Programmes

Research Interest(s):

Decentralization and Participatory Governance, Development Studies

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):

Gender Studies, Internal Migration

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):

Health Technology and Policy, General Management, Government

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Evaluating Participatory Involvement of Local Civics in Effective Developmental Planning: Evidence from Mmdas in Ghana 

Research Interest(s):

Digital Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Popular Culture, Digital Cultures, Media and Cultural Studies, Fandoms

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Filipino Fandom-Based Digital Humanitarian Engagement and Care Culture in the Philippines

Research Interest(s):

Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement in Elite Athlete

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Optimization of Strength and Power Capacity to Enhance Elite Athlete Performance

Research Interest(s):
Community Development, Social Policy

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):

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

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):

Mental Health, Strengths Perspective

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):

Political Economic Geography, Ecological Anthropology

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

The Political Ecology of Navigational Infrastructure on the

Upper Mekong

Research Interest(s):

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

Research Interest(s):
Resilience, Child Development, Developmental Psychopathology

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Developing Multisystemic Resilience for Children in Adversity, a Longitidunal Mixed Methods Study

Research Interest(s):

Energy Governance, Community Engagement, Technology Empowerment

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

The Influence of Energy Technologies towards Empowering Smart Energy Transitions 

Research Interest(s):
Social Psychology in Sport and Leisure, Physical Activity and Wellbeing and Olympism

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

Achieving Health-related Outcomes through Active Classrooms in Sri Lanka

Research Interest(s):
Physical Activity and Health

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):

Social Capital and Community Development

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):

Language Assessment

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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

Research Interest(s):
Energy Geography and Governance, Belt and Road Initiative

Thesis Title / Tentative Thesis Title:

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