Although we are a relatively small department, our faculty members are active in applying for internal and external research grants. Over the past years, we have successfully obtained a remarkable number of grants, in which 15 of them are GRF/ECS grants from the RGC in the past five years. These grants allow our faculty members to work on their high quality research projects, such as applied ethics, philosophy of language, the social engagement of Christians in Hong Kong, and Kantian studies in a contemporary context.
Our two research centres, Centre for Applied Ethics and Centre for Sino-Christian Studies, have also secured a decent amount of external grants and private donation that makes more collaborative research projects possible.
Some notable recent examples of research grants obtained can be found below. You can also browse our individual faculty members’ profile for details.
| Name of Researcher | Project Title | Year (in descending order) |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Andrew Timothy Brenner | The Mystery of Personal Identity | 2021-2023 |
| Prof. Stephen Richard Palmquist | A Kantian Systematic Theology for the Twenty-First Century | 2019-2022 |
| Dr. Loke Ter Ern Andrew | A Reassessment of the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God | 2019-2021 |
| Dr. Zhang Ellen Ying | Chinese and Cross-Cultural Health Humanities: Body, Mind, and Well-Being in the Contemporary Context | 2019-2021 |
| Prof. Lauren F. Pfister | Interpreting Foreign and Minority Language Renderings of the Lunyu / Confucian Analects | 2019-2020 |
| Dr. Lee Siu Fan | How Proper Names Refer: Is Causal Descriptivism Defensible? | 2018-2020 |
| Prof. Stephen Richard Palmquist | Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Prolegomena | 2018-2020 |
| Dr. Chan Shing Bun Benedict | A Philosophical Investigation of the Ethics of Human Rights to Health | 2017-2019 |
| Dr. Kwok Wai Luen | 2017-2019 | |
| Prof. Lo Ping Cheung | Realism and Warfare Ethics in Early China: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Hanfeizi | 2016-2018 |
| Dr. Mak Kam Wah George | The Annotation Question of the Chinese Protestant Bible, 1877-1917 | 2015-2018 |
| Prof. Lauren F. Pfister | 2015-2018 | |
| Dr. Zhang Ellen Ying | Early Daoist Philosophies of War and Peace and Their Contemporary Explications | 2015-2018 |
| Dr. Lee Siu Fan | Meaning and Modality: A Foundational Study towards a New Theory of Names | 2015-2017 |
| Dr. Eirik Lang Harris | Han Fei’s Political Philosophy | 2014-2017 |
| Dr. Kwok Wai Luen | The concept of social justice in the periodicals of foreign religions in China, 1911-1949: Protestant Christianity and Islam | 2014-2017 |
| Prof. Chan Shun Hing | The Political Influence of the Protestant Churches in Hong Kong | 2013-2015 |
| Prof. Chan Shun Hing | The Political Influence of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong | 2012-2014 |