It's a wrap! Looking back at my summer research attachment
In the past summer break, I am grateful to have the opportunity to undergo a research attachment at UCL under the supervision of Dr Jo Blodgett (Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH)) and Dr Au Yeung Shiu Lun Ryan (School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong).
My research project was a pilot study about menstrual cycle and biomechanics in female football players, aiming at exploring any differences in biomechanics movement across different phases of a cycle. We successfully piloted the use of OpenCap (opencap.ai), a recently developed open-source and cloud-based platform that computes movement dyanamics and kinematics at a fieldwork training setting with a local football team for the study. The hands-on experience gained from my six-week attachment in with fieldwork data collection and the full range of other research tasks (like ethics approval, questionnaire design and statistical analysis) was indeed a very comprehensive and fruitful introduction to the world of academia.
Besides the guidance of my host and home supervisors, Dr Blodgett and Dr Au Yeung, I must also take this opportunity to thank all researchers, clinicians and the team (both in and out of ISEH), especially John Joseph Mitchell, Jack Quach, Katherine Mercer, Catherine Martins and Jeffrey A. Turner for their assistance and support towards my research project and making my summer visit to London much more fruitful. I am looking forward to sharing more once we have the next stage of results and when the poster sessions will be held in the coming months.
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*This overseas research attachment was generously supported by the Laidlaw Foundation and the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Scholarship at HKU. #LaidlawScholars2023
I am a year 3 student in the University of Hong Kong's interdisciplinary BASc(Global Health and Development) programme (hosted at the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, HKU) while pursuing a second major in Psychology. In the past year, I served as the chairperson of my programme's student society at HKU.
My research engagement extends beyond the six-week attachment at University College London's ISEH in summer 2023 – after returning to Hong Kong, I am still working with the researchers at UCL to prepare a systematic review, and following up the results so far to combine with the continued effort back in the UK to write up a journal article for submission soon. Back in HKU, I have joined research labs in psychiatry and psychology departments, working on both statistical analyses and research project managements. More recently, I have led the organisation of a month-long summer research programme for high school students as part of my LiA with the research lab I have been working since Jan 2024.
Besides what I have been immersing myself in research, I have a keen interest towards topics like inequality in society, our health, environmental and sustainable development studies. During secondary school years, I steered my school's flagship territory-wide primary school STREAM education initiative for two years and administered school student bodies of the discipline team, school history and gifted education team and took an active role in the environmental protection team. I was named one of the 2021 Hong Kong Outstanding Teens and was twice commended by the Education Bureau as an Outstanding Student Environmental Protection Ambassador.
I endeavour to promote equality for underprivileged and underrepresented groups in society including ethnic minorities and enhance their upward social mobility. In 2022, I competed the in first Hong Kong Student Service Leaders Award organized by Dream Compassioneers, undertaking social service projects and was recognized with the title of the Top Ten Outstanding Student Service Leaders 2022.
Last updated: July 2024
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