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.
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NUS Geography Now
When seniors live alone, it doesn’t mean they are lonely: Professor Elaine Ho and Associate Professor Feng Chen-Chieh, together with Associate Professor Vincent Chua (Department of Sociology & Anthropology), challenge the idea that solo living equates to social isolation.
This is an extension of an earlier op-ed, “Seniors are taking the kampung spirit beyond the neighbourhood”, where they highlight how older adults actively cultivate connection, care, and community in spatially dispersed ways.
Neglected tropical diseases not neglected: Assoc Professor Wang Yi-Chen co-organized the Asian Neglected Tropical Disease Conference (NTDASIA 2025) with Professor Banchob Sripa, Tropical Disease Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
Upcoming Events
Seminar
Watching It Unfold: Emerging Live Digital Landscapes of Disaster, by Dr Simon Dickinson, University of Plymouth, Wednesday 21 January 2026, 3.30pm, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 #02-03.
Seminar
Disease Ecology in Health and Medical Geography: History, Progress, and Innovations, by Distinguished Professor Michael Emch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 13 October 2025, 3pm, Geography Seminar Room AS2-03-02.
NUS at COP27: Why the Annual UN Climate Summit Matters
This year, researchers from different NUS schools and institutes – including the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Middle East Institute, and the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions – will head to COP27 to track the negotiations, and contribute to the dialogue on climate action by hosting panel discussions centred on climate change and biodiversity loss, the demand for carbon credits, and other pertinent topics.
Call for Nominations | FASS Inspiring Mentor Award 2022
We invite NUS FASS members of staff to nominate the colleagues who have served as their truly inspiring mentors – who have gone beyond the call of duty to positively impact their work and life – for FIMA 2022 honours.
Caring is Complicated
By 2030, 20 per cent or more of Singapore’s population will be aged 65 or above. Alumna Professor Elaine Ho Lynn-Ee (NUS Geography, ’02), who is the FASS Vice Dean of Research, surveys this seismic demographic shift to see what the future might hold for elderly and their caregivers.