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Community impact feedback questionnaire (CIFQ) : the user manual
Ka Hing LAU and Robin Stanley SNELL
Service-learning is an experiential pedagogy designed to benefit all stakeholders, comprising students, educational institutions, instructors, and perhaps more importantly, community partner organizations (CPOs) and the community as a whole. Through serving the community via the CPO, students consolidate their knowledge and skills while applying these in real-life situations. Effective service-learning, therefore, should demonstrate community impact as a result.
However, the community impacts arising from service-learning have not been well demonstrated in past research. One reason for this has been the lack of an effective, standardized tool for measuring the impacts. To address this problem, Lingnan University, in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Education University of Hong Kong, consolidated relevant research findings into a conceptual framework about the community impact of service-learning, from which the Community Impact Feedback Questionnaire (CIFQ) has been developed.
The primary objective of the CIFQ is to serve as a standardized and reliable assessment tool for measuring the extent to which a service-learning project is perceived to have various kinds of community impact. The CIFQ is also designed to capture community impacts from the service recipients’ perspective, via the CPO as the service recipients' proxy.
This manual explains the process of how the CIFQ was developed and validated. It also explains how the CIFQ should be administered and scored, and how its results can be interpreted. We envisage that if the CIFQ can be widely adopted, a more complete and reliable data set regarding community impacts arising from service-learning can be obtained. A fuller picture of the community impacts arising from service-learning can help inform how to further advance this experiential learning methodology, and how to derive further benefits for CPOs and the wider community.
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社區影響反饋問卷: 使用手冊
Ka Hing LAU and Robin Stanley SNELL
服務學習是香港以及全球不少中學及大學廣為採用、深具成效的一種經驗教學法。透過學生、導師、社區夥伴及教育機構的攜手合作，服務學習帶領學生走出課室去服務社區。學生得以學以致用，服務社區。社區在另一方面給予學生生動實在的教育，同時也受益於學生的服務。
現時針對服務學習的研究普遍著重對學生發展的益處，較少對社區夥伴或所服務社區的影響。其中一個原因是，現已有不少可以量度服務學習對學生學習的影響的工具，但對於有效地量度服務學習對社區的影響仍然存在不少困難，並且缺乏工具。
有見及此，我們希望此「社區影響反饋問卷」能填補這個缺口。此問卷旨於從社區夥伴的角度，去瞭解服務學習對他們以及服務受眾的影響。問卷涵蓋三個範疇並通過三方面評估服務學習對社區夥伴的影響，即：實現機構使命、增加機構資源，及獲得新知識、洞見、想法及技巧。同時亦包括量度服務受眾獲益於服務學習項目的程度、對整體社區影響、社區協作夥伴會否繼續參與及推薦服務學習等題項，藉此取得相關的關鍵績效指標。
此用戶手冊詳細介紹此「社區影響反饋問卷」可以如何使用。附錄亦載有問卷的中譯本。我們希望中譯本能協助更多社區夥伴參與評估服務學習項目對社區的影響，並將他們的經驗轉化成範例，促進服務學習的進一步發展，並為社區帶來更深遠及持續的好處。
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Building inclusive workplaces for lesbians and bisexual women in Hong Kong’s financial services industry
Denise Tse-Shang TANG, Stefanie TENG, Celine TAN, Bonnie LAM, and Christina YUAN
Workplace inclusion is a core component of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Hong Kong. Workplace inclusion points to the need for employers to recognize diversity among employees, to acknowledge their contributions to the work environment and to raise professional standards for the work force. Diversity within a workplace indicates inclusion of persons with different backgrounds as in racial, ethnic, sex, health status, sexual orientation and gender identity. Women are already less represented at senior levels across various business sectors in Hong Kong. Lesbians and bisexual women face a double glass ceiling in the workplace as a result of both their gender and sexual orientation.
Funded by Lingnan University’s Innovation and Impact Fund, and in partnership with Interbank Forum and Lesbians in Finance, Prof. Denise Tse-Shang Tang conducted an online survey and two focus groups targeting lesbians and bisexual women working in Hong Kong’s financial and banking industry. The aim of the study is to examine the specific challenges and barriers faced by lesbians and bisexual women in Hong Kong’s financial services industry.
We found that only 37% of survey respondents were out at work, with 23% partially out to close colleagues. In other words, there are still key concerns with being out at work. On the issue of a glass ceiling for LGBT+ corporate employees, 18% of the survey respondents agreed and 47% somewhat agreed that such a ceiling exists. When asked whether it is harder for lesbians and bisexual women to come out in the workplace than it is for gay men, 32% agreed and 46% somewhat agreed. 27% agreed and 39% somewhat agreed with the statement that it is difficult for lesbians and bisexual women to climb up the corporate ladder. Other findings pointed to the low visibility of lesbians and bisexual women in corporate settings, lack of mentorship, increased levels of stress and anxiety, and the fear of being judged as both a woman and a lesbian. Masculine-presenting employees face significantly more scrutiny than cisgender female employees. Therefore, even though discussion on diversity and inclusion has been on the agenda for better corporate work environment in Hong Kong, there still remain gaps in raising awareness of lesbian and bisexual women’s issues.
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為香港金融服務業的女同志和雙性戀女性僱員創造共融職場
Denise Tse-Shang TANG (鄧芝珊), 鄧惟君, 陳詩琳, 林寶琪, and 袁琦婷
職場共融是香港企業社會責任(Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR)的重要一環。職場共融指出僱主需要尊重僱員之間的多樣性，肯定僱員對工作環境的不同貢獻，並提高員工的專業水準。多元的工作場所亦需要接納來自不同背景、膚色、種族、健康狀況、性傾向和性別認同的員工。綜觀香港商業各界，向來少有女性的高層代表。女同志和雙性戀女性更因為其性別和性傾向，在職場晉升中面臨「雙重隱形天花板」(double glass ceiling) 的阻礙。
透過嶺南大學創新及效益基金的資助，並與香港跨銀行同志論壇(The Hong Kong LGBT Interbank Forum)和Lesbians in Finance合作，鄧芝珊博士向正在香港金融和銀行業工作的女同志和雙性戀女性，進行了一項網絡問卷調查與兩次焦點小組訪談。研究旨在探討香港金融服務業當中，女同志和雙性戀女性所遇到的具體挑戰和障礙。
我們發現，只有37%的問卷調查受訪者曾經在職場「出櫃」，亦有23%向部分關係密切的同事「出櫃」。換言之，他們對於在職場「出櫃」一事仍然有重大顧慮。企業內的LGBT+員工亦面對「隱形天花板」的晉升問題，18%的調查受訪者同意、47%有點同意存在著這種限制。問及女同志和雙性戀女性是否比男同志更難在職場上「出櫃」時，32%受訪者同意、46%表示有點同意。27%的受訪者同意、39%表示有點同意「女同志和雙性戀女性難以獲得企業的晉升」。其他結果則顯示，女同志和雙性戀女性在企業環境中難被看見、缺乏指導機會、承受更大壓力和焦慮，且擔憂女同志和雙性戀女性的身份會令她們遭受質疑。相較於順性別的女性僱員，表現陽剛的員工亦明顯要面臨更嚴格的審查。故此，即使有關多元共融的討論，一直是改善香港企業工作環境的議程之一，但在提升女同志和雙性戀女性議題的意識方面，仍然存在不足之處。
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LU Jockey Club Gerontechnology and Smart Ageing Project : the project brief = 嶺大賽馬會樂齡科技與智能安老計劃 : 項目簡介
Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, Lingnan University 嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心
嶺南大學得到獲香港賽馬會慈善信託基金捐助，於2019至2022年推行「嶺大賽馬會樂齡科技與智能安老計劃」，鼓勵樂齡科技及智能安老社會創業發展。本計劃推行以「樂齡科技在醫、食、住、行」為主題的活動及教育平台，推廣樂齡科技相關產品的應用，讓樂齡科技能夠在社會普及應用，達致智能安老的願景。本計劃亦致力培育樂齡科技及社會企業人才，提升專業及創業技能，並進行基線研究，建立樂齡科技產品及服務研發、社會創新及創業的數據庫，向業界和政府提出創新的發展方案及相關政策建議。
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「齡活大使」訓練手冊
Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, Lingnan University 嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心
嶺南大學獲賽馬會慈善信託基金捐助，與本地另外三所老年學研究單位共同推行為期共五年半的「賽馬會齡活城市計劃」。嶺南大學團隊先後在新界及離島四個區域進行研究，採取「由下至上、地區為本」的模式，了解當區居民對「長者及年齡友善」程度的評價及改善社區設施與服務的意見，並協助區議會制定行動方案及加入「世界衞生組織全球長者及年齡友善城市及社區網絡」，使社區有策略地發展成「長者及年齡友善」社區。
同時，培訓社區人才亦是「長者及年齡友善」城市得以持續發展的重要因素。因此，嶺南大學團隊著手總結過去四年多在社區內推行「齡活大使」訓練的經驗，集合眾人之心得，彙編成冊，力求過去的點滴能對未來發展有所啟迪。感謝參與計劃之各大學團隊的合作，及社區單位及參加者的無私分享，才可促成本手冊面世，與社會人士分享。
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粵港澳大灣區的港資製造業經營情況、對灣區經濟貢獻與實現轉型升級發展策略顧問研究報告
China Economic Research Programme(CERP), Lingnan University 嶺南大學中國經濟研究部
本研究報告對於港資製造業這個領域的嶄新研究貢獻，主要歸結為以下幾個類別：
- 以多項第一手數據表明，並讓香港特區政府重新認識到港資製造業在「延外發展」模式經營下對香港整體經濟佔有非常重要帶動作用、貢獻和地位；
- 本報告通過挖掘包括國家工商總局在內的大數據方式，從而得出近年包括大灣區以至不同九個市在內的港資製造業企業數目、從業人員數目、註冊資本、營業利潤等的具體數字和變動情況；由於工商總局的註冊或登記數字的個案數比統計局的抽樣為主的統計數字更為具體，因而相關數字能夠更仔細的反映出港資製造業在大灣區內的經營情況，較具有參考價值；
- 本報告以大數據結合問卷調查、深入訪談等方式交叉分析，互補有無，能夠發現更多港資製造業企業對大灣區的經濟貢獻具體情況，有助外界尤其是特區政府和內地相關部委了解到港資企業特別是港資製造業對整個大灣區經濟的重要性，尤其港資製造業如何對專業服務業產生帶動作用，有助社會各界重新關注振興製造業和實現製造業轉型升級的重要性，從而推出更為切合實際的具體振興方案；
- 通過對不同企業和行業的深入訪談，可以令大家更為仔細了解港資製造業目前的經營情況、優勢所在和面對的挑戰，有助中小港資製造業企業借鑑相關經驗，從而發展壯大；
- 這份報告的對策建議部份，內容主要針對包括內地政府、香港特區政府，以及港資製造業企業三大部分，當中具代表性和可操作性的建議，如能獲得有關方面加以關注，對促進港資製造業企業以至整個大灣區的製造業發展均有裨益。有助業界尤其兩地政府知道發展壯大港資製造業事關回應全球產業升級大趨勢，需要讓香港和灣區九市、以至整個廣東和全國的大格局在這大趨勢中去分析和綜合規劃。
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Service-learning outcomes measurement scale (S-LOMS) : the user manual
Ka Hing LAU and Robin Stanley SNELL
This book outlines the development and how to make use of the Service-Learning Outcomes Measurement Scale (S-LOMS) in assessing student developmental outcomes after service-learning experience. This book results from a cross-institutional project named “Cross-institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions (PolyU4/T&L/16-19)”, aiming at enhancing and supporting the development of service-learning as an effective pedagogical strategy under the collaboration of Lingnan University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Education University of Hong Kong.
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Strolling the Lingnan Garden = 涓流彩園錄, 2016-2019 : 上集
Lingnan Gardeners, Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme, Lingnan University
This current collection (Part 1) is a documentation of the Lingnan Gardeners project, from January 2016 up till December 2017. The 21 issues of Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter are collected here, which give some sense of what was happening month by month, in words and pictures. Included are also some related articles on the project, academic interviews, reflections on exchange visits and thoughts after gardening.
本結集 (上集) 是嶺南彩園項目從2016年1月至2017年12月的活動總結。這裡收集了21期《嶺南彩園通訊》，每月發生的活動和留影記錄在這裡。還收錄了一些與項目相關的文章，有學術訪談、交流回顧及參與者感言。
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Strolling the Lingnan Garden = 涓流彩園錄, 2016-2019 : 下集
Lingnan Gardeners, Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme, Lingnan University
This current collection (Part 2) is a documentation of the Lingnan Gardeners project, from January 2018 up till December 2019. The 12 issues of Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter are collected here, which give some sense of what was happening month by month, in words and pictures. Included are also some related articles on the project – academic interviews, reflections on exchange visits, thoughts after gardening, as well as information about our partners and Lingnan garden healthy recipes (part one and two).
本結集 (下集) 是嶺南彩園項目從2018年1月至2019年12月的活動總結。這裡收集了12期《嶺南彩園通訊》，每月發生的活動和留影記錄在這裡。還收錄了一些與項目相關的文章，有學術訪談、交流回顧、參與者感言、夥伴機構介紹及彩園食譜 (上、下)。
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Lingnan University annual report : 2018-2019 = 嶺南大學年報 : 2018-2019
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
To review and summarise Lingnan University's developments and achievements in the previous academic year, the University has published its Annual Report 2018/19 to showcase our dedicated efforts in teaching and learning, internationalisation, research and impact, as well as contributions to society.
嶺南大學出版的《2018/19年報》，概述了大學在教與學、國際化、研究與影響，以及社會貢獻方面的努力耕耘，回顧及總結過去一學年的發展及成就。
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Book and Monograph Publications by Professors of Lingnan University 2011-2020
Lingnan University Library
Foreword
Lingnan University is a leading Asian liberal arts University with international recognition, distinguished by outstanding teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. We were named as one of the “Top 10 Liberal Arts College in Asia” by Forbes 2015, performed among the top 21% in the QS Asia University Rankings 2020, and were ranked 2nd worldwide for “Quality Education” by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Impact Rankings 2020. In the QS Asia University Rankings 2020, Lingnan’s score of Citations per Paper has a jump of 29 places in that year and a leap of 140 places over the preceding year. Such international recognitions underpin Lingnan’s core values – Education: Care for Learning, Research: Impact with Care.
Lingnan University scholars are accelerating their research impact. They have published a total of 909 research papers from 2017 onwards, collaborated with scholars from 542 institutions in 76 countries and the monographs they authored or co-authored were acquired by over 1,500 libraries worldwide. The excellent research landscape of Lingnan University is now showcased in the platform Lingnan Scholars (https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/). I am glad that the Library has been tasked to produce this booklet for the past three years to record the monographic publications of our academics and further widen their research impact. This booklet features the 134 books and monographs published by our professors in different subject areas like finance, fiscal and monetary policy, cultural policy, creative industries, health and ageing, population, gerontechnology and institutions and governance during the period from 2011 to 2020.
The Library will continue to support our academics and scholars to heighten their research impact by broadening the dissemination of their research outputs in the Lingnan Scholars, researching in the application of research data and offering more research support services. I am sure with the concerted efforts of the University community, we will continue to excel and advance.
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嶺南校園 : 賞樹札記
嶺南大學服務研習處
此書的由來，緣於「服務研習藝行大使小組」留意到嶺大校園的建築及樹木同樣具備觀賞價值，遂進行實地考察及資料搜集，設計了嶺大校園建築及樹木導賞路線，並得到嶺大服務研習處推薦，於2015-17年間為中文系「記遊書寫」課程設計及安排校園建築和樹木導賞活動，得到同學們非常正面的回應，之後更有同學參與小組，為校內同學及社區人士提供校園導賞服務。
2017年，「服務研習藝行大使小組」與嶺大服務研習處合作，在賽馬會「關愛．服務．研習@ 屯門」計劃的支持下，配合「記遊書寫」及「創意數碼影像」兩個不同學科的服務研習項目，將有關嶺大校園建築和樹木的導賞資料整理，編寫為《嶺南校園—建築遊賞》和《嶺南校園—賞樹札記》。
《嶺南校園—賞樹札記》介紹共三十二種樹木，其中二十九種在校園核心範圍內。小組將校園分成A至H八區，用實地拍攝的樹木照片作介紹，以提供準確的環境線索去追蹤樹木的位置。各個樹種的介紹內容包括︰學名、科屬、原產地、生長環境、習性、用途、形態特色及一些相關趣味知識，還有一組四句的「觀賞提要」，介紹各樹種獨特之處，「賞樹、識樹」一章則提供了辨認樹種的基本參考資料。
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醫食文字
嶺南大學服務研習處
2018-19年度，嶺南大學中文系與浸會大學中醫藥學院，連同嶺南大學服務研習處、浸會大學創新服務學習中心，舉辦全港首次跨學院、跨學科的聯校服務研習計劃。 該計劃。聯校課程為大學教育資助委員會撥款資助之「香港跨院校服務學習師資培訓」計劃 (Project No. PolyU4/T&L/16-19) 的項目之一，結合新聞寫作及中醫食療保健課程，聯繫學生相互學習，並共同推廣服務學習。
在賽馬會「關愛．服務．研習@ 屯門」計劃下，第一年的活動已經完滿結束，此書總結活動成績，以學生的角度，整理出人物故事、機構資料，也有實用的中醫知識和食譜，展示中醫藥多元的資訊。
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Book and Monograph Publications by Professors of Lingnan University 2010-2019
Associate Vice-President (Academic Affairs and External Relations) and Lingnan University Library
Foreword
Lingnan University is a leading Asian liberal arts university with international recognition, distinguished by outstanding teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. We endeavour to cultivate students' whole-person and all-round growth. We encourage students to pursue independent and critical thinking, creativity and innovation, excellent communication skills including a high level of literacy, social responsibility, personal virtue, cultural accomplishment and a passion for lifelong learning. In 2015, Lingnan University was named as one of the "Top 10 Liberal Arts College in Asia" by Forbes. About 80% of our undergraduates can spend a term studying abroad in one of our 190-plus partner institutions in about 40 countries, or participate in short-term summer programmes.
Lingnan University encourages faculty and students to contribute to society through research and knowledge transfer. Our sizable pool of experienced scholars in the arts, business and social sciences disciplines combine scholarly work with applied, policy-oriented research, and address topics in areas like finance, fiscal and monetary policy, cultural policy, creative industries, health and ageing, population, and institutions and governance. In the last ten years, our professors have published over 1000 articles in international refereed journals. This booklet features the 179 books and monographs published by our professors during the period from 2010 to 2019.
In 2017-2018, Lingnan celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding as a higher education institution in Hong Kong. With the support and concerted efforts of its stakeholders and building on its successes to date, in the next 50 years the University will be wellpositioned to achieve an even higher level of excellence and distinction in the higher education arena locally, regionally, and internationally.
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Continuity
Aleksandar EFTIMOVSKI
The sculptures displayed in this exhibition demonstrate knowledge transfer and cultural exchange between Aleksandar and Lingnan students in the process of creating site-specific works. They are largely made by timber from Chi Kee Sawmill & Timber, which was founded in North Point on Hong Kong Island in 1947, but later relocated to Chai Wan and then its current site in Kwu Tong, Sheung Shui in 1982. Unfortunately, this rare survivor of timber business has recently been identified as one of the first areas to be cleared for the controversial North East New Territories Development Plan launched by the HKSAR government. When Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong on 16 September 2018, it felled at least 17,000 trees. Aleksandar collected some broken branches of the fallen trees on Lingnan campus and in nearby area, allowing students to select this unique material for their projects. He and his students have injected new life to wasted materials and transformed them into beautiful sculptures which, in turn, provoke our curiosity and thinking.
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Lingnan University annual report : 2017-2018 = 嶺南大學年報 : 2017-2018
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
To review and summarise Lingnan University's developments and achievements in the previous academic year, the University has published its Annual Report 2017/18 to showcase our dedicated efforts in teaching and learning, internationalisation, research and impact, as well as contributions to society.
嶺南大學出版的《2017/18年報》，概述了大學在教與學、國際化、研究與影響，以及社會貢獻方面的努力耕耘，回顧及總結過去一學年的發展及成就。
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Service-Learning Times : semester 2, 2018/19
Office of Service-Learning, Lingnan University
To foster multi-disciplinary learning experience, the three faculties, the Science Unit and Office of Service-Learning offer you plenty of choices and flexibility in S-L projects. Moreover, we also provide trans-border S-L and research opportunities, enabling you to examine challenging issues at both the local and international levels. A number of S-L projects are also available in cluster courses, free elective courses, and major courses. In short, you have a wealth of opportunities to apply your course knowledge while contributing to the local and the international communities.
This booklet highlights the courses with S-L elements in this semester. If you want to choose what kind of S-L adventure you want to go on, you should plan and act quickly while places are available.
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Bauhinia Rhapsody : the literary journal of Lingnan University 2018-2019
Undergraduate majors, Department of English, Lingnan University and Michael T. LUONGO
Editor's Note
The Lingnan Literary Journal itself, the book you have now in your hands, is a work of Lingnan University students. That which we write and leave behind is how we communicate with the future, and it is in this way that the students of Lingnan, here during the 2018-2019 academic year, will continue to have impact long after they have left the campus here in Tuen Mun, nestled against the foothills of Hong Kong’s mountains.
The work you see here is that of my own students, from either of my two classes, Arts, Creative Writing & Journalism, taught in the Fall and Spring of my time here, and Journalism Principles & Social Media, taught only in the Spring. Save for Mary Garcia who designed the covers, the editorial team came from my Fall class. There is also the writing and visual efforts of students I have never met in person, but which spoke to all of us. Others I met along the way at numerous events on campus, engaging them in conversation and asking them to submit their work. The team also recruited, through passive means like posters, and through setting up tables on campus. Still other constributions came from Professor Ingham’s class, gifting us with interesting intertextual work based on songs and poems, a favorite method of his for inspiring his students’ creativity. Mike’s deep desire to engage with his students, in and out of the classroom, was also something that inspired me to always try to give more and reach out to students across the spectrum at Lingnan. I believe through my efforts and the efforts of so many others, the journal as you see it now represents a broad range of Lingnan’s diverse student body, locals and exchange students alike.
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井財街的故事
香港嶺南大學服務研習處
嶺南大學服務研習處為大學生提供不同探索和參與社區的學習平台，在賽馬會「關愛．服務．研習@ 屯門」計劃下，本處去年初成功招募八位大學生，成為「服務研習長者議題專題記者」，並接受一連串的訓練，內容包括︰認識社區高齡化議題、採訪技巧及寫作指導等，並於同年三至八月，在「仁愛堂青年夢工場」的社工帶領下，於井財街進行採訪，以區內店鋪和社區狀況作寫作主題，採訪不同的社區人士，將有關故事結集成書，以加強公眾對長者議題的關注及對社區的認識，藉此推廣關愛社區的精神。
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Book and Monograph Publications by Professors of Lingnan University 2009-2018
Associate Vice-President (Academic Affairs and External Relations) and Lingnan University Library
Foreword
Lingnan University is a leading Asian liberal arts university with international recognition, distinguished by outstanding teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. We endeavour to cultivate students' whole-person and all-round growth. We encourage students to pursue independent and critical thinking, creativity and innovation, excellent communication skills including a high level of literacy, social responsibility, personal virtue, cultural accomplishment and a passion for lifelong learning. In 2015, Lingnan University was named as one of the "Top 10 Liberal Arts College in Asia" by Forbes. About 80% of our undergraduates can spend a term studying abroad in one of our 190-plus partner institutions in about 40 countries, or participate in short-term summer programmes.
Lingnan University encourages faculty and students to contribute to society through research and knowledge transfer. Our sizable pool of experienced scholars in the arts, business and social sciences disciplines combine scholarly work with applied, policy-oriented research, and address topics in areas like finance, fiscal and monetary policy, cultural policy, creative industries, health and ageing, population, and institutions and governance. In the last ten years, our professors have published over 1000 articles in international refereed journals. This booklet features the 153 books and monographs published by our professors during the period from 2009 to 2018.
In 2017-2018, Lingnan is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding as a higher education institution in Hong Kong. With the support and concerted efforts of its stakeholders and building on its successes to date, in the next 50 years the University will be wellpositioned to achieve an even higher level of excellence and distinction in the higher education arena locally, regionally, and internationally.
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Hortus Conclusus 囚
Lantian D. (蘭天)
The Work of Lantian D.
One of the most basic things to understand about Lantian D.’s work is that it is born out of an acute awareness of the weaknesses inherent in contemporary art. The sorry state of the contemporary artworld is even the theme of one her earliest paintings, Crime and Punishment, which contains some suggestive depictions of artists and intellectuals who may bear some responsibility for the present situation: Jacques Derrida, Marcel Duchamp, Tracy Emin, Michel Foucault, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Saatchi, and Andy Warhol are all depicted as witch-like creatures from one of Francisco Goya’s black paintings, alongside contemporary works by the Chapman brothers, Ron Mueck, and so on. A more recent portrait touches upon the same theme. Decline portrays a young boy guarding the precious Wallace collection of European art in London. The moth on the window behind the boy suggests that the collection is like an old garment that is no longer worn: tucked away in a stuffy environment, and out of tune with the surrounding culture, which, as the title suggests, is in decline.
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說不出的痛 : 家暴兒童的內心世界
Suk Mun, Sophia LAW (羅淑敏)
自2012年開始，作者專注研究藝術作為圖像語言的本質，以及如何利用藝術創作介入保護家庭及兒童服務，促進家暴兒童受害者的自我表達，為他們在不利的成長環境之中，提供一處或是僅有的安全空間和渠道，讓他們長期被抑壓的情緒得以適當的宣洩，作為導向他們健康成長的開步。
多年來，作者與相關服務單位的社工和專業的藝術治療師，為家暴兒童受害者特別設計連串的藝術創作計劃，所有完成的計劃都是各方專業共同積極參與的成果。最短的計劃為時半年，大多數是一年的計劃，嚴重的個案會個別跟進至年半或更長。
由2012至今，多項完成的計劃已服務超過六十位受家暴創傷的兒童，當中不少的創傷是經年累月的。本書摘錄了這些孩子的作品，當中展現了驚恐、悲傷、憤怒、迷惘和歉疚等，反映的是他們內心那紛亂不安的世界。他們當中承受的創傷或有相同，但每幅圖像都有其獨特的複雜性，非一個孩子能夠用說話和文字說得清楚的。
本書收錄的每一幅圖畫都是一種圖像書寫（image writing）。圖像書寫不需依賴兒童那尚待開發和學習的語言能力。正因如此，這些作品讓我們看見家暴兒童受害者內心那說不出的痛。
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