Terence Heng is a photographer and sociologist. He is currently Reader in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Working on intersections between creative practice, cultural geographies and visual sociology, he investigates the making of sacred space, spirit mediumship and diasporic identities.

His research has been featured in journals like Area, The Sociological Review, Cultural Geographies, Visual Communication and Sociological Research Online. To date, he has published 4 books, including Visual Methods in the Field: Photography for the Social Sciences (Routledge 2016), Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces (Routledge 2020) and Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity (Routledge 2020), and more recently a co-edited collection of visual and academic essays, Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global-City (Routledge 2024).