Research Grants

Current external competitive grants with psychology colleagues as principal investigators (updated February 2021)

RGC, Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2020/21

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr WANG Jie	Word-Form Encoding in Chinese Handwriting: Examining the Roles of Radicals and Logographemes	338,000

RGC, General Research Fund (GRF) 2020/21

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Prof CHEUNG Him	Effect of age on reading comprehension, reading satisfaction, and their correlates: From adulthood to old age	608,612
Dr HOU Wai Kai	Adaptation to financial strain: A prospective study of everyday processes and mechanisms and mental health	654,420
Dr TONG Xiuhong	The Intriguing Role of Syntactic Awareness in One Language and Reading Comprehension and Reading Comprehension Difficulty in Another Language in Chinese-English Bilingual Children: A Longitudinal Study	809,000
Dr YEUNG Siu Sze, Susanna	Morphological awareness and reading among Chinese ESL children: A randomized controlled trial	694,488

RGC, Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2019/20

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr TONG Xiuhong	Neurocognitive Developmental Mechanisms Underlying Statistical Learning of Chinese Orthography in Hong Kong Chinese Children: A Longitudinal ERP Study	1,002,360

RGC, General Research Fund (GRF) 2019/20

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr LIN Dan	Executive functioning in reading comprehension in Chinese with and without dialect speaking	600,441
Dr LAU Esther Yuet Ying	Flourishing Outcomes and Psychosocial Predictors of 10-year Trajectories of Sleep Quality	862,050
Dr KWAN Lok Yin, Joyce	Comparing Mediated Moderation Effects Using Structural Equation Modeling	554,042

RGC, Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2018/19

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr LI Man Wai Liman	Low Environmental Relational Mobility Promotes Existence of Enemies	662,268
Dr LAW Wilbert	Examining the Antecedents and the Role of the Three Self-Compassion Components on Hong Kong Secondary School Students’ Psychological Well-being and Achievement Motivation	648,650
Dr PAN Jinger Melody	Development of Eye Movements during Reading: A Cross-Culture Comparison	593,730

RGC, General Research Fund (GRF) 2017/18

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr BUCHTEL, Emma E.	Filial Values and “Unhealthy Practices:” When is Corruption Increased by Confucian Virtues? The Roles of Moral Conflict and Societal Transparency	664,052
Dr CHAN Ka Shing Kevin	Experiencing Stigma when Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Longitudinal Study	853,759
Dr LEUNG Nga Man, Angel	To Help or Not to Help: Investigating the Intervening behavior of Online Witnesses of Cyberbullying	728,152
Dr YEUNG Siu Sze, Susanna	Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension: Examining the Role of Vocabulary Depth and Cross-language Transfer	620,844

Equal Opportunities Commission, 2020/21

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr HO Chun Yip Henry	A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Family-Friendly Employment Practices:  From Work-Family Conflict to Enrichment	50,000

Equal Opportunities Commission, 2019/20

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr HO Chun Yip Henry	Study on Perceptions of Stigmatisation and Discrimination of Persons with Mental Illness in the Workplace	599,830

Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR), 2020/21

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Awarded Amount (HK$)
Dr YEUNG Siu Sze, Susanna	Study on Transition of English Language Learning and Teaching from Kindergarten Education to Primary Education	471,230