Dr.Michael Kho Lim
Visiting Professor form School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
(22 September – 12 December 2025)
Biography
• My career trajectory lies at the intersection of industry and academia. I have an extensive experience in the management of cultural and creative industries—assuming various leadership roles such as being a film producer, executive director, general manager, and holding creative and managerial positions in content writing and editing for different publications. I also have several years of university teaching in the Philippines, Australia, and the UK—leading modules and coordinating units on screen production, media entrepreneurship, cultural economy and sustainable development among others.
Research interests
• My research interests include Asian cinema, independent filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, cultural economy, and the broader area of cultural and creative industries.
• I am the author of Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and co-author of The Media Kit: A Frame-by-Frame Guide to Visual Production (Anvil Publishing, 2008).
• My co-edited volumes include Re-imaging Creative Cities in 21st-Century Asia (with Xin Gu and Justin O’Connor; Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Sine ni Lav Diaz: A Long Take on the Filipino Auteur (with Parichay Patra; Intellect Ltd. and DLSU Publishing House, 2021).
Publications
Articles
• Lim, Michael Kho and Chuangchai, Phitchakan (2024) The making of the ‘Old Town Sakon Nakhon Creative District’ in Thailand: a process evaluation study of the creative placemaking agenda through festivalisation. City, Culture and Society, 38, 100595. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100595)
• Lim, Michael Kho and Lee, Dongjoon (2023) K-drama in the time of the pandemic: the production of hope through the subgenre of the K-Dystopia. Situations, 16(2), pp. 77-108. (doi: 10.22958/situcs.2023.16.2.004)
• Lim, Michael Kho (2020) Pinoy Boys’ Love overdose. Daily Tribune, 21 Sep.
• Lim, Michael Kho (2020) Mapping the Boys Love ‘Fandemic’ (part 2). Daily Tribune, 8 Jun.
• Lim, Michael Kho (2020) Mapping the Boys’ Love ‘Fandemic’ (part 1). Daily Tribune, 1 Jun.
• O’Connor, Justin, Gu, Xin and Lim, Michael Kho (2020) Creative cities, creative classes and the global modern. City, Culture and Society, 21, 100344. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100344)
• Lim, Michael Kho (2017) The maladies of the Metro Manila Film Festival. Daily Tribune, 27 Jul.
Books
• Lim, Michael Kho (2019) Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783030036072 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03608-9)
• Lim, Michael Kho , Casul, Melanie and Garcia, Jag (2008) The Media Kit: A Frame-by-Frame Guide to Visual Production. Anvil Publishing Inc: Manila, The Philippines. ISBN 9789712720123