The recipient of the College Teaching Excellence Award 2017 is:
Dr Alvin Leung
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
Following is the citation of the Selection Committee on this winning entry:
"Dr Leung is an enthusiastic teacher, aspiring to develop his students to become successful learners who are self-motived, self-learning, and self-disciplined. To this end, he applies himself to inspire students to uncover their potentials, teaches students how to learn, and provides regular feedback through timely assessment items for student to monitor and adjust their own learning pace. He also actively applies latest technology (such as flipped classroom, gamification, self-learning platform, online forums) in his teaching and develops innovative teaching tools to encourage and enhance student learning."
The recipients of the College Research Excellence Awards 2017 are:
Dr Hailiang Chen
Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems
Dr Catherine Lam
Associate Professor
Department of Management
The Selection Panel was favorably impressed by the high quality of work presented and commended the awardees for their overall research excellence: "The two research excellence awardees of this year have very strong research achievements. They truly deserve this honor because of their significant contribution to world class research within a short period of time, and the research findings of one of the papers had also received coverage from major international media. We believe that their work will have strong impact on their respective fields and they will consistently generate high impact research in their careers."
Dr Chen is interested in the research areas of social media, multichannel management, business analytics, venture capital, entrepreneurship, mobile commerce, economics of information systems, and design science. His research has been published in elite business journals in information systems, finance, and management, including Information Systems Research, Management Science, Review of Financial Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. His research has also received media coverage in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, TechSpot
Dr Lam is working on research areas such as social comparison and interpersonal harming behaviour, job stress and performance, team work and team climate, workplace emotions and emotional labour, and leadership. She is the Principal Investigator for the RGC funded project, "The burden of seeing you: Relationship conflict, depletion, and interpersonal harming and helping behaviors" (2016-2018).
A special note of thanks goes to our benefactor Jenny Chan for her generous donation which has made the establishment of this research excellence award possible.
The recipients of the BBA First Year Teaching Awards 2016/17 are:
For lectures:
Dr Susanna Tam
Instructor I
Department of Management Sciences
For tutorials:
Chloe Tay
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Accountancy
Yi Yi
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Accountancy
The winners have all demonstrated significant contributions to learning and teaching in the College of Business, and we gratefully acknowledge their excellent work in supporting our undergraduate students.
