As Singapore marks 60 years of nationhood, this video explores how understanding our past helps us imagine more inclusive futures and highlights how NUS FASS researchers study the complexities beneath Singapore’s celebrated “success story.”

Read more about the four publications featured in this episode using the link above each publication.

1. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2025/05/15/beyond-technocratic-statecraft-contentious-politics-and-singapores-third-leadership-transition/

• Goh, D. P. S. (2023). Beyond technocratic statecraft: Contentious politics and Singapore’s third leadership transition. The Round Table, 112(2), 111–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2023.2201057

2. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2025/07/30/identifying-the-relationship-between-strength-of-school-social-support-and-level-of-hope-in-children-from-low%E2%80%90income-families/

• David, S. R., Wen, D. J., & Goh, E. C. L. (2024). Identifying the Relationship Between Strength of School Social Support and Level of Hope in Children from Low-Income Families. Child & Youth Care Forum, 53(4), 871–891. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09777-2

3. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2025/05/21/airport-robots-automation-everyday-life-and-the-futures-of-urbanism/

• Lin, W., & Yeo, S. J. I. (2023). Airport robots: Automation, everyday life and the futures of urbanism. In Cugurullo, F., Caprotti, F., Cook, M., Karvonen, A., McGuirk, P., & Marvin, S. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI. Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365877

4. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2025/07/16/growing-up-poorly-intergenerational-class-based-parenting-logic-in-singapore/

• Ng, I. Y. H., Khoo, J., & Ng, N. (2023). Growing up poor(ly): Intergenerational class-based parenting logic in Singapore. Journal of Family Studies, 29(2), 702–718. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2021.1977165