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