FHM Achieves Record-breaking Success in RGC’s Research Funding Schemes 2026/27
- 03 Jul, 2026
- Recognitions & Achievements
- Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities (FHM) has demonstrated remarkable success in the 2026/27 exercise of the General Research Fund (GRF), Early Career Scheme (ECS), and Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS), administered by the Research Grants Council (RGC).
In all, 14 projects under FHM were awarded. The number of approved projects and the approved funding amount are both the highest since the establishment of FHM.
Among the recipients, Professor Michelle Gu from the Department of English Language Education received the highly competitive HSSPFS funding, highlighting the Faculty’s research excellence and commitment to supporting its academics.
The 14 awarded projects cover diverse subject disciplines including Arts, Cultural Heritage, Language Education, Linguistics, Literature and Sociolinguistics.
| Principal Investigator | Project title |
|---|---|
| Prof Chan Timothy Wai-Keung (CHL) | Crafting to Sing Praises: The Making of Parallel-Verse Hagiographies of Seventh-Century Tang China |
| Dr Ding Hongdi (CRCLE) | Lexical Evidence for the Divergence Time of Liangshan Yi |
| ^Prof Gu Ming Yue Michelle (ELE) | ‘Settling Body and Mind’: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Identity Construction and Emotional Well-being amongst Skilled Migrants in Hong Kong |
*Dr Guo Qiuzi (CCA) | More than One Reality: Photo Pictorial and the Making of Hong Kong Documentary Photography in the 1960s and 1970s |
Dr Lee Kwing Lok Albert (LML) | The Role of Larynx and Tongue Height in Tone Production by L1 and L2 Speakers: An Ultrasound Study |
Dr Liang Yuan (CRCLE) | Modeling Heritage Bai Vocabulary Attrition: The Predictive Role of Language Dominance in Bai-Putonghua Bilingual Development |
Dr Liao Xian (CHL) | Relationship between Self-Efficacy, Source Use, and Source-Based Writing Performance: Considering the Role of Source Modality |
*Dr Luo Ning Luna (CCA) | Ethical Co-Creativity with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Investigating Visual Arts Students’ Acceptance, Agency and Responsibility in the Creative Process |
Dr Song Ge (LML) | Hong Kong as a City of Translations: the Semiotics of Place-making in Linguistic and Cultural Dynamics |
Prof Glenn Stockwell (LML) | Generative AI and Second Language Writing: Investigating Learner Development, Designing a Pedagogical Framework for Teacher Education, and Validating Practice Across Languages |
*Dr Huseyin Uysal (ELE) | Cultivating Advocate Identities of Ethnic Minority Teachers in Hong Kong: Emotional and Ideological Border-Crossings |
Dr Wang Cong (CHL) | Tanka as Linguistic Interface on the Maritime Silk Road of China: Contact, Evolution, and Convergence |
Dr Yip Wai Chi Jesse (LML) | A Corpus-Assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis on Green Burial Promotion in Hong Kong |
Dr Zhang Ling (CHL) | Living Cultural Heritage and Youth Identity: A Sociolinguistic Study of School Mottos and Anthems in Hong Kong, London, Guangzhou, and Singapore |
*Principal investigator of the Early Career Scheme (ECS)
^Principal investigator of the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
