​External Grants
  • Project Co-ordinator, The Nexus of Conflict Process: New Measurements, Cross-national Dataset and Longitudinal Study Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Research Grants Council, HKD 1,316,000, 2022-24.
  • Principal Investigator, Theorizing Collective Actions in Asia, Collaborative Research Grant, American Political Science Association, USD 6,000, 2022-23.
  • Project Co-ordinator, Network Topology and Norm Dynamics: The Spontaneous Emergence and Evolution of Social Norms in Digital Activism, Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Research Grants Council, HKD 1,246,000, 2021-23.
  • Principal Investigator, How Emotions and Networks Unfold? Public Sentiments and Mobilizing Structure in a Leaderful Movement, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 867,000, 2021-22.
  • Principal Investigator, Strains and Threats in Networked Protests, Public Policy Research Fund, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, HKD 412, 850, 2020.
  • Principal Investigator, Public Health Measures and Crisis Management under COVID-19: A Panel Study, Knowledge Transfer Fund, University Grants Commission, HKD200,000, 2020-21.
  • Principal Investigator, Contentious Politics and its Repercussions in Asia, Asia Pacific Workshop Grant, American Political Science Association, USD 50,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Comparing State-Diaspora Relations: The Evolving Role of Chinese Hometown Associations in East and Southeast Asia, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 875,920. 2019-2021.
  • Principal Investigator, Silence Amidst Voice: An Ethnography of Everyday Politics in Hong Kong, Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council, HKD 737,000, 2018-2020.
  • Principal Investigator, An Empirical Study of Socio-Political Trust in Post-Occupy Hong Kong, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 974, 988. 2016-2018.
  • Principal Investigator, World Values Survey Wave 7: Generating Data for Trust Maintenance, Repair, and Better Governance in Hong Kong, Public Policy Research Fund, Central Policy Unit, HKD 1,025,243, 2016-2018.
  • Principal Investigator, The Dynamics of Activism in Post-handover Hong Kong: An Interactive Approach, Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, HKD 451, 545, 2014-2016.​
  • Co-Investigator, How Does Backsliding Affect Pushback? Comparing Opposition to Autocratization in the Philippines and Thailand, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 867,000, 2021-23.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, China’s Alternative Public Sphere in the 20th Century, Tremplin-ERC Fund, French National Research Agency, EUR 99, 997, 2017-2018.
  • Co-Investigator, Knowledge Illusion, Community of Knowledge and Citizens’ Extreme Attitudes in Politics and Public Policy, Public Policy Research Fund, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, HKD 368, 700, 2020.
  • Co-Investigator, Radicalization of the Educated: Moving Towards Extremism, Public Policy Research Fund, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, HKD 412, 500, 2020.
  • Co-Investigator, Ripple Effects of Social Movements: Initial Biographical Consequences of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement, Public Policy Research Fund, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, HKD 435, 850, 2020.
  • Co-Investigator, Trust as an Institutional Form for Mobilizing Voluntarism in Heritage Conservation, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 546, 800. 2014-2016.
  • Co-Investigator, Tracing Traces of the Umbrella Movement: Transformative Experience and Abeyance Structure, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 752,300, 2019-21.
​Internal Grants
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Governance and Compliance in the Post-Pandemic Normal, Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Grant, City University of Hong Kong, HKD 300,000, 2022-2024.
  • Principal Investigator, Risk Perception and Social Compliance under the Pandemic: A Cross-national Survey, Start-Up Grant, City University of Hong Kong, HKD 300,000, 2020-2022.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Public Perceptions of the Rule of Law: A Longitudinal Study. Centre for Public Affairs and Law, City University of Hong Kong, HKD 200,000, 2020-2022.
  • Principal Investigator, Blending Topic Modelling and Network Analysis: Big Data Analytics  of Connective Actions, Inter-disciplinary Research Grant, Hong Kong Institute of Data Science, HKD, 1,930,000, 2019-2021.
  • Principal Investigator, The Ecology of Civic Engagement, Public Policy Research Scheme, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKD 1,198, 500, 2018-2020. 
  • Co-Principal Investigator, A Trans-Disciplinary Big Data Hub, Strategic Development Fund, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKD 2, 035, 000, 2017-2019. 
  • Principal Investigator, Media Framing of Protest Events, Start-Up Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKD200, 000, 2016-2017.