Cities and Urban Life

• 2023-2024, ‘Decoding Vernacular Architecture by Guiding Human Intuition with Deep Learning: A Study of Singapore Shophouse Façade in Chinatown’ (PI: Heng Chye Kiang, NUS Architecture; co-PIs: T.C. Chang; Xue Xuan, NUS Architecture and 3 others)

• 2023-2026, Capitals of the Future: Place, Power and Possibility in Southeast Asia (PI: Daniel Goh, ARI/NUS Sociology; co-PI: Tim Bunnell, ARI/NUS)

• 2020-2023, Smart Cities in Global Comparative Perspective: Worlding and Provincializing Relationships (PI: Byron Miller, University of Calgary; co-PIs for Singapore team: Tim Bunnell, NUS; Lily Kong, SMU; Orlando Woods, SMU)
• 2020-2022, Capitals of the Future, Then and Now: Southeast Asia’s Planned Administrative Centres (PI: Tim Bunnell, NUS; co-PIs: Maitrii Aung-Thwin, NUS History; Daniel Goh, NUS Sociology)

Development Geographies

• 2023-2024, Value Co-Creation for Developing Creative Tourism in Yod-Phulangka, Thailand (PI: TC Chang, NUS; Co-PI: Thitirat Panbamrungkij, Dept of Geography, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

Geographies of Youth

• 2023-25, Youth urbanism and postcolonial futures in comparative perspective (PI: Allen Xiao, NUS)

Mobilities and Transnationalism

• 2023-2029, Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW) (PI: Jacqui True, Monash University; Partner Investigator: Brenda Yeoh, NUS (along with a network of over 30 partner-investigators)).
• 2022-2029, South-South Migration and Migrant Food Insecurity: Interactions, Impacts and Remedies (MiFood Project) (PI: Prof Jonathan Crush, Wilfrid Laurier University; Co-Applicant: Brenda Yeoh, NUS (along with a network of over 50 co-applicants). Webpage
• 2023-2026, The Singaporean Stack: cashless payment, digital infrastructure, and smart citizenship on and beyond Intelligent Island (PI: Dylan Brady, NUS)
• 2022-2025, Plastic Waste and Women’s Household Practices in Asia and Australia (PI: Brenda Yeoh, NUS; Co-PIs: Natalie Pang, NUS Communications and New Media; Collaborator: Shiori Shakuto, Uni of Sydney) Webpage
• 2020-2025, Peopling Infrastructure: Aeromobilities, Automation, and Mobilisations of Labour in Asia (PI: Lin Weiqiang, NUS) Webpage
• 2022-2024, A Study on Cross-National Families in Singapore (PI: Brenda Yeoh, NUS; Co-PIs: Esther Goh, NUS Social Work; Theodora Lam, ARI/NUS; Bernice Khoo, DSO). Webpage
• 2022-2024, The Longer-term Impact of Parental Labour Migration: Well-being, Indebtedness and Family Sustainability in Southeast Asia (PI: Lucy Jordan, University of Hong Kong; Co-PIs: Elspeth Graham, University of St Andrews; Kolitha Wickramage, IOM; Co-Investigator: Brenda Yeoh, NUS; Collaborators: Maruja Milagros Asis, Scalabrini Migration Centre; Patrick Duigan, ADB; Tim Liao, Uni of Illinois; Tomas Martin Ernst, IOM; Melissa Garabiles, Ateneo de Manila University; Sukamdi, Universitas Gadjah Mada).
• 2021-2024, Ageing and Relocation in Queenstown (PI: Elaine Ho, NUS)
• 2021-2024, Ageing and Social Networks: Mapping the Lifeworlds of Older Singaporeans (PI: Elaine Ho, NUS; Co-PIs: Vincent Chua, NUS Sociology and Feng Chen-Chieh, NUS Geography)
• 2021-2024, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Student Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (PI: Ho Kong Chong, NUS Sociology; Co-PI: Brenda Yeoh, NUS; and a network of 8 other collaborators) Webpage
• 2022-2023, Ageing Immigrants and Integration Over the Lifecourse in Singapore, (PI: Elaine Ho, NUS; Co-PI: Brenda Yeoh, NUS)

Pedagogy

• 2024-2025, Education Policy Mobilities, PI: Tan Wenn Er, Co-PI: Elaine Ho (NUS Geography/ FASS Research Division)
• 2023-2025, Teaching Pre-University Geography through Role-play and Deep Listening: Enhancing Geographical Inquiry using Interdisciplinary Strategies for Managing Classroom Dynamics (PI: Kamalini Ramdas, NUS; Collaborators: Menusha De Silva, NUS; Shobha Avadhani, NUS Communications and New Media; Robin Loon , NUS Theatre Studies; Josef Tan, Ministry of Education).

• 2022-2023, Blended Learning and Interactive Fieldtrip Worksheets (PI: Menusha De Silva, NUS).

• 2020-2021, Online Learning and Collaborative Pedagogy (Co-PIs: Kamalini Ramdas, NUS; Menusha De Silva, NUS) 

Bunnell, Tim

• Gillen, J., Bunnell, T., & Rigg, J. (2022). Geographies of ruralization. Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(2), 186–203. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221075818
• Bunnell, T., Aung-Thwin, M., Clendenning, J. N., Goh, D. P., & Smith, N. R. (2022). Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(6), 1082–1099. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221133832

Banta, Vanessa

• Banta, V. (2023). Unsettling Migrant Reintegration: The Serial Risk-Taking of Returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Cordillera, Philippines. Antipode, 55(1), 27–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12875
• Banta, V. & Pratt, G. (2022). Immobilised by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID-19. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Online Version. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12598

Brady, Dylan

• Brady, D. (2021). Between nation and state: Boundary infrastructures, communities of practice and everyday nation-ness in the Chinese rail system. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(7), 1436–1452. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420986810

Chang, T.C.

• Chang, T.C. (2022). Van Gogh in the neighborhood: creative placemaking and community art in Singapore. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(5), 1500-1517. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1977108
• Ning, Y., & Chang, T.C. (2022). Production and consumption of gentrification aesthetics in Shanghai’s M50. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(1), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12482

De Silva, Menusha

• De Silva, M., & Gandhi, K. (2019). “Daughter” as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field. Area, 51(4), 662-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12525
• De Silva, M. (2018). Making the emotional connection: Transnational eldercare circulation within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families. Gender, Place & Culture, 25(1), 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1339018

Ho, Elaine

• Ho, E.L.E. (2019) Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration and Re-migration Across China’s Borders. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Ho, E.L.E., Zhou, G., Liew, J.A., Chiu, T.Y., Huang, S., & Yeoh, B.S.A. (2021) Webs of Care: Qualitative GIS Research on Aging, Mobility, and Care Relations in Singapore. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111, 1462–1482. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1807900

Lin Weiqiang

• Lin, W. (2022). Automated infrastructure: COVID-19 and the shifting geographies of supply chain capitalism. Progress in Human Geography, 46(2), 463-483. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211038718
• Lin, W. (2019). Transport geography and geopolitics: Visions, rules and militarism in China's Belt and Road Initiative and beyond. Journal of Transport Geography, 81, 102436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.05.001

Ramdas, Kamalini

• Ramdas, K. (2020) Negotiating LGBTQ rights in Singapore: The margin as a place of Refusal. Urban Studies, 58(7): 1448-1462. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020962936
• Huang, S. and Ramdas, K (2019). Generative Spaces of Gender and Feminist Geography in Singapore: Entanglements of the Personal and Political. Gender, Place and Culture, 26 (7-9): 1233-1242. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1552121

Tan, Wenn Er

• Sambamurthy, N., Tan, W. E. and Bhuyan, A. (2022) Pausing again: Reflecting on humility and possibility in pandemic times. Area 54 (3), 392-399. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12804

Xiao, Allen

• Xiao, A. H. (2021). Becoming… in Lagos: a time-narration approach to city-identification in an African metropolis. Urban Geography, 42(10), 1480-1499. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1805243
• Xiao, A. H. (2022). The congested city and situated social inequality: Making sense of urban (im) mobilities in Lagos, Nigeria. Geoforum, 136, 312-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.012

Yeoh, Brenda

• Yeoh, B.S.A., Somaiah, B.C., Lam, T. and Acedera, K.F. (2020). Doing Family in “Times of Migration”: Care Temporalities and Gender Politics in Southeast Asia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(6), 1709-1725. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1723397
• Yeoh, B.S.A. and Collins, F. (2022). Handbook on Transnationalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

*from 2017 onwards

Last updated on 15 August 2023

SCG welcomes many international visitors, some on funded NUS fellowships, others financed through other sources. If you are keen to visit Geography at NUS and work in the social and cultural field then please contact Elaine Ho. Further details on fellowships can be found here.

Visiting Professors

Eugene McCann, Simon Fraser University (Aug 2022 – May 2023)
Helga Leitner, Institute of Global Studies, University of Minnesota (Feb-May 2009)

Visiting Scholars Scheme / Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellows (IMMF)

2016
Ann E. Bartos, School of Environment, Auckland University (October 3-16 2016)

2014
Tim Oakes, Department of Geography, University of Colorado (January 2014)

Tim Oakes-"The IMMF scheme was a great opportunity to work with colleagues in Geography and take advantage of the dynamic research environment at NUS. It was especially valuable to have the time to think about and develop new collaborative projects."

2012
Mark Boyle, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Sept-Oct 2012)
Sallie Marston, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona (April 2012)

"I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to visit NUS Geography for an extended period, thanks to the IMMF scheme.  It was stimulating to be able to spend time with colleagues and students presenting my work and discussing my plans for a Singapore-based project.  NUS-Geography is an impressive department full of smart and highly productive faculty, grads and administrative staff and Singapore is an interesting and engaging place to visit. I'd go back in a heartbeat!"

2011
Linda Malam, Department of Geography, University of Otago (June 2011)
Katharyne Mitchell, Department of Geography, University of Washington (Feb 2011)

2009
Linda Peake, Department of Social Science, York University (Feb-Mar 2009)
Jonathan Beaverstock, University of Loughborough (23 Feb to 9 Mar 2009)
Simon Guy, University of Manchester, (3 to 29 May 2009)

2008
Amanda Wise, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University (Jan-Feb 2008)