Seed Grant Scheme for Research on Population Studies

• This Scheme aims to promote and support multi-disciplinary research concerning various population-related issues.
• This Scheme supports proposals for original research studies relevant to at least one of the research clusters of the HKU Research Hub of Population Studies (“Hub”), namely “Ageing”, “Children and Family”, “Gender and Sexuality”, “Health and Mortality”, “Population and Development” and “Urbanisation and Migration”.
• Only full-time professoriate staff in the Faculty of Social Sciences who are affiliated with the Hub are eligible to apply for this Scheme.
• Funding per project is capped at HK$50,000, with a maximum project duration of 12 months.
• Up to six applications will be funded per academic year.
• Call for applications is made annually, usually in October, with a deadline in November.

Application Deadline: November 30, 2024

Conference Support Scheme for Research Postgraduate (RPg) Students

• This Scheme is designed to provide financial support to MPhil and PhD students for attending academic conferences.
• To qualify, applicants must be RPg students from the Faculty of Social Sciences, who are affiliated with the Hub, and their proposed presentation/poster at the conference must align with at least one of the research themes under the HKU Research Hub of Population Studies (“Hub”), namely “Ageing”, “Children and Family”, “Gender and Sexuality”, “Health and Mortality”, “Population and Development” and “Urbanisation and Migration”.
• Awardees of the RGC Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPF) or HKU Presidential PhD Scholar Programme (HK-PS) are not eligible to apply for this Scheme.
• The maximum support per approved application is HK$8,000, with up to 20 applications approved within one academic year.
• The call for applications is made annually, usually in February, supporting conference presentations from March through to February of the following year.  Retrospective applications are generally not accepted.