General Research Fund 2020/2021
Title: Assessing generic skills in a specific STEM discipline in higher education
Amount: HK$753,000
Role: PI

UGC Research Matching Grant Scheme
Title: Development and Assessment of holistic competencies in education
Amount: HK$1,156,750
Role: PI

External donations in support of research and development
Amount: HK$2,313,500

Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding
Title: Train the Trainers – Engaging Extra-curricular Activities Organisations to Enhance Students’ Holistic Competencies
Amount: HK$100,000
Role: PI

HKU Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Title: Assessing generic skills in STEM disciplines in higher education
Amount: HK$49,500
Role: PI

Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding
Title: Enhancing Generic Competencies in Engineering Industries
Amount: HK$186,000
Role: PI

Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding
Title: Career Dating Programme for Teachers, Parents and the Public to Aspire Engineering as Career Profession for Our Next Generation in Asia
Amount: HK$100,000
Role: PI

Funding for Teaching and Learning from UGC
Title: Driving Cultural and Educational Shift: Providing Support, Activities and Professional Development in the Pedagogy, Assessment and Evidence of Student Learning in Holistic Competencies.
Collaborating UGC Institutions: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University, The Education University of Hong Kong
Amount: HK$8,947,836
Role: PI

Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding
Title: Promoting and Developing Holistic Competencies of Students in Hong Kong
Amount: HK$100,000
Role: PI

2017 Teaching Development Grant (18 months)
Title: Assessment Resources for Experiential Learning at HKU
Amount: HK$250,000
Role: PI

Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding Exercise
Title: Changing Mind, Changing Practice and Shifting Culture in Engineering, Science and Business Education from Leading Research Intensive Universities
Amount: HK$100,000
Role: PI

36th Round Post-doctoral Fellow Scheme (Research Area: Generic Skills in Education)

2016 HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Amount: HK$3 00,000

2015 HKU Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Title: The Challenges of Assessing and Certifying Generic Skills in a Discipline-Specific Context for Hong Kong Higher Education – How can this be achieved?
Amount: HK$ 56,625
Role: PI

General Research Fund 2015
Title:The Development of Generic Skills Competency: A conceptual evidence-based model to effectively engage students from out-of-class, extra-curricular and in-class learning experiences in a discipline-specific context (A cross-institutional project in collaboration with CUHK and HKUST, which can be considered as an extension of the previous General Research Fund project (2011) on engineering students’ generic skills development. It is also closely related to a Teaching Development Grant supported project on building an Engineering Education Community of Practice.)
Amount: HK$ 895,000
Role: PI

Special Funding for Teaching & Learning from UGC
Title:Developing, Assessing and Providing Direct Evidence of Student Learning in Generic Skills in the Context of Engineering Higher Education in Hong Kong (A cross-institutional project in collaboration with CUHK, HKUST and BU, which is again closely related to the two projects on engineering students’ generic skills development supported by the General Research Fund, but may have a more direct implication on the policy in reviewing direct evidence of student learning in the respective higher education institutions.)
Amount: HK$ 4,992,555
Role: PI

Special Funding for Teaching & Learning from UGC
Title:Professional Development and Capacity Building for Residential Education (A cross-institutional project, which also involves invitation of international speakers to share their expertise and experience in hall education with local residential education practitioners.)
Amount: HK$ 2,230,000
Role: Co-I

General Research Fund 2013
Title:Aspiring to Become an Engineer: engineering education experiences affecting secondary school studentspursuit of an engineering career in Hong Kong, China and the UK
Amount: HK$ 329,458

HKU Teaching Development Grant 
Title: Assessment and Feedback – Develop Discipline-Based Assessment and Feedback Resources by Identifying Good Practices in the Faculty of Business and Economics (B&E) and the Faculty of Science at HKU and Other Overseas Universities
Amount: HK$680,400
Role: PI
Co-Investigators: Prof. Pauline Chiu, Prof. Alice Wong, Dr. Gavin Porter, Dr. Rachel Lui, Dr. Michael Chau, Dr. Hsiao-Hui Lee, Ms. Joanna Lee, Dr. Suki Ekaratne, Ms. Lillian Luk
Advisor:Prof. Bennett, Chi Kin Yim

HKU Teaching Development Grant 
Title: Project-Based Experiential Learning for Sustainability Embedded Higher Education
Amount: HK$216,491
Role: Co-I
Principal Investigators: Dr. Wei Pan
Co-Investigators: Dr Kaimin Shih, Prof C.K. Mak, 

General Research Fund 2011
Title:The Development of Generic Skills: A curriculum design framework adapting student and teacher perspectives and approaches to learning in a discipline-specific context for Hong Kong higher education.
Amount: HK$753,594
Role: PI
Co-Investigators: Prof. M. Prosser

HKU Teaching Development Grant 
Title: Technology Enhanced Tools for Large Class Engagement and Assessment for Learning 
Amount: 398,337
Role: Co-I
Principal Investigators: Dr. Wilton Fok
Co-Investigators: Prof. Patrick Chau,Dr. George Wong

King’s/HKU Fellowship Awards
Amount: HK$50,000
Role: PI

HKU Teaching Development Grant 
Title: Tackling Action Plans from HKUSLEQ Faculty Report by Building an Engineering Education Research Community to share Good Practices in Engineering Education
Amount: HK$583,476
Role: PI
Co-Investigators: Dr. Scott Smith, Dr. Wilton Fok, Dr. Siu Ming Yiu, Dr. Alfred Yu, Dr. Vincent Tam, Dr. Marian Choy, Dr. Yuan Lin, Dr. Min Yang, Dr. Ben Young, Dr. Min Zeng, Dr. Henry Lau, Dr. Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong, Dr. Thomas Ng, Dr. Edmund Y. Lam

HKU Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research 
Title: Student and Teacher Perceptions of Transferable Skills in Engineering in relation to Learning Outcomes, Delivery and Assessment
Amount: HK$240,000
Role: PI

HKU Common Core Grant 
Title: The Oceans: Science and Society
Amount: HK$100,000.00
Role: Co(I) with Dr. Nathalie Goodkin in Earth Sciences as PI

HKU Teaching Development Grant 
Title: HKU Assessment Resource Centre
Amount: HK$482,396
Role: PI
Co-investigators: Prof. M. Prosser; Prof. E. Corbet.

HKU Teaching Development Grant 
Title: Developing Transferable Skills Facilitation Strategies for Improving Integrative Project Courses in Engineering
Amount: HK$238,718
Role: Co(I) with Dr. Alfred Yu in Engineering as PI

DIT Funding Award for Teaching, Learning & Assessment Projects
Title: Enhancing Keyskills and Career Speed Dating  
Amount: €10,000
Role: PI 

Science Foundation Ireland: Institute Planning Award
Title: To conduct a self-assessment proposal of women’s participation in Science and Engineering Research Activities and Research Management within DIT
Amount: €10,000
Role: Team Lead in Engineering

DIT Team Research Scheme TERS
Title: HEART Project Health Informatics
Amount: €50,000
Role: Team Member 

Higher Education Authority: Technological Sector Research, Strand I Post-Graduate R&D
Title: Development of a Novel, Integrated Control System Prototype for Industrial Fungal Fermentation Processes Using Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy and On-Line Image Analysis
Amount: €34,000                                                                                
Role: PI at DIT Engineering (cross faculty collaboration)

DIT Funding Award for Teaching, Learning & Assessment Projects
Title: Natural, Creative, Brainstorming “Scrapyard Challenge” Design – to allow student to explore their natural thinking hats
Amount: €10,000                                                                             
Role: PI

DIT President’s Funding Award
Title: Student Awards and Career Information Night
Amount: €2,000 + external funding from industries
Role: PI 

HEA’s Information Technology Investment Fund
Title: To improve Student Learning, Student Retention, Student Motivation, Student Recruitment 
Amount: €350,000
Role: Coordinator