President's Awards

The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research was established to honour research excellence by academic staff as individuals or on teams, and to recognise, encourage and reward outstanding research of significant benefit to the wider community. To accommodate differences in the developmental paths taken by academic staff and the need to enhance the University’s research culture, two award categories were established: the Research Excellence Award and the Early Career Research Excellence Award. The Research Excellence Award honours research excellence exhibited by either teams or individual academic staff at or above the rank of Associate Professor in the three years preceding the award. The Early Career Research Excellence Award honours research excellence exhibited by either teams or individual early-career academic staff at the rank of Assistant Professor in the three years preceding the award.

A selection panel chaired by the President, Professor John LEE Chi-kin, considered the nominees (and self-nominees) for the two Award categories. The other members of the panel were Professor Ben YOUNG (lay Council member), Professor Paul YIP (external member from a local higher-education institution), Professor Chetwyn CHAN Che-hin, Vice President (Research and Development), Dr Andy CHIN Chi On and Professor YAN Zi (two representatives elected by and from the Academic Board), and Professor Keith HO Wing-kei (previous recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research).

The selection panel used the following criteria to assess the nominees for both award categories:

Success in securing competitive external research grants (particularly relevant to the Research Excellence Award);

The quality and quantity of their research output;

The academic, professional and social outcomes of their research for policy making, education and the community; and

The track record of their research leadership (particularly relevant to the Research Excellence Award) and active contribution to the University’s research output.