The Faculty of Education and Human Development（FHED） announced the result of the Dean’s Research Awards 2024/25. Dr Eva Lau Yi-hung at the Department of Early Childhood Education（ECE）won the Dean’s Research Award: Journal Articles.
Dr Eva Lau’s journal article aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the Parent–child Brain Camp, a 4-week video-based executive functions （EFs） training program for children ages 5–6, through a randomised controlled trial with a pre- and post-test design with 173 Hong Kong children in 2022.
Each award winner will receive $50,000 to further their research, scholarship, and impact endeavours; finalists will receive a certificate.
We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to Dr Eva Lau for her outstanding achievement.
Dean’s Research Award: Journal Articles
Winners
Dr Soobin Choi, EPL
Choi, S., Mao, X., & Park, S. (2025). Promoting school belonging for immigrant students: The interplay of inclusive school climate and multicultural education. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2025.2492012
Dr Eva Lau, ECE
Lau, E. Y. H., Wu, X. Y., Siu, C. T. S., Williams, K. E., & Bautista, A. (2025). Examining the effectiveness of a video-based parent-child program on executive functions for children 5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial. Child Development, 96(2), 781–796. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14208
Finalists
Dr Kason Cheung, C&I
Cheung, K. K. C., Oancea, A., & Erduran, S. (2025). Students’ meaning–making of nature of science: Interaction between visual, verbal, and written modes of representation. Science Education, 109(2), 480-505. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21916
Dr Wai Kai Hou, PS
Li, C. J., Tao, T. J., Tang, J., Bonanno, G. A., & Hou, W. K.* (2025). Comparing psychiatric symptom networks between individuals in resilience and non-resilience trajectories of adaptation amid the global pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders, 376, 386-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.01.102
* Corresponding author
Dr Li Chih Wang, SEC
Wang, L.-C.* & Chung, K. K.-H. (2024). The influences of cognitive abilities on self-regulated learning in online learning environment among Chinese university students with learning disabilities. The Internet and Higher Education, 62, Article 100947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2024.100947
* Corresponding author
Dr Weiyan Xiong, IE
Xiong, W. (2025). Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes. Higher Education, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01435-x
Due to the outstanding quality of submissions and the keen competition, the selection panel has recommended awarding two journal articles instead of the usual one to recognise the remarkable contributions of our colleagues this year.
Dean’s Research Award: Books
Winner
Dr Ivy Han, IE
Han, X. (2025). A Bourdieusian Analysis of Chinese Transnational Higher Education Policy Enactment: Policy Habitus. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032692043
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