External Grants
  • Principal Investigator, How Emotions and Networks Unfold in a Leaderful Movement? Public Sentiments and Mobilizing Structure in Hong Kong's Summer of Dissent. HKD 867,000, 2021-2022.
  • Principal Investigator, The Socioeconomic and Political Origins of the Hong Kong 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 in Hong Kong, Knowledge Transfer Fund, University Grants Commission, HKD199,720, 2020-2021
  • 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, Public Policy Research Fund, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, HKD 435, 850, 2020.​
  • Principal Investigator, Comparing State-Diaspora Relations: The Evolving Role of Chinese Hometown Associations in East and Southeast Asia, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HKD 875,920. 2019-2021.
  • Co-Investigator, Tracing Traces of the Umbrella Movement: Transformative Experience and Abeyance Structure, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grant Council, HKD 752,300, 2019-2020.
  • Principal Investigator, Silence Amidst Voice: An Ethnography of Everyday Politics in Hong Kong, Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council, HKD 737,000, 2019-2021.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, China’s Alternative Public Sphere in the 20th Century, Tremplin-ERC Fund, French National Research Agency, EUR 99, 997, 2017-2018.
  • Principal Investigator, An Empirical Study of Social and Political Trust in Post-Occupy Hong Kong, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 974, 988, 2017-18.
  • Principal Investigator, World Values Survey Wave 7: Generating Data for Trust Maintenance, Repair and Better Governance in Post-Occupy Hong Kong, Public Policy Research Fund, Central Policy Unit, HKD 1,025,243, 2016-18.
  • Principal Investigator, The Dynamics of Activism in Post-handover Hong Kong: An Interactive Approach, Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, HKD 451, 545, 2016-18.
  • Co-Investigator, Trust as an Institutional Form for Mobilizing Voluntarism in Heritage Conservation, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKD 546, 800, 2015-17
  • Co-Investigator, A Bilingual Glossary for NSS Liberal Studies Module 4 Globalization, Curriculum Development Fund, Hong Kong Education Bureau, HKD 148,500, 2009-2010
  • Co-Investigator, Bilingual Teaching Plans for NSS Liberal Studies Module 4 Globalization, Curriculum Development Fund, Hong Kong Education Bureau, HKD 181,400, 2009-2010.
Internal Grants
  • 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 100,000, 2021-2023.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Hostile Judiciary Perception in Hong Kong: An Interventional Study, Centre for Public Affairs and Law, City University of Hong Kong, HKD 100,000. 2020-2022.
  • Principal Investigator, Risk Perception and Social Compliance under the Pandemic, Faculty Research Grant, City University of Hong Kong, HKD 100,000, 2020-2021.
  • Principal Investigator, Government Responses and Attitude Changes under COVID-19: A Panel Study in East and Southeast Asia, Startup Grant, City University of Hong Kong, HKD, 200,000, 2019-2021.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Blending Topic Modelling and Social Network Analysis: Big Data Analysis of the Hong Kong Protests, Hong Kong Institute of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, HKD, 1,930,000, 2019-2021.
  • Principal Investigator, Mapping the Networks and Impacts of Civic Engagement: Community Actors, Social Capital, and Urban Governance in Hong Kong, Public Policy Scheme, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKD 1, 198, 500, 2018-20.
  • Co-Investigator,, A Trans-Disciplinary Big Data Hub: Investigating the Society Mobility, Poverty and Diversity Nexus, Strategic Development Fund, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKD 2, 035, 000, 2016-19.
  • Principal Investigator, Media Framing of Political Crisis, Start-up Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKD100, 000, 2016-2017.
  • Principal Investigator, Explaining Social Contention, Research and Development Fund, Open University of Hong Kong, HKD 139,600, 2014-15.
  • Principal Investigator, Heritage Marking and Civil Society in Penang, Research and Development Fund, Open University of Hong Kong, HKD 55,000, 2013-14.