Every year at NTU (2000-2016) I was the recipient of competitive National Science Council; Ministry of Science and Technology and Project Director Awards. .
Throughout the course of my professional career I have received fifty awards, bursaries, fellowships, consultancies and visiting professorships from twenty-six international institutions in the U.K., Europe, USA, Taiwan, Eurasia and Australia.
My first major awards included a British Academy Award (AHRB) for three-year Ph.D. research (1995-1998); the University of Notre Dame Research and Tutorial Scholarship (1998); the Taiwan Ministry of Education Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Research (2001) and the Taiwan Presidential Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (2004).
I have been the recipient of three Cambridge fellowships (2003; 2011; 2020). I was invited to National Sun-Yat-Sen University as the Taiwan Ministry of Education Distinguished Visiting Professor (2008) and in 2010 was awarded an Archie K. Davis Fellowship in History at the University of North Carolina, USA, (2010-2012). In 2010 I was also the ‘Reach for the Top’ Scholar at National Taiwan University.
In 2013 I won a Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Research Fellowship to pursue work at the Australian Research Centre of Excellence for the Study of Human Emotion at the University of Western Australia. In 2015 I was one of three scholars nominated by the President for a National Ministry of Education Excellence in Research Award.
I am now seeking funding for my Environmental Humanities projects within the context of Westbrook Humanities for Environmental Nurture. (WHEN).
