EDITORSHIP AND EDITORIAL BOARD
2021 – Present
Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
2020
Editorial Board, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
2021 – Present
Editorial Board, Transactions in Planning and Urban Research(SAGE journal)
2021 – Present
Editorial Advisory Board, Dialogues in Urban Research(SAGE journal)
2020 – Present
Editor, LSE Southeast Asia Blog, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre
2018 – Present
Editorial Board, Urban Geography
2017 – Present
Editorial Board, Space and Environment(In Korean: 공간과사회)
2017 – 2020
Extended (Editorial) Collective, Radical Housing Journal
2015 – Present
Editorial Board, China City Planning Review
2014 – Present
International Advisory Board, Antipode
2014 – Present
(Editorial) Collective (2019-Present), Senior Editor (2015-2017), International Advisory Board (2014-2015), City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action
2010 – Present
Editorial Board, City, Culture and Society
2013 – Present
Founder and editor, LSE Field Research Methods Lab Blog
TRUSTEE, Urban Studies Foundation (2016 – Present) (https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org/) (also treasurer, 2021-Present)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE of the Urban Salon seminar, a London-based joint seminar series (http://www.theurbansalon.com)
STEERING COMMITTEE ofthe East Asia Regional Conference in Alternative Geography, December 2022 onward
REVIEW OF NOMINATIONS FOR TENURE AND PROFESSORSHIP
The University of Manchester, Promotion Review to Reader, January 2023
University of Notre Dame, Tenure Review, September 2022
University of North Texas, Promotion Review to Full Professor, August 2022
Nanyang Technological University, Tenure Review, March 2022
University of Toronto, Promotion Review to Full Professor, January 2022
Peking University, Tenure Review, September 2021
University of Waterloo, Promotion Review to Full Professor, October 2021
Seoul National University, Promotion Review to Full Professor, October 2021
The University of Manchester, Promotion Review to Full Professor, February 2021
Nanyang Technological University, Tenure Review, September 2019
University of Waterloo, Canada Research Chair, August 2017
GRANT PROPOSAL REVIEW
UK
ESRC-AHRC UK-South Korea SSH Connection Grants, 2021;
Knowledge Frontiers Programme, The British Academy, 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;
Singapore
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;
Hong Kong
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;
Switzerland
Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland, February 2016;
Belgium
Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, September 2012;
Portugal
Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal, October 2012;
REVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (2019)
BOOK MANUSCRIPT / PROPOSAL REVIEW
Agenda Publishing; Alexandrine Press; Elsevier; Palgrave Macmillan; Routledge; Rowman & Littlefield International; SAGE; Springer; IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series, Wiley; University of Georgia Press
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; Economy and Society; Environment and Planning A** ; Environment and Planning C*; Environment and Planning D; Environment and Planning E; Environment and Urbanization*; Geoforum**; 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*; 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
Director, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, LSE (08.2018 – Present)
Member of the Departmental Senior Management Committee, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (08.2020 – Present)
Head, Urbanisation, Planning and Development Research Cluster, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (08.2020 – Present)
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 – Present)
Scholars at Risk Working Group, LSE (03.2020 – 03.2022)
Promotions Committee, LSE (09.2019 – 08.2021)
Academic Board Departmental Representative, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (10.2015 – 09.2021)
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)