Our faculty members conduct research on a wide range of topics. Key areas of research include contentious politics, democratization, authoritarianism, conflict studies, civil society, international law, public administration, gender politics, welfare states, security studies, European Union, and global China.

Our members have consistently secured research funding from various funding bodies. We have developed collaboration with the European Commission, the World Values Survey Association, and other academic institutions and government agencies internationally and locally. Department staff, in their capacity as principal research investigators, have received grants from the General Research Fund, Early Career Scheme and Faculty Development Scheme, the Central Policy Unit, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Jean-Monnet Fellowship, the Macau Foundation, and the University Grants Committee.

The Department actively supports the research cluster development across the Faculty of Social Sciences (Smart Societies) and the University (Creative Media / Practice, Health & Drug Discovery, Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence). It also hosts the Comparative Governance and Policy Research Centre (CGPC).