Research Grants

External Competitive Research Grants (updated in 7/2026)

 

RGC, Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2026/27

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr WONG Ho Yin Clive	Understanding the Role of Preparatory Brain States in Processing Speed and Executive Function with a Network-based EEG Connectivity Approach	846,278

 

RGC, General Research Fund (GRF) 2026/27

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Prof CHAN Ka Shing Kevin	Efficacy, Mechanism, and Economic Evaluation of Mindfulness-Enhanced Behavioral Parent Training for Families of Autistic Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial	1,035,078
Dr HO Chun Yip Henry	Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice for Couples to Reduce Work-Family Conflict and Promote Wellbeing: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	739,540
Prof  LAU Esther Yuet-ying	A randomised control trial of an individualised and AI-assisted nap-optimisation protocol in emerging adults with subclinical insomnia, depression, and anxiety	755,230
Dr TONG Xiuhong	BiSyntax Builder: Enhancing Bilingual Syntactic Awareness and Reading Comprehension Using a Hybrid Factorial-SMART Design	799,212

 

RGC, Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2025/26

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr WONG Man Lok Nichol	A multimodal investigation for the causal neurobehavioural evidence of socio-affective attention modulating the relationship between loneliness and depressed mood	764,000
Dr WONG Ting Yat	Investigating Resilient Psychosocial Functioning in Youth Using Functional Brain Connectivity and Digital Phenotyping: Are Individuals with Higher Resilience More Distinctive?	838,773

 

RGC, General Research Fund (GRF) 2025/26

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr LI Man Wai	Contagion of Depression in Social Networks among Adolescents: A Network-based Approach	745,500
Dr POON, Kai Tak Ivan	Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: The Effect of Ostracism on Zero-Sum Beliefs	928,000
Dr WANG Jie Jane	What is a Chinese word? A large-scale behavioral experiment	746,600

 

RGC, General Research Fund (GRF) 2023/24

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr HO Chun Yip Henry	Workplace Mistreatment of Hong Kong Secondary School Teachers: A Longitudinal Study of Depletion, Commitment, and Preoccupation Mechanisms	719,781
Dr KWAN Lok Yin Joyce	Effect Size Measures and Sample Size Determination in Multilevel Mediation Analysis within the Structural Equation Modeling Framework	549,000
Dr LAU Esther Yuet-ying	Why Lose Sleep for Work if Sleep Works for You? Neurocognitive Affective Benefits of Home-based Sleep Extension in Chronically Sleep-restricted Emerging Adults	1,000,000
Dr LEUNG Nga Man Angel	Functions of Cognitive Reappraisal in Cyberbullying and the Well-being of Cyber-victimized Chinese Students	758,682
Dr LIN Dan	Learning in the Digital Age: Online Storybook Intervention in Reading Development	717,820
Dr TONG Xiuhong	How Social-emotional Skills Affect Children’s Reading Comprehension: A Cross-Lagged Longitudinal Study	1,127,000
Dr WONG Man Lok Nichol	A Novel Conditioning Approach to Counter Loneliness in Adults	916,654
Prof YEUNG Siu Sze	Science Text Comprehension: Investigating the Role of Text Structure Strategy, Motivation, and Metacognitive Calibration	783,150

 

RGC, General Research Fund (GRF) 2022/23

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr TONG Xiuhong	Promoting Chinese and English Bi-Scriptal Reading Development through Phonological Training: Behavioural Intervention and Neural Evaluation	637,657
Dr YEUNG Kin Chung Michael	Understanding the role of the frontoparietal network in the development of executive function in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	1,217,060

 

RGC, Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS) 2026/27

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Prof CHAN Ka Shing Kevin	Identifying and Predicting 6-Year Trajectories of Autistic Children’s Symptoms and Their Parents’ Distress: A Growth Mixture Modeling and Machine Learning Study	623,200

 

RGC, Overseas Research Fellowship Scheme (ORFS) 2026/27

Awardee	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Prof LAU Esther Yuet Ying	368,000

 

Innovation and Technology Fund for Better Living (FBL)

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Prof YEUNG Siu Sze Susanna	Social Robot for English Language Learning among Young Learners	4,953,800

 

 

Innovation and Technology Support Programme (ITSP)

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr YEUNG Kin Chung Michael	Developing an EEG-fNIRS Neurofeedback Application for Brain Training for Autistic Children	1,389,200

 

Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF)

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr CHAN Shing Fong Paul	Examining the effects of mindfulness-based horticultural therapy on reducing mental distress and increasing psychological well-being of adolescents with depressive symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	499,056
Dr WONG Ho Yin Clive	Towards precision psychiatry: building transdiagnostic prediction model from neurophysiological pattern for ADHD children	500,000
Dr WONG Ting Yat	Psychosocial factors linked to resilience to stressors in first-episode psychosis: Towards a resilience calculator	496,100
Dr YEUNG Kin Chung Michael	Hybrid computerized executive function and social cognition training for autistic children and their parents: A two-arm, double-blind randomized controlled trial with 6-month follow-up	1,263,913
Prof LAU Esther Yuet-ying	Nap Right: A Longitudinal Day-to-Day Investigation of Bidirectional Sleep-Mood Associations in Young Adults with Subclinical Insomnia, Depression, and Anxiety Using Ecological Momentary Assessment and Electroencephalography	500,000
Dr WONG Man Lok Nichol	Personalised transcranial direct current stimulation to reduce daily loneliness in people with subthreshold depression	864,729

 

The Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR)

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr LIN Dan	Empower Families to Enhance Children’s Reading Skills through an Interactive Self-learning Storybook Reading Programme	1,168,764
Prof YEUNG Siu Sze	Design and evaluation of an English conversational agent to enrich home language support for young students: Parental support, underlying mechanism, train-the-trainer and technology adoption	2,453,689.50
Prof YEUNG Siu Sze	Development and evaluation of a computerised morphology training package on English literacy in Hong Kong primary school students with reading comprehension difficulties	1,967,995

 

Quality Education Fund (QEF)

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Prof CHAN Ka Shing Kevin	Mindfulness-Based Social-Emotional Learning Programme for Supporting Students’ Successful Transition to Secondary School	1,310,100
Dr KWAN Yuet Ling Linda	MATHero’s Journey App	571,900
Prof YEUNG Siu Sze	Enhancing positive values and well-being through Experiential Mindfulness Programme (EMP) among secondary school students	1,431,400