Over the past ten years, colleagues, students and graduates have been displaying excellence in their field of expertise. For example,
• Seven colleagues at the Department have won the Teaching Excellence Award in the University on eight occasions;
• Two Social Work colleagues also won the UGC Teaching Excellence Award in 2013 and 2014, respectively;
• Four Social Work colleagues, two Psychology and one Counseling colleague won the CLASS’ Excellence in Knowledge Transfer Award in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
• A social work student also won the First Runner-up Award in the DEC Competition held by CLASS in 2015.
• Seven of our Social Work graduates have won the Outstanding Social Workers Award, four of whom were winners of the Junior Outstanding Social Workers Award in the event that was organized by the Hong Kong Social Workers’ Association.
• The Department has sponsored over 300 students in cross-cultural learning programmes and internships outside Hong Kong;
• Eighteen students who studied under an exchange programme at the University of Houston have been granted scholarships to pursue a Master in Social Work.
• Ninety-four students have received scholarships to study overseas under the Academic Exchange Programme.