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Professor Lui Tai-lok Appointed EdUHK Vice
President (Research and Development)

The EdUHK Council approved the appointment of Professor Lui has researched widely and published on topics
Professor Lui Tai-lok as Vice President (Research including class analysis, economic sociology, urban sociology and
and Development) of the University with effect Hong Kong society. He also actively contributes to the Hong Kong
from 7 April. Professor Lui is currently Chair community by serving on various governmental and professional
Professor of Hong Kong Studies, Director of the committees as well as those related to social services.
Academy of Hong Kong Studies and Director of
the Centre for Greater China Studies of EdUHK.

EdUHK Council Chairman Mr Pang Yiu-kai said, “We have every Professor Lui Tai-lok
confidence in Professor Lui, who is held in high esteem in
academia and civil society as a respectable public intellectual.
Given his academic achievements and track record, we believe
Professor Lui is the best person to lead the University in advancing
the research and knowledge transfer areas”.

EdUHK President Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung said, “I am
most pleased to welcome Professor Lui to the senior management
team at this important juncture. I trust that he will be able to
foster an even more vibrant research culture and environment
and bring our research to a higher level”.

Professor Lui joined the University in 2014 and was Acting Vice
President (Research and Development) from July 2015. Prior to
joining EdUHK, he was Professor at the University of Hong Kong
(HKU) where he was also Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social
Sciences (2010-2011) and Head of the Department of Sociology
(2011-2014). Professor Lui taught at Hong Kong City Polytechnic
(1986-88) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1988-2009)
and obtained his BA and MPhil in Sociology at HKU and then an
MPhil and a DPhil at the University of Oxford.

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