Programmes

Research Interest(s):

Decentralization and Participatory Governance, Development Studies

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Fiscal Decentralization, Poverty Reduction, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Ghana

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Gender Studies, Internal Migration

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Gender-based Violence and Help-seeking Behaviour among Internally Displaced People (IDP) and Host Community Women in Myanmar

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Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement in Elite Athlete

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Optimization of Strength and Power Capacity to Enhance Elite Athlete Performance

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Community Development, Social Policy

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Understanding the Community Capacity-building Process: A Study of Community Development Programs in Hong Kong

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Chinese Influence in the UN, Africa and Non-EU Countries in Europe, Educational Policy in Africa

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Solidarity in a Global Assembly: China’s Influence on African Nations’ Behaviour in the United Nations

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Mental Health, Strengths Perspective

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Strengths for Mental Health Recovery in the Chinese Context: Conceptualization and Assessment

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Health Psychology, Exercise Psychology

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Influencing Mechanism of Outdoor Physical Activity on Rumination: A Serial Multiple Mediating Role of the Experience of Connection with Nature and Mindfulness

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Energy Governance, Community Engagement, Technology Empowerment

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The Influence of Energy Technologies towards Empowering Smart Energy Transitions 

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Drought, Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Propagation from Meteorological to Terrestrial Water Storage-derived Hydrological Droughts and their Possible Drivers

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Social Psychology in Sport and Leisure, Physical Activity and Wellbeing and Olympism

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Achieving Health-related Outcomes through Active Classrooms in Sri Lanka

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Thermal Comfort, Nature-based Solutions

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Landscape Approach for Spatially-heterogeneous Water and Energy Management based on Environmental Indicators

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Physical Activity and Health

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Twenty-four-hour Movement Behaviors and Health in Preschool-aged Children in Hong Kong

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Social Capital and Community Development

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Integrating Social Capital into Community Development in Chinese Context

Research Interest(s):
Intellectual History of Modern China, the History of Chinese Education, the History of Women’s Education, the History of Children’s Education

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A Study of Tong Xiegeng’s Life, Publications, and His Contribution to Early Education in Late Qing and Republican China

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Language Assessment

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Language Assessment Literacy Development of University English Instructors in China: An Ethnographic Case Study

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Energy Geography and Governance, Belt and Road Initiative

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Understanding the Mechanism of Orchestration in Transnational Environmental Governance: A Theory-based Evaluation of BRIGC

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Transport Geography

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Gender Study

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

The Dominant Discourses on Lone Parents in Hong Kong and Mainland China

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Climate, Hydrology

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Spatiotemporal Variations in Precipitation and Vegetation Cover driven by Large-scaled Atmosphere-ocean Oscillations over East and South Asia

Research Interest(s):
Climate Extremes, Grassland Biodiversity, Global Change Ecology, Vegetation Dynamics

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Grassland Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Variability and Climate Extremes

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Health Inequality and Policy, Unbalanced Burden of Disease and Health, the Progress of Aging

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The Status Quo of Elderly Care Issues under the Influence of Health Policies and Aging Issues in China

Research Interest(s):

Olympic Studies

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Gender Equality Policy of the Olympic Movement in China's Sport Governing Bodies: The Case of Artistic Gymnastics, Diving and Volleyball