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Current project grants

  1. Chong, S. W. (Co-Investigator). (2025-2026). Application and validation of the SMART checklist. University of St Andrews. Amount: ÂŁ2,400 STATUS: ONGOING.
  2. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2025-2026). A multi-phased review on research-practice integration in teacher education. Department for Education. Amount: ÂŁ912,000. STATUS: ONGOING.
  3. Chong, S. W. (Co-Investigator). (2026-2028). Understanding student engagement with feedback provided by generative artificial intelligence: Patterns, dynamics and influencing factors. General Research Fund, Research Grants Council Hong Kong SAR. Amount: HK$982,100 . STATUS: ONGOING
  4. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2024-2025). State-of-play review on applied linguistics. British Association for Applied Linguistics. Amount: ÂŁ1,275. STATUS: ONGOING
  5. Chong, S. W. (Co-investigator). (2024-2028). Teacher improvement through data and evaluation (TIDE). Nuffield Foundation. Amount: ÂŁ2,512,891. STATUS: ONGOING

Past project grants

  1. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2025). A rapid evidence assessment on mentoring for school leaders. Department for Education. Amount: £37,500 . STATUS: COMPLETED
  2. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2023-2025). A systematic meta-review of trainee and in-service teacher professional development practices. Department for Education. Amount: £186,297 . STATUS: COMPLETED
  3. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2023-2024). Development of a research ethics procedure for the National Institute of Teaching. Amount: £84,617 . STATUS: COMPLETED
  4. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2023). Teacher recruitment and retention strategies in English schools serving socio-economically challenging areas. Education Endowment Foundation. Amount: ÂŁ78,328.06. STATUS: COMPLETED
  5. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2022-2023). British Council Assessment Research Award 2022. Amount: ÂŁ2,500. STATUS: COMPLETED
  6. Chong, S. W. (Project Manager). (2022-2023).Mentoring and coaching trainee and early career teachers. Department for Education, England. Amount: ~£150,000. STATUS: COMPLETED
  7. Chong, S. W. (Co-investigator). (2020-2023). “EdUHK English Enhancement Programme Curriculum Reform and Capacity Building”. Central Reserve Allocation Committee, The Education University of Hong Kong. Amount: HK$2,028,551.5 (£216,728.41). STATUS: COMPLETED
  8. Chong, S. W. (Co-investigator). (2020-2023). “Language Enhancement at EdUHK and Beyond: Fostering a Community of Practice on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Teaching”. Establishment of Community of Practice for 2019/20-21/22., The Education University of Hong Kong. Amount: HK$1,000,000 (£106,839). STATUS: COMPLETED
  9. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2021-2022). TESOLgraphics. International Education Institute, University of St. Andrews. Amount: ÂŁ1,030. STATUS: COMPLETED
  10. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2021-2022).”Developing early career researchers’ feedback literacy for scholarly peer review”. Sustainable Development Goals Research Seed Fund, Queen’s University Belfast. Amount: £5,000. STATUS: COMPLETED
  11. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2021).”An online repository of research synthesis summaries in language education”. Research Strategy Budget, Queen’s University Belfast. Amount: £2,644. STATUS: COMPLETED
  12. Chong, S. W. (Co-investigator). (2020-2021). “Co-design a roadmap to support assessors in making judgements of student competence”. Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Award. Amount: £3,000. STATUS: COMPLETED
  13. Chong, S. W. (Co-investigator). (2020-2021). “Language MOOC for Intercultural Education and IELTS”. The Teaching Development Grant (TDG), The Education University of Hong Kong. Amount: HK$400,000 (£42,484). STATUS: COMPLETED
  14. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2019-2020).“Blended learning mini-courses for intercultural education and IELTS preparation: A content-based instruction approach”. Special Projects Grant, The Education University of Hong Kong. Amount: HK$38,560 (£4,096.23). STATUS: COMPLETED
  15. Chong, S. W. (Principal Investigator). (2018-2019). Developing an exemplar anthology and online exemplar platform for IELTS writing. The Teaching Development Grant (TDG), The Education University of Hong Kong. Amount: HK$327,000 (ÂŁ34,737.21). STATUS: COMPLETED
  16. Chong, S. W. (Co-investigator). (2018-2019). An investigation into the correlation and alignment between the band scores of IELTS and ELPA. Centre for Language in Education Fund, The Education University of Hong Kong. Amount: HK$66,889 (ÂŁ7,105.62). STATUS: COMPLETED
FEATURED
NEWS
Masterclass on AI in language learning and teaching

I am pleased to invite you to our upcoming St Andrews Professorial Masterclass on AI in Language Learning and Teaching, led by Professor Hayo Reinders, a leading scholar in technology-enhanced language education.

Read more

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