{"id":14315,"date":"2024-09-18T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/?page_id=14315"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:51:42","slug":"nicole-alethea-khaw-mei-shan-grad-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/nicole-alethea-khaw-mei-shan-grad-student\/","title":{"rendered":"NICOLE ALETHEA KHAW MEI SHAN &#8211; Masters Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2>NICOLE ALETHEA KHAW MEI SHAN<\/h2>\r\n<h4>M.Soc.Sci (Anthropology)<\/h4>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/09\/Photo-1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Photo (1)\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><em>Research Interest: Body &amp; senses; Sports; Gender &amp; Sexuality; Medical Anthropology; Ethnography<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Nicole\u00a0recently graduated with a Bachelors in Social Sciences from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University. Her personal involvement in competitive sport led to her interest in looking into the lifestyle of Singaporean student-athletes and bodily autonomy of females\u00a0in performative sports.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Research:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>My research intends to look into themes of embodiment across the lived experiences and journey of the elite athlete&#8217;s\u00a0body, being in a performative sport at a national level. 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