Advancing the health of people and nature
with psychological insights
I strive to advance the health of people and nature through my psychological expertise. I conduct research on a range of environmental issues, teach environmental psychology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and consult with local and international organizations to drive meaningful change.
I investigate the intricate ways in which humans interact with the environment. My research centers on three key areas: (i) uncovering the connections between people's interactions with nature and their health and behavior; (ii) exploring how culture and contextual factors shape human-environment relationships; and (iii) analyzing how individuals respond to climate change, focusing on the psychological processes that drive potential solutions.
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Upcoming events:
21-25 July: To deliver a presentation at an invited symposium at The 31st International Congress of Applied Psychology, Florence, Italy
18-21 August: To deliver a course on psychology and climate change at Hokkaido University, Japan
October 2026 (tentative): To deliver a workshop for the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Special issues:
Ongoing - Environmental psychology: Trends and reflections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/328834/environmental-psychology-trends-and-reflections
Just completed - Advancing the interface between research and practice in sustainable development
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-839X.interface-research-practice
Publications in 2026:
Normalising energy insecurity? Housing precarity, well-being, and constrained endurance in urban Hong Kong. Energy Strategy Reviews.
Nature connectedness in the family context: A systematic scoping review. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Hope amidst climate change: Psychometric properties and cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Climate Change Hope Scale among youth in Global South countries. PsyEcology.
Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio-cultural and economic predictors. Political Psychology.
Curvilinear relationship between climate advocates’ word-deed consistency and public willingness to follow. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Measuring household energy insecurity in a dense, warm-climate city: Behavioural coping profiles and perceived financial burden in Hong Kong. Energy Policy.
Research trends in environmental psychology: A bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed publications, 2004-2024. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Intergenerational pathway to nature connectedness. Journal of Environmental Psychology.