Grants
CNM colleagues have been very active in securing grants and carrying out exciting research projects.
From 2020 to 2023, our department was a hive of activity with over 70 ongoing research initiatives, including those with our faculty as Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs). The total competitive funding for these projects approached nearly S$30 million.
Our faculty, serving as Principal Investigators (PIs), successfully obtained S$4,590,261.60 in funding, reflecting our strong leadership in research.
Most of these are from the Ministry of Education (e.g., MoE tier-2 and Social Science Research Thematic Grant), allocated through FASS (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) and CTIC (Centre for Trusted Internet and Community) as well as other funding agencies and statutory bodies in Singapore, for instance, National Arts Council, National Heritage Board, and DSTA (Defence, Science & Technology Agency).
In addition to domestic grants from within Singapore, research at CNM also benefits from extensive international collaboration funded by various agencies in Australia, Canada, China Mainland, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and Turkey. Besides academic funding agencies, CNM colleagues have utilised research funding from the IT industry, for instance, Facebook Research and Adobe Systems.
Below is a selected list of funded projects at CNM:
| Title of Study | PI | Grant Amount (SGD) |
| Understanding Repeat Engagement with Dynamic Computational Media (2019 - 2021), Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Grant | Alexander Mitchell | $36,000.00 |
| Digital Wellbeing: Identifying, Testing and Measuring Framework Indicators Towards Digital Readiness, Inclusion and Safety. NUS-CTIC large grant (2022-2024) | Audrey Yue | $499,613.00 |
| A study on the persuasive effects of un/ambiguous health messages with regard to technology-related impacts, individual characteristics, and socio-cultural influences (2018-2023) | Hong Soo Jung | $40,000.00 |
| Singapore Health Information National Trends Survey, MOE Tier 1 Grant | Jiang Shaohai | $165,222.00 |
| Digital Aging: Examining Factors Influencing eHealth Adoption Among Older Adults in Singapore, CFPR Faculty Development Grant | Jiang Shaohai | $10,000.00 |
| Health Information Matters in Cancer Prevention and Control: Singapore, Asia, and Beyond, The HSS Seed Fund | Jiang Shaohai | $20,000.00 |
| NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community (CTIC) Research project grant (2021) | Kokil Jaidka | $105,000.00 |
| Profiling the language of individuals and communities on social media platforms (2020-2024) | Kokil Jaidka | $75,000.00 |
| Adobe Academic Research grant on modeling stylistic customisation in text | Kokil Jaidka | $13,000.00 |
| Hype in scientific communication: credibility, reputation and well-being (2022-2025), MOE Tier 1 Grant | Maite Soto-Sanfiel | $159,100.00 |
| Deep and cheap fakes: effects on audience’s attitudes, knowledges, and literacy (2022-2024), CTIC | Maite Soto-Sanfiel | $250,000.00 |
| Deepfakes of deceased people: artists, historical figures and anonymous people (2023-2025), NUS Start-Up Grant (SUG) | Maite Soto-Sanfiel | $60,000.00 |
| Campus Sexual Misconduct in a Digital Age (CASMIDA): Perspectives from Singapore, (2022 - 2024), MOE Tier 1 Grant | Michelle Ho | $146,548.00 |
| Detrimental to Our Well-Being: Digital Technologies and Campus Sexual Misconduct in Singapore (2021 - 2022), CTIC | Michelle Ho | $20,000.00 |
| Trans(gender) in Neoliberal East Asia (2019 - 2022), NUS SUG | Michelle Ho | $40,000.00 |
| CTIC-Pilot grant funded by Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) | Natalie Pang | $19,800.00 |
| CTIC-Research Project grant funded by MCI | Natalie Pang | $244,969.00 |
| Countering Vaccine Misinformation and Promoting Protective Health Behaviors through Digital Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021 to 2024), NUS SUG | Ozan Kuru | $75,000.00 |
| Examining creative entrepreneurship as practices of care and repair (2023-2024), FASS Staff Research Support Scheme (SRSS) FY2023 | Rimi Khan | $3,520.00 |
| Building Bridges across Feminist Pedagogy and Research: Interventions in Young Singaporeans’ Experiences and Understandings of Sexual Violence, (2023-2024), FASS SRSS FY2023 | Shobha Avadhani | $8,000.00 |
| Collaborative Data Trust, FASS & CTIC | Subhayan Mukerjee | $111,500.00 |
| Using Experiments and Computer Vision Techniques to Understand the Relationship between Multi-modal Messages Online and Public Attitudes and Behavior (2021-2025), NUS SUG | Subhayan Mukerjee | $75,000.00 |
| Digital Political Campaigns in Asia: Understanding Public Opinion and Influence through a Multi-Method and Comparative Approach (2021-2024), MOE Tier 1 Grant | Tabarez A. Neyazi | $180,000.00 |
| Artificial Intelligence, disinformation and the public good, (Jul 2021 - Dec 2022), Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) | Tabarez A. Neyazi | $502,623.60 |
| Data Journalism in Asia: Investigating the Growth and Practice of Data Journalism in Singapore and Hong Kong (2020-2022), MOE Tier 1 Grant | Wu Shangyuan | $54,100.00 |
| NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community Pilot Project Grant | Wu Shangyuan | $17,400.00 |
| My Friend is AI: Harnessing Social Chatbots to Augment Social Support and Improve Mental Health (2023-2026), MOE Tier 1 Grant | Zhang Renwen | $179, 930.00 |
| Human-AI Collaboration in Healthcare: Algorithmic Imaginary, Augmented Decision Making, and Responsible AI (2021-2023), NUS SUG | Zhang Renwen | $99,978.00 |
| The mediation of civic learning by digital social media: An Australia – Singapore comparison, NUS-University of Sydney Partnership Fund (2020-2021) | Zhang Weiyu | $19,888.00 |
| Exploring instructional approaches to develop students’ ethical mindset for a better understanding of the ethical and social implications of technology, CDTL, (2022-2023), NUS | Zhang Weiyu | $15,000.00 |
| Civic Tech in Asia, HSS Seed Fund (Collaborative Research), National University of Singapore (2020-2022) | Zhang Weiyu | $40,000.00 |
