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4 RESEARCH ON THE RISE
RGC-Grant Success Rates Soar
Impressive rates of 66.7% and 47.4% are top results in the Humanities & Social Sciences panel
Competition for grants from the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) administered by the Research Grants Council (RGC) grows ercer every year. The overall success rate in GRF applications, taking the 2015/16 exercise as an example, was only 34.9%. As for Lingnan, it had 13 projects funded out of 36 applications in the GRF, which ranked second among all the institutions with a success rate of 36.1%. In particular, it had achieved excellent results in the Humanities & Social Sciences panel with a success rate of 47.4% (sector-wide 32.7%) – the highest among all institutions.
Younger scholars submitting ECS applications took Lingnan to the top of the chart, with ve out of seven proposals obtaining funding for a success rate of 71.4% that far exceeded the 39.9% sector-wide rate. The performance was again the most impressive in those proposals assessed by the Humanities & Social Sciences panel, with a success rate of 66.7% against the 34.3% sector-wide rate.
The total fund of HK$6.8 million successfully obtained for the 18 projects in this exercise was more than double of the previous round. These projects, as listed below, well demonstrate the research strengths of Lingnan albeit being a smaller size university in a highly competitive environment.
Early Career Scheme 2015/16
Department
Economics
History
Philosophy
Sociology and Social Policy
Visual Studies
Principal Investigator
Prof Zhang Tianle
Prof Diana Lemberg
Prof Shyam Nair
Prof Beste Esra Burak Ho
Prof Michelle Huang Ying-ling
Project Title
Competition, Patent Protection and Innovation
Media Development, Human Rights, and U.S. Global Power, 1958-1969
The Structure of Reasons and Reasoning
Attitudes toward Top Incomes in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the United States
Sino-British Curatorial Exchange of Chinese Painting: Laurence Binyon, George Eumorfopoulos and their Chinese Friends
Research and Impact Newsletter
April 2016
