Huiying Ng / Doctoral Candidate
Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 2. OG
80802 Munich
Room: 230
Email: huiying.ng [at] rcc.lmu.de
Huiying is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Her research considers agroecology in Southeast Asia and its capacity to respond to the environmental impacts of infrastructural projects in the region. She focuses, in particular, on three cases in Thailand and Indonesia. Previous to joining the RCC, she completed an MA in Human Geography at the National University of Singapore.
Huiying Ng’s broader research interest explore links between urban agriculture, open/welcoming spaces for new imaginations of urban life, and community resilience. She is a founding member of the Foodscape Collective, and TANAH, a nature-food duo, and a member of soft/WALL/studs.
Tweet her @fuiin or on Instagram.
She posts some of her work at cargocollective.com/huiyingng.
Education
2020-. Doctoral Candidate. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich.
2016-2018. Master in Social Science, Geography. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.
2010-2014. Bachelor in Social Science, Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore.
Publications
Journal Articles
2020. “Participating in Food Waste Transitions: Exploring Surplus Food Redistribution in Singapore through the Ecologies of Participation Framework.“ Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2020.1792859 (with Monika Rut and Anna R. Davies).
2019. “Recognising the edible urban commons: Cultivating latent capacities for transformative governance in Singapore.” Urban Studies 57(7): 1417-1433.
2019. “Discontinuities, Sovereignties, Aesthetics: Writing a Food Studies Connected to the World.” Graduate Journal of Food Studies: https://gradfoodstudies.org/2018/12/11/discontinuities-sovereignties-aesthetics/
2017. “Evaluation of a brief pilot psychoeducational support group intervention for family caregivers of cancer patients: a quasi- experimental mixed-methods study.” Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 15(17), doi:10.1186/s12955-017-0595-y (with Mahendran, R., Lim, H. A., Tan, J. Y. S., Chua, J., Lim, S. E., ... Griva, K.)
2016. “The Burden of Filial Piety: A Qualitative Study on Caregiving Motivations amongst Family Caregivers of Patients with Cancer in Singapore.” Psychology and Health, 31(11): 1293-310. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2016.1204450 (with Griva, K., Lim, H. A., Tan, J., & Mahendran, R.)
Book Chapters
2020. “Collaborative Imaginaries: Social Experiments, Free Schools and Counterpublics in Singapore.” In The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore (eds. Simone Chung and Mike Douglass), pp. 251-274. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2019. “Aspirations in urban(izing) Southeast Asia.” In Routledge Handbook Of Urbanization In Southeast Asia, edited by R. Padawangi (with Bunnell,T., and Goh, D. P. S.)