HKU RPG Graduates Experience Sharing Forum

Purpose

The sharing forum was for the graduated RPgs to pass experience and knowledge of the academic and life surviving skills to the existing students. The themes mainly focused on how to manage and cope with stress during the PhD, how to balance life and research, how to cultivate your critical thinking during PhD period and how to make you viva. The events was planned and executed by the internal academic organizing committee of the CIB Chapter.

Schedule
Date: 09 December 2019 (Monday)
Time: 19:00-20:30 (registration begins at 18:45)
Venue: KB719, Knowles Building, HKU
Medium: English

Introduction
Speaker 1: Dr Zhu Xu, Assistant Professor in Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong

Title: A Journey to Re-Understand Architecture
About the speaker
Dr. Xu is an assistant professor teaching architectural history and theory at the Department of Architecture. His research primarily focuses on Asia’s religious material culture and built environment, with a particular emphasis on understanding Chinese Buddhist architecture and its building tradition in relation to the ritual-spiritual contexts. He is also active in extending the academic expertise to the practice of design research, probing the issues of heritage renovation, adaptive reuse, and urban renewal. A series of projects have been done in Macau during the past ten years to develop conservation policies and design strategies for the city’s rich Chinese architectural heritage, including patio dwelling, theatre, and arcade shophouse. The topic of sharing is: A Journey to Re-Understand Architecture.

Speaker 2: Dr. Sujuan Zhang, Research assistant in Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong.

Title: How to prepare for the PhD Viva and Defend Your Thesis
About the speaker
Dr. Sujuan Zhang graduated from the Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong in 2019. She is now working as a research assistant in HKU. She holds a BSc. and a MSc. in construction management from Tianjin University. Her research interests cover project capabilities, dynamic capabilities and strategic management, and BIM adoption. Her PhD thesis mainly aims to explore how PSCs develop commercial capabilities in infrastructure delivery in response to the change of introducing a Public-Private Partnership procurement approach. During 2017-2019, she acted as the president of CIB-HKU student chapter, devoting to improving the academic atmosphere in our faculty.

Speaker 3: Dr. Kun Wang, Postdoctoral research fellow in Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Title: Doing Research!
About the speaker
Dr. Kun Wang graduated from Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong in 2019. He has been employed as postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and acts as a journal article reviewer for Urban Studies. He holds a MSC from Human Geography from Sun Yat-sen University. His research areas includes urban political ecology, geographies of e-waste, environmental governance and environmental justice, urban informality, social exclusion of rural-urban migrants in transitional china, planetary urbanization, post-structural geography and Marxist geography.

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