Campus Digest

Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships and Fellowships are bestowed upon three HKBU students

28 Jan 2015

Lam Ching-yin (left) and Yu Hiu-yan (centre) are awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships and Leung Shi-chi (right) the Fellowships. Lam Ching-yin (left) and Yu Hiu-yan (centre) are awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships and Leung Shi-chi (right) the Fellowships.
Lam Ching-yin (left) and Yu Hiu-yan (centre) are awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships and Leung Shi-chi (right) the Fellowships.

 

The two undergraduate students and postgraduate student nominated by the University for the 2014-15 Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships and Fellowships have won. Lam Ching-yin (Translation, Year 4) and Yu Hiu-yan (Applied Biology, Year 3) scooped the scholarships while Leung Shi-chi (MPhil, Year 2) obtained the fellowship.

Ching-yin and Hiu-yan were surprised and delighted to win the prestigious scholarships because the number of scholarships had been reduced this year, making the competition more vigorous. Ching-yin said that since the nomination quota was set at two, applicants were shortlisted first by the University. To help them prepare for the scholarship interview, the Scholarships and Financial Aid Team of the Office of Student Affairs (SAO) arranged a mock interview for her and Hiu-yan.

This is the third time for both of them to win a scholarship during their university studies. Ching-yin plans to use the money to pursue postgraduate studies upon graduation this year. Hiu-yan said she has applied for PhD studies and hopes to conduct research on marine biology. Ching-yin and Hiu-yan expressed gratitude to Dr Robert Neather, Head of the Translation Programme, and Professor Chris Wong, Head of the Department of Biology, respectively, who recommended them for the Scholarships and thanked the SAO staff for their assistance.

Shi-chi is a research student at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing. His MPhil thesis is on the representation of emotion and race in local TV dramas. Shi-chi said ethnicity research has long been a social sciences research topic in Hong Kong, he added that he felt excited and surprised to win the fellowship as it gave recognition to his cultural research direction. He thanked the teachers and fellow students in the Department for their support, especially Professor John Erni, Department Head and his supervisor, who has encouraged him to think critically about race and culture. This is the fifth scholarship for Shi-chi during his university studies. His interest in ethnicity has compelled him to document the daily life of different ethnic minority groups through photography. He also participated in All About Us, organised under Hong Kong Arts Centre’s flagship programme ifva, to mentor a team of ethnic minority youths on a video project and has become a blogger of Professor Erni’s collaborative project ethniCITYhk.com (http://ethnicityhk.com/). Shi-chi plans to pursue PhD studies overseas upon graduation.

Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships aim at recognising and encouraging academic achievements of full-time undergraduate and diploma students at post-secondary and tertiary levels in Hong Kong while the Fellowships aim at encouraging and assisting full-time postgraduate research students. Starting from the 2014-15 academic year, the number of scholarships and fellowships have been reduced to eight and four respectively while the grant for each recipient has been increased to HK$40,000 and HK$50,000 respectively.