Ting J. (Man Ting) Yiu is an academic and administrative Project Manager for UNRULINESS, an interdisciplinary research project consisting of:
- UNRULY SUSTAINABILITY: Unruly Sustainability Challenges: Addressing Uncertainty in Governing Energy Transitions, funded by UiO:Energy and the Environment
- UNRULY ENTANGLEMENTS of Sociomaterial Change, Knowledge, and Power in Energy Frontiers, funded by the European Research Council
Tasks
Ting has a hybrid academic-administrative role.
Project Mangement
Supporting lead investigator & post-doc(s) with:
- organising, delegating, and maintaining activities from project initiation to end
- overseeing project goals/objectives: accomplished within a predetermined scope, timetable, and budget
- ensuring project deliverables/outcomes are produced (publications, dissemination, podcasts etc.,) for stakeholders
- ensure results are available for reporting (project log)
- project coordination
- planning and managing project activities
- forecasting project timeline
- following-up project milestones and deadlines
- project reporting
- applying for future applications and grants
- literature review
Planning/organising/implementing project related meetings, workshops, conferences, seminars etc including:
- creating purchase orders
- planning and ordering travel
- compliance – securing proper documentation from events (attendance sheets, presentations, meeting minutes, agendas)
- managing internal and external communication with project related personnel
- communication with stakeholders
- networking (nationally/internationally)
Administration
information work, including website maintenance (content production and publicity)
editorial work
data processing
Finance
Assisting lead investigator & research administrator with:
- forecasting, planning, and managing budget
- resource allocation
- financial reporting (justifying costs, finer details for example: hotel, flight, catering, location contracts and receipts)
- collecting results for reporting
- drafts statements
Background
Ting J. Yiu is an interdisciplinary research collaborator in academic, scientific, and non-profit institutions. She has a background in the practical and theoretical applications of energy justice, environmental governance, and energy transition, organising workshops and fostering platforms for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. Her previous work at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme involved coordinating project activities and supporting research initiatives in sustainability and earth systems sciences, cultivating collaboration across earth sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
Ting has worked on research projects in development geography, anthropology, decoloniality, involving grant and report writing, field data collection and processing, administrative support, and scientific editorial work (Stockholm University, University of Otago, Water and Energy Users Federation Nepal). She has project management experience across diverse sector including leading publishing teams in curating international digital content (Educations Media Group). She has held leadership positions at the Know Water Education Programme and Mountains To Sea Conservation Trust, where she designed and taught environmental education to promote conservation stewardship and community engagement.
With a background in Human Geography, English Literature, and Transnational Creative Writing, alongside a literary portfolio centred on immigrant narratives, Ting works at the intersection of environment, diaspora and interspecies encounters, with a focus on marginal decolonial perspectives in her literature. She is shortlisted for the 2025 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. Her works have appeared in Cha: An Asian Litterary Journal, Two Thirds North, Orientaliska Studier, among others. Her writing was featured in New Zealand’s first Asian literary anthology A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2021); her piece was selected for the book's nationwide tour. She is one of sixteen writers representing New Zealand’s literary canon (alongside Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Patricia Grace, and Witi Ihimaera) in Lit: Stories From Home (OneTree House Publishing, 2021); the New Zealand School's Association incorporated the book into curriculum nationwide. A former marine conservation educator for the Mountains To Sea Conservation Trust (NZ), she spent much of her time teaching while submerged in oceans and rivers. She is a freelance academic editor.
Education
- 2018, Master in Transnational Creative Writing (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- 2009, Bachlelor of Arts in Human Geography (University of Otago, New Zealand)
- 2009. Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Seminars / Interviews
- 2025 "Hunting in a Sea of Ghosts", Oslo Centre for Environmental Humanities (OCEH)
- 2022 "Whale Strandings, Eel Migrations, and Cryptozoology: Oceanic Submersion and Interspecies Entanglements in Diasporic Literature", Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH)
- 2020 "Epigraph Interview with Ting J. Yiu", Hainamana: Asian New Zealand Art & Culture. Online