 months)
  Dr Anya Adair The 'Statuta Vetera' Manuscript, c. 1280-1520: Production and Use of a Medieval Legal Bestseller 599,209
2021/22 
(24 months)
  Dr Elizabeth Ho Contemporary self-reflexive map-texts and the empowerment of thepostcolonial subject 195,209
2020/21 
(24 months)
  Dr Dirk Noël Researching and theorizing constructional attrition in a radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar perspective 300,000
2020/21 
(36 months)
  Dr Jessica Valdez Despots and Democrats: China and America in Nineteenth-Century British Literature 424,868
2020/21 
(36 months)
  Dr Daniel Weston Gatekeeping elite universities: a case study of the Cambridge Admissions Interview 377,600
2019/20
(36 months)
  Professor Christopher Hutton Between race science and ordinary language: naturalization case law in the United States from 1875 to 1945 170,000
2019/20
(36 months)
  Professor Kendall Johnson Shades of Chinese Extraterritoriality in Nineteenth-Century American Diplomacy and Literature 376,000
2019/20
(36 months)
  Dr Brian King Language use and the intersex body: Communicating sex variations in multilingual Hong Kong 450,980
2019/20
(36 months)
  Professor Julia Kuehn From Here to There: Travel Writing and the Novel Form in the Nineteenth Century 484,332
2017/18
(36 months)
  Professor Janny Leung Crime and Communication on New Media 373,760
2017/18
(24 months)
  Dr Olga Zayts Communicating Genetic Risk and Uncertainty across an Individual's Lifespan vis-à-vis Family: A Discourse Analytic Study of Genetic Counselling in Hong Kong 496,465
RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS) Exercise
Year   Principal investigator Project Title Amount (HK$)
2021/22
(36 months)
  Dr Anjuli Gunaratne Flowering Ossuary: Garden Form and Postcolonial Literature 373,000
2021/22
(36 months)
  Dr Nicholas Luke Resurrection Events in Shakespeare's Late Plays 291,800
2021/22
(36 months)
  Dr Rashna Nicholson American Foundations, the Indian Performing Arts, and the Origins of Cultural Development 409,311
2019/20
(24 months)
  Dr Anya Adair The Literary Composition of Early English Law, c. 600-1066 356,120
2018/19
(24 months)
  Dr. Ricky Chan Evidential value of voice quality acoustics in forensic voice comparison 450,000
2018/19
(24 months)
  Dr Brandon Chua Managing Diversity: Representing Religious Toleration in the Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century 326,100
RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) Exercise
Year   Project Coordinator Project Title Amount (HK$)
2023/24
(24 months)
  Dr Olga Zayts University graduates’ transitions to post-covid-19 workplaces: The impacts of the pandemic and adjusting to “new normal” work orders 3,913,430
2021/22
(12 months)
  Dr Olga Zayts The educational, social and health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on University graduates transitioning to the workforce in Hong Kong 1,510,190