“The CUHK's 50th Anniversary Social Work Postgraduate Research Symposium” was held on May 30 and 31 at the Yasumoto International Academic Park. The Symposium was organized by the CUHK-Nankai Joint Research Centre of Social Policy, in association with CUHK’s Department of Social Work, Chung Chi College, Department of Social Work and Social Policy of Nankai University, and Social Policy Research Centre of National Taiwan University.
The two-day symposium aimed at providing an opportunity for research students from different parts of the world to share their research with each another. Nearly seventy research students from UK, Canada, Australia, the Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong presented their research projects encompassing various fields of social welfare and social work, including poverty, social security and employment; social care, migrants, elderly and disability; and child, youth and family policy. Eleven research students were given the Best Paper Award during the symposium.