Research Newsletter. Social Work & Social Administration. Department of. The University of Hong Kong CONTENT. Issue 2 February 2016.

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1 Department of Social Work & Social Administration The University of Hong Kong Research Newsletter Issue 2 February 2016 CONTENT Overview 1 Word Cloud of Research Publications 2 Airline Map of Research Collaborations 3 Faculty Awardees 4-5 Research Office 6 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. Theme Overview The 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 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

2 Word Cloud Based on Publications by SWSA The word cloud may offer some interesting insights on our most prominent research focus in Footnote: The word cloud with a total of 229 publications in is contributed by Dr. Chan, Celia., Dr. Chan, K.L. Edward., Prof. Chan, L.W. Cecilia., Dr. Chui, W.T. Ernest., Dr. Ho, T.H. Rainbow., Dr. Law, Y.W. Frances., Dr. Lou, W.Q. Vivian., Prof. Lum, Y.S. Terry., Dr. N an, K.M. Joshua., Dr. Ng, S.M., Dr. Ran, Maosheng., Dr. Tsang, K.M. Sandra., Prof. Tse, S.K. Samson., Dr. Wong, H.Y. Gloria., D r. Wong, W.C. Paul., and Prof. Yip, S.F. Paul (Last name arranged alphabetically). 2

3 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 , SWSA has produced more than 200 publications outputs. 3

4 Congratulations to Dr. Ran Maosheng, associate professor of SWSA, for receiving the Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output Awards Applied Research. Reflection It is my great honour to be the recipient of the Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output Awards 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. Hopefully, these discoveries can support mental health policy makers to develop programs and to convince the stakeholders on investing in prevention and psychoeducational family intervention in the community during the early stages of the illness. Looking forward, I will develop more family interventions for persons with mental disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, mood disorders, dementia) in rural China. Furthermore, I am conducting stigma intervention for those with mental disorders and their families. 4

5 Congratulations to Dr. Rainbow H.T. Ho, associate professor of SWSA, for receiving the Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Awards 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 Arts Therapy 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. 5

6 Research The 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 ( / kahrobin@hku.hk) Room 535, 5/F, Jockey Club Tower, The Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong To find out more, please go to Research Office Inputs & Ac_vi_es Research Support Mission & Goal: Provide research support for professioriate staffs & RPG students Weekly consulta_on sessions for RPG (Every Friday) Research methodology and intermediate sta_s_cs consulta_on Members: Dr. Lue Fang, Postdoctoral Fellow Mr. Robin Kwok, Research Assistant Grant proposal and project support for staff Development of conceptual framework, scale and ques_onnaire development, working paper review and cri_que 6