Print FriendlyCollaborative Interdisciplinary Research at the Cutting Edge
Working together in research offers more than just the sum of the knowledge and expertise of the individual parties: it provides opportunities, for example, for mutual inspiration, unforeseen links, new insight, the cross-fertilisation of ideas, and creative solutions.
As a world-class comprehensive research university, the University of Hong Kong’s activities span all major disciplines across our faculties, departments, research centres and institutes. We place particular emphasis on strategic interdisciplinary research in selected fields of strength for the valuable synergies collaboration can produce.
In 2004–07, we identified 8 multidisciplinary areas and 21 constituent themes. The themes were reviewed in 2007, enabling us to further develop and refine them. In 2008, 5 areas and 19 themes were identified for support for the next 3-year period.
This website provides a flavour of some of the issues our researchers are seeking to address and projects they are undertaking as we strive for groundbreaking discoveries that can advance societal development. We hope that as well as providing an overview, it can also foster interest in our research and stimulate potential collaboration.
Professor Lap-Chee Tsui
Vice-Chancellor and President
April 2009
"Great discoveries and improvements invariably
involve the cooperation of many minds."
Alexander Graham Bell, Scientist and Inventor
"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress,
and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid."
Ernest Lawrence, Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner 1939
