Research Projects

More information on the research projects can be accessed from the CityU Internet-based Research Information System (IRIS).

Comparative Public Management in Asia

Project Number	Project Title	Principal Investigator
7002538	Enhancing Policy Support for Sustainable Social Enterprises	Dr Mark Richard HAYLLAR
7200194	The Thinking Styles and Workplace Experiences of Professionally Certified Human Resource Practitioners in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong	Dr. Paul HIGGINS
9610163	Contract Management from the Administrators and Service Providers' Perspective: The Circumstances in Hong Kong	Dr. Lina VYAS
9610164	The "Re-invention" of the Public Training Function	Dr. Lina VYAS
7200195	Feasibility and Impact of Outsourcing Human Resource Functions	Dr. Lina VYAS

Public Policy Transformation in Greater China

Project Number	Project Title	Principal Investigator
9610160	The Capacity-Building Paradox of the Chinese Communist Party in the Reform Era: The Case of Performance Measurement in Chinese Local Governments	Prof Hon-suen CHAN
7008007	Demarcating the Responsibilities of Government Across Tiers in China: A Preliminary Study 中國中央與地方政府事權劃分初探	Dr Linda Che-lan LI
9610119	Local Experiments in Accommodating Peasants' Rights: Reforms in Rural Land Transfer System in China	Dr Ray Kin-man YEP
9610167	"Long Term Planning and Full Utilization": Exploratory Archival Research on PRC's Policy towards Hong Kong in the 1950's	Dr Ray Kin-man YEP
9610101	A Study of Land Administration System in Selected Mainland Cities	Dr Nelson Che-keung YEUNG
7200140	The Characteristics of Corruption in China: Change with Seeming Continuity	Prof Ting GONG
9610161	The Institutional Thickening of Anticorruption Reform in China: An Exploratory Study	Prof Ting GONG
7002407	Mainstreaming the Environment in Mainland China: Commitment, Drivers, Agents, and Implications 環境在中國大陸政府決策中主流化：承諾、驅動力、載體、影響	Dr Wendy Wanxin LI
7200154	A Study of Land Administration System in Selected Mainland Cities 投資社會資本：中國的家庭和學校在如何為孩子積極投入未來的社會生活作準備	Dr Wendy Wanxin LI
9610162	The Politics of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration in China	Dr Thomas Richard JOHNSON
9610165	Restructuring Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in China: The Equity and Adequacy of Compulsory Education Finance	Dr Wen WANG
9610166	Making Adaptive Institutions Work: Corporate Governance in China's State Firms	Dr Yu Kyung YEO
7200196	The Politics of State Regulation in China's Industrial Economy	Dr Yu Kyung YEO

Hong Kong Government and Politics

Project Number	Project Title	Principal Investigator
9610144	Revisiting MacLehose's Legacy: Autonomy of Hong Kong under British Rule	Dr Ray Kin-man YEP
9380046	The Impact of Administrative Law on Public Management in Hong Kong	Prof David H ROSENBLOOM
9041179	Autonomy, Control and Performance in Hong Kong Government Bodies	Prof Martin J PAINTER
7200153	A Multilevel Governance Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Measures of two C40 Delta Cities: Hong Kong and Rotterdam Compared	Dr Maria Del Mar FRANCESCH HUIDOBRO
9211012	Study of Corruption Control and Integrity Management	Dr. Brian BREWER

Housing Studies

Project Number	Project Title	Principal Investigator
9056001	Exploring Peripheralisation and Residualisation in Hong Kong's Public Rental Housing: New Policy Challenges	Prof. Ray FORREST
9610132	Home Owners Unite - The Search for a Collective Platform for Right Protection in Beijing	Dr. Yihong JIANG
7002409	Gated Communities in Shanghai	Dr Adrienne LA GRANGE
9041456	Gentrification in Hong Kong 香港的士紳化	Dr Adrienne LA GRANGE
7002269	Conflicts, Partnership and Owners' Participation in Urban Regeneration: A Study of Land Readjustment in Hong Kong 市區更新的矛盾、合作及業主參與：香港土地重劃研究	Dr Yung YAU
9041421	A Study of Gentrification in Urban Regeneration in Hong Kong 香港市區更新及地方中產階級化之研究	Dr Yung YAU
9041422	Homeowner Associations and the Reinvention of Urban Local Governance in China 業主委員會與中國基層管治的改造	Dr Ngai-ming YIP
9610054	Tackling Urban Decay: Private Issues, Public Policy and the Role of the Government Home Owners and Housing Professionals	Dr Ngai-ming YIP
9610120	Spatial Segregation in Hong Kong 1996-2006	Dr Ngai-ming YIP
9050127	Hong Kong Housing Home Page Project	Dr Kwok-yu LAU

Applied Ethics

Project Number	Project Title	Principal Investigator
7002404	The Confucian Academy as a Confucian-religion-supporting Organization: Its Role in Education and Policy-making in Hong Kong as well as Its Influence on Mainland China 孔教學院及其影響研究	Dr Ruiping FAN

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