Research-Scholarly Performance Awards

Dr Lau's research interests are cruise ships, ferries, impacts of climate change, shipping education and training, transport history, sustainability issues, resilient supply chain management, health logistics, human remains and regional development.

Dr Leung’s research interests primarily focuses on the fields of information systems and healthcare technology. His research topics include artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, virtual reality (VR), gerontology, cognitive health technology, and aging-related issues. His work has been published in top information systems journals such as Internet Research, Tourism Management, and Computers in Human Behavior.

Dr Xu’s teaching and research interests include consumption experience and brand management, tourism psychology and sociology, and hospitality and event management.

Dr Cheung's research interests include academic discourse analysis informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), technology-enhanced language learning and teaching (TELLT), service-learning as experiential learning, and English-for-Academic-Purposes (EAP) practitioners’ identity and agency. These interests inform his teaching professional development (TPD) initiatives.

Mr Chang's research interests focus on community architecture, installation art, curatorship, placemaking and arts tech. His pedagogic studies cover design thinking and spatial design fundamentals, etc.

Dr Xu’s teaching and research interests include consumer behaviour and consumption experience (in tourism and hospitality management), tourism psychology and sociology, tour operations and wholesaling, China tourism and hotel businesses, hospitality management in China, and quality service management.

Dr Leung’s research interests include word-of-mouth behaviours, social commerce, and the adoption and usage of Information Systems.

Dr Wut’s interdisciplinary research interests cover crisis management, corporate social responsibility and research methods.

Dr Yao’s research interest focuses on linguistic and applied linguistics, especially on Chinese Linguistics, language acquisition in multicultural contexts, Putonghua Education in HK, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and so on.

Dr Ho likes to apply what he learns to his hobbies. He has a special interest in performing arts, leading him to apply psychological research methods to studying street performance (aka busking) on topics such as the audience's experience of street performance and the impact of street performance on people's perception of public spaces.

Dr Cindy Chen's research and scholarly interests lie in sustainable air-conditioning technology for green buildings, including indirect evaporative cooler modeling and development, desiccant enhanced evaporative cooling system and tri-generation system for energy efficient communities.

Dr Peggy Ng works as a Senior Lecturer at College of Continuing and Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  Her research interests include strategic enrolment management, student satisfaction, higher education, strategic planning, pro-environmental behavior and social responsibility.  Her work has been published in academic journals, such as Online Information Review, Higher Education, Social Responsibility Journal, Asia Pacific Education Review and International Journal of Educational Management.

Cruise, ferry, maritime transport, air transport, impacts of climate change, maritime education and training, transport history, sustainability issues, supply chain management, health logistics, and regional development

Dr Hongdi Ding’s research interests are related to three main areas: language typology, linguistic description, Tibeto-Burman linguistics.

Mr Chang Hoi-wood's research interests focus on community architecture, installation art, curatorship and placemaking.  His pedagogic studies cover design thinking and spatial design fundamentals, etc.

Cruise, ferry, maritime transport, air transport, impacts of climate change, maritime education and training, transport history, sustainability issues, supply chain management, transport geography, and regional development

Documentary, film production, storytelling, and photography

Social and environmental accounting, environmental, social and governance, corporate social responsibility, sin industries, and business ethics

Self and identity, symbolic consumption, gift-giving, higher education, and narrative analysis

Destination marketing, tourist motivation, brand management, consumption experience, visitor attraction management, and sport tourism

Chemotherapy, hormonal therapy for breast cancer, high throughput drug screening system, radiation therapy, drug development, cancer-causing and tumor-suppressing gene investigation, genetics, molecular biology and biotechnology

Strategic enrolment management, student satisfaction, higher education, strategic planning, and knowledge management

Development of new textile materials and their mechanical performance

Urban studies, sustainable development and waste management

Contemporary ink painting and digital media creations