Department Celebrates Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement 2025

We are proud to announce that our department's distinguished staff have been recognised with the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement 2025, presented by the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences (FHSS), in celebration of their exceptional contributions to knowledge transfer.

Faculty Awards in Knowledge Transfer

Award Category: Society – Individual
Prof. Elsie YAN, Professor, APSS

Prof. YAN’s research focuses on interpersonal violence against older adults. Specifically, she conducts research on elder abuse in domestic settings and resident aggression in long-term care facilities. She believes that raising public awareness of these issues is essential for effective prevention and intervention. In an attempt to raise public awareness of elder abuse in Hong Kong, she and her team produced the short film “Bric-a-Brac”, which has been widely used in training workshops and reached 3756 workshop participants as of June 2025.

Prof. YAN is currently an appointed member of the HKSAR Government Working Group on Elder Abuse (WGEA) and a member of the WHO Intervention Accelerator to Prevent Abuse of Older People (WHO AOP-IA).

Award Category: Society – Team
PolyU Igniting Social Innovation Competition for Secondary School Students 

• Mr Vincent YEUNG, Lecturer, APSS (Team Leader)
• Prof. Eric CHUI, Chair Professor, APSS (Team Leader)
• Prof. Vincent CHENG, Assistant Professor, APSS
• Dr Raymond TAM, Senior Lecturer, APSS
• Dr Javier PANG, Lecturer, APSS

The winning team’s testimony: 
“As a team, we are honoured to receive the Faculty Team Award 2025 for Outstanding Achievement in Knowledge Transfer - Society. This recognition celebrates our commitment to empowering Hong Kong’s youth as social innovators. Through cross-sectoral collaboration, advanced technologies (including Generative AI and Immersive Technology), and mentorship, our project has connected secondary school students with real-world challenges, nurturing analytical skills, empathy, and leadership qualities in the process. By bridging academic knowledge with community needs, we are able to foster a sustainable culture of social innovation and positive change.

This award belongs to every partner, mentor, and student who shared in our vision and passion for creating meaningful impact together.”