文學院於2015－16年度優配研究金（GRF）／傑出青年學者（ECS）計劃，取得24項研究資助項目，獲研究資助局逾$1000萬元的撥款。
| 首席研究員 | 學系/中心 | 計劃類別 | 項目名稱 |
| 鄭思靈教授 | 人類學系 | 優配研究金 | Love's Refuge: The Meanings of Intimacy for African Asylum-seekers and Refugees in Hong Kong |
| 關宜馨教授 | 人類學系 | 優配研究金 | Repairing Relationships: An Ethnographic Study of the Development of Family Therapy in China |
| 范善標教授 | 中國語言及文學系 | 優配研究金 | 香港《立報》 (1938-1941) 副刊研究 |
| 鄺可怡教授 | 中國語言及文學系 | 優配研究金 | The Reception of French Leftist Intellectuals by Chinese Modernists in the 1930s and 1940s |
| 徐瑋教授 | 中國語言及文學系 | 優配研究金 | Narrative vs Lyric: Transitional Changes of Ci and the Practice of Cishi Reconsidered (1840-1911) |
| 鍾佩琦教授 | 文化及宗教研究系 | 優配研究金 | The Online Distribution for Application Game Developers in Hong Kong, China and South Korea |
| 黃維珊教授 | 文化及宗教研究系 | 優配研究金 | Buddhist Gentrification: Spatial and Social Analysis of Buddhist Revival in Contemporary Urban Shanghai |
| 林松輝教授 | 文化及宗教研究系 | 優配研究金 | After Taiwan New Cinema: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography |
| 陳紫茵教授 | 英文系 | 優配研究金 | The Perilous Inheritances of Joseph Conrad's Heroes |
| 莫家良教授 | 藝術系 | 優配研究金 | Renjian Huahui: Left-wing Artists and Their Activities in Hong Kong in the 1930s and 1940s |
| 王士元教授 | 文學院 | 優配研究金 | Multi-sensory Integration and Language in the Elderly: An Electroencephalographic Comparison of Normal Ageing & Dementia |
| 鄭潔教授 | 文學院 | 優配研究金 | The "Cultural Elite State", "Cultural Strategies" and the "Public Art" Planning System in Shanghai's Urban Development |
| 蔡志祥教授 | 歷史系 | 優配研究金 | 二十世紀「文化中國」的再展演：香港、神戶和新加坡華人社區的中元節 |
| 熊秉真教授 | 歷史系 | 優配研究金 | Aging in Late Imperial China: Advice and Practice |
| Noah Shusterman教授 | 歷史系 | 優配研究金 | Militia Mania: Weapons and Citizenship in the Early Modern Atlantic World |
| 鄧聰教授 | 歷史系 | 優配研究金 | Jade Technologies and Raw Material Exchanges in Prehistoric Northeast Asia: An Archaeological Study of Nephrite Accessories |
| 李行德教授 | 語言學及現代語言系 | 優配研究金 | The Acquisition of Grammar by Shanghainese-speaking children as studied from the perspective of parametric variation in Chinese Dialects |
| 莫碧琪教授 | 語言學及現代語言系 | 優配研究金 | Re-visiting Tone Acquisition of Cantonese Speaking Children in Hong Kong |
| 鄧惠蘭教授 | 語言學及現代語言系 | 優配研究金 | Profiling Chinese Grammatical Knowledge of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in HK and China - A Comparative Study |
| 黃勇教授 | 哲學系 | 優配研究金 | Knowing-to: The Contemporary Significance of Wang Yangming's Moral Philosophy |
| James St Andre教授 | 翻譯系 | 優配研究金 | Conceptualizing China through Translation |
| 黃慧怡教授 | 人類學系 | 傑出青年學者計劃 | On In-depth Cross-cultural Exchange: Chinese Elements in the Early Ceramic Production Centre of Angkor, Cambodia |
| 石磊教授 | 中國研究中心 | 傑出青年學者計劃 | The Repertoire of Repression in Urban China: Threat, Visibility, and Change |
| Yellen Jeremy Avrum教授 | 日本研究學系 | 傑出青年學者計劃 | The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Japan's Hybrid Empire during World War II |
