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Dr Noorman Abdullah (Arts & Social Sciences ’02, MSocSci ’05) is FASS’ Assistant Dean (External Relations & Student Life) and a Senior Lecturer and within NUS Sociology & Anthropology and NUS Malay Studies. His research interests include religion and society; race relations; decolonial pedagogies; and sensory studies.
Salifian Sulaiman (NUS History and International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, 2024) tells us that his interest in anthropology and migration studies is motivated by a concern for uplifting vulnerable and minority communities worldwide, as well as his own experiences.
The act of volunteering is prevalent in Singapore, with key initiatives such as Values in Action in public schools fostering this behaviour within children from a young age. Existing trial studies have yielded inconclusive results on whether volunteering produces beneficial causal effects on the general population, specifically psychosocial outcomes, which refer to the life satisfaction, […]
In GE3257 Financial Geographies, the first course on this topic to be offered at NUS, students are introduced to financial geography “as a lens through which they can better understand the world, the evolution of human civilisation and its relationships with nature,” says course instructor Professor Dariusz Wójcik.
The prevalence of internet and multimedia gaming tools has given rise to a wave of problematic internet use (PIU) and problematic video gaming (PVG) among youths today. These phenomena often manifest in overindulgence, potentially leading to addiction and impairing essential functioning. The study ‘Differential Predictors of Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Video Gaming Among School […]
By Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, NUS Malay Studies.
In 2023, the government reported that Singaporean citizens aged 65 and above constitute almost one fifth of Singapore’s population, marking an 11.7% increase from a decade ago. This demographic shift underscores the growing importance of assessing the quality of life (QoL) in public health, along with the development of a brief and time-saving measure of […]
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 […]
The Critical Education Research Cluster held its welcome event for FASS faculty members on 20 November 2024. About 20 faculty members met over breakfast to discuss new avenues for education related research and classroom innovations to advance critical pedagogy. A/P Kamalini Ramdas sharing, photo courtesy of A/P Robin Loon A/P Kamalini Ramdas (NUS Geography), Head […]
Hopes for the New Year, strengthening our commitment to humanity
By Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, NUS Malay Studies.