Workshops
SHKS regularly organizes workshops to offer academic trainings and encourage intellectual exchanges among scholars in Hong Kong Studies.
Highlighted Workshops
Work-in-Progress Workshops in Hong Kong studies
High quality scholarship is the life blood of an academic field. SHKS is launching its 2023 Work-in-Progress Workshop in Hong Kong Studies for members to present their works-in-progress and obtain comments before submission to journals or book publishers. Given the heavy administrative and teaching responsibilities, and the segmentation of academics into disciplinary departments, the organizational culture of universities in Hong Kong is not always conducive to intellectual dialogue and in-depth discussion of scholarly work. As an inter-campus space, SHKS can play an important role in elevating the quality of scholarship on Hong Kong.
Workshop 2023 #1 on March 3 2023, 11:00 HKT
Workshop 2023 #2 on April 14, 2023, 19:00 HKT
“Immigration Detention and Vulnerable Migrants in Hong Kong” Research Methodology Sharing Series
We are excited to have the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong’s research team of the “Immigration Detention and Vulnerable Migrants in Hong Kong” Project to share about their research journey in a Research Methodology Sharing Series.
1️⃣ Data on Detention: How to obtain official data under the Code of Access to Information
This workshop explores how to obtain and incorporate hard-to-access official data into qualitative research on law, governance, and public policy in Hong Kong. We discussed the landscape of open government data and our experience as researchers on the three-year RGC-funded project “Immigration Detention and Vulnerable Migrants in Hong Kong” in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Date: 09 February 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 1500 – 1700
Location: 16/F, Chun Wo Commercial Centre, No. 23-29 Wing Wo Street, Central
Language: English
Format: In-person
2️⃣ ‘Do no Harm’: Research with Vulnerable Groups in Practice
In this talk, CUHK Law will share their practices in minimising potential risks to interviewees, interpreters and researchers. They will share the measures they put in place to protect the mental health of interviewees. They will also discuss the training the research team undertook on interviewing vulnerable individuals, and the trainings they delivered for interpreters on interpreters’ ethics and secondary trauma. Finally, they will touch on the measures they took to ensure researchers maintained healthy boundaries when facing deeply affecting subject matter.
Date: 13 March 2023 (Monday)
Time: 1800 – 2000
Location: 16/F, Chun Wo Commercial Centre, No. 23-29 Wing Wo Street, Central
Language: English
Format: In-person (25 quota)
3️⃣ Beyond the Ivory Tower: Designing impactful research under the RGC Research Impact Fund
Date: 25 May 2023 (Thursday)
Time: tbc
Location: 16/F, Chun Wo Commercial Centre, No. 23-29 Wing Wo Street, Central
Language: English
Format: In-person (25 quota) and Online
Thematic and Methodological Training Workshops
The sustainability of Hong Kong Studies depends on the commitments and efforts of the next generation of scholars. SHKS invites senior scholars from overseas and local universities to offer short-term (e.g. weekend, week-long, summer) intensive workshops targeting junior faculties and graduate students. These workshops are organized around a substantive field (e.g. economic history or cultural analysis) or a research methodology (e.g. ethnography, big data analysis, archival method) and their application to Hong Kong Studies.
