Projects & Awards
On-going projects
2022 – 2024. Innovation and Impact Fund - KT Programme, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Developing a play-based, emotion-regulation training programme for preschoolers in Hong Kong (KT22A4). $80,000. (PhD student: Mwaba Moono Chipili)
2022 – 2023. Direct Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. The effects of social relations on the changes of individual well-being (DR22B7). $80,000.
2022 – 2023. Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. An Investigation of the Acculturation Experiences and Well-being Outcomes of African Diasporas in Hong Kong (SSFRG/21/1/2). $42,500. (PhD student: Raymond Boateng)
2022-2025. Institutional Development Scheme (IDS) Collaborative Research Grant, UGC. Human Resilience, Life Adversity, and Adaptation to Life Course Transitions from Early Adulthood to Late Middle Adulthood (UGC/IDS(C)15/H02/22). $5,359,056. As Co-I.
Completed projects
2021 - 2022. Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Investigating the Relation between Perceived Societal Development and Ideal Well-being (SSFRG/20/1/1). $30,000.
2020 - 2021. Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Comparing the effects of self‐help interventions with self‐compassion versus self‐direction focuses (SSFRG/19/2/2). $43,560.
2018 – 2020. General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. Effects of Mood on Critical Thinking (13603517). $642,839.
2017 – 2018. Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Examining the Cultural Concepts of Dignity, Honour, and Face in Hong Kong (SSFRG/16/3/1). $26,500.
2016 – 2017. Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Side Effect of the Pursuit of Happiness: How and When Lay-theory of Positive Thinking Predicts Depression Stigma (SSFRG/15/2/2). $36,864.
2016 – 2017. Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Examining the job-hopping behaviour and turnover decision making among young employees in Hong Kong (SSFRG/15/1/1). $36,000. (MPhil student: Yuen Sze Hang)
2012 – 2015. Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Harmonizing Their Relationships with the Immediate Supervisors: What Do Subordinates Do? $55,300.
Awards
2019-20. Certificate of Merit, Teaching Excellence Awards Scheme, Lingnan University
2018. RGC Competitive Grants Award, Lingnan University
2016-17. Significant Faculty Contribution to Outcome Based Education Award, Lingnan University
2015-16. Significant Faculty Contribution to Outcome Based Education Award, Lingnan University
2009. Victoria PhD Submission Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington
2006-09. New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarship, Education New Zealand
2006. Asia:NZ Young Leaders Network inaugural member, Asia New Zealand Foundation