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Dr Terry Au-Yeung
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BSocSc. M.A. PhD
Teams and roles for Terry Au-Yeung
Research Associate
Overview
Terry AU-YEUNG is currently a Research Associate on Visions of Policing, an ESRC-funded project in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Visions of Policing is an Open Research Area Round 7 project co-investigated by Dr Patrick Watson (University of Toronto), Prof Robin Smith (Cardiff University), Dr Rene Tuma (Technische Universität Berlin), and Jacques de Maillard (University of Paris-Saclay), with joint funding from research councils in Canada, France, Germany, and the UK. In this project, he conducts hybrid ethnographic work, combining traditional fieldwork with novel video analytic methods to analyse complex interactions captured on camera and other emerging forms of visibility (such as visual reconstruction and multi-angle footage), alongside participants' accounts of these videos. This approach enables him to understand the multi-layered temporalities that lead to violence, resistance, and resilience in policing and beyond.
In his previous postdoctocal project, Stampedes at Keele University (Exercises and authorities strand, Co-I: Prof Clifford Stott), he applied video analytical techniques to understand citizen pro-social behaviour under threat in real-time by analysing CCTV footage of actual incidents that occurred within a major UK metropolitan transportation network to inform evidence-based emergency planning and training.
As an ethnomethodologist and methodologist, Terry's scholarly interests centre on how conceptions of temporality and structures of perception can innovate social scientific methodologies for understanding 'what the world is made of'.
He currently serves as co-convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Association. Before returning to academia, Terry worked as a project manager and industry trainer at a social enterprise focused on migrant workers' issues in Southeast Asia.
Publication
2025
- Mlynář, J., Smith, R. J., Au-Yeung, T. S., Boström, E. and Dahl, P. 2025. “What the world is made up of”: The Chicago School’s alternates and laterals in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. American Sociologist (10.1007/s12108-025-09659-1)
2024
- Au-Yeung, T. 2024. Navigating ideologies: Mapping their imperfect contours with fair-mindedness. Symbolic Interaction (10.1002/symb.705)
- Au-Yeung, T., Philpot, R., Stott, C., Radburn, M. and Drury, J. 2024. Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage. British Journal of Social Psychology 63(2), pp. 767-791. (10.1111/bjso.12703)
- Au-Yeung, T. 2024. The uncelebrated cultural basis for democratic innovation [Book Review]. Symbolic Interaction 47(1), pp. 109-112. (10.1002/symb.645)
2023
- Au-Yeung, S. 2023. In the meantime edited by Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham [Book Review]. The Sociological Review Magazine (10.51428/tsr.wxks1426)
2022
- Au-Yeung, T. and Fitzgerald, R. 2022. Multi-layered Gestalt in Real-time Interaction. Philosophia Scientiae 26(3), pp. 123-149. (10.4000/philosophiascientiae.3674)
- Au-Yeung, T. S. H. and Fitzgerald, R. 2022. Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity. Sociological Review 71(1), pp. 221-242. (10.1177/00380261221103018)
2019
- Fitzgerald, R. and Au-Yeung, S. 2019. Membership categorisation analysis. SAGE Research Methods Foundations (10.4135/9781526421036754839)
Articles
- Mlynář, J., Smith, R. J., Au-Yeung, T. S., Boström, E. and Dahl, P. 2025. “What the world is made up of”: The Chicago School’s alternates and laterals in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. American Sociologist (10.1007/s12108-025-09659-1)
- Au-Yeung, T. 2024. Navigating ideologies: Mapping their imperfect contours with fair-mindedness. Symbolic Interaction (10.1002/symb.705)
- Au-Yeung, T., Philpot, R., Stott, C., Radburn, M. and Drury, J. 2024. Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage. British Journal of Social Psychology 63(2), pp. 767-791. (10.1111/bjso.12703)
- Au-Yeung, T. 2024. The uncelebrated cultural basis for democratic innovation [Book Review]. Symbolic Interaction 47(1), pp. 109-112. (10.1002/symb.645)
- Au-Yeung, S. 2023. In the meantime edited by Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham [Book Review]. The Sociological Review Magazine (10.51428/tsr.wxks1426)
- Au-Yeung, T. and Fitzgerald, R. 2022. Multi-layered Gestalt in Real-time Interaction. Philosophia Scientiae 26(3), pp. 123-149. (10.4000/philosophiascientiae.3674)
- Au-Yeung, T. S. H. and Fitzgerald, R. 2022. Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity. Sociological Review 71(1), pp. 221-242. (10.1177/00380261221103018)
- Fitzgerald, R. and Au-Yeung, S. 2019. Membership categorisation analysis. SAGE Research Methods Foundations (10.4135/9781526421036754839)
Biography
I completed his PhD in University of Macau to study the multi-activity structure in training workshops Incorporating my work experience as a worker-management communication trainer. It explores time as a multi-layered phenomenon relevant to the participants' practical achievements in the course of the training sessions. In this endeavour, I took inspiration from Goffman's frame analysis, and introduced his concept of projection to replace action as a general analytical unit for any meaningful of strip spontaneous activity by interactant(s). This theoretical innovation allowed my analysis to sustain and describe different levels of temporality in the training workshop as a non-exclusive and mutually constitutive gestalt-contexture. I named this analytical method as Projection Analysis (PA) after its basic unit. I have introduced the theoretical bases of PA in two journal articles in The Sociological Review and Philosophia Scientiæ respectively.
Before joining Cardiff, I was the Postdoctoral Researcher for the ESRC-funded project Perceived threats and 'stampedes': a relational model of collective fear responses. The project engages Transport for London to review and investigate actual mass emergency incidents in London Underground. The engagement includes the video analysis of actual incidents using CCTV footage. To protect the personal data in the CCTV footage, we have developed a comprehensive GDPR-compliance system infrastructure for the data sharing, storage and processing of CCTV data on top of securing the university's ethics approval. The data protection infrastructure includes Data Protection Impact Assessment, data-transfer and storage solution, access control policy, and data anonymisation method. After securing the data in June 2021, the project team conducted case studies to reconstruct the perception of threats and the subsequent sequential interplays between different social categories in situ by examining CCTV footage of selected cases in a multi-angle frame.
Contact Details
+44 29225 14625
Glamorgan Building, Room 1.20, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA
