FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Sin Wai-kin Junior Fellowship Scheme
The Sin Wai-Kin Junior Fellowship Scheme was launched by the Institute in 2011 after it received a generous gift from Dr. Sin Wai-Kin. It aims at supporting young scholars for their research.
Mission
The Scheme aims to provide funding and academic support for the following categories of candidates:
- HKU PhD students and young scholars (Assistant Professors, Post-doctoral Fellows and below)
- Non-HKU young scholars.
These candidates’ research should be related to that of the research clusters of the Institute.
Nomination and Fellows Award
The Selection Committee solicits and receives nominations, reviews supporting materials, and awards fellowship to fellows. Decisions will be based on consultation with relevant colleagues worldwide and on the availability of funds.
Sin Wai-kin Junior Fellows
| Name | Project (Award Year) |
|---|---|
| Ying Tung Fung | Exploring the Introduction and Adoption of Domesticated Grassland Animals in China (8000–771 BC) (2024) |
| Xin Su | Moving Away from Traditional Narratives: Social Transformations and Their Impact in the Yangtze River Valley During the Bronze Age (2024) |
| Yijun Gai | What is the role of “energy” in an ecological civilization? (2021) |
| Al Lim | Seeing Green in Golden Triangles: Cryptocurrency through Laos (2021) |
| Ghassan Moazzin | A Preliminary Study of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870–1937 (2020) |
| Priscilla Song | Everyday Cultures of Mask Wearing in the COVID-19 Era (2020) |
| Chaoxiong Zhang | Technoscientific Controversies and the Agency of a Moral Area in China’s Battle Against the COVID-19 Epidemic (2020) |
| Max Hirsh | Building “Eurasian” Infrastructure: Chinese Capital and Transport Technology in Scandinavia (2018) |
| Izumi Nakayama | Book project on Menstruation in Japan and Body Culture (2018) |
| Nina Sylvanus | Harboring the Future: The Togolese Techno-Port, Governance, and Global Economics in West Africa (2018) |
| Cheris S. C. Chan | An Institutional Approach to Understand Doctor-Patient Conflicts in China (2017) |
| Anna Iskra | Healing the Nation through Self-discovery: Body-Heart-Soul Fever in China (2017) |
| Li Ji | Rethinking indigenization and Christianity in China: Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876–1848) and his private writings in early twentieth-century Manchuria (2017) |
| Till Mostowlansky | Building Difference: Early Attempts at Materially Connecting and Dividing Colonial Badakhshan (2017) |
| Dorothy Tang | From Low Carbon Cities to Sponge Cities: Mapping the Landscapes of Climate Change Governance in Shanghai (2017) |
| George Bayuga | Infrastructures of Faith: Catholics Channels Across the South China Sea (2016) |
| Anna Iskra | Life Coaches, Motivational Speakers, Deified Teachers: “Success Studies” in China (2016) |
| Loretta Kim | Evolution and Present Practices of Russian Orthodox Christianity in Hong Kong (2016) |
| Christine Luk | Narrating Hong Kong-China Relationship through the Prism of Physiology: Robert Kho-Seng Lim, Te Pei Feng, and Beyond (2016) |
| Daniel Trambaiolo | Visual and Tactile Knowledge of the Human Body in Early Modern Japan (2016) |
| John Wong | Charting a New Course in the Skies: Air Travel in Postwar Hong Kong in a Comparative Framework (2016) |
| Izumi Nakayama | Proper Bodies: Etiquettes of Health, Gender, and Body Culture in modern Japan, 1868–2010 (2013) |
| David A. Palmer | Redemptive Societies, Modern Religious, Universalism and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia: Initial Phase of Research (2012) |
| Izumi Nakayama | Attractive Civilizations: Japan and the Formation of Modern East Asian Body Cultures: 1868–2010 (2011) |