2025/03 - 2029/09, PI, Joint PhD Project with Paired Seed Funding
- Co-funded by the University of Melbourne and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 10 projects awarded for 2024 applications
- Collaborating with UniMelb PI: Prof. Sun Sheng Han
- Travel Fund: 50,000 RMB from SJTU + 10,000 AUD from UniMelb
- One PhD opportunity with a generous full scholarship
- Urban Institutions, Socioeconomic-spatial Mix and the City Centre: Comparing Melbourne and Shanghai
2024/01 - 2026/12, PI, Young Scientist Program
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, 300,000 RMB, No. 42301209
- Transformative Resilience and Driving Forces of Shopping Centre Vitality
2021/08 - 2024/12, PI, Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant
- Ministry of Education, China, 80,000 RMB, No. 21YJCZH121
- Socio-Economic Resilience of Main Streets in the Digital Age
2023/10 - 2026/10, PI, Shanghai Pujiang Programme
- Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Shanghai, 150,000 RMB, No. 23PJC061
- Resilience and Vitality of Megacity Shopping Centres
2022/03 - 2023/02, PI, Sci & Tech Innovation Action Plan: Social Science Research Grant
- Sci & Tech Commission of Shanghai, 50,000 RMB, No. 22692194900
- Spatial Planning/Governance Regimes of 15-min Innovative Neighbourhoods
2023/03 - 2023/09, PI, General Research Grant
- Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources of Shanghai, 60,000 RMB, No. Ghzy-2023-GX08
- Socio-Spatial Urban Transformations in the Age of Digitalisation
2020/11 - 2023/12, PI, Early Career Researcher Grant
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200,000 RMB
2017/09 - 2018/09, Co-I, U21 Graduate Collaborative Research Grant
- UNIVERSITAS 21, 4,880 USD
- When Industry Diversity Meets Walkability: An Analysis of Innovation
2025/04, GUNDAM Research Seminar: Urban Design Futures
- Generative Urbanity and Novel Design Assemblage Meeting (GUNDAM) Series
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Convenor and Moderator
- Morning Session: Transformative changes in the central-city shopping district in the digital era: A reinvigoration or reinvention of urbanity?
- Panellists:
Prof. Kim Dovey, University of Melbourne
Prof Xing Ruan, Dean of School of Design, SJTU
Prof. Yue Shen, Head of Human Geography, East China Normal University
- Afternoon Session: Design education reforms in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
- Panellists:
Prof. Kim Dovey
Prof Xing Ruan
Prof. Yangmin Zhu, Deputy Director of the Academic Affairs Office, SJTU
Ms Yan Guo, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Office, SJTU
2024/11, UCL ChinaUrban: Rethinking China’s Urban Governance Workshop II
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Session Speaker
- Reintegrating planning, governance, and design: Towards an urban planning assemblage
2024/11, World Urban Forum 12 (WUF12) Urban Library Session
- Cairo, Egypt
- Co-organiser and Panellist, with Nature Cities
- Linking insights for local action and global relevance from scholarly publishing
2024/10, SJTU-UniMelb Joint Workshop: Design a Healthier Living
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Session Speaker and Facilitator
- Planning for resilient central-city shopping districts in the post-Covid era
2024/07, International Association for China Planning (IACP) Annual Conference
- Zhejiang University, China
- Session Speaker
- Towards open-air markets for people in post-Covid Paris
2024/06, Global Academic Symposium on Urban Governance and Policy: Urban Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, and Sustainable Development
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Session Speaker
- Transformative resilience of Wuhan’s post-COVID city-centre main streets
2023/12, Behavioural Geography Annual Academic Conference of China
- Tongji University, China
- Session Speaker
- Unravelling material/digital shopping space: An assemblage approach
2023/09, Urban Geography Annual Academic Conference of China
- Wuhan University, China
- Session Speaker
- Unravelling the spatial arrangement of the 15-minute city
2023/07, International Association for China Planning (IACP) Annual Conference
- Tianjin University, China
- Session Speaker and Facilitator
- Towards resilient central-city main streets in the post-Covid era
2021/10, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference
- Florida, US; online
- Session Speaker and Facilitator
- Towards resilient shopping centres amid the rise of online retailing: A typomorphology of shopping centres with an Apple Store in the US
2021/09, Conference of Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society: Regions Economy and Society in the Post Covid World
- Cambridge, UK; online
- Session Speaker
- Planning for resilient central-city shopping districts through the lens of adaptive resilience: An explanatory case study of the Hoddle Grid in Melbourne
2021/06, International Seminar on Urban Form
- University of Strathclyde, UK; online
- Session Speaker and Facilitator
- Unravelling peculiar morphologies of main streets and shopping malls
2020/11, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference
- Toronto, Canada; online
- Session Speaker and Facilitator
- Shopping morphologies of walkable transit station areas
2018/10, Spaces and Flows
- Heidelberg University, Germany
- Session Speaker and Facilitator
- Urban shopping morphologies in transition
2013/09, A Suburban Revolution? An International Conference on Bringing the Fringe to the Centre of Global Urban Research and Practice
- York University, Canada
- Session Speaker
- Factors influencing the management of retail development