Projects
TransTourism, Postdoctoral Researcher (2020-Present)
UKRI-GCRF Resilient Silk Route Cultural Heritage Network, Network Member (2019-2022)
Peer-reviewed articles
Leeuwerik, R.N.C., Kwong, Y.M.C., and Fujitani, F. (2025). The politics of knowledge use in wastewater management – a systematic literature review. Frontiers in Environmental Science. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1614208
Kwong, Y.M.C. (2024). Engaging children's voices for tourism and marine futures through drawing in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism. DOI: 10.3389/frsut.2023.1291142
Hermans, K., Berger, E., Biber-Freudenberger, L., Bossenbroek, L., Ebeler, L., Groth, J., Hack, J., Hanspach, J.,Hintz, K.S., Kimengsi, J.N., Kwong, Y.M.C., Oakes, R., Pagogna, R., Plieninger, T., Sterly, H., van der Geest, K., van Vliet, J., & Wiederkehr, C. (2021). Crisis-induced disruptions in place-based social-ecological research‐an opportunity for redirection. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 30(2), 72-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.2.3.
Ruszczyk, H.A., Upadhyay, B.K., Kwong, Y.M., Khanal, O., Bracken, L., Pandit, P. and Bastola, R. (2020). Empowering Women through Participatory Action Research in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51, 101763. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101763
Kwong, Y.M. and Li, Y. (2017). In-place or out-of-place? Host-guest encounter under ‘One Country, Two Systems’. Current Issues in Tourism, 23, 1460-1479. DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2017.1398218
Zhang, J.J. and Kwong, Y.M. (2017). Reconceptualising host-guest relations at border towns. Annals of Tourism Research, 66, 196-199. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.06.007
Books, Edited Volumes, and Chapters
Kwong, Y.M.C. (2025). Volunteer Tourism and the Moral Self: Ethnographic Research of Non-Western Tourists. Oxon: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003413929
Ajebon, M.O., Kwong, Y.M.C., and Astorga de Ita, D. (eds) (2021). Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68113-5
Kwong, Y.M.C. (2021). Travelling with the Field: Post-Place Communities of Volunteer Tourists on the Move. In M.O. Ajebon, Y.M.C. Kwong, and D. Astorga de Ita (eds), Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68113-5_3
Ajebon, M.O., Astorga de Ita, D., and Kwong, Y.M.C. (2021). Introduction: Postgraduate Experiences of Navigating the Field. In M.O. Ajebon, Y.M.C. Kwong, and D. Astorga de Ita (eds), Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68113-5_3
Kwong, Y.M.C., Ajebon, M.O., and Astorga de Ita, D. (2021). Conclusion: Navigating Social Research — An Emotional Journey. In M.O. Ajebon, Y.M.C. Kwong, and D. Astorga de Ita (eds), Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68113-5_3
Blogpost
'Drawing Workshops with School Children in Indonesia', ZMT Expeditions, August 28 2023. https://www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/research/expeditions/drawing-workshops-with-school-children-in-indonesia-may-2023.html
‘Navigating the Field as Early Career Researchers’, In Common, 31 August 2021. https://www.incommonpodcast.org/navigating-the-field-as-early-career-researchers/
Outreach
Radio interview at 'Raizal Opinion' to share results of the TransTourim project , San Andres, Colombia, 2 May 2025
Once upon a time… A scientific fairy tale (Phase III), Author/Member, Jan 2025-Present
Lecturer of IOC-UNESCO online training course “Co-Design for the Ocean Decade”, May 2024
Instructor/Field Supervisor of “Drawing Workshops with Children in Indonesia”, MBKM (Independent Learning Outside Campus programme), University of Mataram, Indonesia, 27 March 2023-31 May 2023. (Additional funding from Kellner&Stoll Stiftung)