Sustained Excellence: FHM's Achievement in RGC's Research Funding Schemes 2025/26
- 04 Jul, 2025
- Recognitions & Achievements
- Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities (FHM) has achieved good results in the 2025/26 exercise of the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) administered by the Research Grants Council (RGC).
A total of HK$5.96 million funding was awarded to 10 projects under FHM. These projects cover diverse subject disciplines, including Arts, Cultural Studies, History, Language Education, Linguistics, and Literature.
Over the years, colleagues at FHM have been actively applying for external research grants with laudable achievements.
| Principal Investigator | Project title |
|---|---|
| Prof John Erni (IRCCS) | Health Discourses from Below: Exploring a Citizen Self-health Approach to Sustainable Care in Hong Kong |
| Dr Fung Chi Wang (LCS) | The History of Thought in the Imperial Edicts of the Song Dynasty: Shangdi, Confucius, Buddhism, and Taoism |
| Dr Lee Ju Seong (ELE) | Enhancing Speaking Skills in Less Resourced Regions: AI-mediated Informal Digital Learning of English (AI-IDLE) |
Dr Li Zhen Jennie (CHL) | Preparing Hong Kong pre-service teachers to notice and respond to diversity: A mixed-methods, experimental study |
Dr Jason Petrulis (LCS) | Banjo on the Black Ships: Making a Black Pacific on the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1852-1856 |
Dr Zoran Poposki (CCA) | Zeroing Art’s Carbon Footprint: Greening Hong Kong's GLAM Sector with Bold Neutrality Strategies |
*Dr Pramod Sah (ELE) | Fostering Racial Equity and Inclusion: Community-based Participatory Research on Linguistic Citizenship among Hong Kong’s Ethnic Minority Youths |
Dr Wang Cong (CHL) | Linguistic and Cultural Convergence: How Cantonese and Hakka Influence the Tanka Language |
Prof Wang Lixun (LML) | Comparative Analysis of Health Concepts among the Youth and the Elderly in Hong Kong: A Corpus-based Study |
*Dr Zhang Zimu (LCS) | Tracing the Chinese Pearl River Waterscape through Eco-arts |
*Principal investigator of the Early Career Scheme (ECS)
