Khoo Ying Hooi

Khoo Ying Hooi is an Associate Professor at the Department of International and Strategic Studies, Universiti Malaya. Her research lies at the intersection of human rights, democratisation and civil society actors focusing on Southeast Asia. Her works include “Rethinking Human Rights and Peace in the Post-Independence Timor-Leste through Local Perspectives” (with A.B. da Silva and T.T.P.T. Nguyen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and “The Bersih Movement and Democratisation in Malaysia” (SIRD/ISEAS and Lexington Books, 2020). Her co-author paper (with C. Leong, I. Faik, F. Tan and B. Tan, 2020), “Digital organising of a global social movement: From connective to collective action," won the 2021 Best Paper Award at the Information and Organization and was Runner-Up in the 2021 Special Interest Group-Grounded Theory Methodology (SIG-GTM). Ying Hooi is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Malaysian Journal of International Relations (MJIR), and she sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights (JSEAHR) and Indonesian Law Review (ILREV). She also leads the UM Research Group on Human Rights.