Mission and Significance - Social Sciences Research Centre

The Social Sciences Research Centre (HKU-SSRC), was established in January 1987 within the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Hong Kong, and has the following mission objectives:

to promote methodological research in the social sciences, both within and beyond the Faculty of Social Sciences;
to foster ties with social science research institutes and other related institutions outside the University;
to provide high quality training in advances in social science research
to collect high quality social science research data in Hong Kong for innovative research
to explore and make arrangements for contract research and consultancy service for Government and other outside organizations;
to explore external funding sources in support of research programmes in the Faculty