Research associates
The New Zealand Asia Institute aims to facilitate collaboration among scholars active in research on Asia and promote the visibility of the Asia-related expertise of the University of Auckland.
We invite current faculty members of the University of Auckland whose primary field of scholarship involves research in any country in the Asian region to be listed here as a research associate.
Research interests are shown below in alphabetical order and with links to staff profile pages.
Asia
- Dr William Cheung
Australasia/Pacific rim region
- Associate Professor Stephen Hoadley
Asia-Pacific security and trade - Dr Haiping Zhang
Trade and financial integration, regional value chains, intangible investment
Burma/Myanmar
- Dr Tan Bee Tin
Language teaching and learning
Cambodia, Mekong region
- Dr Chanrith Ngin
Cambodia-China relations, natural resource governance, land grabbing, climate change and resilience
China
- Linglu Bai
Global food chains; labour markets; gender - Professor Gary Brierley
Environmental science and management; western China - Professor Gavin Brown
Education, assessment/testing - Professor Gerald Chan
International relations - Sitong (Michelle) Chen
Sustainability, circular economy, business ethics and strategies in emerging market of China - Professor Wei Gao
Chemical and materials engineering - Dr Kai Gu
Urban planning and design - Dr Harvey Ho
Meat quality, medical imaging - Dr Karen Huang
Culture, language and linguistics - Dr Herbert Sima
Social networking, Guanxi, social media and digital marketing strategy - Dr Edward Yiu
Hong Kong: housing policy and property economics - Associate Professor Roger Marshall
Public health, epidemiology - Associate Professor Stephen Noakes
Politics - Professor Ilan Oshri
Innovation, technology development and management, global sourcing of services - Professor David Robb
Operations and supply chain management - Associate Professor Robert Scollay
International trade; economic reform and development - Dr Jeremy Seligman
Philosophy - Dr Yen Shih
Management control systems and accounting - Dr Emmy van Esch
Management, Organisational behaviour - Dr Xingang Wang
Labour and regional economics - Professor Lawrence Zhang
Foreign language education; national language policy, Singapore and China - Dr Xuelin Zhou
Popular culture and film
East Asia
- Hannie Huang
Data economy, innovation and growth
India
- Professor Ananish Chaudhuri
Lab and field experiments; corruption; gender; social preferences - Dr Deepika Jindal
Job/career crafting; higher education; HRM
Indonesia
- Associate Professor Jesse Hession Grayman
Development studies and anthropology - Dr Nicholas Malone
Primate behaviour, ecology and conservation - Dr Ritesh Shah
Education and peacebuilding; East Timor, Myanmar, Indonesia - Dr Tan Bee Tin
Language teaching and learning - Dr Chris Wilson
Violent conflict, democratisation; Indonesia and India
Japan
- Professor Andrew Barrie
Architecture and design - Dr Harumi Minagawa
Linguistics, teaching Japanese as a foreign language - Dr Ellen Nakamura
Social history, medicine, women’s history - Associate Professor Rolando P Orense
Geotechnical engineering - Dr Rumi Sakamoto
Nationalism, popular culture, identity
Korea
- Dr Ilaisaane Fifita
Cultural identity and values in Korea - Dr Sunhee Koo
Diaspora; East Asia; ethnomusicology - Dr Mi-Yung Park
Linguistics - Dr Changzoo Song
Politics, culture, nationalism, diaspora - Dr Inshil Young
Geography and language teaching
Malaysia
- Nurul Ezzati Aisya Mohd Zaki
Production studies, documentary, social change
Philippines
- J. C. Gaillard
Disaster studes, Kapampangan studies and more
Southeast Asia
- Dr Kenny Ching
Digital economy, AI, social media (SEA and China) - Dr Zhi Dong
Real estate and land markets; Singapore; China - Professor Natasha Hamilton-Hart
Political economy; trade and investment; Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore - Thy Le
Linguistics, Vietnam - Dr Sasha Maher
Green finance, carbon markets, trading, climate regulations and policies, Singapore, South Korea, Japan - Dr Yen Nguyen
- Trade in services, impacts of trade liberalization, Vietnam
- Associate Professor Christina Stringer
Business; global value chains; labour rights; Indonesia - Dr Bram van Wiele
Intellectual property; consumer protection, Singapore
South Asia
- Dr Hanoku Bathula
Emerging markets - Associate Professor Greg Booth
Hindi cinema; South Asia: ethnomusicology - Xiuxiu Lin
Trade in services; digital transformation; environment - Associate Professor Asha Sundaram
International trade; firms; labour markets; institutions