Dr Trang Ta

Her research and teaching interests include health and hygiene regimes; cultural politics of food and nutrition; culinary medicine; ageing and the elderly; death and dying; science and technology studies; and waste and discard studies.

Previous and current research projects include public narratives of medical tragedy and moral economies of charity in urban China; informal street economies of recycling and salvaging waste among the elderly and working poor in Hong Kong; nutritional knowledge and eating behaviour in Singapore; and emergent environmental funerary practices in the United States.