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16 October is World Food Day, featuring food security as a global concern. Although Singapore is not a country typically associated with agriculture, it is actually an intriguing case for the study of smallholders and their persistence. In ‘Singapore: Making Space for Farming’ (in Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective (2019)), Ms Sakunika Wewalaarachchi (NUS Lee …
‘Public seminar on Singaporean Mandarin as 1,000 terms selected for online database’ (The Straits Times, October 2022) mentions Associate Professor Tham Shiao Wei (NUS Chinese Studies), who will speak in a PMC-organised public seminar – Selat to Singapore: A Conversation on Singaporean Mandarin – in October this year. The public seminar will take place on …
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World Skin Health Day is marked every 14 October. Recent studies show that in Singapore, 1 in 10 individuals are being treated for eczema. Unfortunately, a social stigma is attached to contracting eczema in Singapore, thus imposing additional challenges on patients combating the disease. In ‘Media and social factors influencing stigma towards eczema patients: A …
Call For Applications: Student Assistant at SRN The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) is a unique academic resource covering the wide range of research on Singapore produced by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). It can be found at https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/. SRN assists the FASS Research Division with event organization and repository updating. SRN has …
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AMP Singapore is a non-profit organisation serving the Muslim community. Established on 10 October 1991, AMP was formed with core programmes in education, human resource development, social development and research. In ‘Unequal returns to social capital: the study of Malays in Singapore through a network lens’ (Asian Ethnicity, 2015), Associate Professor Vincent Chua (NUS Department …
7 October is Children’s Day in Singapore. Children learn from others not only through direct experiences but also verbal testimony. Verbal testimony takes place in a human information-sharing system, requiring children to consume given information and produce information for others, the latter of which is teaching. Western studies have shown that children engaging in teaching …
We invite NUS FASS members of staff to nominate the colleagues who have served as their truly inspiring mentors – who have gone beyond the call of duty to positively impact their work and life – for FIMA 2022 honours.
How societies can better adapt to an ageing population is an important issue. By 2030, more than 20% of Singapore’s population will be aged 65 or above, which means that every fourth person you encounter at a kopitiam will be a senior citizen. ‘Caring is Complicated’ (The ALUMNUS, Oct-Dec 2022) features Professor Elaine Ho Lynn-Ee …
‘Finding the right-size home in your silver years’ (The Straits Times, September 2022) features Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng (NUS Japanese Studies), Associate Professor Feng Qiushi (NUS Sociology and Anthropology), and their research on Singaporeans preparing for retirement. In a 2015 study of HDB’s studio apartments, A/P Thang observed that some Singaporeans were selling their …
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The International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 each year. In 2018, the share of the population aged 65 years and older in Singapore matched that of those younger than 15 years, giving rise to the term ‘Silver Tsunami’, referring to the phenomenon of a rapidly ageing population. In conjunction with this, …