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The Term “Raya Anak Dagang”

April 13, 2024

Column on Suria News Online by Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, NUS Malay Studies.

Authoritarian Resiliency: Cambodia’s Politics of Social Protection Policy

April 11, 2024

Dr Soksamphoas Im, 2024 LKC NUS-Stanford Fellowship awardee, is visiting FASS from 8 April to 31 May 2024. She is working on ‘Authoritarian Resiliency: Cambodia’s Politics of Social Protection Policy’, a research project and future book that examines Cambodia’s National Social Protection Policy Framework 2016-2025’s IDPoor Program. The project builds on her dissertation research on the …

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19 NUS Programmes Placed in Global Top 10 in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024

April 11, 2024

Spanning across the fields of Business, Computing, Engineering, Science, as well as Humanities and Social Sciences, 19 of NUS’ 44 ranked programmes have been placed among the world’s top 10.

Are our Singaporean Youths Ready for the Working World?

April 11, 2024

Column on CNA Online by Jonathan Sim, Associate Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy and Lecturer from NUS Philosophy.

We Need to Talk: Youth Mental Health Takes Centre Stage at the NUS SSR Conference 2024

April 8, 2024

The hybrid conference, attended by 800 social work practitioners, healthcare professionals, policymakers and researchers, shone a spotlight on the various approaches to help youths cope with social media pressures – from digital initiatives to providing more support at school and at home.

The Importance of Considering Debt and Young Children in Activation: A Survival Analysis of Return to Welfare

April 8, 2024

In April 2020, the Singapore government launched the GoWhere Suite, an all-in-one portal to direct citizens to the resources they needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, one of the key websites in the suite, the SupportGoWhere site, has been used extensively, receiving 4.8 million visits as of June 2022. As society progresses, the government’s …

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Qualifications v Skills: Is One Just Paper, the Other the Real Deal?

April 5, 2024

Column in The Straits Times by Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser from NUS Sociology and Anthropology and Academic Adviser to the Social Lab at the Institute of Policy Studies at NUS, and Mr Hanniel Lim, Research Assistant at Institute of Policy Studies at NUS.

Ideas Festival 2024: Shining a Spotlight on the Importance of Social Science and Humanities Research on Society

April 4, 2024

Launched on 20 March 2024 with Minister for Education Mr Chan Chun Sing as the Guest of Honour, this festival was organised by the Autonomous Universities (AUs) in Singapore and is supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). It features 13 events over a month-long period.

Equal Rights: From Workplace to Marriage

April 2, 2024

Column in Lianhe Zaobao by Psychology undergraduate Li Zhijun.

NUS Arts and Social Sciences Strategic Comms Grabs Fifth Accolade at Asia Pacific Industry Awards

April 1, 2024

As they studied the spatial, social and technological dimensions of home-based work in Singapore, an interdisciplinary team of NUS researchers put together several home models for the “Visualising Home-based Work” exhibition, which shows how the home has been adapted to facilitate flexible work arrangements.

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