News

‘Inflation-proofing CPF savings’ by Basant Kapur

January 27, 2012

Professor Basant K. Kapur of FASS’ Economics department explains how in the current unsettled environment, low inflation cannot be ensured. His commentary featured in the Straits Times on January 23rd and can be read in full here: STinflationbasant

Panel Discussion on the Singapore Government Budget

January 26, 2012

 

‘Creativity in Singapore’ a Symposium by the SRN – February 17th 2012

January 20, 2012

Talk: Development of the Arts Institution in Singapore as a Global Creative City

January 18, 2012

Title of Talk: Development of the Arts Institution in Singapore as a Global Creative City by Dr Kenichi Kawasaki, visitor to the FASS Cities Cluster Date: February 29th 2012, 3-5pm Venue: Exec Seminar Room, AS 7 level 1, NUS Kent Ridge Campus Chair: A/P Chang, FASS Geography Department About the Talk: Dr Kawasaki will first […]

NUS Library share some resources for researching Singapore

January 18, 2012

NUS Librarian Tim Yap Fuan has recently compiled a handy list of essential resources for those researching Singapore. NUS Library Resources A Sense of History: a select bibliography on the history of Singapore Compiled by Tim Yap Fuan. This select bibliography lists primary and secondary sources on the history of Singapore from its earliest times […]

Meet the Researchers: Associate Professor TC Chang

January 13, 2012

1. Describe your current research on Singapore. I have a number of different research and writing projects but they all centre on urban, cultural and tourism issues. One area is the adaptive re-use of historic shophouses as boutique hotels. Another pertains to the Arts Housing Scheme and how ethnic and cultural districts have been reconfigured […]

FASS’ very own Ann Wee, ‘Founding Mother of Social Work’ is featured in The Straits Times’ Singapore Pioneers series

November 28, 2011

FASS’ very own Ann Wee, ‘Founding Mother of Social Work’  is featured in The Straits Times’ Singapore Pioneers series: click here

SG Publications: Tilak Abeysinghe, ‘Lifetime Income and Housing Affordability in Singapore’ Urban Studies

July 13, 2011

In this paper TILAK ABEYSINGHE (Economics) and Jiaying Gu deviate from conventional short-run indicators to develop an index that captures both short-run and long-run housing affordability. Using data from the Singapore Department of Statistics the authors developed a methodology to compute the lifetime income of different birth cohorts. The lifetime income of each household was […]

Meet the Researchers: Associate Professor Huang Jianli

June 13, 2011

Associate Professor Huang Jianli, (Department of History) is the 2011 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Southeast Asia. The Fellowship provides an expert on the region the opportunity to travel, write and conduct their research in residence both at NUS and at Stanford University. What makes this year’s fellow so interesting is that Prof […]

Meet the Researchers: Dr. Choo Hyekyung

June 13, 2011

Dr. Choo Hyekyung, (Social Work) recently received the Annals, Academy of Medicine Best Publication Silver Award 2010, based on her co-authored article ‘Pathological Video-Gaming among Singapore Youth’. This important new work understandably drew the attention of the media and is a topic which continues to generate much discussion, not only in academic circles. Below Dr Choo […]