University Awards 2009


OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER AWARD

“ 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. ”



Prof Henry YEUNG

Ph D (Victoria University of Manchester); B A (NUS)

Department of Geography

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Geography of transnational corporations
  • Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Emergence of leading Asian firms in the global economy

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

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

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

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)

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)

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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