Educational Qualifications

2012
PhD (Geography), Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

2006
Masters of Social Science (Geography), National University of Singapore

2004
Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons), National University of Singapore

Academic and Professional Experience

2024 - Present
Provost's Chair, Singapore University of Social Sciences

2023 - Present
Associate Professor, College of Interdisciplinary & Experiential Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences

2021 -2024
Adjunct Faculty, College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University

2020 - 2023
Visiting Fellow, Center of Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan

2019 - 2021
Associate Professor, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

2019 -2022
Visiting Fellow, Core Curriculum, Singapore Management University

2013 - 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

2012 - 2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

2006 - 2008
Research Assistant (Full-Time), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Clusters, National University of Singapore

2006
Senior Officer, Economic Development Board, Singapore

Awards and Honours

2024
Provost Chair - a recognition of faculty members who have outstanding achievements in research, teaching, and/or industry, relative to their career stage. 

Selected Publications

  • Cheong, Y. S., Sin, H. L. and Chang, T. C. (forthcoming) If not now, then never”: Conceptualising the grad trip”, Tourist Studies.
  • Cheong, Y. S. and Sin, H. L. (2022) Going on holiday to come home: Understanding Singaporean families through studying tourism, Tourism Geographies, 23(4): 765-786.
  • Montefrio, M. and Sin, H. L. (2021) Between Food and Spectacle: The Complex Reconfigurations of Rural Production in Agritourism, Geoforum, 126: 383-393.
  • Sin, H. L., Mostafanezhad, M. and Cheer, J. (2021) Tourism Geographies in the “Asian Century”, Tourism Geographies, 23(4): 649-658.
  • Sin, H. L., 徐红罡 (2021) 国际旅游地理的最新进展, 中国生态旅游, 11(1): 66-77. Sin H. L, Xu H. (2021) Progress in international tourism geography, Ecotourism, 11(1): 66-77.
  • Mostafanezhad, M., Cheer, J., and Sin, H. L (2020) Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2): 182-186.
  • Sin, H. L. and Yang, Y. (2020) In China, drink as the Chinese do: Methodological considerations of alcohol consumption in research and fieldwork. Social and Cultural Geography, 21(7): 1029-1036.
  • Montefrio, M. and Sin, H. L. (2019) Elite governance of agritourism in the Philippines, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(9): 1338-1354.
  • Sin, H. L., He, S. (2019) Volunteering internationally on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media on constructing the “Third World” experience, Tourist Studies, 19(2): 215-237.
  • Sin, H. L. (2017) Selling ethics: Discourses of responsibility in tourism, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(1): 218-234.
  • Sin, H. L. (2015) “You're not doing work, you're on Facebook!”: Ethics of encountering the field through social media, Professional Geographer, 67(4): 676-685.
  • Sin, H. L., Oakes, T., and Mostafanezhad, M. (2015) Traveling for a cause: Critical examinations of volunteer tourism and social justice, Tourist Studies, 15(1): 1-12.
  • Yea, S., Sin, H. L., and Griffiths, M. (2018) International volunteerism and development in Asia-Pacific, Geographical Journal, 184(2): 110-114.
  • Sin, H. L. (2014) Realities in doing responsibilities: Performances and practices in tourism, Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography, 96(2): 141-157.
  • Sin, H. L. and Minca, C. (2014) Touring responsibility: the trouble with ‘going local’ in community based tourism in Thailand, Geoforum, 51: 96-106
  • Sin, H. L. (2010) Who are we responsible to? “Locals” tales of volunteer tourism, Geoforum, 41(6), 983-992.
  • Sin, H. L. (2009) Volunteer tourism – “Involve me and I will learn”?, Annals of Tourism Research, 36(3), 480-501.

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