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.
CUHK-BNU Geography Symposium: A New Partnership
On 28-29 Apr 2025, GRM welcomed delegates from Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Geographical Science (BNU-FGS), led by vice-dean Prof Fenghua Pan, for the first geography symposium jointly organised by the two units. Members from GRM and BNU-FGS had wide-ranging discussions on their research in health, transport, financial and education geographies. The symposium marks the beginning of long-term collaboration between the two units in research, teaching and student exchange.
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.
Professor Mee Kam Ng elected Fellow of The Royal Town Planning Institute
[05/11/2021] Professor Mee Kam Ng has been elected to the fellowship of The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) in recognition of her long-standing work in spatial planning. Fellow is the highest professional membership grade offered by the RTPI and is only awarded to its members who have made a major personal contribution to the planning profession for the benefit of the public.
Professor Johnson Chan and Professor Lawal M. Marafa awarded funding under Countryside Conservation Funding Scheme
[5/10/2021] Professor Chan Chung Shing Johnson (as principal investigator) and Professor Lawal Mohammed Marafa (as co-investigator) have been awarded a funding of HK$2,632,500 under the Countryside Conservation Funding Scheme for their project “Community-based Narratives and Public Experiential Engagement for Cultural and Historical Heritage Conservation and Revitalisation of Yim Tin Tsai, Sai Kung” from 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2024. The scheme is managed by the Environmental Protection Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Their project highlights village and rural environments as changing cultural landscapes which provide tangible heritage and hidden values for conservation and revitalisation. Based on community-based storytelling and narratives approach and public experiential engagement, the project aims to generate valuable records and information about culture and history of Yim Tin Tsai, a small but once prosperous offshore island in Sai Kung, Hong Kong.
Professor Huang Bo awarded MoE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award
[15/4/2021] Professor Huang Bo has been been awarded the Ministry of Education (MoE) Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award 2020 (Second Class Award in Natural Sciences) for the research titled “Theory and methodology for spatiotemporal multi-scale data fusion”.
Professor Kwan Mei Po awarded 2021 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Wilbanks Prize
Professor Kwan Mei Po has been selected to receive the 2021 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography. This award recognizes geographers whose research has made transformational contributions to geography, geographic information science or to science and society more broadly.
Professor Gabriel Ngar-Cheung Lau named American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow
Professor Gabriel Ngar-Cheung Lau has been honored as one of the 2020 Class of Fellows of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his contributions as one of the prestigious global leaders and experts who have propelled the understanding of geosciences. Details: https://www.iees.cuhk.edu.hk/professor-gabriel-ngar-cheung-lau-named-american-geophysical-union-agu-fellow/
Professor Kwan Mei Po and Prof. Huang Bo obtained the RGC Collaborative Research Fund 2020-21
Professor Kwan Mei Po and Professor Huang Bo have been awarded research funding under the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2020/21 – Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG) Proposals for the project “Deploying Geospatial Big Data and Real-time Mobile Sensing to Assess the Health Impacts of Individual Exposure to Green/blue Spaces, Light at Night, Air Pollution, and Noise (GLAN)” and “Assessment and implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions to avoid COVID-19 resurgences: Accounting for human mobility, contacts and behavioral change using both big and small data” respectively.
Professor Chen Yongqin David and Yim Hung Lam Steve awarded the National Key R&D Program of China funding
Professor Chen Yongqin David, in collaboration with Professor Yim Hung Lam Steve, has been awarded a funding of RMB 2,830,000 for the project “大灣區極端天氣氣候防災減災和適應的技術與對策” under the National Key R&D Program of China (國家重點研發計畫) by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (中華人民共和國科學技術部), from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023.
Professor Kwan Mei Po has been awarded the lifelong honorary title of AAG Fellow
Professor Kwan Mei Po has been awarded the lifelong honorary title of AAG Fellow. The AAG Fellows is a program, started in 2018, to recognize geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography.
Professor Huang Bo received Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018 – Smart People Award
Prof. Huang Bo and his group members have developed an efficient smartphone APP named “TouchAir” for the general public to access real time air pollutant concentrations at any location in Hong Kong and Mainland China with high accuracy, high resolution and full coverage. This APP has won the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018 – Smart People Award. Ms. Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, attended the award presentation ceremony held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on April 4. TouchAir, with its server programs running on the Ali cloud platform, has been released since September 2015 with both its iOS and Android versions available on App Store (for iPhone and iPad users) and Google Play/Baidu Mobile Phone Assistant (for Android smartphone users).
