Justin Chun-ting Ho

Name: Justin Chun-ting Ho
Title
Organisation: Sociology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
Address: Github: justinchuntingho
Telephone
E-Mail: Justin.Ho@ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Nationalism and National Identity, Hong Kong, China, Social media, text and data analytics, Computational Social Science, Discourse Analysis, Big data, Big Data Analytics, Big data applied to social sciences, Social network analysis
URL: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/sociology/justin_chun-ting_ho

PhD Title

The Rise of Hong Kong Nationalism on the Edge of Empires

PhD Title

The Rise of Hong Kong Nationalism on the Edge of Empires

Supervisors

Ross Bond and Michael Rosie

Book Chapters

Ho, J.C. (2017) Quebec nationalism: the lesson for Hong Kong. In: Fong, C. (ed). Hong Kong Reformation Theory II. Hong Kong: Chapter One Publishing. (In Chinese)

Ho, J.C. (2015) Localized liberal values: Past and present of the Hong Kong identity. In: Fong, C. (ed). Hong Kong Reformation Theory. Taipei: Azoth Books. (In Chinese)

Kwong, K. & Ho, J.C. (2015) On Hong Kong self-governing political community: A response to the liberalist. In: Fong, C. (ed). Hong Kong Reformation Theory. Taipei: Azoth Books. (In Chinese)

Wong, H, Zhang, Y., Ho, J.C. & Ng, S.L. (2016) Understanding the change in youth’s quality of life in light of the Youth Quality of Life Index. In: Chiu, S.W., Ip, J.C. & Li, H. (eds). Restless youth: Observation on Hong Kong’s new generation. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co. (In Chinese)

Book Reviews

Ho, J.C. (2017) Book review: Dynamics of National Identity: Media and Societal Factors of What We Are. Nations and Nationalism 23(4), pp. 1004–1006.

Ho, J.C. (2016) Book review: Nationalism and Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations: Nation-state, Frontier, and Knowledge of History. China Information 30(3), pp. 391-393.

Conference Presentations

Ho, J.C. (2018, March) One Kingdom, Two Nations: Social Media Analysis of Scottish National Party and UK Independence Party. Presented at The 28th Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. London, UK.

Ho, J.C. (2017, April) Facebooking Nationalism: the Construction of Hong Kong Nationalism on Facebook. Presented at the New Direction Conference. Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Ho, J.C. (2017, March) Hong Kong nationalism: “New nationalism” with “old roots”. Presented at The 27th Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. London, UK.

Ho, J.C. (2017, March) “Like of the same”: Facebook like-network of the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election. Presented at General Online Research 2017. Berlin, Germany.

Ho, J.C. (2016, June) Constructing the Hong Kong Nation: Cultural Nationalism and Civic Nationalism. Presented at The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2016. Kobe, Japan.

Research Experience

08/2017 - 01/2018: Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh
Project involved: Working Across Qualitative Longitudinal Studies: a feasibility study looking at care and intimacy

02/2015 - 09/2016: Research Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Projects involved: Using Wellbeing Data in the Valuation of Non-Market Goods: Exploring its Applicability for Use in Hong Kong and China, Hong Kong Quality of Life Index and Youth Quality of Life Index.

02/2014 - 02/2015: Research Assistant, Policy 21 Ltd., Hong Kong

09/2014 - Present: Research Fellow, SynergyNet, Hong Kong

Teaching Experience

2018: Guest Lecturer (Researching Digital Life)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

2018: Tutor (Doing Social Research with Statistics)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

2018: Tutor (Researching Social Life)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

2017: Visiting Lecturer (Introduction to Text Analysis and Digital Research),
Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover

2014 - 2015: Teaching Assistant (Work and Productive Life)
S.H. Ho College, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Workshops

04/2018: Basic Text Analysis using R
Q-Step, University of Edinbrurgh

10/2017: Basic Text Analysis using R
Digital Scholarship, University of Edinbrurgh

Grants and Awards

2017: Travel Grant, International Political Science Association

2017: Digital Scholarship Training Bursaries, University of Edinbrurgh

2017: PhD Research Support Fund, University of Edinbrurgh

University Service

2017 - 2018: Postgraduate Representative
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Academic Qualifications

MSc in Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

BSocSc in Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.