Source: Office of Social Sciences and Humanities
Written by: Xu Lijun
Translated by: Liang Wenjie
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

The 2010-2011 Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements Award was announced on June 26. A total of 228 research results in Guangdong Province won the award, including 39 first prizes, 73 second prizes and 116 third prizes. 57 research results of SYSU win the award, including 15 first prizes, 19 second prizes and 23 third prizes. The number of awards won by SYSU takes up 40% of the total number of awards in the province, and the number of first prizes won by SYSU takes up 38.5% of the total number of first prizes in the province. Both indices rank first in the whole province.

This is the Fifth Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements Award, which covers research achievements in philosophy and social sciences of Guangdong from 2010 to 2011. SYSU recommended 131 research results to take part in the event. After preliminary selection and reevaluation, 57 research achievements are awarded, and the rate of winning is 43.5%.

If analyzed according to schools and departments, the 57 award-winning research achievements of SYSU are from nineteen units: School of Business (10), Department of Chinese (7), School of Government (6), Department of History (5), Lingnan College (5), School of Law (5), Department of Social Science Education (3), Department of Philosophy (2), School of Sociology and Anthropology (2), Center for Studies of Hong Kong, Macao and Pearl River Delta (2), Sun Yat-sen University Libraries (2), International Business School (1), School of Education (1), Department of Psychology (1), School of Foreign Languages (1), School of Communication and Design (1), School of Tourism Management (1), School of Information Management (1), Institute of Logic and Cognition (1).

If analyzed according to disciplinary distribution, the 57 award-winning research achievements of SYSU are from 15 disciplines: management and new cross-disciplinary studies (10), applied economics (6), history, archaeology and local cultural studies (6), survey reports (5), law (5), politics (4), linguistics (4), literature (3), philosophy (3), library, information, documentation and chorography (3), Marxism and social sciences (2), sociology, demography and anthropology (2), education, psychology and sports science (2), theoretical economics (1), news communication (1).

If analyzed according to forms of research results, the 57 award-winning research achievements of SYSU include 31 papers, 21 works and 5 survey reports.