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研究资助局于2020年7月2日公布优配研究金拨款结果。优配研究金是香港高等教育界其中一项旗舰级研究资助计划。香港教育大学亚洲及政策研究学系三位学者在本年度成功获得拨款，合共超过160万港元。

亚洲及政策研究学系副主任（教与学）兼助理教授伍凤嫦博士昨日（七月一日）接受纽约时报访问。在访问中，伍博士表达有关国家安全法对于公民社会及学术界的影响。报导全文请浏览：https://nyti.ms/3dQEUya

香港教育大学亚洲及政策研究学系公共行政学研究讲座教授张炳良教授出席由美国TransitCenter主办的网上研讨会，主题为“Transit and COVID-19: The Hong Kong Story”。香港经过2003年沙士一役后，在新冠肺炎疫情中成为其中一个迅速应对疫情的城市。但在去年示威浪潮及新冠肺炎疫情双重夹击下，港铁面对严重的财政压力，而张教授在研讨会上谈及到港铁如何应对疫情。 请浏览TransitCenter Facebook专页观看研讨会录像：https://bit.ly/37D5ARo。

The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) announced the result of the President’s Awards for Outstanding Performance 2019/20 on 22 May 2020. Two faculty members of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) have been conferred with this prestigious awarded in the domains of teaching and research, respectively. This year, a total of 32 nominations, consisting of 10 nominations for the Teaching domain, 11 nominations for the Research domain, 8 nominations for the Knowledge Transfer domain, and 3 nominations for the Administrative Services domain, have been received. All the nominations have gone through stringent selection by respective Selection Panels comprising lay Council Members, colleagues from sister universities, staff and student representatives, as well as past Award Recipients, according to a set of comprehensive assessment criteria. 

Outstanding Performance in Teaching

Dr Isabella NG Fung-Sheung Associate Head of Department of Asian and Policy Studies (Teaching and Learning) Assistant Professor The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching was established to recognize and reward excellence in teaching by individual academic staff or teams and to emphasize the University’s commitment to fostering teaching innovation and excellence, enhancing students learning, and providing teaching scholarships. Dr Isabella Ng Fung-sheung, Assistant professor of APS has been awarded the Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching. Trained as a feminist anthropologist, she applies her research approach to teaching by engaging students in long-term community, policy and research work. Her research training facilitated her adoption of her 3Cs approach – Collaboration, Co-production and Camaraderie – as a way of combining training in the tangible skills of co-construction and application of knowledge, and the intangible personal attributes of resilience, compassion, passion, love and empathy. Dr Ng’s teaching philosophy is “Teaching without borders”. She has applied this philosophy by 1) leading her students to work on and in the local community and communities far and wide; 2) encouraging students of diverse backgrounds to engage with marginalized communities; and 3) exposing students to real-life learning by participating in real-life policy advocacy and lobbying processes. She and her students have worked with walled villagers, Thai migrants, and asylum-seekers and refugees in Hong Kong, as well as displaced persons in Thailand and Myanmar. She co-founded a non-government organisation (NGO) with asylum-seekers and students in 2014. Through her engagement with the refugee community, she has co-produced and published journal articles and the first Chinese book on asylum-seeker and refugee issues in Hong Kong, in collaboration with her students. She was the first academic to lead a team of students to prepare and present policy submissions in Hong Kong Legislative Council Public Hearings. Within the University, Dr Ng developed the popular Communication Studies in Policy and Governance minor, which promotes integrating communication studies as an integral part of contemporary policy studies and advocacy, a crucial element overlooked in the local higher-education curriculum. In 2013, she obtained a Teaching Development Grant to develop a web portal to engage students in instant forum discussions and reflective learning, and to use media tools and strategies to actively engage in policy and social issues. To live up to her philosophy of “Teaching without borders”, Dr Ng has been training academics in universities in Myanmar and giving talks locally and internationally on refugee issues. She has also worked with the United Nations and international NGOs to combat negative narratives about migrants. She received the 2019 “Good Teacher Award” from Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union for her dedication and commitment to learning and teaching.  

Outstanding Performance in Research (Research Excellence Award) 

Dr Alex HE Jingwei Associate Head of Department of Asian and Policy Studies (Research and Development) Associate Professor The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research was established to honour research excellence exhibited by individual academic staffs or teams and to recognise, encourage and reward outstanding research of significant benefit to the wider community. Dr Alex HE Jingwei, Associate Professor of APS, has been awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research (Research Excellence Award). Dr He’s main research areas are public policy analysis, health policy and reforms, and comparative social policy. As Principal Investigator, Dr He secured funding from the Early Career Scheme (ECS), the General Research Fund (GRF), the Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme, and the World Health Organization (WHO) in the past five years. Success in these external grant applications is a good indication of the recognition of Dr He’s significant contribution to social policy research in urban China and Hong Kong, and strong evidence-based policy recommendations. Dr He is prolific researcher, with 23 research outputs in the past three years, including 14 journal articles, four book chapters and one edited book. He was the first author or corresponding author in all these publications. Dr He’s specialisation in social policy and health governance with an East Asian focus has been widely recognized. In July 2019, he was selected as a core member of the research consortium of The Asia-Pacific Observatory (APO) on Health Systems and Policies of the WHO. This achievement not only served as a strong testament to Dr He’s academic excellence, but also increased the exposure of EdUHK in the international health care community. He has demonstrated outstanding research leadership in the broader academic community, serving as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Public Policy and Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network. In addition to his research achievements, Dr He is devoted to the promotion of a research culture in both EdUHK and the broader academic community. He has held key administrative roles in his Department, where he is the Associate Head and Chair of the Departmental Research Committee. Since 2016, he has run an annual public policy summer school series, which attracted hundreds of young scholars and research students from Hong Kong, the Mainland, Taiwan, Macau and overseas. Striving to make impact for the betterment of the society with his research, Dr He enthusiastically participates in policy advocacy. He has contributed to raising public awareness of health-reform options through extensive media engagements in Hong Kong and China.   In view of the current pandemic, the President’s Awards Presentation Ceremony for this year has been postponed and combine it with the one in the next year. Since the launched of the President’s Awards in 2011/12, several members of the APS have been awarded.

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Professor Woo Chi-keung at the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) of the Education University of Hong Kong has been awarded HK$ 586,040 under the Research Funding Scheme 2020-2021 of the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office, Hong Kong SAR Government for his project of Performance-based Regulation of Mass Transit Railway’s Reliability Performance.

面对日益复杂的社会挑战，各个领域对公共政策及管理人才的需求不断增加，亦有不少高级公务人员选择出国进修。每年来到香港教育大学攻读公共政策及管理硕士课程(MPPM)的学生中，都有若干位国际生。2019年，来自泰国的现职公务员Nitikon Jirathitikankit (Nitikon)也踏上了香港的土地。这位泰国公务员体系中的「明日之星」拿到了教大亚洲及政策研究学系的全额奖学金，开始了他在香港为期一年的求学之旅。来港前，Nitikon已在泰国不同大学分别修读政治学本科、法律本科及比较政治学硕士，亦到拿到了英国列斯大学(University of Leeds，亦译称利兹大学)的国际关系硕士学位。对于这样一位已在泰国政府部门服务超过十年的公务员来说，为何要远赴香港，来到教大去攻读他的第三个硕士学位呢？

Q1. 请简单介绍一下你的职业 

在出国读书前，我已经在泰国宪法法院的宪法研究和发展部担任学术主任有十一年时间。主要职责是世界各地的宪法比较、公法及宪法法院权力相关研究。除此之外，亦参与法院的学术文章及书籍出版工作。   

Q2. 如何得知亚洲及政策研究学系的MPPM课程？为何会选择修读MPPM？ 

我在泰国那黎宣大学(Naresuan University)完成政治学本科课程，当时学校与亚洲及政策研究学系签定合作协议，而我的老师──现任社会科学学院院长Napisa Waitoolkiat教授推荐我申请MPPM。学系向我提供全额的入学奖学金，给我机会强化自己在公共政策与管理方面的学术训练，这对我的职业发展有莫大帮助。MPPM课程提供不同范畴的科目，例如公共政策及公共行政的基础知识。即使我曾修读政治学，但很多知识都已忘记。因此MPPM对有意了解公共政策、公共管理理论和方法的学生十分有用，我已经把课程推介给有意进修的泰国朋友及同事。   就我而言，学校及学系对于我们这些对香港完全陌生的国际学生提供充足支持，即便在这段困难时期他们也对同学提供持续的帮助和照顾。学校致力将学生安全及学业发展放在首位，同时学系的老师也尽力确保在疫情期间教学质素不受影响。教大的校园非常宁静，即使我住在校外，所有面授暂停，但我依然选择回来学习，因为大学优良的环境为我提供学习的动力。   

Q3. MPPM的课程如何帮助到你的职业发展？ 

这个课程拓宽了我的视野。作为泰国的公务员，当然对自己国家的公共行政了如指掌，但对外国的情况就未必了解。由Darryl Jarvis教授指导的“Public Administration and Management in Asia”正为我补充这方面的知识。Jarvis教授利用不少实际例子讲解抽象的概念，例如印度尼西亚政府透过私营化方式管理水电等公用事业。这些例子让我更了解何谓公共行政，亦可从这些例子中获得借鉴参考。如有机会，亦可引用这些案例向泰国的上司提出建言，以改善公共部门的绩效。   我不只在MPPM中获取知识，同时亦提高了人际交往技巧。课程作业大多数以小组形式进行，因此我有不少机会同来自不同背景的同学合作，学习如何交换意见及从不同角度思考以达成共识。这些技巧对我的职业发展，甚至我的人生都有莫大帮助。   

Q4. 你会如何评价泰国和香港的学习模式？ 

我对于香港这里的师生关系感到惊叹。在泰国，学生与老师之间通常都会保持一定距离并会对他们毕恭毕敬。而在香港的大学，师生之间关系非常平等，我们能够以不同方式联络所有老师，师生关系十分亲密。此外，老师在课前就已经安排大量阅读书目，让我们对课堂内容先有基本掌握。学校方面，图书馆提供大量资源，例如世界顶尖期刊电子数据库，是我们课堂报告或研究论文的宝贵资源。 

Q5. 平常如何渡过课余时间？ 

我平常会到由伍凤嫦博士创立的香港寻求庇护者及难民协会(Hong Kong Society for Asylum-seekers and Refugees)担任义工，让我有深入香港社会的宝贵机会。泰国的公务员通常只会在办公室工作，但在伍博士的NGO里，让我发掘到香港鲜为人知的一面。同时，透过义工活动，我也认识到一班寻求庇护者及难民朋友，用心感受如何与香港不同背景的人士沟通。 

教协报日前专访亚洲及政策研究学系助理教授伍凤嫦博士。在报道中提及伍博士透过学者及老师身份将研究及社会工作结合，成立香港寻求庇护者及难民协会，并建立唱游班帮助因国籍问题而未能上学的小孩。专访全文请浏览：https://issuu.com/hkptu/docs/704ptunews/12。