SUM Wai Li Gloria won the “Best non-ENGL Presentation” award

based on a paper presentation, “A comparison of pre-service and in-service teachers’ attitudes to language and gender issues in Hong Kong schools,” she gave at the PolyU-CALLS 2023 conference. Abstract of the Paper: Even with the increasing awareness of gender issues in Hong Kong, gender studies is still not included in teacher training programmes, especially when…

Prof. Lian-Hee Wee awarded The Blue Sky Research Fund 2021/22

Professor Wee proposed to study Hong Kong graffiti, an area that is hitherto untouched by the rigours of academe studies. Modern Hong Kong graffiti is clearly inspired by the west in terms of techniques and style. However, the messages they contain, and how the messages are encoded appear to take on a very grammar that is Hong…