Dr Hayes Tang co-delivered the keynote presentation entitled “Institutional Ethnographies and Higher Education in Hong Kong and Canada” with Dr Naomi Nichols at the Institutional Ethnography (IE) Colloquium at McGill University on 5th December, 2018. For IE colleagues and graduate students from universities in Canada and the United States, the two-day colloquium was featured by two keynote presentations and the graduate students’ presentations in the field.
The audience was fortunate to learn from the first keynote "40 years of Sociology for People" by Professors Dorothy E. Smith, Marjerie Devault and Lauren Eastwood. Professor Dorothy E. Smith, aged 92, is among the pioneers who established the field of IE in the past half century. There is a distinguished scholarship award by the American Sociological Association (ASA) named after her (Dorothy E. Smith Award). Dr Tang received invaluable comments from Professor Smith for his current project about IE and ‘entrepreneurial universities’.
Dr Tang's keynote presentation was part of the Third Annual Exchange Project sponsored by WYNG Foundation under the theme “Maximizing Youth Potential in a Complex World.” The McGill International Institute of Education (MIIE) hosted the visit and Dr Tang has created mutually beneficial and lasting research-oriented collaborations with the McGill colleague Dr Naomi Nichols (Department of Integrated Studies in Education, DISE), who will visit the EdUHK Faculty of Education and Human Development from 11th to 15th March, 2019.
During the upcoming visit by Dr Nichols, she will deliver two public talks: (1) Going Beyond the Research Assessment Exercise: Community Engagement, Social Impacts and Passionate Scholarship and (2) Research Excellence with a Soul: How to Enjoy Grant-writing. She will share with the FEHD and University communities her effective experience in community engagement (from her expert projects on homeless youths in Canada), 'impactful' cases of knowledge transfer and passionate scholarship with successful grant application.
Report by the McGill University can be found at here.
