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Currently he is the Deputy Award Coordinator for the Master of
Science / Postgraduate Diploma in the Construction Law and
Dispute Resolution programme in the Department of Building
and Real Estate. Atty. Mau continues to be involved in the dispute
resolution field and is a member of the Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators and the American Arbitration Association. He has
also qualified as a Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
Accredited Mediator (General).
Future Plans: Having published a number of articles in
international arbitration journals, the focus of his research
will continue to be in alternative dispute resolution methods,
particularly the reformation of the regional arbitration regimes
and the development of adjudication and expert determination in
Hong Kong. He will also work on the new editions of several books
that he has published on general Hong Kong legal principles,
such as torts, contracts and properties. Apart from legal studies,
Atty. Mau is also interested in pedagogy, i.e. effective teaching and
learning in multicultural settings, as a result of his education in
the US, UK and Austria.
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New academic staff
Professor Mei-Po Kwan
The Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI)
welcomed a Visiting Chair Professor on 1 June 2012. Professor
Mei-Po Kwan received her PhD in Geography from the University
of California at Santa Barbara in 1994, M.A. in Urban Planning
from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1989,
and B.SoSci. in Geography from the Chinese University of Hong
Kong in 1985. She has been a Distinguished Professor of Social
and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Geography at Ohio State
University. She is currently Editor of Annals of the Association of
American Geographers and Book Editor for the SAGE Advances in
Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) Series. She
currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Transport
Geography and Asian Geographer.
Prof. Kwan has received about 42 grants as Principal Investigator
or Co-Principal Investigator totaling US$18 million from various
funding sources in the US, including the National Science
Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), US
Department of Transportation (DoT) etc. Moreover, Prof. Kwan has
22 edited or co-edited volumes, including one encyclopedia, three
books and 18 journal special issues. She has published 71 articles
in refereed journals, 28 book chapters, 9 papers in conference
proceedings and 14 research reports and bulletins. She has given
over 300 presentations to date, including 123 keynote addresses
and invited lectures and 67 invited presentations at professional
meetings and specialistsworkshops.
Her research interests are geographical information systems
and science, geographic analysis of accessibility, geographies
of health, information and communications technologies (ICT),
research methods, and geographies of gender, race and religion.
1985
( ) 1989
1994
SAGE
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan
(NSF)(NIH)(NCGIA)
(DoT) /
(ICT)
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