The Asia Pacific Research Group explores the transformation and diversity of this century’s most dynamic region, including research on Australia and the Pacific, the Indo-Pacific, South and Southeast Asia, and specialty research on China, Japan, and Korea.
Building on leading research on China, Japan, Korea, and the Indo-Pacific, our research embraces the global region in the neighbourhood through transnational and transcultural approaches to globalising Asia. Research is expanding to multiple shores of Asia and the Pacific including diaspora communities in Sydney.
Our research on governance involves geopolitics, territory, borders, maritime security, and social and capital mobility. Policy research on natural resources economies investigates livelihoods, sustainability, and realities of climate change. Researchers in this group pursue multidisciplinary projects through discourse analysis, decolonization, multilingualism, multi-scaled and multi-sited approaches to place and community, political economy, and foreign relations.
Asia Pacific group research is as diverse as the dynamic region it studies. Originally established in the Institute for International Studies, founded at UTS in 1994, UTS research on Asia and the Pacific has grown with the former Institute’s amalgamation with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2008. We collaborate with universities and research institutes in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Contact us
Lai-Ha.Chan@uts.edu.au & Chongyi.Feng@uts.edu.au
Banner image. In new high-rise Guangzhou, a Xiaogang village dragon boat cruises Liede creek, an interfluve of the Pearl River delta, en route to Xian village for the annual duanwu or dragon boat festival. Hundreds of historic rural villages, transformed by urbanisation, have restored village ties through annual dragon boat visits that build inter-village social networks and contest village space in the criss-crossed waterways of the city. Photograph by Gao Yu.