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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: The Theory and Practice of Narrative Health Message Design

Speaker: Prof Michael HECHT Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University & President, REAL Prevention, LLC Date : 18 October 2021Time: 9:00am to 10:30am (UTC+8) For more information, please visit HKPolyU, Faculty of Humanities webpage. Abstract Narrative messages have emerged as a popular and effective health message strategy for number of […]

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COVID-19 Webinar Series – Older Adults in the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 Webinar Series – Older Adults in the COVID-19 Pandemic Organised by the Policy Research @ HKIAPS, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Introduction While everyone is susceptible to COVID-19, people aged 60 years or over are considered to be one of the most at-risk groups during this […]

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Lecture: Effective communication in healthcare: A language and social psychology perspective

Distinguished Lecture Series, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Effective communication in healthcare: A language and social psychology perspective. Professor Bernadette Watson delivered a lecture on “Effective communication in healthcare: A language and social psychology perspective.” to 63 participants via. ZOOM online. Professor Watson explained the importance of communication in […]

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Rebuilding ‘community’ to promote student learning and well-being: Student reflections on teaching and learning in 2019 and 2020

The prolonged social unrest in 2019 and Covid-19 in 2020 have continuously disrupted the teaching and learning activities in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. On 16 October 2020 (Fri), Professor Bernadette Watson, Dr Margo Turnbull and Dr Beatrice Lok of IRCAHC will share the student reflections collated in their research with various teaching units of […]