RGC HSSPFS (Humanities & Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme, Hong Kong Government Research Grants Council)
2020-2021 Principal Investigator, “Human Rights Museums in the Transpacific: A Comparative Study of Cultural Institutions for the Histories of Difference and Resistance,” RGC Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (Project no. 32001019) (1/1/20 – 31/12/20; to be extended due to COVID-19 disruptions)
General Research Fund, Hong Kong Government Research Grants Committee (formerly CERG)
2019-2020 Principal Investigator, “A Cultural Study of Volunteer Traveling, Transnational Civic Participation and Youth Idealism: The Case of Voltra,” RGC GRF (Project no.: 12667618) (1/1/19 – 31/12/20)
2018-2019 Co-investigator, “Media and (Minority) Participation of South (East) Asian in Hong Kong” (PI: Lisa Leung), RGC GRF (Project no. LU131085) (1/1/18 – 31/12/19)
2017-2018 Principal Investigator, “Toward an Ethnic Cultural Citizenship: A Cultural Indicator and Mapping Study of Popular Arts Participation among South and South East Asian Youth in Hong Kong,” (Co-I: Audrey Yue), RGC GRF (Project no.: 12660516) (1/1/17 – 31/12/18)
2012-2014 Principal Investigator, “Visual Narratives and the Making of Ethnic Feelings: A Cultural Study of Affect, Ethnicity, and Practices of Social Recognition among South Asians in Hong Kong,” RGC GRF (Project no.: 340411) (1/1/12 – 31/12/14)
2009-2011 Co-investigator, “Creative Belonging: A Qualitative Study of Translocal Tactics of Cultural Negotiation among Ethnic Minority Youth,” (PI: Lisa Leung), RGC GRF (Project no.: LU341008) (1/1/09 – 30/6/11)
2008-2009 Principal Investigator, “Toward an Interconnected Cultural Citizenship: An Empirical Study of a Transborder Public Culture of Health in the Hong Kong-Guangdong Region,” RGC CERG (Project no.: LU142607) (1/1/08 – 31/12/09)
2006-2007 Principal Investigator, “Agents of Cultural Circulation: An Empirical Study of the Tourist Service Class as Cultural Intermediaries in the Pearl River Delta,” RGC CERG (Project no.: LU 1457/05H) (1/1/06 – 31/12/07)
2003-2005 Principal Investigator, “Transnational Text, Local Reading: A Reception Study of Harry Potter and the Formation of Middle-class Culture in Urban China,” (Co-I: Anthony Fung), RGC CERG (Project no.: 9040854)
1999-2001 Co-Investigator, “Popular Culture Consumption and Youth Identities in Hong Kong: Trajectories and Transitions,” (P.I. Anthony Fung), RGC CERG (Project no.: CityU 1056/99H)
RGC Strategic Public Policy Grant
2010-2014 Co-Investigator, “Mapping the Hong Kong Game Industry: Cultural Policy, Creativity and the Asian Market,” (PI: Anthony Fung), RGC Strategic Public Policy Grant (Project no.: 4001-SPPR-09) (1/1/2010 – 31/12/2014)
2021 Principal Investigator, “Postgraduate Student Conference in Humanities – “Negotiating Identity and Creativity in Times of Crisis,” University Conference Grant, Research Committee & Faculty of Arts (Project no. RC-CONF/20-21/06), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKD49,850; USD6,391)
2020-2022 Co-investigator,“Exploring Creativity and Selves in Hong Kong’s Disabled Communities,” Initiation Grant for Faculty Niche Research Areas (Project no. RC- FNRA-IG /19-20), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKD1,000,000; USD128,205)
2018-2020 Principal Investigator, “Transpacific Cultural Studies of Gender, Migration, and Rights,” Graduate School Multi-site Interdisciplinary Research Grant (Project no. 36-16-009), Hong Kong Baptist University
2018-2019 Principal Investigator, “New Transnational Youth Idealism and Volunteer Traveling: The Case of Voltra” (Project no. FRG2/16-17/089), Hong Kong Baptist University
2017-2019 Principal Investigator, “Open World Empire: The Cultural Politics of Interactivity in the Transpacific,” (Project no. FRG2/16-17/035), Hong Kong Baptist University
2016-2018 Co-investigator, “Negotiating Precarity and Youthful Mobility: Globalized Labor and the 417 Working Holiday Maker program,” School of Culture and Communication Research Incubator Scheme, University of Melbourne
2015-2016 Principal Investigator, “Toward an Ethnic Cultural Citizenship: A Cultural Indicator Study of Popular Arts Participation among South and Southeast Asian Youth in Hong Kong,” FRG Cat I (Project no. FRG1/15-16/004), Hong Kong Baptist University
2015-2017 Principal Investigator, “Youth’s Self-imaging of Body and Gender,” Institute of Creativity Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University
2013-2014 Principal Investigator, “Visual Narratives and the Making of Ethnic Feelings: A Cultural Study of Affect, Ethnicity, and Practices of Social Recognition among South Asians in Hong Kong,” Start-up Grant (Project no.: 38-40-140), Hong Kong Baptist University
2011-2013 Principal Investigator, “Visual Narratives and the Making of Ethnic Feelings: A Cultural Study of Affect, Ethnicity, and Practices of Social Recognition among South Asians in Hong Kong,” Direct Research Grant, Lingnan University (Project no.: DR11B5) (1/6/11 – 31/8/13)
2010-2012 Principal Investigator, “Sex/Text: A Netnographic Analysis of Internet Sex Chatting and ‘Vernacular Masculinity’ in Hong Kong,” Direct Research Grant, Lingnan University (Project no.: DR10C5) (1/8/10 – 31/1/12)
2009-2011 Principal Investigator, “Human Rights as Legal-cultural Struggles: Examining Three Landmark Cases and Issues in Post-1997 Hong Kong,” Direct Research Grant, Lingnan University (Project no.: DR09B2) (1/8/09 – 31/1/11)
2009-2010 Principal Investigator, “Reconstructing the Cultural Aspirations of Middle-classness among Young Adults: An Empirical Investigation,” Academic Programme Research Grant (Arts), Lingnan University (Project no.: DA09A8) (1/5/09 – 30/11/10)
2007-2008 Principal Investigator, “Toward an Interconnected Cultural Citizenship: An Empirical Study of a Transborder Public Culture of Health in the Hong Kong-Guangdong Region,” Direct Research Grant, Lingnan University (Project no.: DR07C2)
2007-2008 Principal Investigator, “Race, Culture and Law: A Study of the Formation of Subjecthood among Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong,” Academic Programme Research Grant (Arts), Lingnan University (Project no.: DA07A6) (1/5/07 – 31/8/08)
2005-2006 Principal Investigator, “New Youth Digital Literacies in Mobile Communication: Text-Messaging among Hong Kong Young People,” Strategic Research Grant (with Co-investigator Angel Lin), City University of Hong Kong (Project no.: 7001745)
2004 Principal Investigator, “SARS, Civil Society and the Media: Toward a New Public Culture?,” FHS Research Grant, CityU (Project no.: CityU 9360095)
2004 FHS Research Enhancement Grant, CityU, with which to invite Professor Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney) as Visiting Scholar to CityU
2003 Principal Investigator, “Constructing ‘Managerial Masculinity’ in Hong Kong’s Corporate Culture: Views of Junior Male Employees,” Small-Scale Research Grant, CityU (Project no.: CityU 9030993)
2003 FHS Research Enhancement Grant, CityU, with which to invite Professor Siew Keng Chua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) as Visiting Scholar to CityU
2001 Principal Investigator, Conference Grant for “An International Conference on Hong Kong and Beyond: East-West Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies,” Office of the Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, CityU
2001 Principal Investigator, Conference Grant for “An International Symposium on Communication and Critical Literacies in the Context of Education Reform,” Office of the Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, CityU
2000 Principal Investigator, Travel Grant, Center for International Studies, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
1998 Principal Investigator, Research Discretionary Fund, Office of the Vice President for Research and Public Service, UNH
1997 Principal Investigator, Liberal Arts Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNH
1997 Principal Investigator, Instructional Grant, Office of Health Education & Promotion, Health Services, Curriculum Infusion Initiative, UNH
1995 Principal Investigator, Faculty Development Grant, Women’s Studies, UNH
1994 Principal Investigator, Summer Faculty Fellowship, Graduate School, UNH
1994 Principal Investigator, Liberal Arts Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNH
1993 Principal Investigator, Liberal Arts Faculty Research Support Grant, UNH
1993 Co-investigator, Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant (with Terry Brown and Tim Nissen), University of Wisconsin–River Falls
1992 Principal Investigator, Faculty Research Grant, University of Wisconsin–River Falls
2021-2023 Co-Investigator, “Research on Programme Evaluation and Assessment of Health Literacy Education,” (PI: Anthony Fung), Jockey Club Food Assistance Programme 2.0 (HKD4,506,000; USD577,691) (1/10/2021-31/10/2023)
2000 Principal Investigator, Research Fund, Center for the Study of Media & Society, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, New York
1984 Full Exchange Scholarship to the U.S., Hong Kong Baptist College