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| “Seeing and thinking geographically has not only enriched my intellectual understanding of the global economy, but more importantly taught me how to live as a responsible and conscientious citizen.” |
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OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER AWARD |
| Prof Henry YEUNG |
Ph D (Victoria University of Manchester); B A (NUS)
Department of Geography |
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| RESEARCH INTERESTS |
- Geography of transnational corporations
- Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region
- Emergence of leading Asian firms in the global economy
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| RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS |
- Pioneered the development of the theory of globalisation
and global production networks within the discipline of
Geography and wider social sciences
- Ranked as 167th among 3,380 highly-cited social scientists
in the world according to ISI Essential Science Indicators
- Author/co-author of five highly cited papers in leading
journals, according to ISI Essential Science Indicators
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| RESEARCH STRENGTHS |
- Challenge mainstream theories and concepts developed in
Anglo-American social sciences
- Always mindful of his own positionality as an Asian
geographer living in and researching the region
- Strong believer in the theory and practice of networking
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| PUBLICATION CREDITS |
- Cited over 1,000 times in at least 700 publications in
journals included in ISI Web of Science database
- Published over 77 papers in internationally-refereed journals
and 35 book chapters
- Wrote three single-authored monographs and co-authored
a major economic geography textbook
- Edited and co-edited five books and nine special issues of
internationally-refereed journals
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| INTERNATIONAL STANDING |
- Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Manchester
- Editor of three top journals: Economic Geography,
Environment and Planning A, and Review of International
Political Economy
- Asia-Pacific Editor of Global Networks
- Member of editorial boards of 10 other international journals
- Editor of the Economic Geography section of the Elsevier
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
- Expert consultant for the UNCTAD (2001/2005/2007) and
the Commonwealth Secretariat, London (2006)
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| AWARDS AND ACCOLADES |
- Visiting Professorship, University of Hong Kong (2006)
- Visiting Fellowship, ICSEAD, Japan (2006)
- University of Auckland Distinguished Visitor (2006)
- Residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center
(Italy), the Rockefeller Foundation, USA (2006)
- Outstanding Overseas Research Award and Adjunct
Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2006)
- Fulbright Foreign Researcher Award (2003)
- Commonwealth Fellowship (2002)
- Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2001/2002)
- NUS Outstanding University Researcher Award (1998)
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| RESEARCH ASPIRATION |
- To develop impactful theoretical insights into the
economic-geographical nature of Asia’s articulation into
the global economy and to contribute to the rapid
ascendance of Asia-based research in the global social
scientific communities.
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