KE Spotlight - Community Engagement - HKU Knowledge Exchange

HKU publishes EOC-funded study on unconscious bias

A study, “Doing Equality Consciously: Understanding Unconscious Bias and its Role and Implications in the Achievement of Equality in Hong Kong and Asia”, funded by the Equal Opportunities Commission was published on 24 September 2019. The project was housed at The University of Hong Kong’s Women’s Studies Research Centre (WSRC) and the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL), and aimed to look into the types and extent of unconscious bias and the potential for intervention in different settings. The report offers several recommendations, including incorporating implicit bias awareness into early childhood education, and institutionalising training in governmental, educational, corporate, health, civil society, legal, and social welfare organisations.

Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2019

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations. Results of the 2019 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

Knowledge Exchange (KE) Excellence Award 2018

The university-level KE Excellence Award was introduced in 2015-16 to recognise the significant impact that our academic staff had made to benefit society. The KE Excellence Award 2018 was awarded to Ms Rebecca Wing Chi Lee and Professor Lusina Kam Shuen Ho of the Faculty of Law.

HKU study suggests Hong Kong has a high volume and lucrative black market business

Ms Amanda Whitfort, Associate Professor of the HKU Faculty of Law, joined forces with members of the Hong Kong Wildlife Trade Working Group (HKWTWG) to publish a study focusing on the type and volume of seizures related to illegal wildlife trade in Hong Kong. The report suggested that HK$560 m worth of wildlife products was seized between 2013 and 2017, potentially equivalent to the deaths of 3,000 elephants, 65,000 pangolins and 51 rhinoceros. Ms Whitfort said the wildlife trade in the city remained under-policed and under-investigated. The authors urged the government to establish a wildlife crime unit and called for wildlife offences to be included under the same laws against organised crime.