Dr Kin Wing (Ray) Chan
Status/discipline:
Geography
Contact Details:
Kin Wing (Ray) Chan is a Wellcome Research Fellow (2022-2025), specialising in global animal health, biopolitics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in both the British and Chinese One Health systems. His research draws on insights from Human Geography, and Science and Technologies Studies to examine the interrelationships between precision livestock farming technologies, biopolitics, and farm animal production. Ray works as a principal investigator on a Wellcome Trust project entitled ‘Using Digital Technologies to Manage Animal Health Responses in China’ (2022 - 2025). He also actively participate the Exeter AMR research network by being involved in two global research projects: EU COST-Action project on Biosecurity (2021 - 2025) and UK-Taiwan ESRC research (2022 - 2023). Before commencing his Wellcome project, Ray was employed full-time on the MRS ‘Tackling AMR’ Large Collaborative Grant – Diagnostic Innovation and Livestock (DIAL): Towards more effective and sustainable applications of antibiotics in livestock farming. He also conducted research in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Particularly, Ray completed his doctoral research on the governance of environmental sustainability of bamboo cultivation in Zhejiang, China and his master research on the shifting political ecologies and colonial governmentality of the pig farming industry in Hong Kong.
Current projects:
Using Digital Technologies to Tackle AMR and Strengthen Disease Responses in China. My Wellcome Trust funded project (£197,441 as PI, 2022-2025) involves an ethnographical study to investigate whether the use of biosensors and artificial intelligence technologies can tackle antimicrobial resistance and infectious disease challenges in China; Transnational Theory Building: Perspectives from Taiwan and the UK. Being participated in this this ESRC UK Taiwan Networking Grant (£24,864 as Participant, 2021-2023) allows me to develop new publications, funding proposals and publications with British and Taiwanese scholars to rethink the decolonisation of teaching and research in social sciences; Biosecurity Enhanced through Training, Evaluation, and Rising Awareness. This COST Biosecurity project (CO-I, 2021-2025) aims at critically examining the current on-farm biosecurity and One Health issues in the UK and around EU countries.
Previous project:
Understanding Azole Use in Food Crops & its Impact on Waterbodies and AMR in the UK. My GW4 Generator funded project (£10,000 as CO-I, 2022-2023) will collaborate with microbiologists from Exeter and Bath to (1) understand how farmers and agronomists use azole to manage fungal diseases and (2) obtain water sample from the river streams to measure the concentration of azole by using HPLC method.
