Research Highlights
The Suicide Watch
Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai has been tracking Hong Kong’s suicide rate for more than two decades and developing programmes to help reduce it. The recent period has been one of the worst for young and old alike.
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Alarm bells are ringing about social media’s ability to quickly convey and amplify false or harmful information, such as content intended to mislead voters or promote anti-vaccination and other dubious health advice. HKU researchers consider what makes news ‘fake’, how social media affects China’s information landscape and the legal challenges to regulating platforms. They are also training fact-checkers and seeking to understand the effects of social media on the brain.
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In the Research Grants Council (RGC)'s latest funding round for large-scale projects, HKU researchers will participate in 8 of the 9 funded Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) projects and coordinate 2 of them, and participate in the 2 projects funded under the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme.
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