2025 – 2026. Bilingualism effects on cognitive skills in preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Principal Investigator (Co-Is: Fang Liu, Caicai Zhang, Jie Wang, & Virginia Yip)
HK$768,916 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H37/24)
2022 – 2023. Learner engagement in listening-and-speaking tasks in the face-to-face and the synchronous computer-mediated communication conditions.
Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Principal Investigator (Previous PI: Christy Qiu)
HK$655,953 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H18/21)
2020 – 2022. The impact of bilingual exposure on the language development of Cantonese-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Principal Investigator (Co-Is: Virginia Yip & Fang Liu)
HK$659,438 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H13/19)
2024 – 2026. A chatbot-based program to promote well-being in caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Hong Kong Health Bureau
Co-Investigator (PI: Wendy Zhang)
HK$499,038 (Project No.: 21223081)
2023 - 2026. 北京自閉症譜系障礙兒童語言能力研究 [Investigating the language abilities of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Beijing].
北京社會科學基金 [Beijing Social Science Foundation].
Co-Investigator (PI: Shuwen Chen)
CNY$80,000 (Project No.: 23YYC015)
2023 – 2025. 自閉症譜系障礙兒童在語言加工中的心理表徵實驗研究 [Experimental studies on mental representations during the language processing among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder].
國家社會科學基金 [National Social Science Fund of China].
Co-Investigator (PI: Xin Kang)
CNY$200,000
2020 – 2022. Perception and production of the Putonghua tone of non-Chinese speaking South Asian ethnic minority students in Hong Kong.
Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
Co-Investigator (PI: Cindy Lam Man Fong)
HK$575,100 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H15/19)
2021 – 2023. A corpus-based study of the acquisition of quantifiers.
Guangdong Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science.
Co-Investigator (PI: Xiangjun Deng)
CNY$50,000 (Project No.: GD20CWY16)
2025 – 2026 . Language and Aging: An Investigation of Cantonese-speaking Elderly’s Language Comprehension and Production in the Greater Bay Area.
School-level Collaborative Research Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Peppina Lee & Danny Leung; Co-Is: Caicai Zhang, Bin Li, Fang Liu)
HK$499,816 (Project No.: EL2502)
2024 – 2026. Movement and Language: An integrated approach to support children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Team-based Research Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Co-Principal Investigator (PC: Catherine Capio)
HK$937,118 (Project No.: TBRF/2024/1.5)
2023 - 2024. Exploring the effects of bilingualism on cognitive abilities in Cantonese-English bilingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
University Research Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator
HK$150,000 (Project No.: PFDS/2023/05)
2023 – 2025. The acquisition of restrictive focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator (Co-Is: Peppina Lee & Stephen Matthews)
HK$199,500 (Project No.: RD/2023/1.9)
2022 – 2023. The role of parental input in the language development of Cantonese-English bilingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Hong Kong: A corpus study.
Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator
HK$195,400 (Project No.: RD/2021/02)
2019 – 2020. The use of prosody in pragmatic comprehension by Cantonese-speaking children with high-functioning autism.
Katie Shu Sui Pui Charitable Trust – Research and Publication Fund.
Principal Investigator
HK$97,247 (Project No.: KS2018/2.2)
2023 – 2024. Instant message-delivered positive psychotherapy (I-PPT) to promote well-being in caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A mixed methods evaluation of a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Co-Investigator
HK$199,538 (Project No.: RD/2023/1.20)
2019. A pilot study on analysing HKEAA English argumentative essays for learning and teaching in Hong Kong secondary schools.
School Research Grant, The Open University of Hong Kong
Co-Investigator
HK$60,000 (Project No.: R4086 & R4087)