Event Highlights

On August 18–19, 2025, the Education University of Hong Kong warmly welcomed over 700 new Master of Education (MEd) students with a dynamic orientation held by the Graduate School at Tai Po campus. The event offered an engaging introduction to the MEd programme, fostering meaningful connections among students, faculty, and the wider EdUHK community. We … Continued

The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) held the International Postgraduate Roundtable and Research Forum cum Summer School (IPRRFSS) 2025 on its Tai Po campus, between 29 July and 1 August. Under the theme ‘Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Exploring Mind, Language, and Environment for a Sustainable Future’, the conference served as an important forum for sharing and … Continued

EdUHK-IOE Summer Conference on Leadership in Language and Culture”:, co-hosted by EdUHK’s Graduate School (GS) and the Academy for Educational Development and Innovation (AEDI), in collaboration with the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the UCL Institute of Education (UCL-IOE), concluded on July 8, 2025. 180+ scholars, educators, policymakers, and students from the UK, US, and … Continued

Professor Agnes Weiyun He presented a transformative framework for understanding intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in her June 3 seminar at The Education University of Hong Kong. Grounded in conversation analysis, she reconceptualised ICC not as an individual trait but as a co-constructed phenomenon emerging through real-time dialogue, where interactional competence (IC1) and intercultural competence (IC2) dynamically index … Continued

On June 2, 2025, Professor Agnes Weiyun He from SUNY-Stony Brook University delivered a seminar titled “A Serial Narrative Ethnographic Approach to Language Socialization Research.” The session introduced an innovative methodology that bridges narrative inquiry and linguistic anthropology to study language development across transnational contexts. Professor He, a Guggenheim Fellow and leading scholar in heritage language studies, … Continued

Insights from Dr Dai Huteng’s Workshop on Automated Language Analysis Dr Dai Huteng introduced fundamental concepts of machine learning (ML), demonstrated its applications in linguistic research, and encouraged interdisciplinary collaboration in a seminar on 29 May 2025. Dr Dai, an Assistant Professor from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA, combined theoretical explanations, practical examples, … Continued