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On 21st May 2014, Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) and NUS Libraries held the FASS Faculty Research Visibility Workshop. This joint initiative was aimed at increasing faculty research visibility and assessing research impact. During the workshop, we introduced different open access options available to FASS authors in order to reach out to a wider audience and enhance …
Indians in Singapore, 1819 -1945: Diaspora in the Colonial Port City by Rajesh Rai, Oxford University Press India ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RAJESH RAI (SASP) HAS WRITTEN A LANDMARK BOOK THAT EXPLORES HOW THE INDIAN DIASPORA WAS FORMED IN COLONIAL SINGAPORE, REVEALING HOW THIS MINORITY IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY AFFECTED AND WAS AFFECTED BY SINGAPORE’S EVOLUTION. Indians in Singapore, 1819 -1945 is the …
Picture Singapore, a photo contest for FASS students, faculty, staff, and alumni, presented by the Singapore Research Nexus (SRN), will be judged by four distinguished members of the FASS community with considerable experience in photography, media, film and other related fields. Do you want to know more about them and what they do? Please take …
PICTURE SINGAPORE – Singapore Research Nexus Photo Contest 2014 Submission Guidelines: Submit your entries with the following content: Required: (1) Completed Registration Form (accessible in online format here and PDF format here) (2) Up to three photographs (JPEG format, maximum 2MB each) Optional: (3) The same photographs posted to SRN’s Facebook page (which you have …
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“Picture Singapore” Photo Contest Online Entry Form Submission Deadline: 12:00 PM, Friday, August 15th, 2014 This form should be filled out and submitted together with up to three photographs (JPEG format, max 2MB each). Required: Fill out the form and email the photograph(s) to singaporeresearchnexus@gmail.com Optional: Post the same submitted photographs (in lower resolution, if …
RSVP with the title “Awards” to nexus@nus.edu.sg by 3 September 2014! You are invited to attend the Award Ceremony of SRN’s Picture Singapore photography competition. Seating is limited, so please RSVP to reserve your place. To learn more about Picture Singapore, click here. The Award Ceremony will take place on September 4 from 11am-12pm at …
It was reported that study findings released by the NUS Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities, FASS Sociology Department and the HDB showed that residents’ interactions in HDB estates tend to be incidental and minimal. Displays of trust, such as safekeeping of house keys and lending or borrowing of household items are seldom heard of, probably because …
The new FASS-based Centre for Family and Population Research and the Asia Research Institute will co-host the forthcoming conference on ‘Growing Up in One-Parent Families in Asia’. Date : 1 – 2 July 2014 Venue : Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Tower Block Level 10, 469A Bukit Timah Road …
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Picture Singapore Singapore Research Nexus Photography Contest – 1 July to 15 August 2014 Summer greetings from the Singapore Research Nexus (SRN)! We are pleased to announce the launch of Picture Singapore, a photography contest which is accepting entries from 1 July to 15 August, 2014. Open to current FASS students, faculty, and staff, as …
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The current dry season in Singapore fuels concerns of whether there would be a repeat of last summer’s unprecedented haze levels. The health, social and economic losses incurred from the haze make people question how haze affects Singaporeans and what policies Singapore should pursue. In a Straits Times article from June 05, 2014 titled ‘Multilateral …
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