Horizon Research Grant, Project#9231119, Principal Investigator, “Collective Identity and Media Strategies: The Framing Contest in a Student Movement in Hong Kong,” 60,000 HKD. 01/10/2013 –31/09/2015. (Completed)

City University of Hong Kong Strategic Research Fund, Project#7004511, Principal Investigator, “Cultural Omnivorousness and Globalization,” 100,000 HKD. 01/09/2015 – 31/08/2016. (Completed)

City University of Hong Kong Research Grant Writing Fund, Project#9610309, Principal Investigator, “Are You What You Eat? Cultural Consumption, Social Network and the Global Taste Map,” 299,565 HKD. 01/06/2014 – 31/08/2015. (Completed)

City University of Hong Kong Media and Communication Department Research Fund, Project#9610306. Principal Investigator, “Collective Identity and Media Framing in a Student Movement in Hong Kong,” 100,000 HKD. 01/10/2013 – 31/10/2015. (Completed)

City University of Hong Kong Strategic Research Grant, Project#7008169, Principal Investigator, “The Anti-CNN Movement: Nationalism, New Media and Chinese Generation Y”, 179,568 HKD. 01/05/2012 – 31/07/2014. (Completed)

City University College Research Fund, Project# 9610187, “Media and Chinese Nationalism: A Case Study on the Anti-CNN Movement”, 60,000 HKD. 01/04/2011 – 31/03/2013. (Completed)

City University College Research Fund, Project #9610154, “Individual Innovativeness and Social Network,” 60,000 HKD. 01/04/2010 – 30/04/2011. (Completed)

City University College Research Fund, Project #9610137, “Information and Cognitive Processes in Art Appreciation”, 60,000 HKD. 01/05/2009 – 01/06/2010. (Completed)

City University of Hong Kong Start-up Grant, Project#7200139, Principal Investigator, “Flow of Information in Conventional and Web Media in China: Political Impact of New Media”, 99,992 HKD. 01/04/2009 – 30/06/2010. (Completed)