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Talent 100 PhD Scholarship Scheme (2020-21)

Aiming to enhance the University’s research capacity and elevate the standards of postgraduate training, training on interdisciplinary research in particular, Hong Kong Baptist University has launched the Talent 100 PhD Scholarship Scheme (Scheme) to recruit meritorious PhD students via a fast track arrangement.

 

Students admitted under the Scheme will be hosted under the Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies (ITS).  With an aim of taking a more proactive role to enable the offering of interdisciplinary programme for PhD training, IIS has organised a project-based research training for students to enhance a variety of skills, which are essential for conducting research, by involving them in interdisciplinary research projects during their first year of study.  From the second year onwards, students will have their affiliation with the departments in alignment with their Principal Supervisors.

 

The interdisciplinary research projects are subsumed into 6 Interdisciplinary Research Labs and are listed as follows:

 

 

 

Augmented Creativity Lab

 

Computational Medicine Lab

 

System Health Lab

 

Smart Society Lab

 

Data Economy Lab

 

Ethical and Theoretical AI Lab

 

* Research projects under multiple Labs