Distinguished Scholars

• Chair Professor of Film and Media Studies, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Transnational Cinema
• The Cinemas of Small Nations
• Film and Public Value
• Talent Development in Film
• Film, Well-being and Human Flourishing

• Chair Professor of Language, Literacy & Social Semiotics in Education, Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

• Translanguaging (TL)
• Trans-semiotising (TS)
• Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
• Academic Literacies
• Critical Media Literacies
• Decoloniality in Education

• Chair Professor of Educational Research and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Quantitative research methods

• Self-efficacy

• Self-regulation

• AI in educational research

• Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence
• Assistant Vice President (Artificial Intelligence and Education Innovation)

Areas of Expertise

• Artificial intelligence

• Data science

• Recommendation systems

• Social computing

• Predictive analytics

• Professor and Head, Department of Chinese Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Classical Chinese Literature
• Early Religious Literature
• Comparative Literature

• Professor (Practice), Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

• Global Englishes
• Language ideology
• Translanguaging
• English as a Medium of Instruction
• Intercultural communication
• Family language policy
• TESOL

• Professor, Department of English Language Education
• Assistant Vice President (Research), EdUHK

Areas of Expertise

• Multilingualism and Mobility
• EMI in Higher Education
• (Digital) Citizenship and Identity Studies
• Minority Education
• Family Language Policy

• Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts

Areas of Expertise

• Digital Media Art & Tech

• Digital Moving Images Research and Professional Practice

• Creative Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

• Professor and Head, Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

• Language attitudes and stereotypes

• Language and migration

• Language and gender

• Hong Kong English

• Attitudes and motivation in foreign language learning

• Discourse analysis

• Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts

Areas of Expertise

• Creativity in Music

• Music Curriculum Development

• Motivation in Composing & Learning Music

• Transmission of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong

• Transformative Learning

• Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Early Chinese Texts
• Traditional Chinese Culture
• Classical Chinese Literature
• Literary Criticism

• Acting Dean, Faculty of Humanities
• Professor (Practice), Department of Chinese Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Language Teacher Education

• Chinese Education 

• Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

• Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
• Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies), Faculty of Humanities

Areas of Expertise

• Second language vocabulary acquisition
• Corpus-based literature studies
• Corpus-based language pedagogy
• Computer assisted language learning
• Mobile assisted language learning
• AI in language education

• Professor and Acting Head, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Applied linguistics
• Technology in language education
• Artificial intelligence
• Teacher professional development

• Professor (Teaching) and Associate Head, Department of English Language Education

Areas of Expertise

• Educational linguistics
• Bi/multilingualism
• Language assessment
• Literacy
• TESOL

• Professor (Practice), Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
• Associate Dean (International Engagement), Faculty of Humanities

Areas of Expertise

• Corpus Linguistics
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
• Multilingual Education
• English-Chinese Translation Studies