Major Awards

2024 Popular Culture Association (PCA) Kathy Merlock Jackson Dissertation Award

2024 Honorable Mention for the 2024 Timothy Shary Award for Best Essay in Children’s and Youth Media Studies at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

2022 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Fan and Audiences Studies Scholarly Interest Group Graduate Student Writing Award

2022 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Best Essay by a Doctoral Student 

2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Entertainment Studies Interest Group Top Student Paper Award and Anne Cooper-Chen Research Award

2022 University of Michigan Department of Communication and Media Graduate Student Diversity Research Award

2018 Distinction Prize (Public Division), The Chinese University of Hong Kong "文學中大" Writing Contest

2017 The Foreign Correspondents' Club Sponsorship for The Far East Film Festival in Italy

2015-16 The Women’s Foundation Cambridge Scholarship (full tuition and stipend support at the University of Cambridge) 

2014-15 Hong Kong Baptist University Journalism Alumni Scholarship for Outstanding Works 

2013-15 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Scholarship (2 years)

2014-15 Commercial Radio 50th Anniversary Scholarship

2014-15 Li and Fung Scholarship 

2012-15 President’s Honours Roll, Hong Kong Baptist University (the highest academic honours in all semesters)

2012-13 Li Po Chun Charitable Trust Fund Undergraduate Scholarship