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Department of
Social Work & Social Administration
The University of Hong Kong
Issue 2 February 2016 Overview 1 Word Cloud of Research Publications 2 Airline Map of Research Collaborations 3 Faculty Awardees 4-5 Research Office 6
Research Newsletter
CONTENT
Theme OverviewThe second issue of this research newsletter presents a word cloud and an airline map that give you a visualization on our most prominent research focus and our network on international collaboration produced by our SWSA staffs in the year of
2014-2015.
This issue’s spotlights are shined on Dr. Ran Maosheng, the recipient of Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output Awards and Dr. Rainbow H.T. Ho, the
recipient of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Awards in the year of 2014-2015. This Newsletter…
presented to you by the Research Office at Department of Social Work and Social Administration (SWSA) at the University of Hong Kong is a quarterly online publication, which will allow you to better understand our faculty members' and postgraduate students' research work and our future prospects in the development of social work area.
Each issue will include summaries of our latest research and upcoming events in our department with the goal of connecting research activities to a range of practical concerns we face both as individuals and community members.
Word Cloud Based on Publications by SWSA
The word cloud
may offer some interesting insights on our most prominent
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International Research Collaboration of SWSA
The airline map
shows the locality of our research collaborators and international
connection to 70 cities in more than 20 countries across Europe, Asia, Oceania and
the Americas. In 2014-2015, SWSA has produced more than 200 publications
outputs.
Congratulations
to Dr. Ran Maosheng, associate professor of SWSA, for receiving the Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Research OutputAwards 2014-2015 Applied Research.
Reflection
It is my great honour to be the recipient of the Social Sciences
Outstanding Research Output Awards 2014-2015 Applied Research
.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my research team for contribution to the family intervention for persons with schizophrenia in rural China. Although facing the difficulty for carrying out a long-term follow-up, we explored the 14-year effect of psychoeducational family intervention for persons with schizophrenia in a Chinese rural community. The data from a cluster RCT study of psychoeducational family intervention in a prospective 14-year follow-up was analyzed.This study indicates that
psychoeducational family intervention might be still effective in the 14-year follow-up, especially in patients’ treatment adherence and social functioning. The results of this highly original and complex study may foster further development of theory and practice related to psychosocial interventions, and new service models for improving the long-term treatment and prognosis of persons with schizophrenia in China and internationally.5
“
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be
creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its
beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more
poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
”
- Osho
For me
,
being a teacher, a researcher, a scientist, a therapist, or an artist is not much different. Besides patience and hard-working, creativity,passion, and a sense of beauty and appreciation are the keys to access
the most important human resource that may help you to work with anything in any situation, even in face of adversity and sufferings.
My belief and passion
of establishing the Master of Expressive ArtsTherapy program and the Creative Arts Common Core course is grounded on this principle; as artistic experiences can offer valuable opportunity for people to create, appreciate, resilience, and transform. My teaching also grows around this principle: I do not teach, but facilitate my students to develop their passions to learn, to create and to explore the beauty of knowledge; as well as to appreciate all sides, including the scientific, artistic, and even the unexplainable or unknown sides of knowledge.
Congratulations
to Dr. Rainbow H.T. Ho, associate professor of SWSA, for receiving the Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Awards 2014-2015The Research Office at Department of Social Work & Social Administration is a commitment of the Department to further enhance our research capacity. The aim is to promote research and support to the faculty members and postgraduate students. It also involves in research projects and consultancy studies. The mission is to promote evidence based social and public policy researches. The SWSA is a leading academic department in social work, behavioral sciences, social policy and social development in Asia. We strive to build impactful knowledge and practice to create a better world through promoting social justice and interdisciplinary collaboration, empowering vulnerable populations and improving the quality of life for all.
For further enquiries, please contact Robin Kwok (3917 4753 / [email protected]) Room 535, 5/F, Jockey Club Tower,
The Centennial Campus,
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
To find out more, please go to http://www.socialwork.hku.hk/index.html.
Research Office
Mission & Goal: Provide research support for professioriate staffs &
RPG students
Members:
Weekly consulta_on sessions for RPG
(Every Friday)
Inputs & Ac_vi_es Research Support
Research methodology and intermediate sta_s_cs
consulta_on
