Educational Aims
Benchmarked against the highest international standards, the research postgraduate programmes of HKU are designed to enable students to develop their capabilities to:
Engage in critical intellectual enquiry
- Critically evaluate information and ideas from multiple perspectives
- Integrate knowledge at the forefront of a particular field
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of research methodologies and techniques at an advanced level
- Develop, design and implement research projects competently and independently
Conduct innovative, high-impact and leading edge research
- Engage in original research that takes a new technological, methodological, or theoretical approach
Provide novel solutions to complex problems
- Identify and define emerging problems
- Offer innovative and original solutions to problems and issues in novel situations
Demonstrate adherence to personal and professional ethics
- Maintain the highest standards of personal and academic integrity
- Understand complex ethical and professional issues
Demonstrate leadership and advocacy skills
- Articulate analyses and propose solutions in response to social issues
- Communicate and disseminate research findings effectively in the academic community and to stakeholders in society
Work with others and make constructive contributions
- Engage in intellectual exchange with researchers from other disciplines to address important research issues
- Collaborate effectively with researchers from different cultures
Monitor, review and reflect on one’s own work and competencies, and change and adapt in the light of new demands
- Evaluate contribution of one’s own work to the field
- Demonstrate flexibility to accommodate new knowledge and perspectives
Programme Learning Outcomes
On completion of the research postgraduate programmes, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical understanding, at an advanced level, of up-to-date knowledge and research methodology of a particular field
- Implement effective academic and personal strategies for carrying out research projects independently and ethically
- Contribute original knowledge in response to issues in their specialist area
- Communicate research findings at a diverse range of levels and through a variety of media
- Evaluate one’s own research in relation to important and latest issues in the field