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| HKIAPS | Centre for Chinese Family Studies |
Centre for Social Innovation Studies |
Centre for Youth Studies |
| Economic Reseach Centre | Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development |
Policy Research @ HKIAPS |
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Speakers
Prof. Tung Fung |
Chairperson, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK |
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Prof. Kam-fai Wong
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Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering, CUHK
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STEAMCIVIC |
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In advanced countries around the world,
science education has been strongly promoted in primary and secondary schools,
which has gradually developed into a specialized learning curriculum called “STEM” or “STEAM” courses.
In response to the promotion of science popularization and education in mainland China and Hong Kong,
HKIAPS and STEAMCIVIC have launched the “Science Popularization and Education Research Programme”.
With a view to better utilizing societal and national resources,
this programme aims to enhance the scientific and cultural quality of students and cultivate the creation of more outstanding innovation and technology pioneers for Hong Kong.
To facilitate primary and secondary schools’ principals and teachers to understand the programme, two forums were held to discuss effective approaches to STEAM teaching. Around 54 principals and teachers participated in the forums. |
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Speaker
Prof. Yuying Tong |
Co-Director, Centre for Chinese Family Studies, HKIAPS, CUHK
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Department of Sociology, CUHK |
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The universal two-child policy in China did not lead to a significant increase in the fertility rate.
It is important to learn to what extent a couple’s desire for multiple children has an impact on whether they have a second child later or not,
whether husband dominance exists when a couple discrepancy exists, and what factors could reverse husband dominance, if any.
In this webinar, Prof. Tong and her team use the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to examine these questions.Findings suggest that the overall rate of having a second child has remained low after the relaxation of the one child policy. Compared to wives, husbands have greater power on second child realization, and this phenomenon is more prevalent in rural areas. Female education helps reverse male dominance in such rural cases. This webinar sheds light on domestic power relations and second-child realization in an era right after the one-child policy has been relaxed in China, and calls for policies to target the issue of how to raise the fertility rate without sacrificing women’s interests. |
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Prof. Mara Malagodi |
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, CUHK
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Gender Studies Programme, CUHK Diversity and Inclusion Office (DIO), CUHK Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law, Faculty of Law, CUHK |
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This lecture explores the challenges and opportunities of gender constitutionalism
to explain the extent to which constitutional law and litigation have provided an adequate venue
to advance the equality claims of women and sexual/gender diverse people in Asia.
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a focus on the constitutional framing of sexual and reproductive rights illuminates
on questions about the relationship between gender constitutionalism and national identity.A comparative analysis of the constitutional treatment of sexual and reproductive rights in several Asian jurisdictions reveals a spectrum of approaches, which reflect a combination of nationalist, cosmopolitan, and pragmatic responses to demands for change in these areas. This is explored in a comparative perspective and through an in depth case-study of Nepal, one of the few jurisdictions in the world in which reproductive rights are explicitly enshrined in the text of the constitution. |
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Prof. Tianjin Cai |
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Macau
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Co-organizer
Department of Sociology, CUHK
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In recent years, exposés on the trafficking of women have caught the public’s attention in China.
However, due to data scarcity, the scope and nature of such criminal activity is not well understood.
The authors of this study provide a new angle in the analysis of human trafficking by digitizing
and analyzing court sentencing documents on trafficking in China during 2014–2015. Through mapping court data to geographic information and performing network analysis, the webinar presents a comprehensive picture of intra-provincial, inter-provincial, and international trafficking patterns. The data shows that international trafficking has become the largest category in the trafficking of women, and victims were typically in their 20s, and originate from Vietnam, Myanmar, and North Korea, to be sold in central Chinese provinces. Domestically, inter-provincial trafficking outnumbers intra-provincial cases. Across provincial borders, women were trafficked from southwest to central provinces. Intra-provincial trafficking was concentrated in four provinces: Henan, Anhui, Shandong, and Hebei. | ||||||
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Discussants
Mr. Yan Han |
Riders’ Rights Concern Group |
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Mr Mars Y. T. Ho
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Reseach Assistant, CSIS, HKIAPS
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Miss Kawing
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Riders’ Rights Concern Group
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Miss Kathy Lee
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Hong Kong Catholic Commission for Labour Affairs
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Prof. Lisa Y. M. Leung
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Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University of Hong Kong |
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Miss Anna W. Y. Tsui
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Reseach Assistant, CSIS, HKIAPS
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Ms Mei-lin Wu
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Coordinator, Hong Kong Women Workers’ Association
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Mr Alvin Yau
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Hong Kong Catholic Commission for Labour Affairs
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Moderators
Prof. Chris K. C. Chan |
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, CUHK |
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Prof. Tat Chor Au-Yeung
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Social Policy,
Lingnan University of Hong Kong |
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A Roundtable Discussion to present preliminary findings was successfully conducted by the team on 26 March 2022 (Saturday).
Participants included academics working on similarly themed research,
labour organisations serving platform workers, and policymakers.
Participants exchanged views on relevant local, mainland Chinese,
and overseas experience while making suggestions for policy and directions for public education.
Valuable comments were addressed to the research team as well.
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Centre for Youth Studies
PROcruit C Social Innovation Learning from Oxford 17 November & 8 December 2021 and 9 February & 26 April 2022 | Online |
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In collaboration with Oxford University’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship,
an online course was delivered to help first-time jobseekers delve deeper into the world of social innovation.
Social innovators and entrepreneurs walked through the 5W1H of social innovation:
WHAT it is, WHY it is important, WHO social innovators are, WHERE it can happen, and HOW you can be part of the change.
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In collaboration with LinkedIn and Microsoft, a webinar titled “What is the future of skills and how to sharpen your professional profile” was delivered to help jobseekers
(1) curate their own digital learning journey through understanding the future of work capability,
and in particular, for the caring professional; and
(2) establish / uplift their own professional profile for future employability.
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Eighty-four trainees from cohort 1 of the PROcruit C Professional Traineeship Programme accomplished a major milestone on their one-year traineeship.
The programme could not have been successful without professional advice and support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club, industry convenors,
as well as education and training partners along the journey!
A graduation ceremony was held to celebrate this special occasion.
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Economic Reseach Centre
The 7th Dr Li Dak Sum Shanghai-Hong Kong Development Lecture 26 November 2021 | Online |
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Speaker
Prof. Anthony B. L. Cheung |
Research Chair Professor of Public Administration,
The Education University of Hong Kong |
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Co-organizer
Shanghai-Hong Kong Development Institute |
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This lecture was organized by the Shanghai-Hong Kong Development Institute of CUHK,
and the topic was “Critical Thoughts as Hong Kong Enters the ‘Second Transition’: New Starting Points, New Paradigm?”.
The Economic Research Centre provided essential support in logistics and ad-hoc tasks to ensure the smooth operation of the lecture.A total of 100 participants attended the lecture in-person and online. |
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Dr Jane Zheng |
Honorary Research Associate, Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development, HKIAPS |
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Co-organizer
Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK |
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This webinar examines the role of the regional state in infrastructure development in China and analyzes the relationships between state power,
a regional cultural facility boom, and territorialization. Dr Jane Zheng and her team developed a new theoretical model to explain China’s cultural facilities, drawing on the recent “state entrepreneurialism” concept, the “infrastructure” approach, and China’s regional integration perspectives. The team periodized three waves of cultural facility construction from 1990 to the present and argue that the regional infrastructured states in China have utilized cultural facilities for power consolidation in the form of entrepreneurial practices. Dr Zheng argues the cultural facilities have been serving the “monopolized” role of the state by being one of the latter’s urban “commodification” instruments. The team is working in material-ideological capacities in order to renew state-society relations through two methods. First, by combining public services and socialist moral education, and second, by placing a heightened emphasis on “cultural security”. Cultural facilities can also work to tackle external challenges for the state. The West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, for example, symbolically and materially grounds the power of the central state, which signals a territorialization process. |
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Speaker
Prof. Mee Kam Ng |
Director, Urban Studies Programme, CUHK |
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Discussants
Dr Kam-shing Leung |
Associate Director, ARUP |
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Dr Yuanzhou Tang
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Research Associate, Institute of Future Cities, CUHK
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Moderator
Prof. Fanny M. Cheung |
Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science & HKIAPS, CUHK |
In this webinar, Prof. Mee Kam Ng presented Shenzhen’s achievements and challenges in smart sustainable development and the implications on planning and development in Hong Kong.
The two discussants, Dr Kam-shing Leung and Dr Yuanzhou Tang,
further elaborated with clarifications and specific cases of Shenzhen’s development. In her presentation, Prof. Ng first summarized the city’s dramatic urban and economic growth, including aspects of globalization, regional cooperation, and the economic restriction of Shenzhen from the 1980s to the 2010s. She identified four key constraints on continued rapid growth: shortages of land, water, and energy, as well as the carrying capacity of the ecological environment. She illustrated how Shenzhen resolved those problems by using different smart and sustainable innovations and strategies, in doing so citing the examples of Shenzhen’s seven development strategies in 2005 and their draft territorial spatial master plan in 2021. She pointed out that Hong Kong could learn from Shenzhen’s dynamic spatial planning as an effective tool to build on strengths, overcome weaknesses, exploit opportunities, and blunt threats over time, so that Hong Kong can play a bigger role in the Greater Bay Area. Dr Leung shared his experiences with Shenzhen’s development. He highlighted the uniqueness of Shenzhen as a special development model such as the manufacturing zero zone (M zero zone), as well as how Shenzhen has been enhancing its education talent pool by inviting reputable universities to set up campuses there. Dr Tang presented his observations on the latest developments in Shenzhen by using different cases, including an online platform for land use planning, an open data platform, real-time online transport simulation system technology, and so on. The promotion of these new and cutting-edge technologies and the enhancement of public accessibility are important to the development process. A total of 47 local and regional participants attended the webinar. Video: https://cutv.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/detail/1439 Related articles: 伍美琴*。2022。「智慧可持續發展（一）：深圳的兩個『遠見』和一種『實幹』」，香港01，3月23日。  伍美琴*。2022。「智慧可持續發展（二）：深圳之路對香港的啟示，香港01，3月23日。 |
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GBA Webinar Series -
Building the Future STEM Workforce from K-12 in the Greater Bay Area
25 February 2022 | Online |
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Speaker
Prof. Thomas K. F. Chiu |
Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK |
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Discussants
Prof. Ching-sing Chai |
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK |
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Prof. Peter Z. Wan
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Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong |
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Prof. Fanny M. Cheung |
Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science & HKIAPS, CUHK |
In this webinar, Prof. Thomas K. F. Chiu shared his research on the STEM education programme in the HKSAR,
including on the background of STEM education,
the possible challenges to improving STEM education and the workforce,
and the corresponding recommendations.
The two discussants,
Prof. Ching-sing Chai and Prof. Peter Z. Wan,
commented on and elaborated upon issues relating to integrative STEM and the STEM workforce.In his presentation, Prof. Chiu pointed out that an interest in and identification with STEM are strong indicators of continuous engagement by students in STEM-related activities. Other factors, including the current examination system and the heavy language requirements, may also affect students’ perception of STEM-related subjects. The finding also highlights the relatively little relevance that Hong Kong students perceive that STEM education plays in their life. Based on the finding, Prof. Chiu proposed strengthening STEM identity by improving STEM education in schools, universities, and industries in Hong Kong. For example, secondary schools should help students equip themselves to explore opportunities in post-secondary education and in the job market in STEM disciplines. Such opportunities may even enhance social mobility and reduce social inequality in Hong Kong. Echoing Prof. Chiu, Prof. Chai shared his research on support for STEM education. His research indicated teachers who have had a STEM education are significantly more efficient than other teachers. The sharing of teaching ideas and resources among teachers with different areas of expertise could lead to better outcomes in STEM education. Prof. Wan, for this part, discussed the future STEM workforce. He pointed out that current STEM skills need not be limited to STEM industries but can be applied more broadly. He believes that one drawback of the “Lego-type” of STEM learning is that students end up with a weak grasp of subject knowledge and skills. The suppression of creativity and the lack of connection among different activities might also hinder outcomes in STEM learning. Around 40 local and regional participants attended the webinar. Video: https://cutv.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/detail/1444 Related articles: 趙建豐、盧家詠。2022。「從K12基礎教育開始培育STEM人才」，《信報》，4月1日，版A16。
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GBA Webinar Series -
Limits to Hong Kong’s Integration in the Greater Bay Area
25 March 2022 | Online |
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Speaker
Prof. Yun-wing Sung |
Associate Director, Economic Research Centre, HKIAPS |
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Discussants
Prof. Jianfa Shen |
Director, Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development, HKIAPS |
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Prof. Sara H. Zhong
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Associate Director, Chinese Law Programme, HKIAPS
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Moderator
Prof. Fanny M. Cheung |
Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science & HKIAPS, CUHK |
In this webinar, the main speaker,
Prof. Yun-wing Sung described and explained the limited level of integration achieved by Hong Kong in the last three decades using three strands of economic theories in integration.
The two discussants, Prof. Jianfa Shen and Prof. Sara Zhong,
further explored and elaborated on the difficulties and barriers to successful regional economic integration in the case of the GBA.Prof. Sung identified the unique arrangement of Hong Kong’s “One Country, Two Systems” as the major attribute setting both the framework for and limits to Hong Kong’s integration in the GBA. In his study conducted in 1995, he characterized the arrangement as “subregional economic integration with Chinese characteristics”. He found that before the handover of sovereignty in 1997 Hong Kong had not achieved deep integration with the GBA nor did the level of integration match with the classical European model, but that a specific level of integration between Hong Kong and the Greater Pearl River Delta region had developed due to the different political, legal, and economic systems between the two places. The difficulties with integration have persisted in the subsequent two decades. The three major asymmetries, namely openness, level of development, and size, have become the major challenges to the integration of Hong Kong into the GBA. In this webinar, Prof. Sung placed an emphasis on the size of Hong Kong, claiming that Hong Kong is too small to be able to provide the space and resources needed to absorb an influx of Mainland visitors / migrants. He contended that the resulting overcrowding has had a socio-political impact and led to social conflicts between mainlanders and Hong Kongese in the past two decades. However, 2021 could be regarded as a watershed in Hong Kong’s integration into the GBA, since the COVID-19 pandemic has minimized conflicts between Hong Kong and the GBA. It can be observed that Hong Kong’s resistance to mainland health workers and professionals has largely disappeared from the recent fifth wave of COVID. A decisive change in Hong Kong’s resistance toward integration may occur in the post-COVID era. Prof. Shen shared Prof. Sung’s views on the limits to Hong Kong integration into the GBA. He discussed the possibility that different sectors could achieve better integration under the situation of varying difficulties to integration. He also believed that the government could involve more private or outside companies in mega infrastructure projects. The other discussant, Prof. Zhong, proposed alternative theoretical approaches to understanding the existing challenges to integration, including a clash of civilizations, world-system theory, migration, and the effect of the media. She pointed out that social and cultural differences between Hong Kong and Mainland China could become barriers to integration between Hong Kong and the GBA. A total of 62 local and regional participants attended the webinar. Video: https://cutv.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/detail/1454 |
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