Dr. Cheuk Fan Ng

I joined Athabasca University in 1993. Before coming to AU, I was assistant professor for five years at three Canadian universities, and was a research associate for a year. I now coordinate the following courses:

• PSYC 304 Research Methods in Psychology
• PSYC 315 Psychology and the Mass Media
• PSYC 379 Social Psychology
• PSYC 432 Psychology and the Built Environment

Born and raised in Hong Kong, I came to Canada in 1978 with great enthusiasm to pursue my undergraduate studies in the frigid, peaceful, and sparsely populated Manitoba. This new life experience and my work experience in real estate appraisal sparked my interests in environmental psychology, i.e., the study of environment and behavior interactions. I continued on with my graduate work at the University of Victoria, B.C., where I received my masters and doctoral degrees in psychology with specialization in environmental psychology.

As I move on in my career, my teaching interests have cut across several applied, non-clinical areas of psychology. My research interests remain in the environmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology areas. Topics of particular interest to me include noise, crowding, and privacy in built environments, and immigrant adjustment. One project I completed was entitled the integration experiences of immigrant seniors, funded by the Prairie Centre and in collaboration with four researchers from the University of Alberta and the University of Regina.

I am the Past-Chair and newsletter editor of the Environmental Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association. I am also an affiliated researcher with the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration.

Ng, C. F. (2000). Effects of building construction noise on residents: A quasi-experiment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 20, 375-385.