Division of Social Science

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

SDG 1 No Poverty
SDG 2 Zero Hunger
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 14 Life Below Water
SDG 15 Life on Land
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Yongshun CAI, 蔡永順
- socaiusthk
- Division of Social Science - Head and Chair Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
20002026
Cameron Dougall CAMPBELL, 康文林
- camcamusthk
- Division of Social Science - Chair Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
19892026
Chen CHENG, 程琛
- chenchengusthk
- Division of Social Science - Assistant Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
20132026
Maleah Ann FEKETE
- mfeketeusthk
- Division of Social Science - Assistant Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
Stuart Arthur GIETEL-BASTEN, 貝樂天
- sgbusthk
- Office of the Dean of Humanities & Social Science - Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science (Research)
- Division of Public Policy - Professor
- Division of Social Science - Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
20062026
Julian Mcallister GROVES, 谷志良
- sojulianusthk
- Division of Social Science - Associate Professor of Social Science Education, Senior Lecturer
Person: HKUST Staff
19892025
Dongcheng HE, 何東成
- hedchusthk
- Division of Social Science - Research Assistant Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
20212026
Wenkai HE, 和文凱
- hewenkaiusthk
- Division of Social Science - Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
19932026
David James HENDRY
- hendryusthk
- Division of Social Science - Associate Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
20082025

20 Active
57 Finished

Elite Migration and Economic Development: Evidence from Divided Korea
BECKER, S. (CoI), WON, C. (CoI) & PARK, S. (PI)
RGC - General Research Fund
1/08/26 → 31/07/28
Project: Research
Riding the Fast Track to Debt Risk? Infrastructure Development and Municipal Finance in China's Subway Approvals
LIU, Z. (CoI), LIN, Y. (CoI) & WANG, J. (PI)
RGC - General Research Fund
1/08/26 → 31/07/29
Project: Research
Culturally and Individually Personalizing Misinformation Interventions
GUO, S. Y. S. (PI)
RGC - Junior Research Fellow Scheme
1/06/26 → 31/05/28
Project: Research
Career Dynamics of Late Qing Officials: A Big Data Analysis
CAMPBELL, C. D. (PI) & XUE, Q. (CoPI)
UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant, China National Postdoctoral Council under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
24/02/26 → 23/02/28
Project: Research
Technologies, Data, and Learning: Digital language learning (DLL) and second language representation
HSIAO, J.H.-W. (CoI), LI, P. (PI) & LAN, Y. (CoI)
RGC - General Research Fund
23/02/26 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
Multimedia learning and multimodal interaction: Understanding individual differences in student online learning
CHEN, N.-S. (CoI) & LI, P. (PI)
RGC - General Research Fund
23/02/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
Fiscal Stress and State-Business Relations in China
CAI, Y. (PI)
RGC - General Research Fund
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
Understanding the relationship between face scanning behavior and autistic traits through computational modeling
CHAN, A. B. (CoI), HSIAO, J.H.-W. (PI), SHUM, C.K.-M. (CoI) & CHAN, S. K. W. (CoI)
RGC - General Research Fund
1/01/26 → 31/12/28
Project: Research
The Intergenerational Impact of Extrajudicial Racial Violence
HENDRY, D. J. (PI)
RGC - General Research Fund
15/10/25 → 14/10/28
Project: Research

A circumplex model of emotion
YIK, M., Aug 2026, Elgar Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Schermer, J. A. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing, (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Book Chapter › peer-review
A Lifetime of Inequality: Findings from Five Decades of Swedish Income Data
SHI, J. & Kolk, M., 14 Mar 2026, 40 p. (Stockholm Research Reports in Demography)
Research output: Book/Report › Research Report › peer-review
A machine learning approach for nominative record linkage in Chinese historical databases
Yu, Y., Hou, Y., Wu, Y. & Campbell, C., 26 Mar 2026, In: Historical Methods. 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review

Open Access
Ambivalence in decision making for outdoor mobility among adult child carers of people with dementia: a study protocol for a randomized vignette study with message framing and eye-tracking
Fan, B., Lin, R., Lou, V. W. Q., Hsiao, J.H.-W., Yuen, J. K., Tsang, H. W. H. & Tang, J. Y. M., 11 Mar 2026, In: BMC Geriatrics. 26, 1, 10 p., 326.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review

Open Access
Assortative Agreement: A Reply to Gonalons-Pons and Schwartz
SHEN, Y. & Liao, T. F., 1 Aug 2026, In: Demography. 63, 4, p. 1029-1031 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review

Open Access
Beyond Lowest-Low Fertility: Why Post-Transitional Populations Follow Divergent Paths
GIETEL-BASTEN, S. & Pardo, I., Mar 2026, In: Population and Development Review. 52, 1, p. 9-34 26 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review

Open Access
2 Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)
Beyond the 90 reserved days for each parent: Associations between fathers’ parental leave duration and depression symptoms in a Swedish national cohort study
WANG, J. & Wells, M., Aug 2026, In: American Journal of Public Health. 116, 8, p. 1121-1129 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio‐cultural and economic predictors
Hamer, K., Penczek, M., Marcinkowska, K., Nowak, B., Branowska, K., Sparkman, D., Loy, L. S., Baran, M., Okvitawanli, A., Gkinopoulos, T., Hackett, J. D., Bertin, P., Carmona, M., Guerra, R., Wlodarczyk, A., Akello, G., Albarello, F., Ashraf, M., Bednarowicz, M. & Beixiang, L. & 53 others, Benningstad, N., Bierwiaczonek, K., Bornman, E., Bosak, J., Darkwah, E., Delouvée, S., Eder, S. J., Enea, V., Espinosa, A., Etchezahar, E., Ferris, L. J., Gudzovskaya, A. A., Guerch, K., Hofhuis, J., Hornsey, M. J., Igbokwe, D., Ibarra, M. L., Kamble, S. V., Kaniasty, K., Kengyel, G. J., Khanipour, H., Labor, P., Lima, A. V. V., Loshenko, O., Mazurowska, K., Mintz, K. K., Monzani, L., Moriizumi, S., Moynihan, A. B., Mubarique, M., Nagy, R. P., Nera, K., Nyúl, B., Osinde, J., Özsoy, E., Palacio, J., Pešout, O., Pirttilä-Backman, A. M., Pong, V., Rentería, E., Restrepo, D., Samekin, A., Segal-Klein, H., Selim, H. A., Sindic, D., Spence, A., Stöckli, S., Tam, K. P., Ungaretti, J., Urbańska, B., Wang, A., Yahiiaiev, I. & Yemelyanova, Y., Jun 2026, In: Political Psychology. 47, 3, 43 p., e70134.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review

Open Access
1 Link opens in a new tab Citation (Scopus)
Capacity-Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities
Sharma, S., Wu, X. & Papyshev, G., Mar 2026, In: Review of Policy Research.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review

Open Access
1 Link opens in a new tab Citation (Scopus)