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Industry Reports & Policy Briefs

  1. 2026. Incubator Report: Hacking the Asian Waves: Shaping Cultural Flows in the Global Cultural Imagination. Culture Futures Lab, Singapore.
  2. 2025. Incubator Report: Cultivating next-generation praxis for the creative economy. Culture Futures Lab, Singapore.
  3. 2025. The Fractured Landscape of Culture and Peace: An Analysis of Contemporary Challenges. International Cultural Relations Research Alliance consultation report for the UNESCO Digital Library. Paris, France.
  4. 2025. K-Pop as a Liberal Agent? How BTS Digital Fandom challenges Nationalism in China. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Seoul, South Korea.
  5. 2023. Research Methods. In Varela, X. (ed.) Graduate Standards in Arts Administration Education. (pp. 127-134). Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE), New York, USA.
  6. 2022. Digital Cultural Relations: Literature Review. British Council, London, UK.
  7. 2014. Insights into the Current Practices of 'Measuring' Results of Cultural Projects. Coalition for Cultural Diversity, Montreal, Canada.
  8. 2012. Funding Sources for Cultural Initiatives in ICP countries. Coalition for Cultural Diversity, Montreal, Canada.

Media Articles & Research Blogs

  1. 2025. The Mirror of Dreams: Crafting National Futures at the 2025 Osaka World Expo. ENCATC Magazine, Issue 11. December 20.
  2. 2025. Rethinking Cultural Measurements: The Impact of Digitization on Cultural Statistics. ENCATC Magazine, Issue 9. August 1.
  3. 2024. The Korean wave: A global phenomenon demystified. The Academic. December 25.
  4. 2024. Have you been taken by the Korean Wave yet? Pursuit. December 4.
  5. 2024. Harnessing the Global Power of Hallyu: Advancing Public Diplomacy Evaluation. International Cultural Relations (ICR) Research. July 5.
  6. 2024. Digital "history machines" are never politically neutral. Pursuit. January 29.
  7. 2023. Cultural analytics: Machine learning and understanding the Korean Wave (Hallyu). The Academic. September 19.
  8. 2023. What's in a name? Political euphemisms around Cultural Diplomacy. ENCATC Magazine, Issue 5. July 28.
  9. 2023. Translating data into soft power. Pursuit. January 9.
  10. 2021. "Connected intelligence" for gender equity: Enhancing teaching through research and industry engagements in the pandemic crisis. Academia Letters, Article 2632. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2632
  11. 2020. Museums in Cyberspace. Pursuit. May 18.
  12. 2019. Treading softly in power diplomacy. Pursuit. September 13.
  13. 2019. The Geo-Visualisation of Australian Soft Power: From Measuring to Forecasting. Australian Outlook. July 14.
  14. 2019. The Soft Power of Smart Cities: The Giant Missing Bit. Australian Outlook. May 15.
  15. 2019. Digital Sensations: New generation of innovative solutions advancing digital curation. Guest video blog post for the Digital Curation Center. February 24.
  16. 2019. Understanding Museum Soft Power. Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network Case Studies. February 5.
  17. 2018. Putting museum power on the map. Pursuit. December 5.
  18. 2018. Turning Geo-Spatial Museum Data into a Soft Power Evaluation Tool. Guest post for the American Alliance of Museums, Center for the Future of Museums Blog. December 5.
  19. 2018. Demystifying museum soft power: geo-visualizing museums' influence. Guest post for the Center on Public Diplomacy Blog. October 18.
  20. 2017. Looking back to move forward: Museum technology in the age of the BIG data. Award Scholar Post for the Museum Computer Network Blog. December 18.
  21. 2012. Canada's Got Treasures. MM Nieuws. December 25.

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