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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore Our Programmes
Politics, Economies And Space
Resituating Urban Geopolitics: Connections and Frontiers
Sidaway, J.D. (2026)
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Social Cultural Geographies
The affective dimensions of child-raising in cross-national families in Singapore
Loh, B., Yeoh, B. S. A., Huang, S., & Yeung, W. J. J. (2026)
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Social Cultural Geographies
Project Time: The Politics of Speed in the Making of Nusantara
Bunnell, T., Marendraputra, P., Moeller, A., Shauf, A. (2026)
Urban Studies
Tropical Environmental Change
Overlooked bedload transport in Himalayan rivers threatens regional security
Chen, Z., Rickenmann, D., Badoux, A., He, S., Lu, XX. (2026)
Nature Geoscience, Nature Publishing Group UK
News & Happenings
NUS Geography Now
“Geography taught me to see bigger systems in everyday processes": NUS Geography alumna Yuki Ong (Class of 2023) brings this systems-thinking approach to GreenLoop Farms, where she is working to reshape the future of food through sustainable farming, innovation, and a commitment to creating positive environmental impact.
Congratulations to Professor Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA, who was awarded Honorary doctor, in Latin doctor honoris causa, by Lund University, Sweden, in a ceremony on 29 May 2026.
This is a distinction awarded by the university's Faculty of Social Sciences to "individuals who have made a significant contribution to the University or society, and whom the faculty wishes to honour and welcome into its research community".
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nathan Green, who was recognised at this year’s American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting with Outstanding Paper Awards from both the Cultural and Political Ecology and Development Geography Specialty Groups.
His award-winning paper, “Maximizing Finance for Sustainable Development: Microfinance, Debt-Driven Deforestation, and the Self-Regulation of Environmental Harm,” published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, was honoured for its impactful contribution to critical debates on sustainability, finance, and environmental harm.
Upcoming Events
Seminar
“Reckoning the urban: Cold War legacies and contemporary urban politics in Southeast Asia” by Professor Gavin Shatkin, LKCF Visiting Fellow on Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 2-3:30PM, Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 06-42.
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.
Urban Liveability and Low-wage Migrants in Pandemic Times
As we mark Labour Day on 1st May, we are reminded of the migrant workers whose labour Singapore is dependent on. In their chapter ‘Urban Liveability and Low-wage Migrants in Pandemic Times’ in Migrant Workers in Singapore: Lives and Labour in a Transient Migration Regime (World Scientific, 2022), Professor Tim Bunnell (NUS Geography and Asia […]
Professor Matthias Roth wins Association of Japanese Geographers’ Masatoshi Yoshino Award
The annual award, named after eminent Japanese physical geographer and climatologist Masatoshi Yoshino, is presented to mid-career or senior geographers who have achieved outstanding results in climatology in the following sub-fields of geographical climatology or climate geography: microclimatology; historical climatology; disaster climatology; climate change; and climatology related to human activities, monsoons, or geoecology.
Climate Governance of Nature-Based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia
As we prepare to mark Earth Day on the 22nd of April, we are reminded of one of the most pressing issues of our time: the climate crisis. Southeast Asia stands as a region with a rich potential for carbon sequestration, a process pivotal in mitigating the adverse effects of climate change. At the heart […]