Graduate Awards
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
IPCC (INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE) SCHOLARSHIP
| 2023 | Ms Zhang Ting |
| 2019 | Mr Li Dongfeng |
RESEARCH GRANT
| 2021 | Ms Radhika Bhargava, has been selected as a 2021 Nat Geo Explorer, under the Early Career Grant awarded by The National Geographic Society. The project is titled “Transboundary Governance of Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh”, in which she will be studying ecological and social-political parameters, while specifically looking at shoreline change. |
FELLOWSHIPS
| 2021 | Ms Chayanika Saxena, has been awarded the Summer Fellowship on Internal Displacement. The 3-month academic fellowship was funded by the UK. |
BEST PAPER AWARD
| 2024 | Ms Kang Siyuan (PhD student) was lead author of the paper that won the Excellent Paper Award at the third Workshop of Asian Young Geographers in China.
Paper details: Kang, S., Luo, W., Hu, S., Su, L., & Dai, R. (2023, December). Dual effects of the US-China trade war and COVID-19 on United States imports: Transfer of China's industrial chain? |
| 2015 | Mr Kiran Bhairannavar’s (PhD student) paper was awarded the first place in the 'AAG Sexuality and Space graduate student paper competition. |
WRITING GRANT
| 2021 | Ms Prerona Das was awarded a writing-up grant by the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) Foundation www.ijurr.org. The grant is awarded to final year PhD students working in the field of urban and regional studies who are in their thesis writing stage. |
BEST THESIS AWARD
| 2021 | Ms Shee Siew Ying was awarded the Jacques May (Master’s) Thesis Prize by the AAG Health & Medical Geography Speciality Group. Thesis title: Moving bodies, feeling health: Examining the embodied politics of health-promoting infrastructure in Singapore Advisor: Dr Kamalini Ramdas |
OTHER AWARDS
| 2023 | Mr Meriadec Sillanpaeae (PhD student) was awarded the best student presentation at the 6th Mangrove, Macrobenthos and Management Meeting (MMM6) in Cartagena, Colombia. |
| 2017 | Ms. Elisha Teo (PhD student) won the European Geoscience Union’s (EGU) “Communicate Your Science” Video Competition during the EGU General Assembly in Vienna |
NATIONAL AWARDS
ESRI YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD
| 2021 | Mr Noah Zhang Hua'an |
| 2016 | Mr Yan Ying Wei |
OTHER AWARDS
| 2021 | Ms. Melissa Low (PhD student) receives the Ecofriend award for her contributions to environmental sustainability by the National Environment Agency |
UNIVERSITY AWARDS
WANG GUNGWU MEDAL AND PRIZE
| 2022 | Dr Jasnea Sarma, was awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize under the category of the Best PhD Thesis in Social Sciences & Humanities! Thesis title: “Seeing like a border: Resource frontiers, voices and visions on Myanmar’s borderlands with India and China”. Co-advisor: Prof James Sidaway |
| 2022 | Dr Li Dongfeng was awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize under the category of the Best PhD Thesis in Natural Sciences! Thesis title: “Response of riverine sediment fluxes to climate change in High Mountain Asia and its margins”. Advisor: Prof Lu Xixi |
| 2018 | Ms Loong Xiu Fen, Shona, Best Masters thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities Thesis title: From Battlefields to Marketplaces: Geo-economic Hope and Displacement on the Thai-Myanmar Border Advisor: Assoc Prof Woon Chih Yuan |
| 2016 | Ms Ng Xiao Qian, Serene, Best Masters thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities Thesis title: A Community of Flood Memories: Living with(in) the Riverine Landscape in Ayutthaya Advisor: Prof Alan Ziegler |
| 2015 | Ms Claudia Wong has been awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for the Best Masters thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities. Thesis title: 'Advancing Young People’s methodologies: Articulating citizenship discourses within “safe spaces” through theatre’ Advisor: Assoc Prof. Tracey Skelton |
| 2014 | Ms Yong Mingli, Best Masters thesis in the Social Science/Humanities Thesis title: The Mekong river as a Transboundary Commons: The Spaces of Territoriality and Socionatures in Chiang Khong, Thailand Advisor: Dr Carl Grundy-Warr |
| 2013 | Ms Tan Qianhui, Best Masters thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities Thesis title: Smoking Sensibilities: Unravelling the Spatialities, Socialities and Subjectivities of Young Adult Smokers in Singapore Advisor: Assoc Prof. Shirlena Huang |
| 2012 | Dr Mak Sithirith, Best Ph.D. thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities Thesis title: Community Cultural Development - Evidence of its existence, analysis of its development and future trends Advisor: Dr Carl Grundy Warr |
PRESIDENT GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
| Aug 2020 - Jul 2021 | Mr Noah Zhang Hua'an |
| Aug 2018 - Jul 2022 | Ms Chayanika Saxena |
| Aug 2018 - Jul 2022 | Ms Radhika Bhargava |
| Aug 2018 - Jul 2022 | Ms Victoria Marshall |
| Aug 2017 - Jul 2021 | Ms Lau Ying Shan |
| Jan 2017 - Dec 2021 | Ms Tan Qian Hui |
| Aug 2016 - Jul 2020 | Mr Gaurav Mittal |
| Aug 2016 - Jul 2020 | Timo Henrik Sysioe |
| Jan 2016 - Dec 2020 | Ms Jessica Nicole Clendenning |
| Jan 2015 - Dec 2019 | Mr Dennis Stolz |
| Aug 2014 - Jul 2018 | Mr Benjamin Thompson |
| Aug 2014 - Jul 2018 | Ms Elisha Teo |
| Jan 2012 - Dec 2016 | Ms Kate Simone Hurst |
DEAN'S PHD FELLOWSHIP
| AY2020-2021 | Ms Tan Qian Hui |
| AY2019-2020 | Ms Jessica Nicole Clendenning |
WINNER OF THE GRADUATE STUDENTS' TEACHING AWARD
| 2022-23 | Ms Chia Su Min, Michelle (both semesters), Ms Ooi Wen Ting and Ms So Hoi Kay |
| 2021-22 | Ms Vanshika Singh, Ms Yoon Seoh Youn, Alice (both semesters), Ms So Hoi Kay |
| 2020-21 | Ms Alice Woon, Ms Liu Weiting |
| 2019-20 | Ms Liu Weiting, Ms Shee Siew Ying, Ms Tan Wenn Er |
| 2018-19 | Ms Anjana Ramkumar, Mr Raedi Haizer bin Sidek, Ms Shee Siew Ying |
| 2017-18 | Mr Tan Xin Wei, Andy |
| 2016-17 | Ms Shona Loong; Mr Tan Xin Wei, Andy (both semesters); Mr Tan Xuan Kai, Mr Timo Henrik Sysioe |
| 2016-17 | Mr Andy Tan, Mr Tan Xuan Kai, Ms Shona Loong |
| 2015-16 | Mr Benjamin Thompson, Ms Chen Jinwen, Ms Chua Cheng Ying, Ms Khairun Nisha Binte Mohamed Ramdzan, Ms Olivia Tan, Mr Tan Xuan Kai, Mr Shaun Teo, Ms. Shona Loong (both semesters) |
| 2014-15 | Ms Clara Ang, Ms Chen Jinwen, Ms Chua Cheng Ying, Ms Olivia Tan (both semesters), Mr Benjamin Thompson, Mr Shaun Teo (both semesters) |
| 2013-14 | Ms Chua Cheng Ying |
| 2012-13 | Ms Chin Wei Jun |
| 2011-12 | Ms Kamalini Ramdas, Mr Jared Wong Wei Ming |
| 2010-11 | Ms Kamalini Ramdas |
GENIUSBOOKS COMPETITION
| 2022 | Ms Vanshika Singh (PhD student) for her 2nd prize Winning Entry in the Open Category of geNiUSbooks Competition 2022. |