2 / S H S Message from the Associate Dean and Program Directors On behalf of SHSS and Global China Studies, I want to give a big welcome to all our new and returning students. I wish you a successful and exciting year, here on campus or wherever else in the world your studies and internships take you! GCS is a unique elite program that trains students to understand China’s past, present, and future in a global context, using intellectual tools from across the humanities and social sciences. As you will see in this newsletter, our students have many accomplishments to celebrate: awards from scholarship committees and government commissions; academic exchanges at prestigious universities around the globe; and rewarding work experiences at innovative businesses in Hong Kong and abroad. As the new associate dean and GCS program director, I’m very honored to join the leadership of a program whose talented students I’ve taught and advised for many years. We’re proud of their achievements and looking forward to see what new ideas and adventures the eighth year of GCS will bring. Quantitative Social Analysis, offered by the Division of Social Science, had its first intake of undergraduate students in fall 2017, and is now preparing to welcome its second intake. The program combines a broad training in social science theory and evidence with rigorous and structured education in quantitative methods for analyzing social science data. The latter emphasizes hands-on experience with social data. The students who entered last fall spent their first year taking foundational courses in social science and quantitative methods, and will be moving on to more advanced courses in the coming year. Some students have already participated in internships or research projects where they applied what they learned to real-world challenges. In the coming year, more students will take advantage of the opportunities for outbound exchange and internship afforded by HKUST and the School of Humanities and Social Science. Prof. Joshua DERMAN Prof. Cameron CAMPBELL UG As s o c i a t e De an , SHSS GCS P r og r am D i r e c t o r QSA P r og r am D i r e c t o r Honours and Awards Alex Cheng Hong-wun was one of the three members selected from 503 applicants who recommended themselves under a pilot scheme to involve the city’s youth in policymaking in 2017. Alex will represent the younger demographic among the 34 non-official members of the Youth Development Commission chaired by Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung. Congratulations to Yan Jiayi on being awarded the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award. The Award will support her to participate in learning, internship or service programmes, as well as national, regional and international events and competitions that are conducted outside Hong Kong. Siu Tsz Chun was a finalist receiving the UROP Research Award. His project is “Chinese and English Media Representation of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong”. Tsz Chun was under the supervision of Prof. Julian Groves. They had spent two years examining the media coverage of domestic workers in Hong Kong. Also, Tsz Chun (together with Prof. Julian Groves and Siu Tsz Yan) made a presentation, “Whose Side are We on? A Comparison of Chinese and English Language Media Reportage of Migrant Domestic Workers in the wake of the Erwiana Abuse Case” at the 19th Hong Kong Sociological Association (HKSA) Annual Conference. Cheng Hong Wun, Alex Yan Jiayi Siu Tsz Chun 1s t Ye a r GCS S t ud en t 4t h Ye a r GCS S t ud en t 3rd Ye a r GCS S t ud en t Congratulations to Yiu Ching Kay on being awarded as the first runner-up of the 28th Chinese Poetry Writing Competition, an annual writing competition organized by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Yiu Ching Kay 3rd Ye a r GCS S t ud en t
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