Funded Projects and Grant Capture

The Department has a strong record of external grant capture, such as RGC GRF and ECS awards, and has also secured numerous internal grants. The following is a list of funded GRF/ECS projects from 2015/16 onwards, both ongoing and completed.

GRF/ECS Award Year	Principal Investigator	Project Details
2023/24	Clara Chuan YU	ECS, Project Number: 22607423 Investigating the Role of Communities and NGOs in Supporting Sustainable Crisis Translation in Hong Kong Fund approved: HK$300,400 Ongoing
2023/24	Min-hua LIU	GRF, Project Number: 12612823 Automated assessment of speech difficulty: Application of automatic speech recognition technology Fund approved: HK$531,164 Ongoing
2023/24	Marija TODOROVA	GRF, Project Number: 12608623 Examining Translation and Interpreting as Inclusion: Language Use in Hong Kong’s Development Aid to Africa Fund approved: HK$305,000 Ongoing
2022/23	Catherine HARDIE	ECS, Project Number: 22625322 Exploring contemporary Han Chinese monastic religiosities in mainland China’s Sino-Tibetan Buddhist landscape Fund approved: HK$350,630 Ongoing
2022/23	Janice Jun PAN	GRF, Project Number: 12623122 Re-testing the universals: “Mining” interpreting data through reengineered mega-size corpora Fund approved: HK$749,460 Ongoing
2022/23	Robert NEATHER	GRF, Project Number: 12621322 Translating Extinction: Translation, Exhibitionary Practice and Visitor Engagement in Museum Presentations of Extinction Events and Ecological Crisis Fund approved: HK$374,000 Ongoing
2021/22	Min-hua LIU	GRF, Project Number: 12609821 Assessing the scope of expertise-driven advantages in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals: A comparison of signed and spoken language interpreters 評估專門技能對雙模態與單模態雙語優勢的影響：手語傳譯員與口語傳譯員之對比研究 Fund approved: HK$511,213 Ongoing
2020/21	Catherine HARDIE	GRF, Project Number: 12610420 Digitally mediating Tibetan Buddhism for Han Chinese audiences: a study of the missionary milieu of Sinophone Tibetan Buddhism on WeChat 以數字媒體向漢族群眾傳播藏傳佛教：對微信上藏傳佛教華語傳教環境的研究 Fund approved: HK$279,726 Ongoing
2020/21	Mark SHUTTLEWORTH	GRF, Project Number: 12607920 Neurons and nebulae: Probing patterns of metaphor in original popular science texts and their translations Fund approved: HK$400,890 Ongoing
2019/20	Min-hua LIU	GRF, Project Number: 12601919 Assessing the scope of expertise-driven advantages in bilinguals: A comparison of interpreters and translators 評估專門技能對雙語優勢的影響：口譯員與筆譯員之對比研究 Fund approved: HK$600,320 Ongoing
2019/20	Mark SHUTTLEWORTH	GRF, Project Number: 12603619 Understanding Wikipedia’s dark matter: translation, knowledge and point of view 維基百科之「暗物質」探究：翻譯、知識與觀點 Fund approved: HK$281,900 Ongoing
2018/19	Maialen MARÍN-LACARTA	ECS, Project Number: 22610218 Hong Kong and its Literature through a Double Lens: English and French Anthologies of Translated Literature 雙重視野下的香港及其文學：香港文學英譯及法譯選本研究 Fund approved: HK$404,800 Ceased September 2019 following staff departure
2017/18	Janice Jun PAN	GRF, Project Number: 12611717 Competence Development in Student Translators and Interpreters: A Corpus-based Study of Lexical Cohesion 學生口筆譯員的能力發展：詞彙銜接之語料庫研究 Fund approved: HK$438,708 Completed December 2019
2016/17	Janice Jun PAN	ECS, Project Number: 22608716 Interpreting into the B language: A corpus-oriented study of pragmatic markers in interpreted political speeches from Chinese to English 譯入B語言：政治演辭中—英傳譯之語用標記使用的語料庫研究 Fund approved: HK$233,368 Completed December 2018
2016/17	Jessica W.Y. YEUNG	GRF, Project Number: 12670716 Minority Exoticism in Chinese Music 現代中國音樂的異域想像 Fund approved: HK$248,000 Completed April 2019
2015/16	Robert NEATHER	GRF, Project Number: 12607915 Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Buddhist Translation Communities: A Study of Text Production, Expertise Acquisition and Modes of Community Participation in Two Chinese-English Buddhist Translation Projects 當代佛教翻譯社區的協作實踐：兩個中英佛教翻譯項目中的文本產生、專業習得和社區參與模式 Fund approved: HK$448,600 Completed 2019
2015/16	Jessica W.Y. YEUNG	GRF, Project Number: 12610315 100 Years of Xinjiang Cinema: Film in Society in Xinjiang 新疆電影一百年：社會語境中的新疆電影 Fund approved: HK$391,486 Completed December 2018
2015/16	Maialen MARÍN-LACARTA	GRF, Project Number: 12608815 Digital Translations in the Making: Hong Kong Contemporary Fiction in Spanish 數碼翻譯的製作流程：香港當代小說的西班牙語翻譯 Fund approved: HK$134,240 Completed June 2018

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