{"id":293,"date":"2020-08-04T07:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/?page_id=293"},"modified":"2023-11-30T07:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:58:37","slug":"leap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/leap\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

L<\/strong>ifelong\u00a0E<\/strong>ducation for\u00a0A<\/strong>ging\u00a0P<\/strong>roductively (LEAP) in Singapore<\/h1>\n\t

Project’s Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Lifelong Education for Aging Productively (LEAP) in Singapore<\/p>\n

Funded by:<\/strong>\u00a0Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2<\/p>\n

Amount:<\/strong>\u00a0S$850,260<\/p>\n

PI:\u00a0Associate Professor Feng Qiushi<\/strong>, Department of Sociology, NUS; and Deputy Director of CFPR, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS<\/p>\n

Co-PIs:\u00a0<\/strong>Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Provost’s Chair Professor, Sociology Department, NUS; Associate Professor Liu Haoming, Economics Department, NUS; and Dr Feng Lei, Department of Psychological Medicine, NUS<\/p>\n

Collaborator(s):<\/strong> Dr. Teck Kiang Tan, Research Fellow, the NUS Institute for Applied Learning Sciences & Educational Technology (ALSET); Dr Tan Poh lin, Institute of Policy Studies, NUS<\/p>\n

Project duration:<\/strong> 01 Aug 2020 to 31 Jan 2024<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The rapid population aging in Singapore calls for innovative solutions to enhance the human capital of a population to ensure the nation’s economic growth and social development. This project aims to illustrate the potential of a developmental strategy for the greying Singapore that concentrates on the promotion of productive aging through encouraging lifelong learning, social participation, and economic activeness among older adults. The project will be managed centrally by the NUS Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) in collaboration with the\u00a0NUS Institute for Applied Learning Sciences & Educational Technology (ALSET).<\/a><\/p>\n

Productive aging is a theoretically-innovative and policy-implicative notion for Singapore. Different from the traditional paradigms of aging research, such as healthy, active and successful aging, productive aging represents a nascent direction, which emphasises engagement in productive activities in later years. These activities include paid working, care giving, and volunteering etc., among which learning and skill development are essential components. By highlighting the contributing roles of older adults to family, community, and society, productive aging goes beyond the ego-centred perspectives of the other aging models with a clear emphasis on the mutual-beneficial relationship among the aged and the society.<\/p>\n

Our multidisciplinary team has recently published a series of papers in a high-impact international journal, which examined productive aging in a number of Asian societies, and developed an ecological and life-course framework to study this important matter. Now we aim to investigate the practice of productive aging amongst Singapore older adults particularly through the lifelong learning and skill development, identify factors and interventions that enable and enhance their ability to continue to be productive members of family, community and society, and examine how the recent changes of aging policies caused changes in lifelong learning and productive engagement. In this project, we will pay particular attention to those who have to maintain economic activities in old ages due to inadequate financial resources.<\/p>\n\t

Project’s Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Qiushi\"\n\t

Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\nAssociate Professor FENG Qiushi
\nDepartment of Sociology
\nFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
\nNational University of Singapore\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"yeung_jean\"\n\t

Co-Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\nProfessor Wei-Jun Jean YEUNG
\nDepartment of Sociology
\nFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
\nNational University of Singapore\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"st_20160925_ohjobs25a_2620501\"\n\t

Co-Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\nAssociate Professor LIU Haoming
\nDepartment of Ecnonomics
\nFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
\nNational University of Singapore\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"FengLei\"\n\t

Co-Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\nDr FENG Lei
\nDepartment of Psychological Medicine
\nYong Loo Lin School of Medicine
\nNational University of Singapore\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"TKT_ALSET\"\n\t

Collaborator<\/strong><\/p>\nDr TAN Teck Kiang
\nResearch Fellow
\nInstitute for Applied Learning Sciences and Educational Technology
\nNational University of Singapore\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"tan-poh-lin-03-selected\"\n\t

Collaborator<\/strong><\/p>\nDr TAN Poh Lin
\nSenior Research Fellow
\nInstitute of Policy Studies
\nNational University of Singapore\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Postdoctoral Fellow<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Abalos_photo-150x150\"\n\t

Jeofrey Abalos<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n \n

\n

Jeofrey Bautista ABALOS<\/h3>\n Postdoctoral Fellow
\n Ph.D.,Demography, Australian National University, 2019

\n Research Interests: Population Aging; population health; family and households; marriage and cohabitation; divorce and separation

\n Contact Information:
\n j.abalos@nus.edu.sg<\/a>
\n\t

Research Assistant<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Siyao\"\n\t

LU Siyao<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProfile\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n \n

\n

Lu Siyao<\/h3>\n Research Assistant

Bachelor of Sciences (Honors) in Statistics, Nanyang Technological University 2019

\n Research Interest: Aging and Gerontology, Population Studies, Economic Sociology

\n\t\t\tContact Information:
\n\t\t\tfasal@nus.edu.sg <\/a>
\n\t

Contact Us<\/strong><\/h3>\nPrincipal Investigator: <\/strong>Associate Professor Feng Qiushi
\nEmail: socfq@nus.edu.sg<\/a>\n
\nAddress:<\/strong>
\nCentre for Family and Population Research
\nFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
\nNational University of Singapore
\nThe Shaw Foundation Building
\nBlock AS7, Level 3, 5 Arts Link
\nSingapore 117570\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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