Academic & Teaching Staff

• Public budgeting
• Performance management and budgeting
• E-government
• Citizen engagement

• Public management and performance
• Research methods to advance public management
• Sustainable development 

• Bioethics and health care policy
• Confucian ethics and politics
• Comparative philosophy

• Confucian democratic and constitutional theory
• Comparative political theory
• History of East Asian political thought
• Korean politics and political theory

• Central-Local relations and politics: China, Hong Kong
• Public finance, education and government reforms in China
• Institutional and agency change processes
• Responsible governance in Asia
• Cross-border collaboration, tension, and politics

Discipline: Political Science, International Relations

• China’s developmental trajectory
• Chinese foreign policy
• East Asian security relations
• State-society relations

Discipline: Political Science

• Democracy in Southeast Asia
• East Asian authoritarianism
• Dynasties in Asia

Current/Recent Research Projects

• The Rise of Illiberal Populist Rule in the Philippines (Research Grants Council, General Research Fund - GRF - grant);
• Democracy and its Discontents in Southeast Asia (GRF grant);
• The ‘Singapore Model’ and its Influence on China (CityU Strategic Research Grant)

• Environmental Financing, Sustainability
• Chinese Public Budgeting and Financial Management
• Performance Management and Program Evaluation

• Urban policy
• Urban Activism
• Housing policy
• Housing management

• Environment and energy studies
• Housing and Urban studies
• ESG, CSR and carbon neutral strategy
• Sustainability Science
• Macro-level dynamics in urbanization/ housing policy/ land use planning, etc

• Applied and Comparative Ethics
• Healthcare Policy and Ethics
• The Problem of Rationality

Discipline: Anthropology

• Migration studies
• Asian borderlands
• Vietnamese-Chinese relationships
• Vietnamese and Chinese diaspora
• Outbound Chinese tourism
• Food and culture
• Death studies

 Current/Recent Research Projects

• Asian Migration and Diaspora
• Food Relations in Asia
• Diseasescape

• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Strategy
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Impact Investing
• Managing emerging technologies (i.e., Metaverse, Blockchain, DAO)
• Artificial Intelligence and Robots
• Visual Methods

• Comparative politics 
• Contentious politics
• Political Behaviour
• Political communication
• Regional governance
• Public health
• Sociology of knowledge
• Research methods

• Democracy Studies
• Civil-Military Relations
• Parliament and Legislative Politics
• Myanmar/Burma, India

Discipline: Political Science

• Political Development
• Comparative Political Institutions
• Thailand

• Strategic planning and management in public administration
• Public sector performance
• Behavioral public policy and administration
• Meta science in public administration

• Public Service Values and Performance
• Workplace Wellness
• Workforce Diversity

• Socio-technological innovation
• Policy design and governance
• Institutional capacity
• Economic and social well-being

• Citizen-state relations
• Public service performance
• Managerial turnover
• Research transparency

Discipline: Political Science, International Relations

• International Political Economy
• Firms as Actors
• US International Economic Relations
• The Foreign-Domestic Divide in Emerging Markets

Current/Recent Research Projects

• "New" Finance in Emerging Markets (hedge funds, private equity funds, offshore, leverage)
• Financial Returnees in East Asia
• Interrogating "Green" ETFs and "Green" Bonds

• Labour studies and Industrial relations, particularly in East Asia;
• Multinational management, especially Japanese operations and Japanisation;
• Organisation of work, HRM and gender

Discipline: Political Science, International Relations

• Chinese Foreign Policy
• Health Security in Asia
• Asian security

Current/Recent Research Projects

• Asian Diseases in International Affairs
• China's Subnational Relations
• Australia-China Relations

• Platform urbanism
• Cultural cities/creative cities, critical heritage studies
• Territorialization, political geography
• Social geography, citizenship. mobility

Discipline: East Asian Cultural Exchange and Sino-Japanese Relations

• Sino-Japanese Comparative Philosophy
• Japanese Intellectual History
• Japanese Literature

Discipline: International Relations; Comparative Politics

• International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
• Comparative Asian Politics
• Japanese Politics

Current/Recent Research Projects

• Japanese Intelligence
• US-East Asia intelligence relations

• Asian urbanism
• Contemporary art and the city
• Politics of biennials
• Enclave urbanism
• Urban controversies
• Cities and the super-rich
• Social networks and the neighbourhood

• Energy, Environmental & Sustainability Economics
• Policy for Sustainable Resource Use
• Green Business & Finance
• Economic Development under Climate Risks
• Interdisciplinary work related to environmental management and urban sustainability

• Urban sustainability and Sustainable Urban Planning
• Environmental management & Policies
• Industrial Ecology and Environmental system analysis
• Eco-industrial development (EID) and Eco-industrial parks (EIPs)
• Low-carbon city, Eco-city and Smart city

• Representation
• Political Behavior
• Public Opinion
• Accountability
• East and Southeast Asia
• Research Methods

• Political power and expert knowledge in policymaking
• Global-to-local policy transfer for environmental sustainability (SDGs)
• Technology, technocracy, and smart cities
• Public policy/administration theory and epistemics
• Circular economy transition

Migration (labor mobility)

Urban development (creative city development)

Social determinants of health (well-being and aging)

Urban big data analytics

• Local and human consequences of international politics
• Social and transnational movements
• Global norms and transnational advocacy
• International relations and comparative politics of East Asia

• Comparative Politics
• Chinese Politics
• Authoritarian Politics
• Public Opinion and Political Behavior
• Political Institutions
• Identity and Ethnic Politics

Government-Business Relations

Environmental Governance

Sustainable Development and Climate Change

Smart Government

• Policy agendas and processes
• Authoritarian regimes
• Globalisation
• Theory of information processing
• Hong Kong Politics

Discipline: Political Economy, Social Capital and Social Development

• International economic cooperation
• Transport and Infrastructure Development
• Socialist Reform and Development
• Social Capital and Social Development

Current/Recent Research Projects

• Chinese and Japanese Aid Projects in Mongolia
• The Political Economy of China’s involvements in Kazakhstan
• China and Japan's High-speed Rail Development

• Organization Theory and Behavior
• Public Personnel Management
• Policy Implementation
• Chinese Politics
• Regulatory Governance
• Civic Engagement

Discipline: Anthropology; Urban Studies

• Social Transformation and Urban Development
• Mobility and Class Politics
• Infrastructures and Spatial Politics
• Science, Technology and Society in Asia
• China Studies

Current/Recent Research Projects

• The emerging philanthropic landscape in China (with Dr. Gonçalo Santos; funded by GRFs; book manuscript in progress)
• Urbanization, Infrastructural transformation, and Spatial politics in China (funded by GRF & ECS)
• The Politics and Ethics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform era China (with Dr. Gonçalo Santos; funded by GRF)

• Contemporary Indian Politics
• Political Dynasties in Asia
• Democracy and Hereditary Politics

Discipline: Political Science, International Relations

• International Political Economy
• World-Systems Analysis
• Global Offshore Economy
• Global Tax Governance

Current/Recent Research Projects

• World-Systems Analysis of Offshore Wealth Extraction
• Interlocking Network Model and Offshore Wealth Extraction
• India and China in Global Tax Governance
• Social Psychology of Climate Action
• Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism

• Comparative-historical analysis
• Colonialism and postcolonial development
• Health policy
• Hong Kong studies

- Applications of Philosophy to Public Policy

- Housing Studies

- Urban Studies

- Hong Kong Studies