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The Crazy Rich Asians film, which premiered in August 2018, was a watershed moment for the representation of Asian stories in Hollywood. Based on the bestselling 2013 novel by Singaporean author Kevin Kwan, the film adaptation quickly became a global phenomenon, marking a shift in the landscape of mainstream cinema, where Asian stories and voices […]
By combining technological innovation with human insight, the Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities (CSSH) aims to generate research that improves lives, strengthens institutions, preserves cultural knowledge, and shapes more inclusive and resilient societies in Singapore and beyond.
What if policymakers could test how society might react to new policies before they are implemented? Researchers are developing an AI-driven platform to simulate how different segments of society might respond to policy proposals, helping to stress-test ideas before they are rolled out in public. This initiative is one of the flagship projects of the […]
The Singapore Research Nexus at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) invites you to ‘Work, Migration, Policy Implications’, a policy outreach event that brings social science research into conversation with urgent questions of governance, labour, and family in our interconnected world. Across three studies, we shall examine how Singapore operates as an […]
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free trade agreement, was conceived amid global uncertainty shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, rising protectionism, geopolitical tensions, and an intensifying U.S.-China rivalry. In such a rapidly shifting landscape, existing theories on free trade agreements (FTAs) may fall short in explaining or predicting RCEP’s evolving impact. ‘Data-Driven […]
With demographic trends shifting in Singapore, the rise of non-traditional households such as DINKs (Dual Income, No Kids) has become increasingly common. Against this backdrop of changing family structures and an ageing population, critical concerns have emerged regarding the support networks available to childless individuals. In societies where adult children traditionally play a central role […]
When Objective Ambivalence Predicts Subjective Ambivalence: An Affect–Cognition Matching Perspective
Have you ever experienced mixed feelings? Objective ambivalence occurs when someone holds both positive and negative evaluations toward the same object. It is typically measured by averaging separate unipolar scales for positive (“P”) and negative (“N”) reactions. The degree of ambivalence is then calculated using the Thompson et al. (1995) formula: [(P+N)/2 – (P-N)], with higher […]
Call For Applications: Student Researcher at the Singapore Research Nexus (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 is part of the FASS Research Division and has […]
Bilingualism has long been touted as the bedrock of Singapore’s linguistic landscape, underpinning the nation’s shared identity and cohesion. In 1996, Singapore’s bilingualism policy went into effect, institutionalising the learning of English and one of the ethnic mother tongues languages (MTLs). English was adopted as the interethnic lingua franca, where it promoted social cohesion among […]
During the Public Free Clinic Society’s 50th anniversary fundraising dinner on 27 October 2024, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung announced plans to integrate Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) into public healthcare under the expanded Healthier SG programme. This move reflects Singapore’s long-standing support for Chinese medicine, dating back to the colonial period when the colonial government […]