Research Areas
Please see individual profiles for more updated details.
- Drama Studies and World Englishes
- Novel, Film Studies and Critical Theory
- Task-based Language Teaching, Second Language Acquisition
- Sign Language and Gesture, Syntax
- Multilingual Studies, Semantics, Digital Humanities
- English Language and Education
- Political Theory and Literature, Modern and contemporary literature
- Postcolonialism, Stylistics
External Funding
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- 2026-2028 Principal Investigator: Dr TSO Wing-bo
‘Diverse and Multicultural Shakespeare: Children’s and Young Adult Book Adaptations and Retellings in the 21st Century’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H13/25, HK$412,720)
- 2025-2026 Co-Principal Investigator: Dr TSO Wing-bo
‘Transplantation of Shakespearean Drama into Asian Culture’
Inter-Institutional Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/IIDS23/H01/25)
- 2024-2025 Principal Investigator: Professor Kwok-kan Tam
‘Hans Christian Andersen and Worlding in His Tales’
Inter-Institutional Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/IIDS14/H03/24, HK$222,050)
- 2024-2025 Principal Investigator: Dr FUNG Kai-yeung
‘Standing on Threshold: Evil and the Will in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Fictions’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H15/24, HK$281,850)
- 2023-2024 Principal Investigator: Dr Jay Parker
‘Poetic Justice and the Anglophone Novel, 1678–1928’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H13/23, HK$772,133)
- 2022-2023 Principal Investigator: Dr Maggie Ma
‘Exploring Teacher-Supported Peer Feedback: Developing Student Feedback Literacy and Writing Quality’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H02/21, HK$691,394.00)
- 2021-2023 Principal Investigator: Dr Gavin Bui
‘Functional Adequacy in Second Language Speaking and Writing Tasks: Measurement and Pedagogy’.
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H13/20, HK$907,910.00)
- 2020-2021 Principal Investigator: Dr Jay Parker
‘Postcritique and Joseph Conrad’
Faculty Development Scheme, Reserach Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H15/19, HK$250,800)
- 2020-2021 Principal Investigator: Dr Paul Fung
‘Permanent Parabasis’: Irony and Self-Consciousness in Dostoevsky’s Novels’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H13/19, HK$319,800)
- 2018-2020 Principal Investigator: Dr Donovan Grose
‘Co-speech Gestures Across First and Second Languages in Hong Kong: Cantonese and English’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H03/17, HK$1,015,263)
- 2014-2017 Principal Investigator: Dr Gavin Bui
‘Task Sequencing with Different Task Types and Conditions in Task-based Language Teaching: A Longitudinal Study on Immediate Task Performance and Long-term Proficiency Development’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H01/14, HK$684,526)
- 2014-2016 Principal Investigator: Dr Maggie Ma
‘Exploring English teachers’ assessment practices and student perceptions of them in Hong Kong’s self-financing tertiary education context’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H08/14, HK$562,971)
- 2014-2015 Principal Investigator: Dr Maggie Ma
‘Exploring learning-oriented assessment in Hong Kong’s self-financing tertiary education context’
Small Research Grant, Federation for Self-financing Tertiary Education
(SRGS-13-03, HK$28,600)
