Lingnan University awards excellence in teaching, research & service

25 Sep 2012

 

Lingnan University held the Teaching, Research & Service Awards Ceremony 2011/12 to honour 12 academic and administrative staff for their outstanding achievements in teaching, research and service.

The laureates of the Teaching Excellence Awards are as follows:
•  Dr James R Fichter, Department of History
•  Prof Lau Yin-ping, Grace, Department of Chinese
•  Dr Wong Shuk-han, Mary, Department of Chinese

Dr Fichter has established himself as an innovative teacher at Lingnan, adopting a student-oriented approach that focuses on the learning process rather than the mere acquisition of facts. His approach has led to significant improvements in undergraduate writing and critical thinking skills.

As a third-time awardee during her 18 years with Lingnan, Prof Lau received high student evaluations for both her course design and teaching quality. Her classroom strategies engage, motivate and stimulate students to achieve their best. At the same time, she addresses students’ diverse learning needs and strengthens their confidence.

Dr Wong joined the Department of Chinese in 2005 and soon noticed the functional mentality of Hong Kong students, who tend to study only for the sake of passing exams. Against this background, Dr Wong strives to broaden students’ vision and develop their generic skills and abilities through adopting a cross-cultural and cross-media perspective.

This year the Outstanding Teaching Award for Early Career Faculty goes to Dr Ho Ka-ki, Lawrence of the Department of Political Science. Dr Ho’s strategy is to motivate the students by tailor-making his teaching, as far as possible, to each student’s individual needs. He examines his students’ profiles in detail for the development of the most appropriate mode of instruction. He is also the first teacher in his department to incorporate service-learning in his course.

Three other members of the faculty were also awarded a “Certificate of Merit” in recognition of their quality teaching, namely Prof Kwong Yim-tze, Charles, Department of Translation / Chinese; Dr Li Fei, Chinese Language Education and Assessment Centre and Dr Wan Chun-ying, Lisa, Department of Marketing and International Business.

The laureates of the Research Excellence Awards are as follows:
•  Dr Poon Shuk-wah, Department of History
•  Dr Leng Mingming, Department of Computing & Decision Sciences
•  Dr Wan Chun-ying, Lisa, Department of Marketing and International Business
•  Dr Zhang Baohui, Department of Political Science

Dr Poon was awarded for her peerless strength in terms of the number of top-tier publications, research projects and quality of work in the pipeline. Being a young researcher, Dr Poon is doing cutting edge research in a new direction in her discipline.

Dr Leng is an excellent researcher in Operations and Supply Chain Management. His two recent publications in Production & Operations Management and Naval Research Logistics are also of very high quality. Dr Leng has a successful record of obtaining General Research Fund grants in 2009 & 2010 and received the REAS Award in 2010.

Dr Wan is an outstanding young researcher in Marketing. Among her research publications, two have appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, a top-tier journal in her field. This is an outstanding record for Dr Wan who only became a faculty member in 2009. Her achievements in the past three years demonstrated tremendous hard work and great potential.

Dr Zhang’s research study of politics in the US and China demonstrated good knowledge and new interpretation of current issues, and achieved a high level of international recognition.

In addition, Dr Cheung Yuk-lok, Francis, Department of Sociology and Social Policy received an “Honourable Mention” in recognition of his fine achievements in academic research. Dr Cheung’s research is insightful, vigorous and sophisticated in terms of methodology and analysis.

Dr and Mrs James Tak Wu Award for Outstanding Service:
Ms Jo Lee-koan, Linda, Department of Marketing and International Business, received the “Dr and Mrs James Tak Wu Award for Outstanding Service” in recognition of her substantial service to the University, the community and charitable sector.