EDITORSHIP
- Editor (also Coordinating Editor) (2021-2024), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2021-2024)
- Senior Editor (2015-2017), City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action
- Editor (2020-2023), LSE Southeast Asia Blog, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, LSE
- Founder and Editor (2013-2024), LSE Field Research Methods Lab Blog
JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD & ADVISORY BOARD
- Advisory Board (2024-Present) and Editorial Board (2020), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Editorial Board (2021-Present), Transactions in Planning and Urban Research(SAGE journal)
- Editorial Advisory Board (2021-Present), Dialogues in Urban Research(SAGE journal)
- Editorial Board (2018-Present), Urban Geography
- Editorial Board (2017-Present), Space and Environment(In Korean: 공간과사회)
- Extended (Editorial) Collective (2017-2020), Radical Housing Journal
- Editorial Board (2015-Present), China City Planning Review
- International Advisory Board (2014-Present), Antipode
- (Editorial) Collective (2019-Present) and International Advisory Board (2014-2015), City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action
- Editorial Board (2010-2023), City, Culture and Society
TRUSTEE, Urban Studies Foundation (2016 – 2023) (https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org/) (also treasurer, 2022-2023)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE of the Urban Salon seminar, a London-based joint seminar series (2009 – Present) (http://www.theurbansalon.com)
STEERING COMMITTEE of the East Asia Regional Conference in Alternative Geography, December 2022 – Present
REVIEW OF NOMINATIONS FOR TENURE AND PROFESSORSHIP
- College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Appointment to an Associate Professorship with tenure, November 2024
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Promotion to Senior Lecturer, May 2024
- Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Promotion to Associate Professor and conversion to regular terms, December 2023
- Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Review of Promotion to Full Professor, November 2023
- Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Review of Promotion to Full Professor, April 2023
- School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Review of Tenured Professor, March 2023
- School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, Promotion Review to Reader, January 2023
- Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Tenure Review, September 2022
- College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, University of North Texas, Promotion Review to Full Professor, August 2022
- School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Tenure Review, March 2022
- Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto, Promotion Review to Full Professor, January 2022
- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Tenure Review, September 2021
- Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Promotion Review to Full Professor, October 2021
- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Promotion Review to Full Professor, October 2021
- School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, Promotion Review to Full Professor, February 2021
- National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Tenure Review, September 2019
- University of Waterloo, Canada Research Chair, August 2017
Member of Social Sciences Panel of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2026, University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong, 2024-2026
GRANT PROPOSAL REVIEW
Belgium
- C2 funding, Research Council of KU Leuven, April 2023
- Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, September 2012
Canada
- Expert Panelist, Partnership Grants Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2024
Germany
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation), 2024
Hong Kong
- Non-local Member, Humanities, Social Sciences and Business Studies Selection Panel (H Panel) for the Fifteenth Round of Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) (2024/25 intake) and the Fifth Round of RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS) (2024/25 cohort), 2024
- External Assessor for Mock RAE, Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024
- Overseas Reviewer for GRF/ECS proposal, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, September 2021, September 2022
- Overseas Reviewer for GRF/ECS proposal, City University of Hong Kong, November 2021
- Overseas Reviewer for GRF/ECS proposals, Department of Geography Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, September 2017
- The Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 2011 – 2021
Netherlands
- NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Social Sciences and Humanities Board, The Netherlands, April 2018
Portugal
- Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal, October 2012
Singapore
- Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 Expert Panel for Accountancy, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences (EP4), Ministry of Education, 1 March 2023 – 31 December 2025
- NIE Academic Research Fund (AcRF), National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 2024
- Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 Expert Panel for Accountancy, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences (EP4), Ministry of Education, Singapore, December 2022
- NIE Academic Research Fund (AcRF), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, October 2022
Switzerland
- Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland, February 2016
UK
- Visiting Professorships, The British Academy, 2024
- ESRC-AHRC UK-South Korea SSH Connection Grants, 2021
- Knowledge Frontiers Programme, The British Academy, 2019, 2024;
- Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, 2019
- The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, April 2017
- ESRC Academic Reviewer Group for ESRC-NSFC Urban Transformations in China, 2015
- The Leverhulme Trust, UK, June 2011, December 2011
- First Grants Competition, Economic & Social Research Council, UK, May 2010
REVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
- Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, 2019
BOOK MANUSCRIPT / PROPOSAL REVIEW
- Agenda Publishing (2022)
- Alexandrine Press (2013)
- Bristol University Press (2024)
- Elsevier
- Palgrave Macmillan (2015; 2016; 2017 x 2)
- IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series (2020; 2022)
- Routledge (2011 x 2; 2018; 2021; 2024 x 2)
- Rowman & Littlefield International (2014)
- SAGE (2013; 2017)
- Springer (2019)
- University of Georgia Press (2020)
JOURNAL PEER REVIEW (* indicates multiple reviews; ** indicates 5+ reviews)
- American Ethnologist; Annals of the AAG*; Annals of the Regional Science; Antipode**; Area*; Area Development and Policy*; Built Heritage*; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; China City Planning Review*; China Information; China Perspectives*; Cities**; City**; City, Culture and Society**; Competition & Change; Current Sociology; Democratization; Dialogues in Human Geography*; Dialogues in Urban Research; Economy and Society; Environment and Planning A** ; Environment and Planning C*; Environment and Planning D; Environment and Planning E; Environment and Urbanization*; Geoforum**; Geopolitics; Habitat International*; Historical Materialism; Housing Policy Debate*; Housing Studies**; Housing, Theory and Society; Int’l Development Planning Review*; Int’l Journal of Housing Policy*; Int’l Journal of Urban and Regional Research**; Int’l Journal of Urban Sciences*; Int’l Review of Administrative Sciences; Int’l Planning Studies*; Journal of Cleaner Production; Journal of Current Chinese Affairs*; Journal of Development Studies*; Journal of Housing and the Built Environment; Journal of Korean Association of Space and Environment Research**; Journal of Social Policy; Journal of Urban Affairs*; Land Use Policy*; Modern Asian Studies; Modern China*; Planning Perspectives*; Planning Practice & Research; Policy & Politics*; Policy and Society; Political Geography*; Progress in Human Geography; Regional Studies*; Seoul Journal of Korean Studies*; Social and Cultural Geography*; Social Forces*; Space and Culture*; Territory, Politics, Governance; The Sociological Quarterly; The Sociological Review*; Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie*; Town and Planning Review; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers*; Transactions in Planning and Urban Research; Urban Affairs Review*; Urban Geography**; Urban Studies**
Services to the University
- Department Head, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (09.2023 – Present)
- Member of the Departmental Senior Management Committee, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (08.2020 – Present)
- Member of the Race Equity Steering Group, LSE (09.2023 – Present)
- Chair, Departmental EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee (09.2023 – Present)
- Academic Board Departmental Representative, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (10.2015 – 09.2021; 09.2023 – Present)
- Member of the Senior Management Committee, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, LSE (09.2023 – Present)
- Director, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, LSE (08.2018 – 07.2023)
- Head of Cluster, Urbanisation, Planning and Development Research Cluster, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (08.2020 – 08.2023)
- Departmental Research Committee,Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (10.2020 – Present)
- Academic Committee, LSE Middle East Centre (03.2021 – Present)
- LSE-PKU Summer School Academic Board, LSE (09.2019 – 08.2020)
- Scholars at Risk Working Group, LSE (03.2020 – 03.2022)
- Promotions Committee, LSE (09.2019 – 08.2021)
- Co-Director, MSc programme in Urbanisation and Development, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (09.2018 – 08.2020)
- Acting Director, MSc programme in Urbanisation and Development, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (09.2017 – 08.2018)
- Departmental Tutor, Undergraduate Degree Programmes, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (01.2018 – 07.2019)
- Member of the School’s Academic Board Governance Review Working Group, LSE (06.2015 – 10.2015)
- Chair, Undergraduate Sub-board of Examinations, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (08.2010 – 09.2017)
- Deputy Chair, Undergraduate Sub-board of Examiners, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (07.2008 – 07.2010)