The Centre is a focus for inter-disciplinary research both within the Faculty of Social Sciences and outside. There is special expertise in social research methods and in particular, telephone surveys for which there is a specialised computerised telephone interviewing set-up. Research interests include population policy, demographics, gambling, electoral studies, privacy, health-care policy and survey methodology. There are research assistants and research students working out of the Centre in addition to its permanent members of staff and honorary professors. Supervision is available at the Centre for research students.

The Centre also runs an annual Summer School in August/September on Research Methods for Social Sciences. This includes questionnaire design, computer methods for qualitative research, opinion polls, telephone surveys, using a data archive and other important topics. Details of the Summer School and other centre activities can be found at our homepage at http://www.ssrc.hku.hk.