This workshop aims to enable students to analyse and apply the knowledge about public policy making, leadership and entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, guided with the anticipation of career opportunities and future development of policy leadership and entrepreneurship, students are inspired to make impact in the society. To aid student engagement in this workshop, four Guest Sharing sessions […]
Our DSPS team has collaborated with Internet Society Hong Kong, in contribution to the Hong Kong Open Data Index Report 2021/2022. Our Programme Co-Director, Professor Wong served as the academic advisor; meanwhile, three of our students, Ms. Anna Ng, Ms. Miranda Ding, and Mr. Joi Fun Lam took up the role as researchers, to support […]
Our Programme Co-Director, Professor Wong was invited by “talent.gov.hk” to share his insights about the career prospects in data science. The interview concentrated on the overview of data science as a technical profession. Besides technical competence of data science, if a graduate could develop an interdisciplinary knowledge base as emphasized in the positioning of our […]
Our DSPS lecturers are also actively engaged in research activities infused with data insights and solutions. Dr Kelvin Lo, one of our lecturers, has his latest article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, a Q1 journal in “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” which gathers evidence-based research on interventions and resources working as the complement or replacement of […]
Our Lecturer, Dr. LO was invited to share his knowledge on the integration of data analytics skills by using Python with research related to tourism industry in an online seminar funded by the Inter-Institutional Development Scheme and organized by School of Professional Education and Executive Development, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The research seminar discussed […]
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The talk by Ekimetrics was successfully held with the purpose of connecting the power of data science and social science to its application and introducing its career prospects on 20 May 2022 in the state-of-the-art Digital Scholarship Lab. The Ekimetrics team consists of Ms. Celine Wong, manager and the main speaker, and two consultants, Mr. […]
Our DSPS team (Professor Wilson Wong, Dr. Kelvin Lo, and Professor Annie Tam) is invited by the Executive MBA (EMBA) Programme of the Business School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to speak on the topic “Data for Social Good: Theory and Practice” in its online forum. The CUHK EMBA, as the first […]
Producing impactful research for enhancing public good is one of the core missions of our Data Science and Policy Studies (DSPS) Programme. In this connection, Professor Wilson Wong, our co-director, publishes two academic articles to find out the underlying factors of good government performance in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic. In “When the State […]
Professor Wilson Wong, our DSPS co-director, has contributed a guest lecture "Governance in the Digital Era: Concerns, Issues, and Options" for the Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) Programme of Tsinghua University in June 2022. All students in the EMPA Programme are major and active actors in the policy and public management arena of Hong […]
As our DSPS is now in its third year after its launch, we have invited some of our students to share stories and reflections of their studies and accomplishments in the Programme. We hope their experiences in their own words would help to guide the DSE students for understanding the focus and identity of our […]
In our Data Science and Policy Studies (DSPS) Programme, learning and impact does not stay inside classrooms. All our teachers are ready to take their teaching to the next level for knowledge transfer and public engagement. For example, Professor Wilson Wong, our DSPS Co-Director, are contributing to Mingpao on a regular basis. This help to […]
