Faculty of Education

Date		Time	Venue	Topic	Speaker	Chair
May 2012
Fri	25	12:45 - 14:00	Room 205, Runme Shaw Building, HKU	Why So Critical?	Professor Roger Slee	Dr Cheri Chan
Thu	24	17:30 - 19:00	Room LG-01, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, HKU	Bring Inclusive Education Research to Schools	Professor Roger Slee	Dr Cheri Chan
Tue	22	16:30 - 17:30	Room 518, 5/F, Prince Philip Dental Hospital	Language Learning Impairments: Toward a Causal Model of Individual Differences in Literacy Outcomes Abstract & Biodata	Prof. Margaret (Maggie) Snowling	Dr. Anita Wong
Mon	21	12:45 - 14:00	Room 205, Runme Shaw Building, HKU	Understanding Australian disadvantaged students’ reading engagement and disengagement: Some unexpected results from the first year study of a longitudinal project Abstract & Biodata	Dr Clarence Ng	Dr Angel Lin
Sat	19	11:40 - 12:40	Theatre LG109, LG1/F, K K Leung Building	Evidence-based interventions for reading impairments Abstract & Biodata	Prof Charles Hulme	Prof Brendan Weekes
Fri	18	17:30 - 18:45	Wang Gungwu Theatre, P4, Graduate House	The joy and pain of development - Why career joys and pains should be any different than those of the lifespan? Abstract & Biodata	Prof Elena Grigorenko	Prof LF Zhang
Fri	18	17:30 - 19:00	Rayson Huang Theatre	Launch Ceremony for the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education and the Lecture & Community Dialogue Event Link	Professor Mark Bray	-
Fri	18	19:00 - 20:00	Wang Gungwu Theatre, P4, Graduate House	Getting published in journals: How to increase your chances of success Abstract & Biodata	Prof Andrew Tolmie	Prof Peter Kutnick
Wed	16	11:00	Room LG02, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, HKU	Treatment of Communication and Swallowing Disorders Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Press briefing	Dr Karen Chan and Professor Bruce Murdoch	N/A
Wed	16	12:45 - 14:00	Room LG-01, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, HKU	Social and cognitive influences on productive interaction between teachers and learners Abstract & Biodata	Professor Andy Tolmie	.
Tue	15	14:15	Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU	Undergraduate Programmes Information Seminar Series 2012 Event Link	N/A	N/A
Mon	14	12:45 - 14:00	Room 205, Runme Shaw Building, HKU	Some of my Perspectives on Practice-Driven Research Abstract & Biodata	Professor Tak-Wai Chan	Dr Maggie Wang
Fri	11	14:00 - 18:00	Room 802, Meng Wah Complex, HKU	May Symposium on Speech and Hearing Sciences Event Link	Prof Bruce Murdoch, Dr Caroline Barwood, Dr Benjamin Munson and Prof Margaret Deuchar	.
Thu	10	16:00 - 17:30	Room 518, 5/F, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, 34 Hospital Rd, HK	Numerical modelling of the human voice – An overview Abstract & Biodata	Professor Sten Ternström	.
Tue	8	18:30 - 20:00	Room 518, 5/F, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, 34 Hospital Rd, HK	Portable voice dosimetry – finding out how the patient’s voice is used at work and at home Abstract & Biodata	Professor Sten Ternström	.
Fri	4	12:45 - 14:00	Room 205, Runme Shaw Building, HKU	Who are the leaders of the World’s Top Universities? Abstract & Biodata	Dr Chen Shuangye	Dr Bruce Macfarlane
Wed	2	17:00 - 18:30	Room LG-01, Hui Oi Chow Science Bldg, HKU	The Growth of the IB in national as well as international school contexts and how the IB Diploma is perceived internationally	Dr Mary Hayden	Dr Bennan Zhang

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