The discipline-based mode of organization is no longer the optimal way to advance and enrich research on societal and global concerns. We are witnessing a fundamental shift from researcher-driven, discipline-bound knowledge production to research that is funder- or problem-driven and highly cross-disciplinary. The Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies aims to promote and articulate this major recent tendency in academic research towards a more meaningful and integrated approach to transdisciplinarity. Collaboration with other internationally renowned institutions will lead to the development of a jointly funded and staffed Advanced Institute in Hong Kong.
The Advanced Institute strives to represent the highest research and teaching ambitions of City University of Hong Kong, sponsoring and encouraging creative and innovative research projects that weave together diverse disciplinary approaches. The physical location of the Institute in City University of Hong Kong provides a hub where scholars will bring their ideas and projects to address the challenging issues of our time and where research work and knowledge will be exchanged and disseminated through seminars, workshops and conferences, as well as being transferred to the community. In addition, a co-laboratory is being established in the University’s Shenzhen research premises so as to foster collaborative work with mainland colleagues and agencies.
