Research Students

Policing and politics

Human rights

Electoral politics

• Indonesia Studies
• Natural Resources Governance
• Identity Politics
• Marginalized Communities
• Cooperative Finance
• Social Movements

• International Political Economy
• Colonial and post-colonial development in Asia
• Social Policy

• Social and Political Philosophy
• Applied Ethics
• Corporate Social Responsibility

Government-Business Relations

Video Game Industry

Environmental Economics

• Platform Urbanism
• Platform Labour
• The Political Economy of Platforms
• Public Participation
• Urban Governance

• Technological competition in the international realm
• AI Governance
• EU-China-US relations
• Authoritarian Regimes

Humanitarian migration

Asylum and immigration 

Immigration attitudes 

Media narratives 

• Environmental Governance
• Collaborative Governance
• Performance Management

• Collaborative governance
• Budgeting finance

Pro-environmental behavior; Psychological distance

China's International Relations

Chinese Political Economy

American hegemony

Theories of International Relations

China's Subnational Relations

Chinese Foreign Affairs

• International Political Economy
• Global Value Chains
• Technology and innovation
• China's International Relations
• China-Latin America Relations

• Critical Political Economy
• Development Studies
• Globalisation
• Southeast Asia
• Global Production Networks
• Labour and Social Movements

Multi-level governance

Policy integration

Citizen-government interaction

• Pro-environmental behavior
• Pro-environmental communication
• Consumer behavior

• Ableism 
• Disability advocacy
• Disability identity
• Disability policies
• Social inclusion/exclusion

Performance management

• Health economics
• Environmental Governance 
• Corporate Sustainability

• Social determinants of health
• Aging population
• Migration
• Urban and regional development

Substantive Focus:

• Citizen-State Interactions
• Street-level Bureaucrats
• Urban governance

Theoretical Focus:

• Governmentality
• Affect theory
• Policy process theory
• Emotional labor

Modernization of China

Politics and law 

Post-colonial theory 

• Smart elderly care services innovation policy
• Citizen-state relations
• Managerial turnover
• Public service performance
• Innovation performance measurement

• Inclusive and smart city
• Digital society
• E-government
• Public engagement

• Comparative Politics
• Chinese Politics
• Public Opinion and Political Behavior

Goal ambiguity ("the extent to which an organizational goal or set of goals allows leeway for interpretation") in public organizations 

International Relations

Chinese Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy

Global Governance and International Institutions