A Junior Urban Researcher from Hong Kong.
Email/ saiho.chan@unibas.ch
Linkedin/ Sai Ho Chan
Facebook/ Chan Sai Ho
Education:
PhD (Urban Studies), University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland (2025 - Currently)
MS (Building and Planning), National Taiwan University
Taipei (2021 - Currently)
MA (Asian Studies) with Cum Laude, Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands (2024 - 2025)
- Master Honour Certificate: Leiden Leadership Programme
BA (Cultural Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong (2017 - 2021)
Experience:
PhD Researcher in SNF-funded project “ASPIRA”
Working with PI and Post-doc on a SNF-funded project “ASPIRA”(Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance) focusing on identifying defiance by centering on visual analysis grounds aspirational urbanism, rescaling the object of urban theory towards everyday micro-practices in Hong Kong and Taipei.
Intern in Partnerships and Mutual Capacity Strengthening (MCS) in Oxfam Novib (2025.2 - 2025.6)
Project Officer/ Innovation Assoicate in Good Lab 好單位 (2023.7 - 2024.7)
Research Assistant in National Taiwan University (2022.8 - 2023.7)
working for the project related to environmental psychology held by Prof. Bih Herng-Dar
Editor Trainnee in Blocktempo 動區動趨, Taipei (2022.5 – 2022.11)
writing tech news in Traditional Chinese, mainly about Cryptocurrency
Intern in DAC, Taipei 台北數位藝術中心 (2022.1 – 2022.4)
in assistance with exhibition curation and promotion
Part-time Reporter in inmediahk 獨立媒體, Hong Kong (2019.6 – 2020.9)
coverage on social and community news in Hong Kong