Dr Huck Ying Ch'ng

Ying is a lecturer in the Politics, Economies and Communication (PEC) Contextual Stream within the School of Media and Communication at RMIT.  She has 20 years of research and teaching experience in Media and Communication across various institutions in Malaysia and Australia. Ying returned to Malaysia in 2000 from completing an MA in Communication at the University of Westminster UK to take up a senior leadership role in charge of the School of Communication at Han Chiang College (now Han Chiang University College of Communication) in Penang. She travelled to Australia to commence a PhD in International Communication in 2003, and has been a resident, and now citizen, since (aside from two years as full-time mother in Singapore). She has been a lecturer and tutor at several institutions in Australia since 2007, and at RMIT since 2012. In addition to a strong theoretical focus in research and teaching within the PEC stream, Ying also has extensive leadership, administrative and practical experience in media and communication, as well as a long history of creating student engagement and support in her courses and supervision.

Ying is fluent in English, Mandarin and Hokkien Chinese, and Bahasa Indonesia/Malay languages.

Ying teaches various courses in the interdisciplinary Politics, Economies and Communication (PEC) Contextual Stream within the School of Media and Communication. Her teaching focuses on the integral role played by communication technologies, actors and rhetorics in the conduct of political and economic life, within the overarching theme of how populations of different kinds are governed, and the formative role of media and communication technologies within a broad, governmentality approach. 

She has a long-standing interest in issues of ethnicity, identity and citizenship, with a particular focus on East-Asian cultures and migration within the broader East-Asian region (including Australia). She is currently working within a research trajectory addressing issues of public/media representations (by self, and by others) of Asian Australians and the formation of new migrant identities as Asian Australian, including research on early representations of Chinese Australians, and views of migrant Australians from East-Asia on the proposed Referendum on Indigenous Constitutional Recognition, which is positioned to contribute to improving Australia's 'regional literacy' within the Asian-Pacific region. 

Ying has previously researched on reporting of international news across different languages, ethnicity and cultural identity, bushfire emergency communication, and coworking.

• PhD in International Communication, Macquarie University.