Ying is an applied economist and a research member of the Water, Environment and Food economics policy group (WEF group) in the College of Business, Governance and Law at Flinders University. Her research experience include theoretical and empirical studies in natural resource economics and management (e.g. water, forest and land use), effect of climate change on agriculture production and natural resource use, and environmental and health studies. Her broad backgrounds enable her to study and address the complicated issues such as land use confliction, health problem, trade off of economic return and ecosystem services arising from natural resource limitation, environment pollution and climate change.

• Natural resource economics and management
• Climate change in agriculture production and natural resources use
• Agriculture development and natural resources protection in developing countries
• Health economics

Ying has conducted a variety of research projects and published in prestigious A* and A journals across subject areas such as agriculture economics, natural resource economics, food waste, and health economics.

Ying is a member of the newly-formed Water, Environment and Food economics policy group (WEF) in College of Business, Government and Law (BGL) at Flinders University.

The team is comprised of eight distinguished environment and resource economists including award-winning Professor Sarah Wheeler, Professor Neville Crossman, and ARC Future Fellow Professor Alec Zuo, along with two PhD students. Their research aims to enhance the management and allocation of water in the Murray-Darling Basin, evaluate the impacts of water scarcity on regional and farming communities, develop water markets, promote sustainable farming practices, and assess the effects of drought and flooding.

Collaborating with industry and regional stakeholders and led by Professor Wheeler, the team aims to develop policies that tackle Australia's water challenges and the effects of climate change, with a strong commitment to real-world solutions and informing best practices for sustainable water management.

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PhD: Agricultural and development economics studies in Indonesia (2022).