On January 4, 2018, the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) announced the award recipients of the 2016-17 Outstanding Researcher Awards scheme. The following paper of Dr Tingjun Liu, Associate Professor in Finance, has been awarded the Research Output Prize (ROP):
Takeharu Sogo, Dan Bernhardt, Tingjun Liu. “Endogenous Entry to Security-Bid Auctions”. American Economic Review, 2016, Vol. 106, No. 11, pp. 3577-3589
The ROP is a Faculty-based award to honour the best research output from each Faculty. This year, ten Research Output Prizes are conferred on the authors by the Faculties.
The Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award was established to honour and reward faculty members for having done excellent research and achieved international recognition in the field of business and economics.
In 2017-18, Professor Tse-Chun Lin received the Award for his exceptional research accomplishments with international recognition. The Selection Committee acknowledges the high quality and quantity of Professor Lin’s research publications, and his important contributions through novel research during his service with the University of Hong Kong.
"Enhanced Employment Agency Enforcement: A step towards eliminating one of HK's largest black-market industries"
Hong Kong’s employment agency industry has been criticised worldwide for its widespread illegal business practices. Mr. David Bishop’s KE project successfully lobbied the Hong Kong government to amend the regulations of the employment agency (EA) industry in Hong Kong, particularly extending the statutory time limit for prosecution of abuses, in an effort to eliminate one of Hong Kong’s largest black-market industries. The team organised NGOs and labour organisations focusing on migrant worker issues behind this goal and helped them draft statements for the Legislative Council. In addition, the team investigated several cases of agency illegality with HKU students, resulting in numerous media reports and criminal prosecutions.
The Faculty Teaching Award Scheme recognises and rewards teachers with outstanding achievements and significant contribution in teaching and student learning in the Faculty. The award-winners for the academic year 2017-18 are:
Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Postgraduate Teaching)
“I deeply care about our students at FBE and about creating a positive impact in their lives through better teaching. As a teacher and instructor, what matters most to me is to foster long-lasting changes in student’s professional lives and careers by going beyond the daily routine of delivering courses and lectures. In each and every class, I ask myself how the material taught can be used and applied by students not only to hopefully receive a good grade at the end of the course, but more importantly how it can be employed to make wise career choices and to advance students’ careers even many years after graduation.”
“My teaching practice is to establish an effective learning environment for students. Excellent course preparation is one of the essential elements. For example, specially designed project works can let students understand how to apply theoretical financial models into real world situations and also enhance their learning interests through the practical experience. A mutual respect and trust relationship between a teacher and students is another essential element, which allows a teacher to provide a personalized teaching and learning experience to individual students. I believe that every student in my class is a distinctive individual. I do my best to recognize every student in my class and understand the student’s learning progress. This personalization practice can effectively encourage students to actively participate in class discussion, and also allow me to provide immediate guidance to those who need additional support. Finally, students’ learning attitude and learning effectiveness can be greatly enhanced.”
“Teachers’ beliefs are self-fulfilling. When we believe our students have high potentials, we set high expectations for them and they perform well. A great teacher should be a giver who is inclined to discover the potential of students, hold on the optimistic beliefs about them and take efforts to develop them.”
“Two aspects of my teaching practice that I am striving to develop have recently been on my mind. First, are ways to create a more active classroom learning environment that expands beyond traditional teacher delivered lectures. There are myriad ways to accomplish this, including technology tools, which I am trying to incorporate more effectively. Second, I have tried to cultivate more reflection in my teaching practice to help me not just assess my teaching, but more importantly, to help me determine if students are learning well too, which is the ultimate goal.
Admittedly, though there are many areas of my teaching practice that are still developing, I am grateful for the opportunity I have to be in the classroom and teach such wonderful students. Teaching at HKU is truly a privilege in my life.”
Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Undergraduate Teaching)
“As a teacher, I have been supporting my students to develop passion and professionalism in their academic disciplines. Students find my teaching useful and relevant if I can demonstrate to them how the subject knowledge is linked to real life contexts and their future career. Students would also like to put what they have learnt into practice during their studies, so it is crucial for teachers to build up a practical learning environment that encourages and empowers our students to grow and develop.
Apart from specialized knowledge, students should be equipped with generic skills such as critical thinking and problem solving skills. These abilities are of utmost importance to facilitate their life-long learning and enhance their sustainability in face of various challenges and competitions. Still, this is not enough. In this ever-changing world, people use creativity to stand out among others. I believe inspiring students to think and stay on the cutting-edge of global trends is always the right way to help our students create a successful career and make contribution to the advancement of society.”
“As a student, I failed my first intermediate microeconomics course, receiving an indisputable F as a final grade. Among other excuses, I found the content difficult (with all the first order and second order conditions) and boring (e.g., how is knowing how to disentangle substitution effect from income effect useful for solving real world issues?). So the moment I learned that I would be teaching this course at HKU I was strongly committed to change this perception. To accomplish this, in the past two years, I have developed in-class experimental learning sessions to provide students with an engaging and tangible learning experience and introduced some of my ongoing research projects to convey to students how microeconomic theory can be applicable and utilized for understanding human behavior and institutions in the real world.”
“I enjoy teaching and interacting with students. My teaching philosophy is simple: truly care about the students and enjoy the time with them! Students know whether you truly care about them or not. And they reciprocate by being engaged and being thankful. When you truly care about the students, teaching is not something counted as “teaching load”, or duties specified in the contract. It is how you define your career, how you define who you are and how you would like to spend your life in a meaningful way. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and experiences with students. And I highly value the title of “professor” as to communicate and to pass on
Professor Kevin Zhou, Chair of Strategy and International Business, has been named by Clarivate Analytics in the list of “Highly Cited Researchers 2018” among the world’s top researchers for three consecutive years since 2016.
The list recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.
Caption: Mr. David Lee (2nd from the left) received HKU Early Career Teaching Award.
The HKU Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony was held last Friday. Mr. David Lee, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty received Early Career Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions and commitment at early stage of his teaching career.
David adopts an interactive approach and complements his teaching with practical case studies in real life. He is a popular faculty member and is always a student’s favourite. David commented that teaching is a meaningful role, which gives him much satisfaction. He further elaborated that his teaching is framed by five principles, namely Transformational Learning, Active Learning Environment, Linking to the Real World, Student Advising and Focus on the Future.
The HKU Excellence Awards are a salute to the exceptional and inspirational accomplishments of our colleagues and a celebration of the diverse range of disciplines and specialisations at the University. Professor Xiang ZHANG, President and Vice-Chancellor, presided at the ceremony and Dr the Honourable Sir David LI Kwok Po, Pro-Chancellor, was the Guest of Honour.
Caption: Mr. David Lee (2nd from the left) received HKU Early Career Teaching Award.
The HKU Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony was held last Friday. Mr. David Lee, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty received Early Career Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions and commitment at early stage of his teaching career.
David adopts an interactive approach and complements his teaching with practical case studies in real life. He is a popular faculty member and is always a student’s favourite. David commented that teaching is a meaningful role, which gives him much satisfaction. He further elaborated that his teaching is framed by five principles, namely Transformational Learning, Active Learning Environment, Linking to the Real World, Student Advising and Focus on the Future.
The HKU Excellence Awards are a salute to the exceptional and inspirational accomplishments of our colleagues and a celebration of the diverse range of disciplines and specialisations at the University. Professor Xiang ZHANG, President and Vice-Chancellor, presided at the ceremony and Dr the Honourable Sir David LI Kwok Po, Pro-Chancellor, was the Guest of Honour.
The Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of HKU announced on December 21, 2018 the award recipients of the 2017-18 Outstanding Researcher Awards scheme. The following paper of Dr Heng Chen, Associate Professor in Economics and Professor Wing Suen, Chair of Economics and Henry G. Leong Professor in Economics has been awarded the Research Output Prize (ROP):
Chen, Heng and Suen, Wing.“Aspiring for Change: A Theory of Middle Class Activism.” The EconomicJournal 127.603 (2017): 1318-1347.
Dr Heng Chen
Professor Wing Suen
The ROP is a Faculty-based award to honour the best research output from each Faculty. This year, ten Research Output Prizes are conferred on the authors by the Faculties.
Dr. Jayson Jia has published in top-tier journals such as Management Science, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Dr. Jayson JIA, Assistant Professor of Marketing from the Faculty of Business and Economics at HKU recently became a Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar 2019 – a distinguished accolade to recognise young marketing scholars worldwide with great potential to be the ‘leaders of the next generation of marketing academics’.
“I feel very lucky to have won such recognition for taking the road less travelled and undertaking some high-risk research. I am incredibly grateful for the constant moral support from my colleagues, and funding support from the faculty and Hong Kong Research Grants Council, without which I would not have been able to pursue this line of research,” says Dr. Jia.
Dr. Jia’s research focuses on consumer behavior and digital experimentation. His recent work involves combining social experiments with individual-level mobile telecom metadata to study what drives people to respond to strangers online. He also studies the psychological recovery of earthquakes victims by analysing mobile app usage data and earthquake data. These and other related projects, combined with big data and psychological theory, will help us understand human dynamics and consumer behavior.
At HKU, Dr. Jia teaches Introduction to Marketing and Internet Marketing. He received his PhD degree in Marketing from Stanford University.
MSI is a non-profit research organisation dedicated to bridging the gap between academic marketing theory and business practice. This year, the biennial MSI Young Scholar Program recognised 35 promising marketing academics from around the world who earned their PhD degree within three to six years. Professor Echo WAN, Professor of Marketing at HKU, was honoured as a MSI Young Scholars in 2013. Professor David TSE, Chair Professor of International Marketing at HKU, served as a MSI Academic Trustee in 2008 to advise and support MSI’s research efforts and represent MSI’s worldwide community of marketing scholars.
A team of four FBE students won the Outstanding Award in the 2018 Deloitte Tax Championship. Having achieved the highest score in the Regional Round in September, the FBE team entered the National Round held on 9th – 11th November with teams from top universities in Greater China, exchanging knowledge and insights on tax and business, particularly the most recent tax reforms and technology advancements in the industry.
Deloitte Tax Championship is an international competition aiming at promoting education, research and innovation in taxation by supporting an array of national and local programmes across Greater China. Themed “Intelligent innovation for a digital future”, the participating teams were asked to explain how tax reform could stimulate the economy and business in this year competition.
Thanks to Dr. Christina Ng, Principal Lecturer in Accounting, for being the advisor of the team, and congratulations to all the team members.
FBE members include: Miss Wu Yuxuan, BBA(Acc&Fin), Team Leader Mr. Hao Yifeng, BBA(Acc&Fin) Mr. Ho Wai Yiu Ryan, BBA(IBGM) Miss Xiong Shuying, BBA(Acc&Fin)
