Amy Mei Yen Phua

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, specializing in qualitative research and ethnography. Expertise includes crafting comprehensive study proposals and reports, along with conducting in-depth qualitative research through focus group discussions, interviews, and ethnographic observations. Actively facilitates workshops on race, religion, and intergroup cohesion, fostering religious harmony and promoting workplace equity. My doctoral research investigates the interplay between Sufi shrines in India and urban political dynamics, highlighting the negotiation processes of religious institutions within contemporary society.

• Krishna Y, Phua, MYA, Mathew N. (2023) Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban. Lexington Books: USA.
• Phua, Mei Yen. (2018). Gendered Political Participation and Grassroots Activism in Hyderabad, India. Asian Anthropology. 17(2): 1–13.
• Phua Mei Yen, et al (2016). Disposable single-use receptacles in a tertiary hospital: A large survey of staff after a hospital-wide implementation. American Journal of Infection control. 44(9): 1041-1043.
• Salmon, Sharon & Phua, MY & Fisher, Dale. (2019). One Size Does NOT Fit All: The Effectiveness of Messaging for Hand Hygiene Compliance by Profession in a Tertiary Hospital. Journal of Hospital Infection.
• Vaingankar JA, Subramaniam M, Abdin E, Picco L, Phua A, Chua BY, Chong SA,(2013). Socio-demographic Correlates of Positive Mental Health and Differences by Depression and Anxiety in an Asian Community Sample. Annals Academy of Medicine. 42:514-23.
• Vaingankar JA, Subramaniam M, Lim YW, Sherbourne C, Luo N, Ryan G, Phua A, Shahwan S, Kwok KW, Brown J, Bradley M, Edelen MO, Chong SA, (2012). From well-being to positive mental health: conceptualization and qualitative development of an instrument in Singapore. Quality of Life Research. 21(10): 1785-1794.
• 2021
• “Adab: Personhood and conduct in Islamicate India”
• Paper presented at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum.
• “City as a bricolage: Alternative understandings of the urban”
• Co-hosted a panel at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting Conference
• 2020
• “A Tale of Two Cities: Heterogenous Sovereignties, Land Rights and Citizenships in Urban Hyderabad”
• Paper presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, September 2020
• “The Long Way Home”
• Talk presented at MAC INSERCH (Maharaja Agrasen College Initiative for Shouldering Ecological Responsibility by Conserving Heritage) International Webinar Series on Covid-19 Pandemic: A Crisis of Human Health or Planet Health?
• 2018.
• “Gendered Political Participation in Hyderabad, India”.

• 2021
• Presenter and interlocutor
• Hyderabad Urban Lab Gol Mez Round Table discussion series, on ‘Hyderabad as Method’.
• 2019
• Editor
• The Hong Kong Anthropologist
• Edited and compiled 4 papers in the annual online journal under The Hong Kong Anthropological Society that that provides opportunities for young undergraduate scholars to publish their research
• 2017-2018
• Teaching Assistant
• Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2017-2019
• Doctoral Student Fellow
• Institute of Future Cities (IOFC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Produced monthly media content writing and publication of IOFC fellows’ projects, events and activities
• 2018
• Public Relations Officer
• Postgraduate Student Forum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Worked on media content and advertising for the international conference
• Reviewed over 100 abstracts and organized them into 5 themes for the conference