FASS awards numerous research grants, book grants, and humanities and social sciences fellowships to support faculty members' research. Click below to learn about the experiences of some recent grant and fellowship recipients and their awards.

Tier 1 Grants

The Ministry of Education Tier 1 Grants, administered by the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, have 2 to 3 calls every financial year. The application is open to all tenure track faculty members and the grant supports projects in the social sciences and humanities with a total project value of below S$180,000 over three years. Learn more about the grant at FASS Research Intranet.

Check out the following dialogues with FASS Tier 1 awardees:

• Associate Professor Jinping Wang's "A Cultural History of Quanzhen Daoism in Thirteenth-Century North China"
• Assistant Professor Alex Mitchell’s "Exploring ‘Literary’ Devices for Poetic Interactivity" and "Understanding Repeat Engagement with Dynamically Changing Computational Media"
• Assistant Professor Juwon Seo's "Randomization Tests of Copula Symmetry" and related papers

 

HSS Faculty Research Fellowships

The HSS Faculty Research Fellowship (HSS FRF) provides release from teaching and administrative duties for one semester. The award may be held in either semester one or two, for work in Singapore or overseas. The fellowship is open to full-time NUS faculty members on tenure track. Preference will be given to junior and mid-career scholars with heavy teaching loads and who propose to complete book manuscripts or large-scale field work. Learn more about the fellowship here.

Check out the following dialogues with HSS FRF awardees:

• Professor William Bain’s “Political Theology of International Order”
• Associate Professor Ian Chong’s “Buying Out, Cashing In: Non-Leading States, Aggregated Reactions, and the Problems of Power Transition”

 

Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowships

The Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) Fellowship was established by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) as part of its efforts to nurture local talents and strengthen the social science and humanities research ecosystem in Singapore. As SSRC’s first talent development scheme, the SSHR Fellowship aims to support promising Singaporean social science and humanities researchers in the early stages of their academic careers in our Autonomous Universities. The grant also seeks to help build their expertise and careers as researchers. Awardees of the SSHR Fellowship will receive a research grant of up to S$1m over five years for any research project in any social sciences and humanities discipline. Learn more about the SSHR Fellowship here.

• Read about Assistant Professor Kung Chien-Wen's SSHR Fellowship, "Sinospheric Subjects: Chinese Singaporeans, China, and Taiwan, 1976-1990".
• Read about Assistant Professor Cynthia Siew's SSHR Fellowship, "Measuring the Singaporean Mental Lexicon: Lexical-Semantic Norms for Singapore English Words".
• Read a conversation with Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia on his SSHR Fellowship, "Diplomatic Dharma: Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia, 1950s–Present".
• Read a conversation with Assistant Professor Lin Weiqiang on his SSHR Fellowship "Peopling Infrastructure: Aeromobilities, Automation, and Labour Mobilisations in Asia".

 

FASS-ARI Book Manuscript Workshops

The FASS-ARI Book Manuscript Workshops scheme is a joint initiative by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and the Asia Research Institute (ARI). The scheme will fund two, one-day book manuscript virtual workshops, with up to S$4,000 per workshop. These book manuscript workshops are intended as an intensive but supportive means of fine-tuning a book manuscript which is already close to completion. Invited reviewers will provide focused and informed criticism with the goal of turning a strong manuscript into an excellent submission.

• Read a conversation with Assistant Professor Elliott Prasse-Freeman on his upcoming book with Stanford University Press titled Rights Refused: Activism, Violence, and Blunt Biopolitics amidst Myanmar’s Cursed Transition.

 

FASS Book Grants

As monographs are a crucial way of communicating research findings in many Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines, the FASS Book Grant, open to tenure track faculty members, aims to defray part of the expenses related to the publication of a research monograph, such as editing, indexing, copy editing, translation, paying copyright permissions, production of maps, and graphics and purchase of pictures. This scheme is highly competitive and awards will be based on completion of submission, merit of research work and availability of funds. Priority will also be given to applicants who have secured a book contract. The funding limit is S$10,000 per application. More information is available at FASS Research Intranet.