Chewing gum is a nuisance for cleaners, but can it be used as a tool of infrastructural sabotage? On the 3rd of January, 1992 chewing gum was banned in Singapore. The ban followed enforcement of restrictions regarding street hawking, fines on littering and spitting, as well as the elimination of farms, policies which were part […]

Hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor Patricia Chen! The NUS Department of Psychology faculty member has been awarded a grant worth S$449,970 from the Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) for a study titled ‘Scalable Mind-set Interventions to Nurture Strategic, Self-Regulated Learners’. The research project can be summarized as follows: In today’s world where learning resources are plentiful […]

In this episode of ‘Why It Matters 2’, host Joshua Lim joins Professor Matthias Roth from the NUS Department of Geography on a study trip, to track the temperature across Singapore. They found that there was a sharp increase of 4°C from Lim Chu Kang to Orchard Road, despite these areas being only 30 minutes […]

‘Choosing for You: Diminished Self–Other Discrepancies in Financial Decisions Under Risk in the Elderly’, a recent article in Psychology and Aging by Dr Narun Pornpattananangkul (National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland), Assistant Professor Yu Rongjun, Mr Bing Cai Kok (both NUS Psychology), and others, found that older adults may care more about strangers’ welfare when […]

Love to showcase your travel photos on Facebook and Instagram? Enjoy following online posts about your friends’ and acquaintances’ journeys? Develop a deeper understanding of the effect of online documentation of travel voluntourism in the developing world through ‘Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media in constructing the ‘Third World’ experience’, a new […]

Is trade imbalance solely responsible for the decline in manufacturing jobs? Assistant Professor Chen Chaoran (NUS Department of Economics) opined that trade imbalance is not a massive contributor to the loss of manufacturing jobs, rather it is the increase in labour productivity of manufacturing, as pointed out by Dr Rachel Ngai and Dr Christopher Pissarides, that […]

The National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2019. FASS plans to showcase its impact and contribution to society by advancing knowledge, informing policy, and supporting social innovation and enterprise. FASS is having an open call for proposals to receive funding support of up to […]

Histories Series – The Shape of Singapore’s Social and Urban History We welcome all interested parties to attend a National Library Board panel discussion on “The Shape of Singapore’s Social and Urban History”. NUS History alumnus and current Director at Chronicles Research and Education Pte. Ltd. Dr Loh Kah Seng will be speaking at the […]

Why did Pentecostalism replace liberal Christianity as the dominant form of the religion in Singapore? In ‘State and Social Christianity in Post-colonial Singapore’ (Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2010), A/P Daniel Goh (Department of Sociology) explains this recent history, discussing the rapid decline of liberal Christianity and the dramatic rise of Pentecostalism […]

The year 2019 marks a milestone in Singapore history, being the 200th anniversary of the country’s founding by Sir Stamford Raffles. However, some members of the public have voiced their displeasure at the government’s plan to celebrate the Bicentennial next year. They suggest that commemorating the Bicentennial would mean overlooking and disregarding a significant part […]