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The recently launched book Food, Foodways and Foodscapes is an anthropology of essays by nine academics, namely Prof Lily Kong (former faculty, Geography Dept.), Prof Vineeta Sinha (Sociology Dept.), Prof Chua Beng Huat (Sociology Dept.), Lai Ah Eng, A/P Harvey Neo (Geography Dept.), Jean Duruz, A/P Kevin Low (Sociology Dept.), Adeline Tay and Amy Tan. It explores the impact of cuisine on global consciousness as well as the Singaporean […]
Since Changi Airport opened in 1981, Singapore’s air traffic has grown at an astounding rate: passenger numbers have quintupled and airfreight tonnage has risen by a factor of ten. At the seminar ‘The Airport and The Territory’, organized by Cities Research Cluster and SRN on 16th Nov 2015, Anna Gasco (Postdoc Researcher at the ETH Future Cities […]
In his recent book titled Quest for Political Power, Associate Professor Bilveer Singh (Department of Political Science) examines the Malayan Communist Party (MCP)’s quest for political power in Singapore in the midst of a raging Cold War between communism and the free world, with particular focus on events in the 1950s and 1960s. From its […]
Migration in Singapore (Dept of Geography) “Still ‘Breadwinners’ and ‘Providers’: Singaporean Husbands, Money, and Masculinity in Transnational Marriages” by Yi’En Cheng, Brenda Yeoh, and Juan Zhang in Gender, Place and Culture, Volume 22, Issue 6 “Migration-as-development repackaged? The globalising imperative of the Singaporean state’s diaspora strategy” by Elaine Ho and Mark Boyle in the […]
The Department of Chinese Studies recently published a bibliography of publications by local Teochew groups, which follows a previous one published in 2012 containing research materials on the Teochew community in Southeast Asia. Sponsored by the Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan, the 310-page book contains 382 entries and more than 400 kinds of literature. In […]
With real estate agents knowing more about their area of expertise than the people paying for their services, do real estate agents exploit their knowledge advantage for their own interests? In ‘The information advantage of Singapore’s real estate agents’, Prof Sumit Agarwal (Professor of Economics, Finance and Real Estate) shares his views on the issue […]
Thick haze has enveloped the region for the past month, sparking health concerns and worries over its impact on regional economies. In response, regional countries have not only offered to provide help to the Indonesian government in putting out raging wild fires but have also vowed to punish errant companies involved in burning plantations. Yet, […]
How does economics drive contestants in the MediaCorp Subaru Impreza WRX Challenge, an annual car challenge in which over 400 individuals slug it out for a chance to win a Subaru? In ‘How long would you hold on for a car?’, Senior Lecturer Eric Fesselmeyer and A/P Serene Tan (Dept. of Economics) used economics to explain how hard people […]
The Picture Singapore 2015 Exhibit runs from 2 Nov-2 Dec. Visit ArtsBuzz Gallery at NUS Central Library to see the winning entries in person! The winning stories from SRN’s NUS 110 Word Competition are on display as well.
Here are the 10 winners of the 2nd annual Singapore Research Nexus Picture Singapore photography competition! The theme for this year is Change & Continuity. You can view all the entries here.