SSR Seminar Series: An Overview of the Local Food Support Landscape
Registration
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- This is a physical seminar event.
- Registration slots will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Please register by 19 July 2026. Successful registrants will be informed on 20 July 2026 via email.
- If you cannot make it after receiving the email confirmation, please let us know as soon as possible via email.
Seminar Details
This seminar presents the findings from Hunger Report Part III, which examines the landscape of local food support, drawing on the providers’ perspective and insights. It will provide an overview of the survey results and outline key themes from the in-depth interviews, including how food support operations are shaped by organizational goals, priorities, and values. We will also discuss the different models of food support and their associated affordances, limitations and challenges. The structural constraints that govern food distribution and the multiple tensions that food support providers have to navigate will also be highlighted.
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Policy Studies
National University of Singapore
Research Associate
Institute of Policy Studies
National University of Singapore
Dr Seah Lay Hoon is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. Before joining IPS, she spent three years at the Social Service Research Centre supporting the development of research capabilities among social service professionals through advisory work, mentoring, and specialised training. Formally trained as an education researcher, Lay Hoon spent over a decade at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, where she engaged in participatory intervention research with school practitioners and contributed to teacher training. She earned her Master and PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Linda Tay is a Research Associate at the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. She holds a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Besides an interest in language acquisition and andragogy from her training, she is also interested in examining how social service programmes are designed, implemented, and experienced on the ground, and how such evidence can inform and strengthen policymaking.
Assistant Professor
Saw Swee Hock School
of Public Health,
National University of Singapore
His research examines how food environments and social stakeholders, particularly family members and close social networks, shape eating behaviours, food choices, and health-related decision-making. He is especially interested in understanding how these interpersonal and environmental influences can be leveraged within behaviour change interventions, empowering family and community members as agents of change to support cardiometabolic disease prevention and management. Using mixed-methods, qualitative, and social network approaches, Dr. Ali studies the social and environmental determinants of diet and health across diverse populations. His work spans food environments, nutrition, family health dynamics, and community-based interventions, with research conducted across East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as the United States and Australia.