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
Stressor Source as a New Dimension of Emotional Political Ecologies: The Case of Corn Belt Farm Stress in the United States
Nichols, C. E. (2026).
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Social Cultural Geographies
The spatiality of performative authenticity on social media: A geographical understanding of young African fashion microcelebrities
Xiao, A. H., & Yan, Q. (2026).
Geographical Research / Wiley
Tropical Environmental Change
Shifting paradigms: towards dynamic approaches to sustain Anthropocene lake ecosystems
Zhang, K., Gillson, L., McGowan, S., Finch, J., Liu, Z., Shen, J., Meadows, M.E. & Taylor, D. (2026)
Science Bulletin/Elsevier
Geographic Information Systems
Urban AI for a sustainable built environment: Progress and future directions
Knoblauch, S., Li, H., Biljecki, F., Li, W., & Zipf, A. (2026).
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
News & Happenings
NUS Geography Now
The Department of Geography proudly hosted the 30th NUS Geography Challenge, a landmark edition that welcomed nearly 500 students from over 120 secondary schools across Singapore. Centred on the theme City for Tomorrow: Shaping Our Liveable Future, the event showcased the creativity and geographical thinking of the next generation.
The milestone event was also featured by Mediacorp's 8world.
Applications are now open for a funded PhD position in Urban Climate Modelling at the Urban Climate Lab, focused on advancing urban weather and climate modelling for tropical environments like Singapore.
Interested candidates can find out more here. Application deadline is 15 May 2026 for the January 2027 intake.
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.
Celebrating Singapore Studies: Sixty Years of Nationhood | Looking Back, Moving Forward Video Series – Episode 5: Innovation at the Intersections
As part of our ‘Celebrating Singapore Studies: Sixty Years of Nationhood’ campaign for SG60, we present the ‘Looking Back, Moving Forward’ video series — inviting reflection on how Singapore’s past shapes its future. Through the work of NUS FASS researchers, the series uncovers the complexities behind the nation’s celebrated ‘success story’, bringing to light the […]
NUS FASS Professors Featured in CNA Documentary Being Singaporean
The new Channel NewsAsia (CNA) documentary series Being Singaporean, hosted by comedian Rishi Budhrani, explores what it means to belong in Singapore on the nation’s 60th year of independence. Drawing on a CNA-Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) survey on national identity in Singapore, the programme examines how race, class, country of birth, and even National Service […]
Wild learning in the Great Rift Valley: NUS students take on Kenya
Over 11 days, students from NUS Geography and the Environmental Studies (BES) programme crossed Kenya’s legendary landscapes, immersing themselves in the realities of environmental change, human-wildlife interactions, and the deep connections between people and place.