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David R Phillips (BScEcon, PhD, Wales) has been Professor of Social Policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, since 1997. From 2004 to 2008, he was Academic Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Academic Dean of Social Sciences, 2008-2010. He was also Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy from 1999 to 2004 and Founder Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS). Research | Top
His research and teaching interests are in health, health care and social epidemiology, with particular emphasis on social gerontology in which he focuses on service and long-term care issues related to demographic ageing. He researches widely on issues related to global health, health and stress management aspects of work-life balance and quality of life. He established the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies at Lingnan in 1997 and was founder Co-ordinator of the Asian Ageing Research Network of the Asian Development Research Forum, which was sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Previously, from 1990-1994, he was at the University of Exeter as Director of the Institute of Population and Reader in Health Studies. He was also a Non-Executive Director of the NHS Devon Family Health Services Authority. From 1994 to 1997, he was Professor of Human Geography at the University of Nottingham and Head of Department, 1996-97. He has extensive research experience in many countries of Asia and especially the Asia-Pacific, and also Africa and the Caribbean. David has held visiting appointments or external examinerships at a number of universities, including the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, the University of the West Indies and the University of Ulster. He was elected Fellow of the Academia Europaea in 1995 and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, Belgium, in 2008. He has received research support from a wide range of sources including the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Hong Kong's Quality Education Fund and Occupational Safety and Health Council, Lingnan University, Canada’s IDRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, the European Community and WHO. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography in Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and in the Department of Health, Aging and Society in McMaster University, Ontario, Canada; he was a Special Professor in the School of Geography in the University of Nottingham until 2011. International agencies He has been an adviser or resource person to many international organizations including UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Paciic (UNESCAP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), most recently as a member of the WHO Expert Group on Healthy Ageing in the Western Pacific Region (May, 2011). He was a member of the US National Academy of Sciences 2006-7 review of the WHO’s Social Determinants of Adult Health and Mortality. At the University of Exeter, he was Director of the Institute of Population Studies (1990-94) and Director of its (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Human Reproduction and, at the University of Nottingham, UK (1994-1997), Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Spatial Health Modelling. Teaching and Postgraduate Supervision His undergraduate teaching includes social gerontology (SOC203) and Health, illness and behaviour (SOC333) and he has contributed to various research methods courses. He has extensive postgraduate supervision experience of masters and doctoral students in Hong Kong and elsewhere and teaches the Postgraduate Seminar course. Editorial Appointments and Publications | Top He is Asian Regional Advisor to Health and Place and he was until 2006 an advisory editor to Social Science and Medicine. He is on the editorial boards of Ageing International, Journal of Applied Gerontology, International Journal of Population Research, and Economía, Sociedad y Territorio, amongst other journals. He is an Executive Editor of the Asian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics. He has published over one hundred papers and many chapters and occasional papers. His books over the last two decades include Accessibility and utilization: geographical perspectives on health care delivery (Harper and Row, 1984), Rural Britain (Blackwell, 1984), Health, race and ethnicity (Croom Helm, co-editor, 1986), New towns in East and Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, co-editor, 1987), Private homes for elderly people: home from home (University of Sheffield, 1988), The epidemiological transition in Hong Kong: changes in health and disease since the nineteenth century (Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1988), Health and health care in the Third World (Longman, 1990), Ageing in East and Southeast Asia (Edward Arnold, editor, 1992), Health and development (Routledge, co-editor, 1994); Environment and ageing (CUPEM, University of Hong Kong, co-editor, 1999), Ageing in the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, editor, 2000), Ageing and long-term care: national policies in the Asia-Pacific (ISEAS, Singapore, co-editor, 2002) and Ageing and place (Routledge, co-editor, 2005; 2008 in paperback). Selected Recent Publications | Top BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS (editor where noted) since 1990 Ageing and place (xvi + 252 pp). Routledge, London and New York. Co-author of 3 chapters (pp. 7-12, pp. 36-60 and pp. 147-163). G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips (Editors). Released in paperback, 2008. Ageing and long-term care: national policies in the Asia-Pacific (xviii + 242pp). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore and IDRC, Ottawa. Co-author of 2 chapters (pp. 1-22 and pp. 23-67). D.R. Phillips and A.C.M. Chan (Editors) Ageing in the Asia-Pacific region: issues, policies and future trends. (xvii + 382pp). Routledge, London and New York. Author of 1 chapter (pp. 1-34). D R Phillips (Editor) Environment and ageing: policy, planning and design for elderly people in Hong Kong (xvi + 196 pp) Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong. Co-author Introduction plus 1 chapter (pp. 7-12; 15-35). D.R Phillips and A.G.O. Yeh (Editors) Health and development (xvi + 336pp.) Routledge, London. Co-author of two chapters (pp.3-32, pp. 301-318) D.R. Phillips and Yola Verhasselt (Editors) Ageing in East and Southeast Asia (xii + 246 pp.) Author of two chapters (pp.1-21; pp. 45-64). (Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, Research Studies in Gerontology Series). Edward Arnold, London. D.R. Phillips (Editor) Health and health care in the Third World (xvi + 334 pp.) Longman, London, reprinted 1994, 1995. D.R. Phillips PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS major publications since 1997 "Role resources and work-family enrichment: the role of work engagement", Journal of Vocational Behavior, Dec 2010, 77, 3, 470-480. (5-year impact factor 3.472) (O.L. Siu, J.F. Lu, P. Brough, C.Q. Lu, A.B. Bakker, T. Kalliath, M. O'Driscoll, D.R. Phillips, W.Q. Chen, D. Lo, C. Sit, S. Kan) www.elsevier.com/locate/jvb "Empowerment among older consumers in Malaysia", Hallym International Journal of Ageing, 2009, 11, 2, 135-154 (F.S. Ong, L. Paim, and D.R. Phillips) "A study of resiliency among Chinese health care workers: Capacity to cope with workplace stress", Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 5, Oct. 2009, 770-776. Online 26 June 2009. (O.L. Siu, C.H. Hui, D.R. Phillips, L. Lin, T.W. Wong, Kan, S.) (impact factor 2.02; 5-year impact factor 2.819) "Geography and gerontology: mapping a disciplinary intersection", Geography Compass, 3, 5, 2009, 1641-1659. Published online 18 August, 2009. (G.J. Andrews, C. Milligan, D.R. Phillips and M. Skinner) Blackwells/Wiley: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122557015/abstract "The correlates of cognitive ageing and adoption of defensive ageing strategies among older adults", Asia-Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 21,2, 2009, 294-305, www.emeraldinsight.com/1355-5855.htm (F.S. Ong, Y.Y. Lu, M. Abessi and D.R. Phillips) "Person-Environment (P-E) fit models and psychological well-being among older persons in Hong Kong", Environment and Behavior, 17, 127-141. (D.R. Phillips, K.H.C. Cheng, A.G.O. Yeh and Siu O.L.) "Work stress and depression: the direct and moderating effects of informal social support and coping", Stress and Health, 25, 431-443, 2009 (pub. online 25 June), (W.Q. Chen, O.L. Siu, J.F. Lu, Cary L. Cooper, D.R. Phillips) "Informal social support and older persons' psychological well-being in Hong Kong", Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23, 1, March 2008, 39-55. (D.R. Phillips. Siu, O.L., Yeh, A.G.O. and Cheng, K.H.C.) "Geographical gerontology: the constitution of a discipline", Social Science and Medicine, 65, 1, July 2007, 151-168. (G. Andrews, M. Cutchin, K. McCracken, D.R. Phillips, J. Wiles) "Older consumers in Malaysia", International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2,1, 2007, 83-115. (F.S. Ong and D.R. Phillips) "Global aging: the challenge of success", Population Bulletin, 60, 1, March 2005, 1-40 (comprises whole issue; also available on www.prb.org). (K. Kinsella and D.R. Phillips) "The impacts of dwelling conditions on older persons’ psychological well-being in Hong Kong: the mediating role of residential satisfaction", Social Science and Medicine, 60, 12, June 2005, 2785-2797. (D.R. Phillips, Siu, O.L., Yeh, A. and Cheng, K.) "Petit bourgeois health care: the big small-business of complementary medical practice", Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 11, 2, May 2005, 87-104. (G.J Andrews and D.R. Phillips) "Factors influencing older persons' residential satisfaction in big and densely populated cities in Asia: a case study in Hong Kong", Ageing International, 29, 1, 2004, 46-70. (D.R. Phillips, Siu, O.L., Yeh, A. and Cheng, K) "Constructing a quality of life scale for older Chinese people in Hong Kong", Social Indicators Research, 69, 3, Dec. 2004, 279-301. (Chan, A.C.M., Cheng, S.T., D.R. Phillips, I. Chi and S.S.Y. Ho) "Quality of life in old age: an investigation of well-older persons in Hong Kong", Journal of Community Psychology. 32, 3, 2004. (Cheng, S.T., Chan, A.C.M., D.R. Phillips) "Safety climate and safety performance among construction workers in Hong Kong: the role of psychological strains as mediators", Accident Analysis and Prevention, 36, 3, 2004, 359-366 (Siu, O.L., D.R. Phillips and Leung, T.W.) "Stress, resources, and life satisfaction among older adults in Malaysia", Hallym International Journal of Ageing, 5, 2, 2003, 111-129 (F.S. Ong and D.R. Phillips) "Age differences in safety attitudes and safety performance in Hong Kong construction workers", Journal of Safety Research, 34, 2, 2003, 199-205. (Siu, O.L., D.R. Phillips and Leung, T.W.) "A study of family support, friendship and psychological well-being among older women in Hong Kong", International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2002, 55, 4, 299-319. (O.L. Siu and D. R. Phillips) "Changing local geographies of private residential care for older people 1983-1999: lessons for social policy in England and Wales", Social Science and Medicine, 2002, 55, 1, 63-78. (G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips) "Persistence and challenges to filial piety and informal support of older persons in a modern Chinese society: a case study in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong", Journal of Aging Studies, 2002, 16, 1-20. (A.C.Y. Ng, D.R. Phillips and W.K.M. Lee) "Moral dilemmas and the management of private residential homes: the impact of care in the community reforms in the UK", Ageing and Society, 2000, 20, 5, 599-622. (G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips) "Private residential care for older persons: local impacts of care in the community reforms in England and Wales", Social Policy and Administration, 2000, 34, 2, 206-222. (G. Andrews and D.R. Phillips) "Health, environment and development: issues in developing and transitional countries". GeoJournal, 1998, 44, 2, 97-102. Plus Editors of this special issue (D.R. Phillips, P. Groenewegen and Y. Verhasselt) "The problem of atopic eczema: aetiological clues from the environment and lifestyles", Social Science and Medicine, 1998, 46, 6, 729-741. (N.J. McNally, D.R. Phillips and H.C. Williams) "GP fundholding and prescribing in UK general practice: evidence from two rural English Family Health Services Authorities", Public Health, 1997, 111, 321-325. (D. Baines, P. Brigham, D.R. Phillips, et al) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS including Proceedings, major examples since 1997 "Global aging and aging workers", in Jerry W. Hedge and Walter C. Borman (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging. Oxford University Press, NY and Oxford. (D.R. Phillips and Siu Oi-ling) (in press, publication Spring 2012) "Overview of health and ageing issues in the Asia-Pacific region", In Wing-Cheong Chan (ed) Singapore’s ageing population: managing healthcare and end of life decisions, London: Routledge, May, 2011, pp. 13-39. (D.R. Phillips) "The impact of changing value systems on social inclusion: an Asia-Pacific perspective", in Scharf, T and N. Keating (eds) From exclusion to inclusion in old age, Bristol: Policy Press (D.R. Phillips and K. Cheng)(accepted by editors May, 2011, publication anticipated 2012) "Ageing in a global context: the Asia-Pacific region", in C. Phillipson and D. Dannefer (eds) The Handbook of Gerontology. Sage: London and NY, 2010, pp. 430-446. (D.R. Phillips, Chan, A.C.M. and Cheng, S.T.) "Asia-Pacific Region", in Erdman Palmore, F. Whittington and S. Kunkel, eds. The International Handbook on Aging, 3rd ed. Praeger ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, Ca., 2009, pp. 29-54. (S.T. Cheng, D.R. Phillips and A.C.M. Chan) "Ageing in the Asia-Pacific region: the challenges of success", in Rais Akhtar and Nilofar Akhtar (eds.) Global Medical Geography: Essays in Honour of Prof Yola Verhasselt. Rawat Publishers, New Delhi, 2009, pp. 393-413 (D.R. Phillips) (Sept. 2009) "Ageing in Malaysia: progress and prospects", in Ageing in East Asia: Challenges and Policies for the Twenty-first Century, ed. T.H. Fu and R. Hughes, Routledge: London, 2009, pp. 138-160. (F.S. Ong, D.R.and Tengku Aizan Hamid) "Epidemiological transition", in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, Volume 3, pp. 571–579. (K. McCracken and D.R. Phillips) "Ageing trends in Asia and the Pacific", in Regional Dimensions of the Ageing Situation, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York: United Nations, 2008, pp. 35-69. (Cheng, S.T., Chan, A.C.M. and D.R. Phillips) "The geography of health care systems", in Medical Sciences. Edited by Yola Verhasselt, in the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), EOLSS Publishers: Oxford. Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers [http://www.eolss.net], 2007 (Wilson, K., Phillips, D.R., Rosenberg, M.W.) "An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees: ways to happiness", in Y.K. Ng and L.S. Ho, Happiness and Public Policy: Theory, Case-studies and Implications, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006, pp. 209-220. (Siu, O.L., Chow, S.L., D.R. Phillips and Lin, L.) "Ageing and the urban environment", in G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips (eds.) Ageing and Place, Routledge, London, 2005, pp. 147-163 (D.R. Phillips, Siu, O.L., Yeh, A.G.O. and Cheng, K. H.C.) "Geographical studies in ageing: progress and connections to social gerontology", in G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips (eds.) Ageing and Place, Routledge, London, 2005, pp. 7-12 (G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips) "International demographic transitions", in G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips (eds.) Ageing and Place, Routledge, London, 2005, pp. 36-60 (K. McCracken and D.R. Phillips) "Consequences of population ageing for China’s social development" in P. Lloyd-Sherlock (ed.) Living Longer. Zed Books, London, 2004, pp. 97-108. (Du Peng and D.R. Phillips) "Medical geography", in Geography, ed. M. Sala, Honorary Theme Editor, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK [http://www.eolss.net] Section 4. 2004. (D. R. Phillips, K. Wilson and M.W. Rosenberg) This also appeared as an E-Book in 2007: ‘Medical geography’, in M. Sala (ed.) Geography (e-book), Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, EOLSS Publishers/UNESCO: Oxford, Vol. 2, pp. 141-158. [www.eolss.netBooks] (Phillips, D.R., Rosenberg, M.W. and Wilson K.) "National policies on ageing and long-term care in the Asia-Pacific – issues and challenges", in D.R. Phillips and A.C.M. Chan (eds.) Ageing and long-term care: national policies in the Asia-Pacific Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and IDRC, Ottawa, 2002, pp. 1-22 (D.R. Phillips and Chan, A.C.M.) "Policies on ageing and long-term care in Hong Kong", in D.R. Phillips and A.C.M. Chan (eds.) Ageing and long-term care: national policies in the Asia-Pacific Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and IDRC, Ottawa, 2002, pp. 23-67 (Chan, A.C.M. and D.R. Phillips) "Ageing in the Asia-Pacific region: issues, policies and contexts", in D.R. Phillips (ed.) Ageing in the Asia-Pacific Region, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 1-34 (D.R. Phillips) "Long-term care", in Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery (eds.) Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. Macmillan Reference USA, New York, 2000, pp. 1652-1663. (D.R. Phillips) "Geographical studies of atopic dematitis", in Atopic dermatitis: the epidemiology, causes and prevention of atopic eczema, ed. H.C. Williams, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 71-84. (N. McNally and D.R. Phillips) "Social factors and atopic dermatitis" in Atopic dermatitis: the epidemiology, causes and prevention of atopic eczema, ed. H.C. Williams, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 139-147. (N. McNally and D.R. Phillips) "The United Kingdom: demographic trends, recent policy and care provision", in Bengtson, V.L., Kim, K-D., Myers, G.C. and Eun, K-S. (eds) Aging in East and West: families, States and the Elderly, Springer, New York, 2000, pp. 169-189. (H. Bartlett and D.R. Phillips) "Developing services for older persons in the Asia-Pacific region today: issues and constraints", Keynote Paper in Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference for the International Year of Older Persons, Vol. 2, pp. 3-17. Social Welfare Department and HK Council of Social Services, Hong Kong, 1999. (D.R. Phillips) "Shared accommodation for single persons in Hong Kong public housing estates", in Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference for the International Year of Older Persons, Vol. 2, 286-294. Social Welfare Department and HK Council of Social Services, Hong Kong 1999. (D.R. Phillips, Luk, K.L. and Chan, C.M.) "Socio-spatial variations in health", in M. Pacione (ed) Applied Geography, Routledge, London, 1999, pp. 425-437 (M. Smallman-Raynor and D.R. Phillips) "The environment and elderly people - an emerging social and planning issue in Hong Kong", in D.R. Phillips and A.G.O. Yeh (eds.) Environment and Ageing: Environmental Policy, Planning and Design for Elderly People in Hong Kong, 1999, Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong, pp. 7-12 (D.R. Phillips and Yeh, A.G.O.) "The importance of the local environment in the lives of urban elderly people", in D.R. Phillips and A.G.O. Yeh (eds.) Environment and Ageing: Environmental Policy, Planning and Design for Elderly People in Hong Kong, 1999, Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong, pp. 15-35 (D.R. Phillips and Yeh, A.G.O.) "The place and utility of focus groups in social and health research: conceptual and practical considerations", in C. Palagiano, G. De Santis and D. Castagnoli (eds) Atti del Sesto Seminario Internazionale di Geografia medica, Perugia, Ed. Rux, 1998, pp. 31-38 (D.R. Phillips) PAPERS IN OTHER JOURNALS, SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS, etc. selected examples since 1997 Fear of crime among older people in Hong Kong, Generations Review, 19, 1, January, 2009. http://www.britishgerontology.org/09newsletter1/research.asp (Chan O. F., Cheng, K.H.C. and D.R. Phillips) The meaning of care for experienced caregivers: an exploratory model of positive caring, The International Scope Review, The Social Capital Foundation, 6 (2004), Issue 11, Article No.8. 17 pp. (Chan, C.M.A, Ng, K.M.C., Chan, C.K.L. and D.R. Phillips) Access to Social services by the Poor and Disadvantaged in Asia and the Pacific: Major Trends and Issues. Social Policy Paper no. 11, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). United Nations, New York, 2002. (D.R. Phillips and Chan, A.C.M.) "Ageing in Asia and the Pacific: critical issues in national policies and programmes", in National Policies and Programmes on Ageing in Asia and the Pacific: An Overview and Lessons Learned. . Social Policy Paper no. 9, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), pp. 1-41. United Nations, New York, 2002. (D. R. Phillips and Chan, A. C. M.) Draft Regional Implementation Strategy. Paper for United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Regional Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Shanghai, Sep. 2002. (D.R. Phillips and Chan, A.C.M.) Report on the Regional Survey on Ageing, June 2002. Paper for United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Regional Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Shanghai, Sept. 2002. (D.R. Phillips and Chan, A.C.M.) "Family support for older persons in East Asia: demise or durability?”, in Sustainable Social Structures in a Society for All Ages, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations (ST/ESA/275), United Nations, New York, 2002, pp. 42-47. (D.R. Phillips) "Social services for older persons in Asia and the Pacific: trends and issues", in National Policies and Programmes on Ageing in Asia and the Pacific: An Overview and Lessons Learned. Social Policy Paper no. 9, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), pp. 85-110. United Nations, New York, 2002. (D. R. Phillips and Chan, A. C. M.) "Macau: an introduction", Geography Review, 2001, 15, 1, 36-37. (S. Royle and D. R. Phillips) "Delhi: an Indian mega-city", Geography Review, 1998, 11, 3, 2-7. (S. Royle and D. R. Phillips) "China's population policy and its consequences", Geography Review, 1997, 11, 1, 2-7.(S. Royle and D.R. Phillips) "Hong Kong and 1997: business as usual?", Geographical Magazine, Jan. 1997, pp.12-14 (D.R. Phillips) "Public health and environmental pollution in Russia: a methodology for the assessment of critical ecological situations", Bulletin of the IGU, 1997, 47, 1, 5-16. (S. Malkhazova, D.R. Phillips, V. Tikunov and Y. Verhasselt) Teaching Subjects | Top
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