> Ph.D. Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Australia
> MSc Geography, University of the Philippines
> BS Geography, University of the Philippines

> Child participation

> Environmental education
> Disaster education
> Disaster risk reduction (DRR)
> Countermapping
> Geonarratives

> Soc Sci 1 Foundations of Social Science
> Geog 1 Places and Landscapes in a Changing World
> Geog 131 Geography of the Philippines
> Geog 151 Geography of Europe
> Geog 171 Political Geography
> Geog 199 Seminar
> Geog 209 Spatial Analysis
> Geog 299 Research Design in Geography

> 2025. American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow
> 2022 – 2024. One UP Professorial Chair for Teaching and Public Service
> 2022 – 2023. UP Diliman Centennial Faculty Grant

> 2021. Commission on Human Rights Research Grant

> 2020. Forest Foundation Research Grant

> 2018. Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), United Kingdom

> 2018. PhD Incentive Award, OVCRD, UP Diliman

> 2015. International Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship

> “Growing Resilience with Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities (GReenSCape)”, June 2024 – May 2026
> “Geonarratives of Human Rights Defenders in Negros Island, Philippines”, November 2020 – July 2021
> “Spatial analysis and assessment of the proposed division of Palawan”, October 2019 – July 2020
> Participatory Planning of a resettlement community: Aeta community of Barangay Diaz, Porac, Pampanga”, October 2019
> “Counter-mapping for peri-urban social justice: Accounting for spatial narratives of community resistance and dispossession in urban transition”, October 2018 – June 2019
> “The Role of Young Children in DRR Programs: A Case Study of Rodriguez, Rizal”, August 2018 – July 2019

>Ortega, A., Dela Cruz, B., Dayrit, C., Angeles, E., Saguin, K., Garcia, L., Martinez, M., De Guzman, M., Lopez, Y. (2024). Counter-cartographies of Resistance: Exposing everyday authoritarianism in the Philippines. In B. Nehe & A. Eschamann (Eds.), Beyond Molotovs: A visual handbook of Anti-authoritarian strategies (pp. 80-85). transcript Verlag.
> De Guzman, M., Lopez, Y., and Ortega, A. (2022). Geonarratives of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in Negros Island, Philippines. Banwaan, 2(1), 1-24.
> Saguin, K., Lopez, Y., Cadag, J., De Guzman, M., and Garcia, E. (2021). Geography’s trajectories in Philippine higher education. Transactions of Institute of British geographers. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12484
> Abaya, M., Loic, L and Lopez, Y. (2020). Localising the UN Cluster Approach: the Philippines as a case study. Environmental Hazards, 19(4), 360-374.
> Lopez, Y.P., Hayden, J., Hadley, F., & Cologon, K. (2012). Child participation and disaster risk reduction. International Journal of Early Years Education, 20(3): 300-308.
> Lopez, Y.P. (2008). The State of Geographic Education in Selected Elementary Schools in Metro Manila, Philippines. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 17(4), 344-357.