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
Social Cultural Geographies
New AI cities: power, new cities and urban artificial intelligence in Neom and The Line
Cugurullo, F. (2026)
Urban Geography
Social Cultural Geographies
Beyond directional care: Theorising mutuality in the geographies of care through the lens of friendship
Chan, G. and Ho, E.L.E. (2026)
Dialogues in Human Geography
Social Cultural Geographies
Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China’s Community Gardens
Xie, L., Shao, M., Deng, G. (2026)
Environmental Policy and Governance
Geographic Information Systems
GIEHP: A global, AI-powered platform for near real-time ecological intelligence
Xu, D., and Wang, Y.C. (2025)
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology/Elsevier
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.
Study: Elderly Residents Often Return to Tanglin Halt after Relocating
A study led by NUS Asia Research Institute Senior Research Fellow Professor Elaine Ho (NUS Geography) finds that although there are supermarkets and coffee shops at Dawson Estate, the elderly residents who were relocated there a few years under the Selective En-Bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) continue to return to Tanglin Halt to meet up and reminisce with their former neighbours.
Social Science Researchers Offering Good Solutions for Nation’s Challenges to be Recognised
Singapore’s Education Minister Chan Chun Sing assured the local social science research community that the Ministry of Education and the Government will continue to support their work, and that researchers who offer good solutions for Singapore’s challenges will be recognised by local universities and the public service, even if they do not get published in renowned academic journals.
Social science research that produces good solutions will be recognised: Chan Chun Sing
Pursuing an academic career can be challenging, due to the pressure of having to churn out research for publication as well as having to juggle teaching commitments. This is exhibited clearly in Singapore, an advanced research and development hub which is home to highly ranked universities. Some researchers have expressed their concerns about working within […]