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.
Environmental 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
Alibaba at the seams: Intermediating territoriality in China and Southeast Asia
Brady, D., and Xu, F. (2026)
EPA: Economy and Space
Social Cultural Geographies
Project time: The politics of speed in the making of Nusantara
Bunnell, T., Marendraputra, P., Moeller, A., & Schauf, A. (2026)
Urban Studies / Sage
Tropical Environmental Change
Sacred sites as refuges for native plant diversity in a heavily urbanized tropical landscape
Schmid, L., Grêt-Regamey, A., Nambinintsoa Nomenjanahary, H., Vonjy Ramarosandratana, A., Rabarison, H., Ramamonjisoa, S., Ramaroson, T., Gabriel Andrianantenaina, J., & van Breugel, M. (2026)
Nature Cities
Geographic Information Systems
Towards generative location awareness for disaster response: A probabilistic cross-view geolocalization approach
Li, H., Deuser, F., Yin, W., Knoblauch, S., Zhao, W., Biljecki, F., Xue, Y., & Huang, W. (2026)
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
News & Happenings
NUS Geography Now
CNA938 interviewed Dr Nawaz on 28 August 2026 about the role of climate change and human activity in the Nepal–Tibet disaster.
From 2–4 September, our Social Cultural Geographies (SCG) researchers will be at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference. Explore the presentations and sessions featuring our faculty and students under Our Research Activities.
Discover more of SCG’s research, events and activities here.
8world News featured an interview with Dr Muhammad Nawaz on the recent earthquakes in Japan, published on 29 July 2026.
Upcoming Events
Seminar
“Spectrum Geographies: Signal, Territory, and Electromagnetic Space” by Associate Professor Mia Bennett, University of Washington, 16 September 2026, at 3.30pm, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 02-03.
Seminar
“The Post-Global City: Rethinking Urban Interconnectedness in the 21st Century” by Associate Professor Katrien Pype, KU Leuven, 26 August 2026, at 3.30pm, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 02-03.
Seminar
“Contracting the Climate Economy: Between Coordination and De-risking in Australia’s Energy Transition” by Associate Professor Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney on Wednesday, 12 August 2026, 3:30PM, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 02-03.
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 […]