Dr NGAI, Grace
Grace graduated from Brown University and Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Since starting her career at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, she has successfully pioneered a number of teaching initiatives, one of the most prominent being Service-Learning. She brings students on service projects in Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland, Cambodia, and Rwanda.
She currently serves as the Head of the Service-Learning and Leadship Office. She was also the founding coordinator of the Sub-committee for Service-Learning Subjects, which oversees the approval and offering of all Service-Learning subjects, and the co-facilitator of the Community of Practice on Service-learning. Through numerous T&L projects, they have initiated workshops, seminars, and salons on topics in offering, assessing, and conducting scholarly work in Service-Learning.
From 6 subjects and 200 students in 2012, as of 2016, PolyU has over 50 regularly-offered subjects which cater to over 4,000 students every year. Her team was awarded the Hong Kong University Grants Committee Teaching Award in 2016.
