Calendar 2006–07

Faculty and Departmental Research/Consultancy Units 383 The Sleep Disorder Centre, with an affiliated Sleep Assessment Unit, was first established in 1986. It was the first in Hong Kong to conduct sleep research, and sleep assessment and treatment. Its research areas are the epidemiology and clinical aspects of various sleep disorders including insomnia, sleep disordered breathing, narcolepsy, sleep changes in mental disorders, REM sleep behaviour disorder, and sleep habit and problems in Hong Kong. The centre has served more than 4,000 clients, and at the same time actively contributed to the education on the importance of sleep medicine of doctors, nurses, and technicians from other institutions in Hong Kong and on the mainland. It also supports MPhil and PhD studies on sleep medicine. Social Welfare Practice and Research Centre Tel.: 2609 7507 Fax.: 2603 5018 E-mail: socialwork@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/swk The Social Welfare Practice and Research Centre was established in 2000 at the Department of Social Work. The overall goal of the centre is to promote practice- based research and develop social work knowledge with a Chinese perspective. The centre pursues its overall goal through conducting intervention research and empirical research of Chinese social welfare, and forging a university-agency partnership to advance practice knowledge, technology, and evidence-based practice. Besides conducting practice-based research and empirical research of Chinese social welfare, the centre disseminates its research findings through publications, seminars, training, and other forms of activities. Statistical Consulting Services Unit Tel.: 2609 7931 Fax.: 2603 5188 E-mail: consult@sta.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.sta.cuhk.edu.hk/dept/scsu/consulting.htm The Statistical Consulting Services Unit is a consulting unit established in 1984 under the Department of Statistics. Its objective is to encourage the proper use of statistical methodology and to provide statistical expertise to colleagues on campus and to outside organizations. Statistical areas in which consultation may be provided include data analysis, design of experiments, analysis of categorical data, medical statistics, multiple logistic regression, social and business statistics, financial risk management, structural equation models, regression analysis, quality control, and time series analysis. Suicide Research Unit E-mail: psychiatry@cuhk.edu.hk The Suicide Research Unit was formally established under the Department of Psychiatry in 2004, four to five years since the department embarked on a series of large-scale epidemiologic research and community suicide prevention programme. The unit’s principal goal is to build the infrastructure required for serving as a regional