Lisa Cheung

Lisa has been actively involved in the teaching of a range of postgraduate and undergraduate English enhancement courses on academic and professional communication, and has extensive experience in developing corpus-based learning resources and their integration with classroom teaching.

As the Chair of the Publicity and Outreach Committee, she leads the team to pull together the CAES mission, strategic direction, and intended outcomes. Lisa also led the Centre’s development project on Students as Partners (2020-2022), which utilized HKU students’ expertise and experience as a student to contribute equally to ‘teaching and learning process’ and ‘enhancement of teaching and learning policy or practices’.

Lisa is the Deputy Programme Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts in 2022-2023. She had been the Programme Coordinator for the English courses for the Faculty of Dentistry for over 10 years. She had also served on the Faculty Board of Arts for six years.

Lisa’s main research interests include: corpus linguistics, reflective writing and English for Specific Purposes. She has a track record of success in both research publications and grant applications (a total of four completed and two on-going research funded projects). Her first co-authored book on understanding the language of dentistry is a proof of research-informed pedagogical practices in the Dentistry course that she had coordinated for over 10 years (e.g. additional course module on ‘hedging’ in response to research findings).

• BA, The University of Hong Kong
• MA in Applied Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong
• PhD in Applied Linguistics, The University of Birmingham
• Fellow, The Higher Education of Academy
• Recipient of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts (2018-19)