Current Position

Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Innovation, National Sun Yat-sen University

Highest qualification

Ph.D. of Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam

Research Interest

• Industrial Geography
• Rural Development and Spatial Planning
• Rural–Urban Relations and Regional Development
• Agriculture, Food, and Cultural Landscapes
• Gender, Space, and Society
• Sustainable and Rural Tourism

Teaching

• Research Methodology (compulsory)
• Rural Issues and Regional Development 
• Creativity City and Community
• Technologies and Food Societies
• Food Tourism

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor｜Graduate Institute of Bio-industry Management, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan｜2022–2024
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow｜Program Office of the Ministry of Education’s Talent Cultivation Program for Humanities, Social Sciences, and Technology Foresight, Taiwan｜2019–2022
• Curriculum Developer and Lecturer｜Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), Singapore｜2019

Awards and Honors

• Ministry of Education Scholarship for Study Abroad｜2010
• Delta Netherlands Environmental Scholarship Award｜2006

Research Projects

• Principal Investigator: Citizen Science in Coastal Communities with Aquavoltaics: An Action Research of Participatory Rural Appraisal ｜2026-2029
• Principal Investigator: New Rural Multifunctionality in Progress? Technology Convergence in the Aquavoltaic systems in Taiwan ｜2025-2027
• Co-Principal Investigator: Taiwan Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Platform: South-Western Coast Area｜2025-
• Co-Principal Investigator: Planning Strategies for Spatial Transformative Justice and
• Regional Inclusion in the Southern Technology Corridor｜2026-2028
• Co-Principal Investigator: Humanities and Social Sciences Camp Program for High School Students｜2026-2028

Publications

Journal articles

• Chang, Y., Hung, Y. P., Hsu, T. Y., Yang, J. H., Huang, W. J., Chi, L. C., & Chen, D. J. (2026). Hidden movers in the wind farm: Functional stakeholders improving offshore wind development in Taiwan. Energy Research & Social Science, 133, 104608. (SSCI/Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104608 
• Chen, D. J., & Huang, W. J. (2025). Emerging post‐carbon productivism and rural transformation—A case of aquavoltaic policy in Taiwan. Rural Sociology, 90(2), 282-303. (SSCI/Q1) https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70003
• Huang, W. J., & Chen, D. J. (2025). The conditions enabling short food supply chains as strategies for rural development: A smallholders’ perspective. Agricultural and Food Economics, 13(1), 90. (SSCI/Q1) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-025-00395-1
• Chen, D. J., Huang, W. J., Wang, Y. K., & Chang, Y. (2022). Training for interdisciplinary collaboration in environmental planning: The shore-land project, Taiwan. Planning Practice & Research, 37(4), 464-483. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2021.2023987
• Chen, D. J. (2018). Couchsurfing: Performing the travel style through hospitality exchange. Tourist studies, 18(1), 105-122. (SSCI/Q2) https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797617710597
• Chen, D. J. (2017). Gendered Couchsurfing: women from Western Europe and East-Asia contesting de-sexualised cosmopolitanism. Gender, Place & Culture, 24(8), 1090-1106. (SSCI/Q1) https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1372375
• Chen, D.J. (2012). Global Concept, Local Practice—Taiwanese Experience of Couchsurfing, Hospitality &Society 1(3): 279-297. https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp.1.3.279_1

Book sections

• Chen, D.J. (2020). The tourist practices in the Web 2.0-based sharing system—The case of Taiwanese couchsurfers’. In Sharing Mobilities: New Perspectives for the Mobile Risk Society, edited by S. Kesselring, M. Freudendal-Pedersen and D. Zuev. London: Routledge.
• Chen, D.J. (2013) ‘Learning to Perform the Exotic: Cosmopolitan Imagination, Participation and Self-transformation’. In Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World, edited by D. Picard and S. Buchberger, 107–122. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag.

Conference papers

• Lin, Y.Y. and Chen, D.J. (2026). The Aggregation of Local Actions: A Satoumi Perspective on Expanding Place Branding in Qigu, Tainan, presented in RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026, London, UK. 2-4 Sep, 2022. (Funding no: NSTC-115-2922-I-110-100)
• Wu, H.H. and Chen, D.J. (2026). Regional Revitalization Youth Empowerment Workstations as Rural Incubators: Co-constructed Development Pathways in Rural Taiwan, presented in RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026, London, UK. 2-4 Sep, 2022. (Funding no: NSTC-115-2922-I-110-101)
• Hsu, M.R. and Chen, D.J. (2026). An Alternative Interpretation of Adult Comics: Community and Creation in RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026, London, UK. 2-4 Sep, 2022. (Funding no: NSTC-115-2922-1-110-095)
• Chi, Y.H. and Chen, D.J. (2026) Functional Typologies and Puclicness of Reused Rural Elementary Schools in Taiwan: A Social Infrastructure Perspective, presented in RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026, London, UK. 2-4 Sep, 2022. (Funding no: NSTC-115-2922-1-110-111)
• Liao, Y,C., Tung, S.J. and Chen, D.J. (2025). Hybrid Governance under Taiwan’s Aquavoltaics Policy 2.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Aquaculture Communities, presented at the 2025 Taiwan Science, Technology and Society Annual Conference, Taichung, Taiwan, June 21–22, 2025.
• Li, C.Y., Tung, S.J. and Chen, D.J. (2025). The Social Construction and Multiple Meanings of Pesticide Technology, presented at the 2025 Taiwan Science, Technology and Society Annual Conference, Taichung, Taiwan, June 21–22, 2025.
• Chen, D.J. (2024). Does Solar Photovoltaic Power Bring Energy Democratization? Examining Taiwan’s Aquavoltaics Policy from the Perspective of Sociotechnical Artifacts, presented at the 2025 Taiwan Science, Technology and Society Annual Conference, Taitung, Taiwan, June 23–24, 2024.
• Chen, D.J. and Huang, W.J. (2023). Disturbed ruralities: A case study of the aquaculture-based villages under the aquavoltaics policy in Taiwan, presented in AESOP 2023 Conference in Lodz, Poland, 11-15 July, 2023. (Funding no: NSTC-112-2410-H-005-001-)
• Huang, W.J. and Chen, D.J. (2022). An overview of challenge and opportunity for Taiwanese small scale fish farmers to participate in territorial food systems : A case study of tilapia famer, published in RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2022, Newcastle, UK.30 Aug-2 Sep, 2022.
• Chen, D.J. and Huang, W.J. (2021) ‘Rural resilience built by the rural industries—A case of aquaculture industries in Taiwan’, presented in 2021 Regions in Recovery: Building Sustainable Futures – Regional Studies Association Global E-Festival, June 2-18, 2021.
• Chen, D.J. and Huang, W.J. (2019) ‘Exploring the cultivated seafood system in Taiwan— The dynamic supply chains of milkfish and groupers under the climate change’ initiated by the National Park Headquarter in Taiwan’, presented in 2019 RGS-IBG Annual Conference : Geographies of Trouble/ Geographies of Hope, London, UK, 28-30, August 2019.
• Chen, D.J. and Huang, W.J. (2019) ‘The governance to (dis)connect the alternative food network—The ‘Blackface-Spoonbill Brand’ initiated by the National Park Headquarter in Taiwan’, presented in 2019 RGS-IBG Annual Conference : Geographies of Trouble/ Geographies of Hope, London, UK, 28-30, August 2019.