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Adjunct Professor Bertha Henson (NUS Department of Communications and New Media and Tembusu College) recently published Not for Circulation: The George E. Bogaars Story (NUS Press, 2021), a biography of one of Singapore’s pioneer civil servants, The Straits Times reports in ‘Ex-spymaster and top civil servant’s biography on WWII, S’pore’s separation launched’ (October 2021). During his illustrious career …
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In a recent The Straits Times article, Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Social Work & NUS Social Service Research Centre), Dr Natalie Pang (NUS Communications and New Media) and Professor Lim Sun Sun (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, SUTD) discuss the factors that prevent people from using digital services. For lower-income families, sometimes fear gets in the way, on top of cost concerns.
Open to all NUS students, the CHS Case Competition saw participants tackle the problem from a multitude of angles, including technical innovation, regulation, cost, and consumer education, charging behaviour, mindset change, acceptance, and willingness to pay.
As part of the NUS Students’ Political Association’s (NUSPA) 45th anniversary, the association published “On The Road: A Collection of Essays and Articles From NUSPA Publications”. The book highlights Singapore’s major transformations in its political, societal and economic landscape through 39 essays and interviews from the 1980s till today.
The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is pleased to re-appoint our Faculty Advisory Board (FAB) members for another term till September 2022.
The Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia is now accepting applications until 31 January 2022. Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford fellows spend three or four months at Stanford and two to four months at NUS, writing and conducting research on, or related to, contemporary Southeast Asia. Dr Kate Imy (Assistant Professor of History, …
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In a recent The Straits Times article, Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Social Work & NUS Social Service Research Centre), Dr Natalie Pang (NUS Communications and New Media) and Professor Lim Sun Sun (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, SUTD) discuss the social challenge of unequal digital access in Singapore.
In ‘Drop Middle-Class Judgement of Low-Income Parenting’ (The Straits Times, October 2021), Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Social Work and Social Service Research Centre), Mr Joshua Khoo (MWS Family Service Centre, Yishun), and Ms Nicole Ng (Safe Place, Lakeside Family Services) call for institutional changes to address the root causes of the differences in parenting …
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The award sees Prof Yeoh joining the who’s who in the geography pantheon which includes David Harvey, Marxist economic geographer and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Prof Doreen Massey – a British social scientist and geographer renowned for her work on space, place and power.
Paralympian Toh Wei Soong (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and University Scholars Programme, ’23) shares his competitive swimming journey, life as a NUS student and future plans.