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.
Adela Isvoranu and W. Nathan Green win FASS 2024/25 Promising Researcher Awards!
Congratulations to Assistant Professors Adela Isvoranu and W. Nathan Green, who have won the FASS Award for Promising Researcher for the 2024/25 Academic Year! Asst Prof Isvoranu is a recent appointee at the NUS Department of Psychology and primarily studies the developmental pathways from mental health to mental illness and the fuzzy boundaries between psychopathological …
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Atlas of Finance Launched in Singapore
On Thursday, 24 October, NUS Geography Professor Dariusz “Darek” Wojcik‘s Atlas of Finance was officially launched at The Pod, NLB. Published by Yale University Press, the 240 page tome features 98 colour illustrations and explores the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers 5000 years of history. During …
Investigating Linkages Between Spatiotemporal Patterns of the COVID-19 Delta Variant and Public Health Interventions in Southeast Asia: Prospective Space-Time Scan Statistical Analysis Method
The Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus was first detected in India on 5 October 2020. However, it was not until April 2021 that Delta-related infection cases began to rise in Southeast Asia. A research team led by Assistant Professor Wei Luo (NUS Geography) studied the resurgence of COVID-19 in seven Southeast Asian countries—Indonesia, Malaysia, …