GRM Ranked 19th in the World
In the 2025 QS World University Subject Rankings, GRM is ranked 19th globally in the field of Geography, climbing 12 places from last year. For details, please visit QS website.
Call for Abstracts: 13th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism
GRM’s International Conference on Sustainable Tourism is set to return for its 13th edition on 8-10 May 2025. This year, five esteemed international keynote speakers will join participants to delve into the crucial intersection of tourism and sustainable transformation. Abstract submissions are open until 11 Apr 2025. For more details, please visit the Conference Website.
GRM Distinguished Lecture: “Nobel of Geography” Winner on Regional Innovation
GRM is honoured to welcome Professor Ron Boschma, an internationally renowned economic geographer, to give a lecture on 1 Apr 2025 on the topic “Regional Innovation and Smart Specialization Policy in the European Union”. Professor Boschma is the 2024 winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize, also widely known as the “Nobel of Geography”, and has made a significant impact on the EU’s regional innovation policy. Please click here for details of this lecture, and sign up here to guarantee your seat.
GRM Reception at 2025 AAG Annual Meeting
GRM invites everyone who will visit Detroit for the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting for a reception! Join us from 6 pm to 9 pm on Tue 25 Mar 2025 at The Whisky Parlor, 608 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48226. For enquiries, please contact Asst Prof Scarlett Jin.
Pioneering satellite designed by GRM members launched
Developed under the leadership of GRM’s Prof Kwan Mei Po and Asst Prof Ma Peifeng , the “Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Technology Satellite” was successfully launched on 24 Sep 2024. The spacecraft is the world’s first large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) model scientific satellite. Focusing on high-resolution monitoring of the Greater Bay Area and its surroundings, the satellite is poised to support critical applications in disaster response, smart city development, carbon neutrality, and the low-altitude economy.
Please click here for further details, or click here to watch the satellite launch.
GRM Faculty Members Shine in World’s Top 2% Scientists List
Eight GRM faculty members have been recognized in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list published by Stanford University in September 2024. They include (listed in alphabetical order by surname): Prof. Chan Chung Shing Johnson, Prof. Chen Yongqin David, Prof. He Ying Sylvia, Prof. Kwan Mei Po, Prof. Lai Yuk Fo Derrick, Prof. Lau Ngar Cheung Gabriel, Prof. Leung Yee, and Prof. Shen Jianfa.
Rankings of GRM faculty members on the list: [PDF]
GRM Hosted International Scholars to Explore Sustainable Urban Growth Management
On 5 Sep 2024, GRM hosted a mini-conference titled ‘Zoning Urbanisation: A Global Comparison of Sustainable Growth Management’. Experts from Brazil, Ireland, Sweden and the UK joined local scholars, including GRM’s Prof Xu Jiang, Prof Ng Mee Kam and Prof Calvin Chung, to evaluate a variety of strategies for promoting sustainable urbanisation through zoning. The event sparked insightful discussions on the varied impacts of different zones on communities living in and alongside them. CUHK Faculty of Social Science and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) sponsored this mini-conference.
GRM to host 12th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism
GRM will host the 12th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism on 9-11 May 2024. Supported by the Master of Social Science in Sustainable Tourism (MSSST) programme, the conference has been held annually since 2012. The upcoming conference in 2024 revolves around the theme of “Tourism Development and Investment in Sustainability”, aiming to explore how tourism and sustainable investments can shape a better world. It will discuss how to diversify markets, reduce risks, enhance resilience, and involve locals. It will also examine how investments can foster innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship while conserving nature and culture.
For paper submission and registration information, please visit the conference website: http://mssst.grm.cuhk.edu.hk/st2024/
GRM PhD Student won Best Student Paper Award
Our PhD student Zhengke Zhou won the 2024 Best Student Paper Award from the Economic Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG). Zhengke examines Shenzhen’s battery recycling industry to reveal how materialities of the environment shape state-firm interactions in the development of green industries.
GRM students crowned in Open Data Hackathon 2023
Four of our Year 4 undergraduates, Yu Lok Hin Nicolas, Tse Kwan Hon Kelvin, Li Wang Tsun Harold and Chan Shun In Caleb won Champion and Best Teamwork Award in the Tertiary Stream of “Open Data Hackathon 2023”. Their winning proposal of a real-time warning system of hazard trees envisions an open dataset that can be edited by officials through an interdepartmental dashboard and contributed by the general public through an app.
More about the hackathon: https://events.hk-tag.org/program-details-2023/.
Seven GRM Scholars Among World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2023
Seven GRM scholars were named on the list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists published by Stanford University in October 2023. They (in alphabetical order of surnames) are Prof. Chen Yongqin David, Prof. He Ying Sylvia, Prof. Kwan Mei Po, Prof. Lai Yuk Fo Derrick, Prof. Lau Ngar Cheung Gabriel, Prof. Leung Yee, and Prof. Shen Jianfa.
Ranking of the GRM faculty members named: [PDF]
Full list: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6
In Memory of Professor Leung Cheuk Fai Jimmy
It is with great sorrow that we announce the untimely passing of Professor Leung Cheuk Fai Jimmy on 26 July 2023. Professor Leung was a distinguished alumnus of CUHK and served as our adjunct professor from 2014 until the very end of his life. Our thoughts are with Professor Leung’s family.
GRM members honoured for planning projects
Two projects involving GRM members are selected for The Hong Kong Institute of Planners Awards 2022 for integrating innovative planning ideas and existing planning elements to inject new life into the city.
Prof. Ng Mee Kam, Dr Lee Wai Ying Joanna, Prof Li Jing Victor, Prof Shen Jianfa and two PhD students, Yeung Tsz Chun Arthur and Zhu Jiageng, received Certificate of Merit for their project “A Living Museum: Point-Line-Plane Conservation of the Ma On Shan Iron Mine Landscape”. Prof Au Wai Kwong Elvis and Prof Ling Kar Kan also received Certificate of Merit for their project “Reimagining a Future-ready Kennedy Town and Mount Davis”.
