Kong Chong Ho

Dr Ho Kong Chong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. Trained as an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago, Dr Ho’s research interests are in the political economy of cities, urban communities, higher education, and youth. He is a board member of Research Committee 21 (Sociology of Urban and Regional, International Sociological Association) and an editorial board member of Pacific Affairs and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Dr Ho is co-author of City-States in the Global Economy: Industrial Restructuring in Hong Kong and Singapore (1997); Youth.sg: State of Youth in Singapore (2011) and co-editor of Service Industries, Cities and Development Trajectories in the Asia-Pacific (2005); Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia (2008), and New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities (2012).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Urban Sociology; Youth and Society; Social Research Methods

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• K.C. Ho (2014) “Theories of Place and a Place for Theories” in Cities and Economic Change, Ronan Paddison and Tom Hutton (eds) Sage.
• Foong, Michelle, Yeoh Brenda, and K.C. Ho (2014) “International Students and the Politics of Language among ‘Globalising Universities’ in Asia” Knowledge Cultures 2(4): 64-89.
• K.C. Ho (2013) “Peering through the Dust of Construction: Singapore’s Efforts to Build World Class Universities” in Institutionalization of World Class University in Global Competition, edited by J.C. Shin and Barbara M. Kehm, Springer.
• Ong, Q. K.W. Ho and K.C. Ho (2013) “Altrusim within the Family: A Comparison of Mother and Father using Life Happiness and Life Satisfaction” Social Indicators Research 111: 485-510.
• Collins, F.L. and K.C. Ho (2012) “Constructing a ‘Global University Centered in Asia’: Globalizing Strategies and Experiences at the National University of Singapore”, in Neubauer, D.E. and Kuroda, K. (Eds) Mobility and Migration in Asian Pacific Higher Education, Palgrave.