Naubahar Sharif
Biographic Data
| ID | 760401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naubahar Sharif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naubahar |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharif |
| SIGNATURE | SHARIF N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2496-9938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The trust trap: How trust in online health information harms subjective well-being
The use of the internet as a source of health information is widespread and growing rapidly. Despite a growing body of literature on online health information, little is known about the potentially negative psychological impacts of trust in such information. This paper examines the impact of trust in online health information on subjective well-being, utilizing data from the 2021 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS). Our analysis reveals a negati…
Mental health problems among ethnic minorities during public crises: A systematic review of coping strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Public health crises exert a disproportionate psychological burden on ethnic minority populations, exacerbating pre-existing health disparities. Drawing upon the COVID-19 pandemic as a focal case, this systematic review synthesizes the coping strategies employed by ethnic minority communities, organized through the lens of ecological systems theory. Adhering to PRISMA guidelines, 65 peer-reviewed studies published between 2020 and 2023 were analy…
Life as an ethnic minority ( EM ) university student: Comparing mental health challenges among local and international EM students in Hong Kong
University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts. Drawing on interviews and participant observation with 27 non‐Chinese EM students by visiting 13 Hong Kong universities and colleges, this study compares how…
As I know, there is nothing there for our people”: Unmasking mental health literacy and help-seeking attitudes among ethnic minorities in Hong Kong
Ethnic minorities bear a great burden of mental health problems and have been shown to underutilize mental health services. Mental health literacy – critical for recognizing and addressing these issues – remains underexplored among ethnic minorities, particularly regarding their interaction with health systems. This article aims to understand ethnic minorities’ mental health literacy and help-seeking attitudes in a multicultural context. Specific…
Advancing Problem Framing in the Multiple Streams Framework: A Refined Model of the Problem Stream and Its Key Settings
In response to calls to extend the theoretical development of the multiple streams framework (MSF), this article proposes the integration of a refined problem framing process model and its key settings into the MSF. Despite its popularity in recent decades, the MSF has not systematically addressed the role of contextual factors in the problem framing process. We conceptualize problem framing in the MSF context as a continuous, dynamic process tha…
From Sars to Covid-19: The role of experience and experts in Hong Kong’s initial policy response to an emerging pandemic
As one of the most densely populated places in the world, Hong Kong fared relatively well in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a very low number of cases and fatalities per capita. This was mostly due to the Hong Kong government, healthcare workers, and the general public’s institutional and individual memory after they successfully overcame the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. However, while Hong Kong…
Translating STS in China. Disciplinary Struggles and Future Prospects
This article analyzes a debate in Mainland China over how to designate and integrate the international field of STS (science and technology studies) in Chinese academia. Emerged at the turn of the millennium, this debate confirmed the increasing hold of STS in China, but it also revealed significant tensions regarding the general orientation and the place of the field in Chinese academia. These tensions reflect not only larger contradictions foun…
Innovation in China: Challenging the Global Science and Technology System
Introduction: Innovation and Work in East Asia
Achieving Industrial Upgrading Through Automation in Dongguan, China
This study examines industrial upgrading in manufacturing firms in Dongguan, China in the context of the Dongguan government’s recent policy initiative to boost its manufacturing sector by encouraging industrial upgrading. To implement its so-called ‘Replacing Humans with Robots’ policy, which we see as an expression of the central government’s ‘Made in China 2025’ policy, the Dongguan government offers incentives to manufacturers’ region to auto…
Industrial Automation in China’s “Workshop of the World”
The Chinese government has announced major plans to provide subsidies to upgrade industry through automated manufacturing and robotization. This article examines how the government in the southern city of Dongguan, a leading center of the country’s export industry, has promoted a “Replacing Humans with Machines” initiative to improve the prospects for local manufacturers facing toughening business conditions since 2007. We explain the conditions …
From 'Labour Dividend' to 'Robot Dividend: Technological Change and Workers' Power in South China
China became the world's largest market for industrial robots in 2013. The robotic revolution gained pace and occurred after the 2008 financial crisis as many export-oriented firms coped with dwindling orders, rising labour costs and growing concerns over occupational safety. Unlike workers in the Global North who experienced automation in the 1960s and 1970s against a backdrop of strong union activism, whether semi-proletarian peasant-workers in…
Information Technology Services: A Key Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Industry in Hong Kong SAR, China
As the global economy focuses increasingly on Asia, Hong Kong’s role as an intermediary between China and the rest of the world merits investigation. In view of the increasing importance of knowledge-based business services and Hong Kong’s recent drive to promote innovation and high-tech services, economists and policy makers must understand Hong Kong’s capacity to support economic development in the Asian region. Following a theoretically inform…
The Transformation of Research Technology Organisations (RTOs) in Asia and Europe
Research technology organizations (RTOs) are undergoing a transition in their traditional role. This transition is driven by two key shifts in the environment within which RTOs operate: increasing pressure to commercialise research outputs and the internationalisation of the research endeavor, providing new opportunities for both funding and transfer of outputs. We note that these trends are felt in both industrialised and industrialising economi…
The Role of Hong Kong in Mainland China's Modernization in Manufacturing
We examine Hong Kong's role in the modernization of manufacturing industries in Mainland China and its province of Guangdong. Hong Kong's role has evolved from trading intermediary to low-cost mainland manufacturer to provider of key business, fnancial, and supply chain services
Rhetoric of Innovation Policy Making in Hong Kong Using the Innovation Systems Conceptual Approach
Since its introduction in the 1980s, use of the innovation systems (IS) conceptual approach has been growing, particularly on the part of national governments including, recently, the Hong Kong Government. In 2004, the Hong Kong Government set forth a ''new strategy'' for innovation and technology policy making. Because it marked a significant break from the past (characterized by a laissez-faire Government attitude), it was necessary to convince…
Adam Segal, Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China
On Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China
Over the course of some 30 years of economic reforms, China has adopted a wide array of policies designed to enhance its technological capability and foster growth. This reform process culminated i
Industrial Automation in China’s “Workshop of the World”
The Chinese government has announced major plans to provide subsidies to upgrade industry through automated manufacturing and robotization. This article examines how the government in the southern city of Dongguan, a leading center of the country’s export industry, has promoted a “Replacing Humans with Machines” initiative to improve the prospects for local manufacturers facing toughening business conditions since 2007. We explain the conditions …
From 'Labour Dividend' to 'Robot Dividend: Technological Change and Workers' Power in South China
China became the world's largest market for industrial robots in 2013. The robotic revolution gained pace and occurred after the 2008 financial crisis as many export-oriented firms coped with dwindling orders, rising labour costs and growing concerns over occupational safety. Unlike workers in the Global North who experienced automation in the 1960s and 1970s against a backdrop of strong union activism, whether semi-proletarian peasant-workers in…
The Role of Hong Kong in Mainland China's Modernization in Manufacturing
We examine Hong Kong's role in the modernization of manufacturing industries in Mainland China and its province of Guangdong. Hong Kong's role has evolved from trading intermediary to low-cost mainland manufacturer to provider of key business, fnancial, and supply chain services
Rhetoric of Innovation Policy Making in Hong Kong Using the Innovation Systems Conceptual Approach
Since its introduction in the 1980s, use of the innovation systems (IS) conceptual approach has been growing, particularly on the part of national governments including, recently, the Hong Kong Government. In 2004, the Hong Kong Government set forth a ''new strategy'' for innovation and technology policy making. Because it marked a significant break from the past (characterized by a laissez-faire Government attitude), it was necessary to convince…
Adam Segal, Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China
On Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China
Over the course of some 30 years of economic reforms, China has adopted a wide array of policies designed to enhance its technological capability and foster growth. This reform process culminated i
Rhetoric of Innovation Policy Making in Hong Kong Using the Innovation Systems Conceptual Approach
Since its introduction in the 1980s, use of the innovation systems (IS) conceptual approach has been growing, particularly on the part of national governments including, recently, the Hong Kong Government. In 2004, the Hong Kong Government set forth a ''new strategy'' for innovation and technology policy making. Because it marked a significant break from the past (characterized by a laissez-faire Government attitude), it was necessary to convince…
The Transformation of Research Technology Organisations (RTOs) in Asia and Europe
Research technology organizations (RTOs) are undergoing a transition in their traditional role. This transition is driven by two key shifts in the environment within which RTOs operate: increasing pressure to commercialise research outputs and the internationalisation of the research endeavor, providing new opportunities for both funding and transfer of outputs. We note that these trends are felt in both industrialised and industrialising economi…
The Role of Hong Kong in Mainland China's Modernization in Manufacturing
We examine Hong Kong's role in the modernization of manufacturing industries in Mainland China and its province of Guangdong. Hong Kong's role has evolved from trading intermediary to low-cost mainland manufacturer to provider of key business, fnancial, and supply chain services
Information Technology Services: A Key Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Industry in Hong Kong SAR, China
As the global economy focuses increasingly on Asia, Hong Kong’s role as an intermediary between China and the rest of the world merits investigation. In view of the increasing importance of knowledge-based business services and Hong Kong’s recent drive to promote innovation and high-tech services, economists and policy makers must understand Hong Kong’s capacity to support economic development in the Asian region. Following a theoretically inform…
From 'Labour Dividend' to 'Robot Dividend: Technological Change and Workers' Power in South China
China became the world's largest market for industrial robots in 2013. The robotic revolution gained pace and occurred after the 2008 financial crisis as many export-oriented firms coped with dwindling orders, rising labour costs and growing concerns over occupational safety. Unlike workers in the Global North who experienced automation in the 1960s and 1970s against a backdrop of strong union activism, whether semi-proletarian peasant-workers in…
Industrial Automation in China’s “Workshop of the World”
The Chinese government has announced major plans to provide subsidies to upgrade industry through automated manufacturing and robotization. This article examines how the government in the southern city of Dongguan, a leading center of the country’s export industry, has promoted a “Replacing Humans with Machines” initiative to improve the prospects for local manufacturers facing toughening business conditions since 2007. We explain the conditions …
Introduction: Innovation and Work in East Asia
Achieving Industrial Upgrading Through Automation in Dongguan, China
This study examines industrial upgrading in manufacturing firms in Dongguan, China in the context of the Dongguan government’s recent policy initiative to boost its manufacturing sector by encouraging industrial upgrading. To implement its so-called ‘Replacing Humans with Robots’ policy, which we see as an expression of the central government’s ‘Made in China 2025’ policy, the Dongguan government offers incentives to manufacturers’ region to auto…
From Sars to Covid-19: The role of experience and experts in Hong Kong’s initial policy response to an emerging pandemic
As one of the most densely populated places in the world, Hong Kong fared relatively well in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a very low number of cases and fatalities per capita. This was mostly due to the Hong Kong government, healthcare workers, and the general public’s institutional and individual memory after they successfully overcame the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. However, while Hong Kong…
Translating STS in China. Disciplinary Struggles and Future Prospects
This article analyzes a debate in Mainland China over how to designate and integrate the international field of STS (science and technology studies) in Chinese academia. Emerged at the turn of the millennium, this debate confirmed the increasing hold of STS in China, but it also revealed significant tensions regarding the general orientation and the place of the field in Chinese academia. These tensions reflect not only larger contradictions foun…
Innovation in China: Challenging the Global Science and Technology System
As I know, there is nothing there for our people”: Unmasking mental health literacy and help-seeking attitudes among ethnic minorities in Hong Kong
Ethnic minorities bear a great burden of mental health problems and have been shown to underutilize mental health services. Mental health literacy – critical for recognizing and addressing these issues – remains underexplored among ethnic minorities, particularly regarding their interaction with health systems. This article aims to understand ethnic minorities’ mental health literacy and help-seeking attitudes in a multicultural context. Specific…
Advancing Problem Framing in the Multiple Streams Framework: A Refined Model of the Problem Stream and Its Key Settings
In response to calls to extend the theoretical development of the multiple streams framework (MSF), this article proposes the integration of a refined problem framing process model and its key settings into the MSF. Despite its popularity in recent decades, the MSF has not systematically addressed the role of contextual factors in the problem framing process. We conceptualize problem framing in the MSF context as a continuous, dynamic process tha…
The trust trap: How trust in online health information harms subjective well-being
The use of the internet as a source of health information is widespread and growing rapidly. Despite a growing body of literature on online health information, little is known about the potentially negative psychological impacts of trust in such information. This paper examines the impact of trust in online health information on subjective well-being, utilizing data from the 2021 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS). Our analysis reveals a negati…
Mental health problems among ethnic minorities during public crises: A systematic review of coping strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Public health crises exert a disproportionate psychological burden on ethnic minority populations, exacerbating pre-existing health disparities. Drawing upon the COVID-19 pandemic as a focal case, this systematic review synthesizes the coping strategies employed by ethnic minority communities, organized through the lens of ecological systems theory. Adhering to PRISMA guidelines, 65 peer-reviewed studies published between 2020 and 2023 were analy…
Life as an ethnic minority ( EM ) university student: Comparing mental health challenges among local and international EM students in Hong Kong
University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts. Drawing on interviews and participant observation with 27 non‐Chinese EM students by visiting 13 Hong Kong universities and colleges, this study compares how…
Political science (12 works) · China (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works)