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4. Funded Research Projects

4.14 Project for supporting “Independent Enquiry Study”
among secondary school students: Media and cultural

studies (completed project)

Principal Investigator: Prof. Kara Chan
Convenor of Environment, Health and Sustainability
Working Group of LEWI and

Professor of Communication Studies
Source of Funding: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Seed Fund,

HKBU
Amount Awarded: HKD108,000

Brief Introduction:

This is a follow-up of a previous project which the KTP Seed Fund supported and

which commenced in September 2014 and ended in July 2015 (reference
number KTP/037/SEPT2014).

In the current Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) curriculum,
senior secondary students are required to conduct an Independent Enquiry Study

(IES) to achieve the goal of “learning to learn”. There is a demonstrated
community need among secondary school students in conducting social science

research and obtaining insights from current research.

In the previous project in 2014-2015, the project leader successfully developed
a website with videos, teaching materials, and research readings on the topics

listed in the last paragraph. The project won the Knowledge Transfer Award for
2016. The mission was to build on the previous project and to extend the topics
to include media and cultural studies. The project leader planned to identify 6-

8 excellent journal publications or published reports in the areas, translate and
abridge them for junior readers, and organise one to two lectures for students

of our External Partner to disseminate the research findings. Furthermore, the
project leader planned to revamp the website to improve its presentation.

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