School of Geography
research associate
Field:political geography, tourism geopolitics, border, territory, South China Sea, Vietnam
yan.huang1207@scnu.edu.cn; yanhuang1207@qq.com
Ph.D. 2018-2022 School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
Supervisors: Professor Andy Bennett, Dr Samid Suliman
Thesis: Cruising a disputed sea: the geopolitics of tourism in the South China Sea
Thesis Examiners: Professor Jason Dittmer, University College London, highly recommend and no revision; Dr Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Cardiff University, highly recommend and minor revision.
Ph.D. 2017-2018 Department of Tourism, Sport & Hotel Management of Business School, Griffith University
M.S. 2013-2016 Human Geography, Shaanxi Normal University
Thesis: The analysis of spatial competition and conflict potential of multi-groups in an ethnic
tourism community of western China
B.S. 2009-2013 Geographical Science, South China Normal University
- Dec 2022 -Present Postdoc research fellow, South China Normal University
- Jul 2022 -Jul 2024 Adjunct research fellow, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research
Academic training 1: reading and topic-choosing, second-year undergraduate courses, South China Normal University
- Principal Investigator, the General Fund of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 42301259), “The geopolitics of the transboundary cruise tourism in the South China Sea: Characteristics, evolution and effects”, Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2027, ¥ 100,000 (around AUD$ 20,000), ongoing.
- Principal Investigator, the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42301259), "Unravelling the dynamic entanglements of tourism with multi-scalar geopolitics in the South China Sea", Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2026, ¥ 300,000 (around AUD$ 63,330), ongoing.
- Participant, the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42230705), "Research on the South China Sea Issue from a political geography perspective," Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2027, ¥ 2700,000 (around AUD $569,970), ongoing.
- Participant, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41571174), "Value structure, changes, and effects of rural landscapes in western China against tourism development," Jan 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019, ¥ 700,000 (around AUD $147,770), completed.
Please see the following academic pages:
researchgate：ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yan-Huang-78
Googlescholar：https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wkoIgk0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
- Huang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2024). A critical reflection on tourism geopolitics: research progress and future agenda. Tourism Geographies, 1–17. (Q1, IF 4.1)
- Huang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2024). Tourism as method for geopolitical research. Tourism Tribune, forthcoming. (In Chinese)
- Huang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2023). Encountering and experiencing the geopolitics of tourism (im) mobilities: A case of China’s tourism in the South China Sea. Australian Geographer, 54(4), 545-559. (Q2, IF 2.4 )
- Huang, Y*., & Suliman, S. Geopolitics, (re)territorialisation, and China’s patriotic tourism in the South China Sea [J]. Geopolitics, 2023, 28(4): 1465-1488. (Q1, IF 3.0)
- Liu, X., Liu, Y., Huang, Y*., & Wang, F. D. (2023). Traversing borders and creating networks at sea: The case of fishers in the South China Sea. Geopolitics, 1-26. (Q1, IF 3.0)
- Huang, Y*. (2022). Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China’s patriotic tourism in the South China Sea. Political Geography, 98, 102669. (Q1, IF 4.3 )
- Chen, C., Zhao, Z., Huang, Y. 2017. Social landscape sensitivity analysis of western tourism community: A case study of Langmusi town in Gannan. Geographical Research, 36(5), 899-912. (Chinese journal with English abstract)
- Huang, Y., et al. 2016. Spatial constitution and group difference of landscape values in tourism community. Tourism Tribune, 31(9), 80-90. (Chinese journal with English abstract)
- Huang, Y., et al. 2015. The visual representation of tourism destinations in the Internet Era: Multiple constructions and circulations. Tourism Tribune, 30(6), 91-101. (Chinese journal with English abstract)
2023.04- Member of the Chinese Geographical Society
2023.03- Member of the European Institute of International Relations
2022.08- Member of the Political Geography Research Group of the Australian Geographical Society
- 10 first- and second-year undergraduates in geography science and human geography, study and thesis supervision
- 4 postgraduate students (one is a Vietnamese student in tourism management, two in big data and computer science, and one in geographical education), thesis supervision
- IGU Thematic Conference on Islands in Relations 2023, Travel Grant for Early Career Researcher, Japan
- European International Studies Association, EWIS 2023, Mobility Grant for Early Career Researcher, Netherland
- Mobility Justice Symposium 2022 Sydney, Travel Grant for Early Career Researcher, Australia
- The Postgraduate Scholarship of China Scholarship Council (CSC), Griffith University Top-Up Scholarship
- Excellent Master Thesis Award in Shaanxi Normal University
- Outstanding Graduate Student award in Shaanxi Normal University
