Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU

23/10/2026

📣 𝐔𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 | 𝟏𝟑 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

🎓 𝐃𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬

Join us for an engaging seminar featuring Prof. Masaaki HIGASHIJIMA, who will explore the political challenges surrounding humanitarian protection and asylum policies in established democracies.

🎤 Speaker: Prof. Masaaki HIGASHIJIMA (Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo)
📅 Date: 13 November 2026 (Friday)
⏰ Time: 14:00 – 16:00
📍 Venue: WYS1123

📝 Abstract
This talk will explain a pressing political dilemma facing many countries around the world: how established democracies gradually expand humanitarian protections for asylum seekers, while public pressure simultaneously restricts rights that may conflict with citizens' interests.

✅ Registration
Register on or before 6:00 p.m. on 12 Nov 2026 (Thu)

🔗 Registration Form:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/1Jm2cEg7Jc

24/08/2026

📅 𝓟𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓢𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻?

Take a look at our September 𝙏𝙞𝙥𝙨-𝙩𝙤-𝙂𝙤 for important dates👀, including the 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒅𝒅/𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅, and 𝑮𝑰𝑺 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. While you're planning your timetable, don't forget to explore the courses offered by 𝑮𝑰𝑺 and discover something that interests you!✨🪄

𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙨!🎓
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記得睇睇我哋嘅 September 𝙏𝙞𝙥𝙨-𝙩𝙤-𝙂𝙤👀，重要日子一目了然，包括開學日、𝒂𝒅𝒅/𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅同 𝑮𝑰𝑺 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏！規劃時間表之餘，不妨而家睇下 𝑮𝑰𝑺 提供嘅科目，可能會發現啱你興趣嘅選擇!✨🪄

新學期見！🎓

#新學期 #校園生活

16/07/2026

🎉𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨!
We are delighted to share that two faculty members from the Department have been awarded funding under the 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 (𝗚𝗥𝗙) 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟮𝟳.

🌟 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛. 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙎𝘾𝙄𝘾𝙇𝙐𝙉𝘼
Project Title: 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟰–𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟴: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺

🌟 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛. 𝙅𝙖𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙈
Project Title: 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸? 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮

We congratulate both colleagues on this outstanding achievement and look forward to the impact of their research.

23/10/2025

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14/08/2023

GIS is back with more alumni career sharing sessions in 2023-24. We will have Linda (2016 graduate), a signer-songwriter to be our guest.

Meet Linda on 22nd September afternoon!

GIS 2023-24學年舊生分享又開始喇，今次係獨立創作歌手周華欣同學(2016畢業)!

9月22下晝，約定你喇 :)

26/07/2023

Congratulations to 2023 Graduate Stephanie for receiving the Merit Award - HK Top 10 Outstanding Students Election 2023 (Tertiary Education)! 恭喜應屆畢業生陳柳伊同學榮獲香港十大傑出大專學生選舉2023優異獎! #2023

15/05/2023

隨著ChatGPT💻普及，AI🤖的應用迅速進入教育領域，也同時開拓了數碼素養 (digital literacy) 的重要面向。進入AI普及化的時代，如何應對科技發展，提供適應社會需求和青年發展的教育方案，是當前的重要議題。

為探討這個議題，香港恒生大學公共政策研究中心及香港浸會大學比較管治與政策研究中心將會聯手舉辦「AI時代的數碼教育：創新教學的未來？」研討會。

在這個研討會，我們邀請了來自學術界、青年組織、專業教育、傳媒四個界別的講者，分享他們因應AI和數碼素養的研究成果，個人經驗、發展策略，並討論AI怎樣可以作為發展創新教學的契機，及不同持分者在推廣數碼素養的角色與責任。

研討會詳情如下：
日期：2023年5月25 (星期四)
時間：下午5:30 - 7:00
地點： Preface Coffee & W**e (銅鑼灣霎東街11號The Sharp地下及1樓)
語言：廣東話
聯合主辦機構：香港恒生大學公共政策研究中心; 香港浸會大學比較管治與政策研究中心
協辦機構：Preface; 香港青年協會

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如欲索取更多資料，請電郵至 [email protected] 或[email protected]。

講者及題目：
葉家威博士 (香港浸會大學政治及國際關係學系助理教授)
葉家威博士剛完成一項關於數碼素養和數碼安全的研究。他會對「數碼素養」概念提出想法，並分析現時社會對數碼素養的了解，還有哪些需要進步的地方。

曾愛盈小姐 (《南華早報》Young Post 總編輯)
曾愛盈小姐會從傳媒運作經驗，及對青年人親身觀察，討論人工智能發展如何影響青少年職業生涯規劃；並分享傳媒如何編採與科技發展相關的資訊，在應用層面幫助教育工作者。

盧炳棠先生 (Preface 創辦人及行政總裁)
Preface是一間教育科技企業，因應不同人士的需要，製作教育項目。盧炳棠先生會從專業教育的角度，分享如何策展與人工智能相關的教育項目，幫助各界應對數碼發展的趨勢。

陳英杰先生 (香港青年協會督導主任; 註冊社工 (香港))
陳英杰先生多年從事數碼素養的青少年教育。他會以自己的工作經驗，探討怎樣提升人們對人工智能的警覺性及應用能力。

15/05/2023

It was a busy year for me as I published 3 books in 2022, a fruitful year - Prof. Alistair Cole, Head of Department 👏 👏

06/02/2023

06/02/2023

📌 GIS & CGPC Research Seminar 📌

🚄🚄🚄Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program

💬 China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the striking regional and temporal variation in such investments. In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's unprecedented high-speed railway program. Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews, original data sets, and surveys with local officials, Ma details how the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authorities—whom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement various infrastructure projects—shaped the allocation of investment in the railway system. Demonstrating how localities of different types invoke institutional and extra-institutional sources of bargaining power in their competition for railway stations, Ma sheds new light on how the nation's massive bureaucracy actually functions.

📅Date: February 23, 2023 (Thursday)
🕟Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm (HKT UTC+8)
📍Venue: Online + AAB 1123, GIS Meeting Room, Hong Kong Baptist University*
💻*This is a webinar-style event (Dr. Ma will join us online, but limited seats will be provided in our meeting room)

📝Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/qMT7zaRMYp