Research Supervision Areas
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Dean, Faculty of Humanities
Chair Professor of Cultural Studies
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Critical legal theory centering on human rights philosophy, ethics and politics
- Critical public health studies
- Cultural politics of race/ethnicity/migration
- Digital humanities for social diversity
- Gender and sexuality studies related to media and visual culture
- International and Asia-based media and cultural studies
- Youth studies in transnational contexts
Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies)
Faculty of Humanities
Professor (Practice)
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Language and gender
- English grammar teaching

Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies) Faculty of Humanities
Head of Department / Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Sociolinguistics
- Chinese linguistics (dialectal grammar, typology, linguistic change)
- Corpus-based studies of languages
- Discourse Analysis

Associate Dean (International Engagement)
Faculty of Humanities
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Corpus linguistics
- Computer-Assisted Language Learning
- English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- Multilingual Education
- English-Chinese translation studies

Assistant Dean (Quality Assurance and Programmes)
Faculty of Humanities
Acting Head of Department / Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Classical Chinese literature and culture
- Classical Chinese thought and religion

Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Studies)
Faculty of Humanities
Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Literature

Chair Professor of Cultural History
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Confucianism, Chinese intellectual history and East Asian hermeneutic traditions focusing on the interpretation theories of the Classic of Changes (Yijing and their commentaries), involving the disciplines of history, philology, philosophy, and their inner connections.
Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Literature
- Film Studies

Head of Department / Professor
Department of English Language Education (ELE)
Research Area(s):
- Language education
- Linguistics

Head of Centre
Centre of Language in Education
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
- Linguistics

Associate Head of Department / Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Diaspora and exile
- Globality and transnationalism
- Postcolonial feminist fictions and theory cultural studies, film studies and visual culture
- Postcolonial studies

Associate Head of Department / Assistant professor
Department of English Language Education (ELE)
Research Area(s):
- Global Englishes Supporting Marginalized and Vulnerable Groups
- Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE)
- Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL)
- Media Multitasking
- Positive Psychology in Second Language Acquisition English as an International Language
- Willingness to Communicate in Digital and Non-digital Contexts

Associate Head of Department / Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
- Language Education

Associate Head of Department / Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Understanding translation practitioners in the workplace
- Translation pedagogy
- Translation practices

Associate Head of Department / Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Literature

Professor (Practice)
Department of English Language Education (ELE)
Research Area(s):
- Discourse analysis
- Teacher education
- Teacher identity

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Computer Assisted Pronunciation Learning
- Experimental Phonetics
- Intelligibility and Accent Studies
- Inter-language Phonology
- Perception and Production

Associate Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
- Chinese Language Teaching (Specially in Putonghua teaching, PMI and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language)
- Chinese Linguistics (Specially in Chinese Paleography, Etymology and Phonology)
- History of Chinese Language (Specially in the ancient period)

Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Literature

Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Traditional Chinese literature and literary criticism
- Classical Chinese thoughts
- Early Chinese texts
- The paradigm shift of Chinese cultural and literary studies

Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Literature
Associate Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
- Chinese as a Second Language
- Chinese Linguistics
- Functional grammar
- Language development and change
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Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Computer assisted language learning (CALL)
- Corpus linguistics, corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP)
- Mobile assisted language learning (MALL)
- Second language vocabulary acquisition

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Literature

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Modern and contemporary Irish Literature
- Women’s Writing
- The Short Story
- Literary and cultural translation

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- History
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language Education (ELE)
Research Area(s):
- Language Education

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- History

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- History
- History Education

Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
- Ancient Chinese Documents
- Chinese Language Teaching
- Chinese Linguistics(Specially in Chinese Paleography and Etymology)

Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Phonetics
- Speech prosody
- Second language acquisition

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- History
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language Education (ELE)
Research Area(s):
- Language Education

Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- First / Second language acquisition on morphosyntax
- Cognitive approaches to grammar

Assistant Professor
Department of English Language Education (ELE)
Research Area(s):
- Language Education
- Linguistics

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Postcolonial and world literatures (with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region)
- Environmental humanities
- Gender and media studies

Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
- Linguistics
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
- Language testing and assessment
- Curriculum Innovation
- Second/Foreign Language Learner motivation and learning strategies
- Structural Equation Modelling
- Rasch Modelling

Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
- Language Education

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- East Asian TV dramas
- Celebrity and fandom
- K-pop
- Feminism
- BL and GL
- Jin Yong studies
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language Education (ELE)
Research Area(s):
- Language Education
Hong Kong PhD fellowship Scheme
General Requirement
English Language Requirements
*Individual field of study such as English language may have higher requirement. ^The College English Test (CET) is not accepted as equivalent qualification.
Tuition Fee The tuition fee for both local and non-local students (2023/24 academic year) is HK$42,100 (approximately US$5,400) per annum, which is provisional and subject to adjustment. The application fee for local applicants is HK$150 per programme. For non-local applicants, the application fee is HK$300. Please refer to the Section of "Non-local Applicants" for details.
Application For non-HK PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) applicants, please submit a full EdUHK application.
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