Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme (URFP)
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme (URFP)
The URFP is a prestigious programme aimed to enhance students’ learning experience and to nurture the next generation of researchers/scholars. It offers opportunities for academically outstanding undergraduate students to undertake research under the guidance and supervision of academics who have a strong research track record and experience in training research postgraduate students. Students enrolled in the URFP are required to undertake a research study. If research internship forms an essential part of the research study, the enrolled students will be considered for awards for undertaking such research internships locally, in the Mainland or overseas.
The URFP participants are eligible to enrol in specified postgraduate courses. Successful completion of the URFP will be recorded in the students’ transcripts, and those who perform well under the URFP will be considered for early admission to research postgraduate programmes of the University.
For 2022-23, 46 overseas and local research internships were awarded and about 140 students have been enrolled under the URFP.
- Students who are in the 90th percentile of top students in a study programme; or
- Students who have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 and above.
Europe
- Bielefeld University
- University of Bordeaux
- Brunel University London
- University of Cambridge
- National Center for Scientific Research
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation
- University of Glasgow
- Imperial College London
- King’s College London
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- University of Oxford
- University College London
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- University of Warwick
- City University of Hong Kong
- East China University of Science and Technology
- The University of Hong Kong
- Nanyang Technological University
- National Chung Hsing University
- National Tsing Hua University
- National University of Singapore
- Tsinghua University
North America
- University of British Columbia
- University of California (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara)
- Cornell University
- Dalhousie University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Illinois
- Princeton University
- Rockefeller University
- University of Southern California
- Standord University
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia
- Washington University in St. Louis
- University of Waterloo
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Yale University
- University of Canterbury
- Edith Cowan University
- University of Queensland
- University of Sydney
- Victoria University
Faculty | Contact person(s) | Email | Telephone |
|---|---|---|---|
Architecture | Ms Heidi Siu | mous_heidy@hku.hk | 3917 4617 |
Arts | Ms Nicole Wong | nicolewg@hku.hk | 3917 4665 |
Business and Economics | Miss Vanessa Law (School of Economics and Finance) | vanlaw@hku.hk | 3917 4181 |
Dentistry | Ms Fiona Sin | fionassi@hku.hk | 2859 0540 |
Education | Ms Elaine Yu | eylyu@hku.hk | 3917 4868 |
Engineering | Mr Terry Poon | twtpoon@hku.hk | 3917 6152 |
Law | Ms Priscilla Wong | priscilla.wong@hku.hk | – |
Medicine | Ms Salina Kong | urfpmedf@hku.hk | 3910 2638 |
Science | Ms June Tse | junetse@hku.hk | 3917 5829 |
Social Sciences | Ms Angel Li | angelli2@hku.hk | 3917 1210 |
Faculty | Contact person(s) | Email | Telephone |
|---|---|---|---|
Architecture | Ms Heidi Siu | mous_heidy@hku.hk | 3917 4617 |
Arts | Ms Nicole Wong | nicolewg@hku.hk | 3917 4665 |
Business and Economics | Miss Vanessa Law (School of Economics and Finance) | vanlaw@hku.hk | 3917 4181 |
Dentistry | Ms Fiona Sin | fionassi@hku.hk | 2859 0540 |
Education | Ms Elaine Yu | eylyu@hku.hk | 3917 4868 |
Engineering | Mr Terry Poon | twtpoon@hku.hk | 3917 6152 |
Law | Ms Priscilla Wong | priscilla.wong@hku.hk | – |
Medicine | Ms Salina Kong | urfpmedf@hku.hk | 3910 2638 |
Science | Ms June Tse | junetse@hku.hk | 3917 5829 |
Social Sciences | Ms Angel Li | angelli2@hku.hk | 3917 1210 |
“Through working with the research team in the Centre for Neurogenic Communication Disorders Research of the University of Queensland, I had learnt a lot from their cutting-edge vision. I had learnt to think ahead and be bold to investigate the unexplored areas in the field.”
“I am now confident enough to work individually on some advanced skills like cell culturing, western blotting, cell staining, cell imaging […] also I understand how science is done, how an experiment is being designed, how to face experiment failure, how to analyze and evaluate after failing and how to cooperate with different people in the laboratory who are with different strength and personality.”
“I ended my summer research internship with an empirical study of fitting threshold models to Veilleix’s predator series. This is a valuable experience for me because it allowed me to take the initiative to find the problem, to apply the knowledge I learnt, and to solve the problem independently.”