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.

• 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

• Dr Tan Bee Tin
  Language teaching and learning

• Dr Chanrith Ngin
  Cambodia-China relations, natural resource governance, land grabbing, climate change and resilience

• 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

• Hannie Huang
  Data economy, innovation and growth

• Dr Jesse Hession Grayman
  Development studies
• 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

• 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

• 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

• J. C. Gaillard
  Geography; disaster risk reduction; the Philippines and Indonesia

• 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
• Dr Yen Nguyen
• Trade in services, impacts of trade liberalization, Vietnam
• Associate Professor Christina Stringer
  Business; global value chains; labour rights; Indonesia

• Dr Hanoku Bathula
  Emerging markets
• Associate Professor Greg Booth
  Hindi cinema; South Asia: ethnomusicology
• Xiuxiu Lin
  Trade in services; digital transformation; environment
• Dr Asha Sundaram
  International trade; firms; labour markets; institutions