Prof. WONG Wing Yee Rebecca 王穎怡
Adjunct Associate Professor
Education
| 2015 | Postgraduate Certificate Laws (part-time) | School of Law, The University of Hong Kong |
| 2013 | D.Phil. | Department of Sociology, University of Oxford |
| 2010 | M.Sc. Modern Chinese Studies | School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford |
| 2009 | LLM Qualifying and Conversion Law | School of Law, University of Leeds |
| 2007 | B.A. Criminal Justice and Criminology Studies | School of Law, University of Leeds |
Academic Employments
| 2023 - present | Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong |
| 2016 - 2023 | Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong |
| 2014 - 2016 | Visiting Fellow, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong |
Research Fields and Current Research Interests
- Environmental Crime
- Green Criminology
- Qualitative Methods
- Criminal Networks
Representative Publications
| 2023 | Building Trust and Honoring Agreements in the Supply of Protected Wildlife Products. British Journal of Criminology. |
| 2021 | Wong, Rebecca, W.Y & Lemieux. A.M. (2021) Poaching of Domestic Protected Species in China: Using Legal Cases to Understand the Poaching of Wild Boars, Deviant Behavior, 42:6, 792- 806. |
| 2021 | Lunstrum, E., Ahuja, N., Braun, B., Collard, R., Lopez, P.J. and Wong, Rebecca, W.Y. (2021), More-Than-Human and Deeply Human Perspectives on COVID-19. Antipode, 53: 1503- 1525. |
| 2021 | van Uhm, D.P. & Wong, Rebecca, W.Y. (2021) Chinese organized crime and the illegalwildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle. Trends in Organised Crime. |
| 2020 | Wong, Rebecca. W.Y, Lee, Chee Yan, Cheung, Hubert, Lam, Jack. Y.K. & Tang, Cecile. (2020). A Case Study of the Online Trade of CITES-listed Chelonians in Hong Kong. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. |
Honours and Awards
| 2020 | Editor Choice (November 2020) , Choice360.org |
| 2020 | Distinguished Book Award, Asian Criminological Society |
| 2018 | Visiting Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2017 | Visiting Scholar, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement |
Professional Activities
Current
| WWF Hong Kong Conservation Board Member |
Books
The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China: Understanding Distribution Networks. Green Criminology Series with Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13666-6_2 (2019)
Research Grants
City University of Hong Kong Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Grant (SIRG) (Approved 26 April 2022), Dissecting Demand for Critically Endangered Hornbill Products: Linking Anatomy, Materials & Social Sciences for Wildlife Conservation, Co – Principal Investigator, HKD$ 200,000 (approximately GBP 20,425), On-going
Environment Conservation Fund, Hong Kong Government (Approved 28 January 2022), Mercy Release or Extermination? A Study of the Unregulated Mercy Release of Wildlife in Hong Kong, Principal Investigator, HKD 396,000.00 (approximately GBP 40,440), On-going
Policy Innovation and Co-Ordination Office, Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (Special Round) (Hong Kong) (Approved 13 March 2020), Exploratory Study of Attitudes Towards Violence Among Hong Kong People, Co-Investigator, HKD 158,757.50 (approximately GBP 16,210), Completed
City University of Hong Kong Strategic Research Grant for Unfunded ECS/GRF (Hong Kong) (Approved 1 September 2019), How Do Smuggling Syndicates Operate? Understanding the Ivory Smuggling Process from Source Countries to Mainland China, Principal Investigator, HKD78,624 (approximately GBP 8,000), On-going
Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme (Hong Kong) (Approved on 1 July 2017), Why Do Criminals Honour Illegal Agreement, Principal Investigator, HKD489,704 (approximately GBP 50,000), Completed
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