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Home and Hub: The Lion City Conundrum

February 3, 2022

Speakers ranging from urban practitioners and academics to government officials, grappled with concepts of national identity and community building across a series of panel discussions and presentations.

NUS Students’ Take Top 2021 APRU Student Esports Paper Prizes

January 28, 2022

While the government is doing much for seniors, it makes sense to know what our specific adequacy goals for meeting seniors’ needs are, and what more could be done.

Featuring A Success Story (FASS) – HSS Faculty Research Fellowship (HSS FRF)

January 27, 2022

The HSS Faculty Research Fellowship (HSS FRF) provides release from teaching and administrative duties for one semester. The award may be held in either semester one or two, for work in Singapore or overseas. The fellowship is open to full-time NUS faculty members on tenure track. Preference will be given to junior and mid-career scholars …

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Looking to 2022: Enhancing Retirement Financial Adequacy for our Seniors

January 26, 2022

While the government is doing much for seniors, it makes sense to know what our specific adequacy goals for meeting seniors’ needs are, and what more could be done.

Featuring A Success Story (FASS) – Tier 1 Grants

January 26, 2022

The Ministry of Education Tier 1 Grants, administered by the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, have 2 to 3 calls every financial year. The application is open to all tenure track faculty members and the grant supports projects in the social sciences and humanities with a total project value of below S$180,000 over …

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New policies should be tested on the most vulnerable to be more inclusive: NUS Don

January 18, 2022
‘Singapore’s “invisible” workforce’

In ‘New policies should be tested on the most vulnerable to be more inclusive: NUS don’, The Straits Times reported that during the January 13th Institute of Policy Studies Singapore Perspectives 2022 forum, Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Department of Social Work) argued that for policies to be inclusive, they must first be tested out on …

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Minority Gangs in Singapore Prisons: Prisonisation Revisited

January 17, 2022

The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act was passed by Parliament on 15 January 2019. One of the Act’s provisions allows repeat drug offenders who are without concurrent offences a chance for rehabilitation at the Drug Rehabilitation Centre. The Singapore Prison Service hopes that the enhanced rehabilitation measures for such offenders will lower the recidivism rate. …

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NUS Geography A/P Elaine Ho Speaks at IPS Singapore Perspectives Conference

January 17, 2022
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In ‘Move beyond “us vs them” differences and embrace heritage in building national identity: IPS panel’ (??? ??????? ?????, January 2022), Associate Professor Elaine Ho (NUS Geography) discusses how Singapore’s position as a cosmopolitan city affects its national identity.

FASS Inspiring Mentor 2021 Award Winners Announced

January 14, 2022

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!

The e-STEER Programme: A Passage to Sub-Saharan Africa

January 11, 2022

Thanks to technology, in-depth experiences of faraway places are still possible despite COVID-19 slowing down international travel — as some 80 NUS students found out as participants of the latest, ‘virtual’, iteration of the NUS Study Trips for Engagement and EnRichment (STEER) programme travelled to Africa.

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