Department of English

Research

Research Projects

Prof. Janet HO

  • Exploring the Online Empowerment: a Linguistic Aanalysis. Funded by Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant, HK$49,896 (2024-25)

  • The Discursive Representation of Africans in Chinese Social Media Contexts. Funded by Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant, HK$50,000 (2022-23)

  • Reducing the Linguistic Prejudice Towards Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. Funded by Lingnan University Innovation and Impact Fund, HK$100,000 (2022-23)

  • How Chinese and English Newspapers Portrayed Migrant Domestic Helpers (2010-2019): A mixed methods analysis of discursive strategies. Funded by Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council (HKSAR), HK$249,160 (2021-23)

  • Misleading Representations in Fraudulent Discourse. Funded by Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant, HK$49,896 (2021-22)

  • The Covid-19 Crisis: A Discourse-analytic Study. Funded by Lingnan University Faulty Research Grant, HK$47,250 (2020-21)

  • Developing Workshop Materials for Enhancing the Research Writing Skills of Students. Funded by Lingnan University Teaching and Learning Centre Direct Grant for Research, HK$182,000 (2018-20)

  • A Corpus-based Approach to Identifying Grammatical Lapses in L2 Writing. Funded by Lingnan University Teaching Development Grant, HKD$50,000 (2018-19)

  • Playing with English: A Game-based Approach to Teaching English Genres. Funded by Lingnan University Initial Research Activities Fund, HK$15,000 (2018-20)

 

Prof. Andrew SEWELL

  • The 'falling standards' debate: Metalinguistic discourse, language ideologies and stories of English in Hong Kong. Funded by General Research Fund, Research Grants Council (HKSAR), HK$326,620 (2020-21)

  • Provision of Professional Development Programmes on Literature in English Learning and Teaching for the 2019/20 School Year. Funded by Education Bureau (HKSAR), 2019-20

  • English Accents of the World: Investigating Intra-speaker and Inter-speaker Variation in the Speech Accent Archive. Funded by Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant, HKD$46,910 (2016-17)

 

Prof. Preet HIRADHAR

  • Science Fiction (SF) and the Techno-urban Imaginary: Science, City, and SF Narratives in Colonial India. Funded by General Research Fund, Research Grants Council (HKSAR), HK$685,000 (2020)

  • Digital Representations of Cultural Identities in Online Spaces: A Multimodal Social Semiotic Study of South Asian Diasporic Websites (Principal Investigator). Funded by Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council (HKSAR), HK$300,000 (2018-19)

  • Visual Semiosis in Online Diasporic Representations of South Asians in Hong Kong. Funded by Lingnan University Faculty Research Fund, HK$50,000 (2017-18)

  • Action Research on Student Learning Outcomes: A qualitative approach to evaluating practices and processes for enhancement of teaching and learning on an English language course. Funded by UGC-EG EST Centre for Advancement of OBE, HK$330,000 (2014-15)

  • Developing SCORM-based e-learning Content for a Common English Course – Phase 1. Funded by Lingnan University Teaching Development Grant, HKD$303,000 (2014-16)

 

Prof. Feifei ZHOU

  • Temporality, Embodiment, and Creativity: A Critical Multimodal Study of New Practices on Chinese Social Media. Hong Kong GRF Scheme, HKD510,315 (2024-26)

  • Developing Students' Research Skills: Workshops and On-Line Tools (Co-investigator). Lingnan University Teaching Development Grant, HKD138,146.56 (2023-24)

  • Personhood, Power and Sense of Place: A Linguistic Landscape Study of Chinese Writing and Place-making in Transitional China. Funded by Hong Kong RGC GRF, HK$341,605 (2020-22)

  • A Discourse Analytic Study of Health and Risk Communication in Cancer Patients: Evaluating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Scientific Medicine (WSM) Treatment Choices. Funded by Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant, HK$50,000 (2016-18)

 

Prof. Aleksandar STEVIC

  • Developing Students’ Research Skills: Workshops and On-Line Tools. Lingnan University Teaching Development Grant, HKD 138,146.56 (2023-2024)

  • Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment, Moral Universalism, and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature. Funded by Hong Kong RGC GRF, HK$234,209 (2022­-2024)

 

Prof. Corey Huang

  • The Multimodal Discourses of Public Mental Helath Campaigns in Hong Kong. Funded by Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council (HKSAR), HK$685,620 (2024-25)

 

Prof. Julia CHAN

  • Black Internationalism and the Modernist Writing of Claude McKay. Funded by Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant, HK$62,985 (2024-2025)