Where Will You Make Your Impact?

Understand The World. Shape Your Future.

From climate resilience to global justice, NUS Geographers learn from today’s problems to design tomorrow’s solutions. Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates physical and human geography, students examine real-world challenges across local, regional, and global contexts. Grounded in research and practice, NUS Geography equips learners with the critical and applied skills needed to shape more equitable and resilient futures.

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Climate Change

How do we respond to a warming world?
Analyse climate impacts and adaptation strategies to drive solutions in policy, planning, and environmental consultancy.

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Sustainable Development

How can we live well on a damaged planet?
Evaluate and design pathways for balancing growth, equity, and environment to shape sustainable futures across public and private sectors.

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Globalisation & Inequality

Is there hope for the future?
Examine how global flows of power, trade, and culture create uneven geographies, opening pathways into public policy, urban and corporate consultancy.

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Our Everyday Worlds

How do we create meaningful worlds for ourselves and others?
Explore how identities, practices, and cultures shape everyday spaces and places, building skills for careers in planning, community engagement, marketing and project management.

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Geospatial Intelligence

Want to see the world in 4D?
Apply spatial analysis, mapping, and data visualisation to solve real-world challenges in industry, government, and academia.

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The Geographical Sciences

Want to shape the world, literally?
Study Earth’s dynamic systems to build skills in analysis and field research, leading to careers in environmental consultancy, resource management and conservation, and sustainability planning.

Green, W. N., & Kenney-Lazar, M. (2025)

Sustainability capitalism: Investing in climate transitions

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

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Brady, D. (2025)

Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California

Progress in Human Geography

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Li, M. et al. (2026)

Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s

Science/AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

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Feng, C.-C. et al. (2025)

Nonlinear dynamics of natural and cultural ecosystem service supply and demand

NPJ Heritage Science

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News & Happenings

NUS Geography Now

Asia’s First Bachelor’s Programme in Geospatial Intelligence: The Department of Geography, together with the School of Computing, will launch Asia’s first Bachelor’s-level programme in Geospatial Intelligence. The programme combines spatial thinking, data science, and advanced geospatial technologies to equip students to address complex real-world challenges, from urban planning to climate resilience.

The Straits Times features Dr Nawaz’s expert insights on ground tremors felt in Singapore following the Sabah earthquake on February 24, 2026.


Why is Rwanda often described as the “Singapore of Africa”? In a commentary published in Lianhe Zaobao, Assistant Professor Allen Xiao examines the landlocked East African nation’s development vision, governance strategies, and urban transformation, while outlining the key differences between Rwanda and Singapore. The piece offers insights into how geographical imagination shapes urban planning and reflects on what Rwanda’s trajectory and vision reveal about pathways to national development in a changing global landscape.

Upcoming Events

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Field Studies 2026 - Official Registrations Open!

GE3230A is a 5-week, 8-unit overseas field course conducted in Southeast Asia during Special Term 1 (12 May - 18 June 2026). Students interested in enrolling can officially register for the course via the link below.

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Seminar

Radical Care-work, Critical Pedagogy and the Livable City: Revisiting the History of Urban Squatting in West Berlin, 1968-1977, by Professor Alex Vasudevan, School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford on Monday 16 March 2026, 9.30am, Geography Seminar Room, AS2 #03-02.

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Seminar

Accountability in the AI Production Network: Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project by Professor Mark Graham, University of Oxford, Thursday 26 March 2026, 3pm, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 #02-04.

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March 5, 2026

New Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities at NUS to advance interdisciplinary research on complex societal challenges

By combining technological innovation with human insight, the Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities (CSSH) aims to generate research that improves lives, strengthens institutions, preserves cultural knowledge, and shapes more inclusive and resilient societies in Singapore and beyond.

March 1, 2026

EVENT | Work, Migration, Policy Implications | 19 Mar, 2:30-5:15 pm

The Singapore Research Nexus at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) invites you to ‘Work, Migration, Policy Implications’, a policy outreach event that brings social science research into conversation with urgent questions of governance, labour, and family in our interconnected world. Across three studies, we shall examine how Singapore operates as an …

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February 28, 2026

Data-Driven Visual Analytics Platform: Exploring RCEP’s Impacts on ASEAN’s Trade in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free trade agreement, was conceived amid global uncertainty shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, rising protectionism, geopolitical tensions, and an intensifying U.S.-China rivalry. In such a rapidly shifting landscape, existing theories on free trade agreements (FTAs) may fall short in explaining or predicting RCEP’s evolving impact. ‘Data-Driven …

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