Aspiring to be a leading, research-led, liberal arts University in Asia, Hong Kong Baptist University is committed to conducting world-leading investigations that extends the frontiers of knowledge, tackle global challenges and benefit the community at home and abroad.
Pursuing research excellence is one of the priorities of the University’s Institutional Strategic Plan 2018-2028. The University keeps enhancing its capacity and strength to produce world-class research with an aim to bring significant impact to the society. The University will achieve this by:
- developing clusters of strength to maximise knowledge outputs and impact
- focusing resources on strategic clusters
- building up research human capacity as well as broaden and deepen research training
- enhancing the learning experiences of scholars and postgraduate students
- supporting diverse approaches to scholarship
- addressing community needs through applied research
- developing research collaborations with strategic partners around the world
- producing new knowledge that improves people’s lives
Interdisciplinary Research Clusters
Encompassing HKBU’s research strengths, the University has formed institutional research clusters in three key areas to underpin interdisciplinary research and theme-based research, for promoting research excellence and knowledge/technology transfer:
1. Creative Media/ Practice
Film, graphics, literary arts, music, visual/ media arts
2. Health, and Drug Discovery
Chinese medicine, chemistry, microbiology, ageing, physical education
3. Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
In applications such as data-journalism, data-healthcare and data-literature
Core Group Committee - Membership List
Presentation by Interdisciplinary Research Clusters
Faculty Niche Research Areas
In addition to the University-wide Interdisciplinary Research Clusters, each Faculty embraces their own niche research areas to increase the overall research capacity of the University:
| Faculties | Faculty Niche Research Areas |
|---|---|
|
Arts |
Well-being, Value, and the Public Good: 1. Performance Studies 2. Chinese and Cross-cultural Health Humanities 3. Framing Public Culture 4. Creativity, Self, and Society 5. Minority Studies 6. Anthropocene Studies |
|
Academy of Visual Arts |
Public Art and Social Engagement |
|
Business |
Corporate Sustainability |
|
Communication |
Media and Communication Studies |
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Environment and Health |
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Chinese Medicine |
Innovative Drug Discovery and Development Based on Chinese Medicines |
| Social Sciences |
Smart Societies: 1. Environmental and Urban Systems 2. Well-being 3. Populations 4. Learning and Praxis |