Awards & Recognitions

Sector-wide Teaching and Scholarship Awards

• UGC Teaching Award 

  • 2022 – Elza Tsang (English Across the Curriculum Team; with colleagues from PolyU, HKBU, and CityU)  

• AHKLC Best Paper/Publication Award 

  • 2025 – Xin Liang 

  • 2024 – Aditi Jhaveri  & Edward Li 

University-Level Awards 

• Common Core Course Excellence Award 

  • 2014 (Honorary Mention) – Jan Pople, Mark Hopkins, Irene Ng, Ivy Sek 

• HKUST SENtastic Staff Award 

  • 2025 – Elaine Wong 

  • 2023 – Sandy Chan; May Liao; Melissa Megan 

School of Humanities and Social Science Award for Teaching Excellence 

• 2025 – Yılmaz Köylü 
• 2022 (Honorable Mention) – Nick Wong 
• 2021 (Honorable Mention)– Xin Liang
• 2018 – Tao Ren 
• 2017 – Irene Ng
• 2016 – Rebecca Farmer 
• 2015 – Sean McMinn
• 2014 – Claudia Wong

Center for Language Education (CLE) Awards for Teaching Track Faculty 

• 2025 [Teaching] (Honourable Mention) – Krista Du 
• 2025 [Service] – Kasina Wong
• 2024 [Teaching] (Honourable Mention) – Krista Du 
• 2024 [Course Design] (Honourable Mention) – Kasina Wong 
• 2022 [Teaching] – Yılmaz Köylü; Nick Wong 
• 2021 [Scholarly Informed Practice] – John Fung 
• 2021 [Service] – Delian Gaskell 
• 2020 [Pedagogic Innovation] – Eunice Tang 

Center for Language Education (CLE) Service Awards for Non-Academic Staff & Teaching Support 

• 2024 – Mansurbek Kushnazarov  

• 2024 – Michelle Choy 

The Academy of Education Excellence (AEE) Fellows 

• Senior Fellow 

  • Melissa Megan 

• Fellow

  • Anita Au 

  • Eunice Tang 

  • Kasina Wong 

  • Krista Du 

  • Mark Melican 

  • Sheila Liang