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The National University of Singapore is collaborating with the Singapore Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) in enabling NUS students taking a service learning course with NUS Social Work to befriend families under MSF’s ComLink programme (which supports families with children living in rental housing).
In a bid to encourage urban travel to be made more sustainable, Associate Professor Alberto Salvo (NUS Economics and University Sustainability and Climate Action Council) and Professor Leonard Lee (NUS Marketing) discuss the potential of open data and gamification in Singapore in ‘How Open Data and Gamification Can Make Singapore’s Urban Travel Greener’ (The Business …
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Chinese naming practices have been dwindling over the years, according to experts. Specifically, the practice of generational naming, or bei ming, has become more seldom in young Chinese Singaporeans. In ‘“Now everyone is uncle or auntie”: Chinese naming tradition showing generational ties fading’ (The Straits Times, September 2023), faculty from the NUS Faculty of Arts …
The International Day of Older Persons is observed on 1 October each year. It was designated by the United Nations to emphasize the different needs and challenges facing the elderly today, and to reiterate how older, healthy people can continue to function and contribute productively to society. In Singapore, the elderly population is projected to …
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The experiences of seniors are often overlooked and untapped. In the last two decades, intergenerational programmes have been used to empower seniors and nurture a renewed sense of purpose. In ‘Generativity: Establishing and Nurturing the Next Generation’ (Journal of Intergenerational Relations, 2019), Cheryl Ching Ling Lim, Caymania Lay Teng Low, Soo Boon Hia (all NTUC …
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An op-ed by Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser (NUS Sociology and Anthropology) entitled ‘The danger of politics in a post-truth world’ (September 2023) was recently featured in The Straits Times. The article comments on the increasingly complicated nature of politics in the face of social media; and the need for Singapore to unify to out-maneuver such threats. A/P …
The Department’s deep roots trace back to 1953 when the former University of Singapore’s Department of Chinese Studies was founded. Since then, it has grown to be recognised as one of the leading institutions in the field of Chinese Studies and Chinese Language globally, as well as a major centre in the Southeast Asian region.
People are increasingly spending time on their smartphones. Accordingly, the investigators in the project titled ‘Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation, and the Public Good’, Assistant Professors Taberez Neyazi and Subhayan Mukerjee (NUS Communications and New Media), expect that most people would be heavily reliant on their mobile devices to gather information about the world around them through …
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A Commentary in Suria News Online by Fadiah Nadwa Fikri, PhD candidate from the NUS Southeast Asian Studies
Op-Ed in The Straits Times by Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser, from the Dept of Sociology and Anthropology; Academic Convener, Singapore Studies; and Chair of the Social Science and Policy Cluster, at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS; and Academic Adviser at the Social Lab, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS.