Griffith University

Professor Ruqaiya Hasan

Basil Bernstein referred to the work of Professor Hasan as crucial to the development of his thinking, and she is a key figure in the history of dialogue between his sociology of education and systemic functional linguistics. Professor Hasan has taught and held visiting positions at various universities in Europe and America. She has researched and published in the areas of stylistics, context and text, lexicogrammar and sociolinguistics. Her latest research is concerned with semantic variation in naturally occurring mother-child dialogues for the analysis of which she devised extensive semantic system networks. Her collected works in seven volumes are being published by Equinox of London.

• 2009. Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics: The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan, Vol 2. London: Equinox.
• 2005. Language Society and Consciousness: The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 1. London: Equinox.
  
• 1996. Hasan, Ruqaiya. Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning: Selected Papers of Ruqaiya Hasan. (Edited by Carmel Cloran, David Butt and Geoffrey Williams). London/New York: Cassel.
• 1985. (with M.A.K. Halliday) Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-semiotic Perspective. Victoria, Australia: Deakin University. (This book is originally from 'Text and context: aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective', Sophia Linguistica 6 (1980), Sophia University, Tokyo; and republished by Oxford University Press in 1989, with 'Foreword' added by Frances Christie, series editor).
• 1985. Hasan, Ruqaiya. Linguistics, Language and Verbal Arts. (This book was republished by Oxford University Press in 1989, with a Foreword added by Frances Christie, series editor).
• 1976. (with M.A.K. Halliday) Cohesion in English. (English Language Series 9). London: Longman.

Dr Kwok Wah Cheung

Dr Cheung Kwok Wah was formerly Assistant Professor, the MEd Programme Director as well as the Director of Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China (CREC), Faculty of Education, HKU. His research interest is on education policy and Chinese education. He has recently taken part in a joint research project with the National People’s Congress Education Office, Beijing Academy of Education Sciences to support the review of Compulsory Education law in China. Some of his recent publications are as follows

• Cheung K.W. and Yan M.C., The Politics of Indigenization: A Case Study of Development of Social Work in China, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 2006, 33, Number 2.
• Cheung K.W. and Pan S., Transition of Moral Education in China: Towards Regulated Individualism, Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 2006, Volume 2, Number 2.
• Cheung, Kwok Wah, The Regulation of the Pedagogic Discourse: The Shift between Restrictive and Elaborated Ideological Orientations, in Lee, WO and Bray, M (eds.), 2001, Education and Political Transition: Perspectives and Dimensions in East Asia, HK: CERC, PP.185-200.
• Cheung K.W. Understanding Chinese Individuals, Peking University the First International Conference of Sociology of Education, 2006
  

Dr Cheung Kwok Wah has also been appointed to different advisory committees by the Hong Kong SAR Government. He has been a part-time member of the Central Policy Unit, the Chairperson of the Committee on Home School Co-operation, member of the Education Commission, the School Allocation Committee and Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Since March, 2009, Dr. Cheung left HKU to join the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.

The keynote speakers have been jointly sponsored by Griffith Institute for Educational Research (Griffith University) and the Centre for Learning Innovation (QUT).