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Management/administrative responsibilities
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I completed my fourth term as Head of the Department of Ecology & Biodiversity (DEB) at Hong Kong University (HKU) in January 2007, and I was Founding Head of DEB in 1994. I took up the Chairmanship of the Science Faculty Board, in February 2007. In both of those roles, I have had to sit on all major Science-Faculty Committees, and have been (and am now) a statutory member of the University Senate. I was extensively involved in the UGC Teaching and Learning Quality Process Review (2002) of HKU because DEB was one of the five units selected for detailed evaluation by the Review Panel. In 2004, I was a member of a University Working Group that reviewed the management of health and safety at HKU and reported to Council. I was subsequently coo-opted as a member of the Selection Committee for the University Biosafety Officer and the Selection Committee for the University Sustainability Coordinator/Manager. Since 2005 I have been a member of the Project Group for Western Expansion and Main Campus Redevelopment that is charged with planning HKU’s ‘Centennial Campus’; I am chair of the landscaping subcommittee for the new campus Other duties include service as a non-faculty member of the Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Architecture Faculty, and related duties in the context of the ongoing review and reform of human resources and performance evaluation practices in the University. In addition to my responsibilities as Head of DEB, I have served as elected Science Faculty Representative on the University Senate, was a member of the Senate Working Party on Research Ethics, and convened a Working Group to reporting on environmental studies to the (then) PVC (Research). I have also served as a Senate panel member (and Chair) of the University Disciplinary Committee. I spent four years as member of The Hong Kong University Press Committee, and served for two terms as elected Science Faculty representative on the Committee for the Selection of Senior Teachers. I am also a long-standing member of the Dr Stephen S. F. Hui Trust Fund Committee of Management.
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