Dear HKIAPS Members and Friends,

Welcome to the seventh issue of the HKIAPS e-Bulletin. As we enter a new semester and a new season, we present this e-Bulletin to keep you connected with our efforts in various fields of Social Science research.

Over the past half year, research Exchange Activities & Awards have been gradually resuming. To adapt to new travel restrictions, new ways of disseminating our research and maintaining existing exchanges with our international collaborators has been adopted. This half year we held an online policy forum and more than 10 seminars, which were offered by the various centres. In this way, we have been able to overcome geographical distances and have a larger research impact than before. At the same time, our Institute has maintained its standard research publications, which include survey press releases, journal articles, book and book chapters, policy research reports, and newspaper commentaries.

In this issue, we highlight the launching of the Hong Kong Chronicles Institute (HKCI) commissioned project: “Hong Kong Chronicles: Population” . This is a two-year project which aims at compiling the history and development of the population of Hong Kong covering a period from the ancient era to the 20th anniversary of HKSAR on 1st July 2017.

We would like to express our heartfelt congratulations to Prof. Ying-yi Hong (Associate Director, HKIAPS) and Dr Victor Zheng (Associate Director [Executive], HKIAPS) who were awarded the Research Grants Council’s Senior Research Fellow Scheme 2021/22 and Public Policy Research Scheme 2021 for their research efforts. In the coming months, we will continue to create a research impact by holding policy research webinars and annual public lecture series in the Hong Kong Museum of History. While the COVID-19 pandemic may still hinder our ability to communicate face to face in the foreseeable future, it is prompting us to explore more ways to disseminate our research.

Anthony Y. H. Fung
Director