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Associate Professor Esther Goh’s (NUS Social Work) Study on Low-income Families Receives Social Science Research Thematic Grant
The sixth theme of the Global Research Forum, ‘Methods, Applications, and Empirical Surveys’, featured research by Associate Professor Cynthia Siew (NUS Psychology), Professor Kenneth Dean (NUS Chinese Studies and Asia Research Institute), Associate Professor Elaine Ho (NUS Geography), and Associate Professor Zhong Songfa (NUS Economics). Assoc Prof Siew presented on ‘Leveraging on Network Analysis to …
The fifth theme of the Global Research Forum, ‘Human Dynamics Upon Crisis’, featured research by Associate Professor Feng Chen-Chieh (NUS Geography), Associate Professor Michelle See (NUS Psychology), and Dr Yan Yingwei (NUS Geography). Assoc Prof Feng presented on ‘What the Public Feels and Thinks during an Epidemic Crisis’. His research is situated at the intersection …
The haze is a well-known environmental problem that has become a regular occurrence in Singapore and the surrounding region. Transboundary haze in Southeast Asia is most often caused by forest fires in Indonesia and often poses significant disruptions to people’s daily lives. These fires are largely the result of industrial slash-and-burn practices by multinational corporations. …
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Professor Anindya Ghose (New York University) delivered the FASS Global Research Forum’s fifth keynote, ‘Monetizing Smart Phone Data for Improving Business and Society’. His research examines what high achieving companies will excel at in the near future, and he emphasized that these firms will need to successfully identify the unknown needs of their known and …
Projects by our NUS community that tackle a multitude of social issues – from ageing, dimensions of home-based work during COVID19, to understanding rapid biodiversity changes in our environment – have received a boost with support from the Social Science Research Council. These projects form an important contribution to the growing trove of social sciences and humanities research in Singapore.
Hear from Cheryl Tan (NUS Geography) how she made the most of her work-from-home internship with the United Nations Global Compact Network Singapore last year (May–November 2020), gained valuable sustainability industry experience, and was even offered a full-time position (which she turned down so she can focus on completing her studies) at the end of her term.
In an in-depth interview, the up-and-coming historian of Buddhism shared how the Fellowship would promote interfaith and mutual understanding in multi-religious Singapore and his personal research journey. His disarming charm was apparent with an anecdote on how he was left starstruck by actor Adrian Pang while filming for a television documentary series on local history.
The fourth theme of the Global Research Forum, ‘Health and Social Support’, featured research by Professor Bao Zhiming (NUS Department of English Language and Literature), Associate Professor Vincent Chua (NUS Sociology and Centre for Family and Population Research) and Associate Professor Irene Y.H. Ng (NUS Social Work and Social Service Research Centre), Associate Professor Bussarawan …
‘Development and Sustainability’, the third theme of the FASS Global Research Forum, featured talks by Professor Lorenz Goette (NUS Department of Economics), Associate Professor Alberto Salvo (NUS Department of Economics), and Associate Professor Feng Qiushi (NUS Department of Sociology and Centre for Family and Population Research). Prof Goette presented ‘The Role of Attention in Resource …