Ray Kin Wing CHAN

Ray Kin Wing CHAN is a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Exeter. Currently, he is working with Henry Buller and Steven Hinchcliffe on a four years ESRC funded research project – Diagnostic Innovation and Animal Health. Together with Edinburgh University and Bristol Veterinary School, his postdoctoral research aims at understanding the drivers for the uptake of the rapid diagnostic technologies in relation to the reduction of antimicrobial usages (AMs) on farm animals in the UK. Ray’s animal health research draw further insight from science and technology studies (STS) and human geography to conceptualise how both government policies and disease incidents enact the transformation of farmers’ subjectivities, veterinarians’ practices, and human-animal relationships. His research contributes to the understanding of capitalist pigs production, smell politics, and the political ecology of pig farming in Hong Kong, as well as the construction of suzhi (i.e. personal quality) farmers and food production standards in post-socialist China.