https://www.scmp.com/rss/508785/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com [Sponsored Article]  One important aspect of CityU’s strategic plan has been to identify a number of overarching research themes that bring together scholars and experts from different disciplines.  In identifying these areas, the aim is to spur productive interdisciplinary collaboration, thereby enhancing the University’s ability to address wide-ranging academic questions, but also to respond to the very real challenges facing society at large in a fast-changing and ever more connected... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120530?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120530?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:20:19 +0000 [Sponsored Article]  Dr Edmund CHENG has had a lifelong fascination with state-society relations. Cheng completed his PhD in Government at the London School of Economics (LSE) with a thesis that touched on Chinese grassroots politics.  Cheng’s family emigrated from mainland China to Hong Kong more than three decades ago. Witnessing all manner of changes on the mainland from his new home in the then British colony fuelled his interest in examining societal and political changes. Eventually this... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120533?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120533?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:15:22 +0000 [Sponsored Article]  Now Assistant Professor at CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Dr TSE Chun-yu started his studies focusing on medicine, before eventually moving on to psychology. He already had a very specific field in mind that he wished to work in – cognitive neuroscience: the study of the brain and human mind through brain imaging and brain stimulation.  His journey into brain science took him from Hong Kong to the United States, to Singapore and then back to Hong... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120570?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120570?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:15:20 +0000 [Sponsored Article]  Parliaments come from somewhere. They often boast colourful rituals and ceremonies, which tend to reflect ancient political struggles and a wide variety of cultural legacies. Their architecture, chamber layout and internal rules also inform us about the historical distribution of power in a society, and the maintenance or contestation of social hierarchies and political traditions. How parliamentary institutions are (re)created and take shape, in particular after the end of... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120575?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120575?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:15:19 +0000 [Sponsored Article]  Texting, common in social media, is fast becoming the norm in the workplace. For example, webchat for customer service is becoming increasingly favoured in the contact centre industry. Businesses predicted a few years back that this form of customer service would soon supersede telephonic support for sales and customer support, and this is increasingly the case.  Webchat for customer service is, however, faced with challenges in terms of quality, particularly in outsourced... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120577/move?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120577/move?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:15:17 +0000 [Sponsored Article]  The sustain of the communist regime, particularly the Chinese government, has been an interest in academia. Despite the collapse of communist ideology after the Cold War, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has succeeded in gaining high support among citizens. This paper, authored by Associate Professor Dr Tetsuro KOBAYASHI and PhD Candidate WANG Xiaoting of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication, argues that nationalism propaganda by the media plays a prominent role in... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120579?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120579?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:15:15 +0000 [Sponsored Article]  Information-based tools are often used in public organisations to persuade changes in its audiences’ behaviours, especially for influencing their thinking, knowledge, or beliefs towards a particular behaviour to attain desired policy goals. Direct implementation of specific regulations to prohibit behaviours inflicts a perceived loss of freedom, and the effect of incentive rewarding approaches often fades with time. Hence, without using prohibitions or time-consuming and... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120581?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120581?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:10:22 +0000 [Sponsored Article] By securing a US patent to crown his latest research project on an algorithm for automatic text simplification, Dr John LEE Sie-yuen, Associate Professor at CityU’s Department of Linguistics and Translation, has shown the study of language from a computational perspective can lead to a breakthrough innovation with a range of potential applications. In essence, his invention makes it possible to take a text an individual may find difficult, perhaps a legal document or a Wall... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120534?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120534?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:10:20 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The teaching and learning of Chinese history focus mainly on dynasty transitions and incidents like palace power struggles, military coups and social unrests. Students may be able to name famous historical figures like the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, Genghis Khan, and Empress Dowager Cixi, and tell how they were involved in those events. However, as textbooks usually lack multi-faceted depictions of these figures, let alone mentions of less famous people, the subject is not... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120607/women?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120607/women?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:10:19 +0000 [Sponsored Article]                Academics in humanities and social sciences shape the way to tackle societal problems and make positive impact on society, so said Professor Richard M WALKER, Dean of CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and recently elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. Taking the stage at CityU’s BOLD Forum on 11 September 2020, Walker gave a talk titled “How Humanities and Social Sciences Tackle Unprecedented Disruption”. The... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120608?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120608?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:10:17 +0000 [Sponsored Article] When the Department of Health’s Child Assessment Service announced in 2018 that up to 12.6 per cent of children in Hong Kong suffer from dyslexia, it came as no surprise to Dr Cecilia Chan Yuet-hung, a linguistics expert who last year developed a multimedia platform to help dyslexic junior primary school students in the city. Chan is Associate Professor and Associate Head at CityU’s Department of Linguistics and Translation. Her credentials include a doctorate from the... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120542?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120542?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:10:14 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Aiming to give undergraduates intellectually stimulating research experience and opportunities to explore their areas of interest and develop their research skills, CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) implemented a meaningful initiative in the academic year 2020-21: the Research Volunteer Scheme (RVS), an ongoing cross-disciplinary research apprenticeship scheme.  Dr Andus WONG, Associate Professor of psychology and RVS coordinator, shares a personal... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120609?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120609?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:05:21 +0000 [Sponsored Article] “I had an intuition that I had to do this.” Some refer to such a feeling as a calling, but for 26-year-old LEUNG Fei-tung, our Chinese and History alumni, Cantonese opera turned out to be everything she has ever wanted. “I remember my dad turning on a TV channel that plays Cantonese opera every Sunday morning, and I would watch it with him. When I was in Primary 5, there was the return of Chor Fung Ming Cantonese Opera Troupe. The channel ran an interview and I watched it.... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120553/love?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120553/love?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:05:19 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Social media has become an inseparable part of our lives. It is estimated that in 2020, the average user spent over two hours each day on social media. Think of your habits: do you browse Facebook (which has over 2.5 billion active users), Instagram, YouTube or WhatsApp every day, and how often? While social media connects people, it brings with it many problems—particularly during political elections and pandemics—among them the spread of misinformation, and polarisation.... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120610/class?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120610/class?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:05:18 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Before the pandemic hit the planet, Hong Kong and the world have already been experiencing turbulence for a long time. There are challenges in almost every aspect of our lives, like global finance, public health, climate change, technology advancement, sustainable development, energy and environment, to name but a few. Proper legal and governance mechanisms are crucial to resolving complex issues in these areas. To promote world-class research on interdisciplinary studies in... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120611?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120611?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:05:16 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Bienvenue!  ようこそ!  Willkommen! Apart from “Welcome!”, the website of CityU’s Chan Feng Men-ling Chan Shuk-lin Language Centre greets visitors in various other languages after a major change in mid-2020. Besides the high-quality English language teaching and learning services it delivers, the Centre has taken over training in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Putonghua and Cantonese, all previously offered by various departments at the University.  The brand new... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120612/new?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120612/new?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:05:13 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Some students demonstrate exceptional academic aptitude, creativity, intelligence or talents in arts or sports. They are generally referred to as “gifted students”, though there is no universal definition of “giftedness”. While every gifted student excels in a different way, creating a stimulating environment and deploying appropriate resources to meet their learning needs are key to unleashing their potential.  To provide opportunities for Secondary 3 to 5 students to have... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120613/cityus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/driving-interdisciplinary-research/article/3120613/cityus?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:00:08 +0000