The Gender Research Programme administered scholarships totalling HK$ 42,457 offered by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia to CUHK students who conducted research projects on gender studies. In 1998-1999, seven postgraduates and two undergraduates received the scholarships.

Scholarship recipients were requested to provide a written report of around 2,000 words and to give an oral presentation for the Gender Research Programme on the completion of their research project.

Postgraduate Recipients

Ms Ding Yu-ling (HK$ 7,950)
"Advantage and Disadvantage: The Double Situation of Xun Pu's Women"

Ms Fan Li-zhu (HK$ 5,000)
"Individualistic Tendency of New Religious Movement in Contemporary China - An Ethnographic Study on Female Buddhists in Shenzhen"

Ms Mei Qing (HK$4,000)
"Goddess and Temples: A Gender Perspective Study on Tianhou Temple"

Ms Wong Wai-ling (HK$ 2,841)
"Gender and Politics in Cross-Border Family Formation"

Ms Wu Ka-ming, (HK$ 6,000)
"Women and Poverty (Manufactured Poverty: A Historical and Gender Analysis)"

Ms Zhou Yi (HK$ 6,000)
"The Rational Choice of Rural Women among the Non-farming Progress - Case-study of Zhouzhuang's Wangdong Village"

Mr Zhu Jiangang (HK$ 5,000)
"Work, Power and the Restructuring of Women Identity: Chinese White Collar Women in a Joint-venture Corporation"

Undergraduate Recipients

Ms Lai Pui-shan and Ms Lau Lai-fong (HK$ 5,666)
"The Roles and States of Women in Chinese Popular Religion"