Research and Knowledge Transfer 研究與知識轉移 The Education University of Hong Kong Annual Report 2021-2022 22 Fuelling the growth of research capacity The expansion of our research and knowledge transfer activities in recent years has laid a solid foundation for the University to venture into emerging disciplines apart from education. This is evidenced by our thriving, high-quality research output in the non-education disciplines in the University Grants Committee’s latest Research Assessment Exercise. To further this momentum, the University identified environmental sustainability, big data analytics, psychology and neuroscience, life and career development, and sports science and coaching as its new focus areas for research during the year. Plans are afoot to set up new university research facilities for human behavioural neuroscience, design thinking and robotics, and digital humanities on the existing campus. The new Academic Building, which is expected to be operational in 2025-26, will provide additional laboratories and workspace to strengthen our research capacity, in line with the ‘Education-plus’ approach. In terms of capacity-building, the University launched a new internal funding scheme in November 2021, with a view to supporting multidisciplinary research projects in niche areas, namely the social network’s impact on school education, promoting environmental health, an education model for children with special educational needs, and life and career development across the life span in the next few years. The funding is for EdUHK researchers to generate pilot data, support applications for larger-scale external research grants, and create a dataset to produce high-quality paper publications. Professor Chetwyn Chan Che-hin, Vice President (Research and Development), with Professor Stephen Chow Cheukfai, Director of Knowledge Transfer, and principal investigators of licensed research projects 教大副校長（研究與發展）陳智軒教授、知識轉移辦公室總監周卓輝教授與一眾成功將研究項目商品化的首席研究員合照 For eight consecutive years, EdUHK has ranked among the top three in Asia and the top 20 in the world in education – QS World University Rankings by Subject 教大連續8年於教育領域 名列亞洲3甲及全球前20位 – QS世界大學學科排名 推動研究增長 近年，本校致力擴展研究和知識轉移活動，為拓展教育 以外的多元學科奠下基礎。在大學教育資助委員會最新 的研究評審工作中，本校在非教育領域的研究成果和水 平備受肯定。 年內，本校確立數項研究焦點，涵蓋環境可持續發展、 大數據分析、心理及神經科學、生命與事業發展、運動 科學及教練等範疇，並計劃於校園內設立人類行為神經 科學、設計思維與機械人技術及數碼人文的全新研究設 施。此外，新教學大樓將於二零二五至二六年度投入使 用，屆時將提供額外的實驗室和工作空間，助本校實踐 「教育為本．超越教育」的理念。 在提升研究實力方面，教大在二零二一年十一月推出全 新的校內資助計劃，於未來數年支持本校獨具優勢的跨 學科研究項目，包括社交網絡對學校教育的影響、推動 環境健康、特教生的教育模式及終身學習與事業發展。 教大研究人員可藉此建構前期數據，對外申請大額的研 究資助，以及建立有助產生優質論文的數據庫。
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