Staff

Co-Directors

Jungup Lee

Associate Professor Lee Jungup
Co-Director

(65) 6516 4835

swklj@nus.edu.sg

Jungup Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at NUS. Her research interests include cyberbullying, school violence and safety, child maltreatment, online harassment, technology-facilitated sexual misconduct, juvenile justice, and youth mental health and digital well-being.

Read more about A/P Lee's research interest and publications here.

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<b>Dr Ong Ee Cheng</b> <br> Department of Economics and <br> Social Service Research Centre, <br>National University of Singapore

Associate Professor Ong Ee Cheng
Co-Director

(65) 6601 3507

eecheng.ong@nus.edu.sg

Ee Cheng Ong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at NUS. She teaches economics of inequality and labour economics, as well as introductory and intermediate microeconomics.

Read more about A/P Ong's research interest and publications here.

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Research Staff

Dr Meixi Research Fellow

Dr Meixi
Research Fellow

meixi@nus.edu.sg

Dr. Meixi is a Research Fellow at the Social Service Research Centre whose work explores the intersections of culture, learning, health, and the ethical nature of human development across the lifespan. She specializes in community-based participatory design research that strengthens the collective health and intergenerational resilience of families, and the lands and waters they call home. Grounded in land-based stories, her scholarship bridges studies of place and the politics of learning, schooling inequities, climate education, and trans-Indigenous solidarities to imagine and design more thriving social and ecological futures.

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Dr Ong Qiyan

Dr Ong Qiyan
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

qyong@nus.edu.sg

Ong Qiyan is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Social Service Research Centre. She specializes in using behavioral and applied economics to study individual decision-making and the effects and performances of different policy designs. Her research spans a range of behavioral domains. Her recent research includes studies on cognitive reasons for debt in low-income households, performance of transnational marriage support programs and social service office models, as well as performance of different types of incentives on motivating prosocial behavior.

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Mr Asher Goh

Mr Goh Mingyuan Asher
Research Associate

(65) 6601 6331

fasgohm@nus.edu.sg

Goh Mingyuan Asher graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Sociology at NTU. Before joining SSR, Asher was a research assistant at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, where he was involved in research related to public rental housing and youth risks in Singapore. Asher’s research interests lie in social policy, poverty and inequality. He was previously involved in the “Evaluation of Social Services Offices” research project and is now involved in the "In-work Poverty and Challenges of Getting By Among the Young" project.

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<b>Mr Tan Zhi Han</b><br>Research Associate,<br>Social Service Research Centre,<br>National University of Singapore

Mr Tan Zhi Han
Research Associate

(65) 6601 5211

tanzh@nus.edu.sg

Tan Zhi Han joined SSR as a data analyst for the “In-work Poverty and Challenges of Getting By Among the Young” project. He recently graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Master in Public Policy and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) in Sociology. His research interests include inequalities in education and income, precarious work, and emerging social welfare models.

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Ms Linda Tay

Ms Linda Tay
Research Associate

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lindatay@nus.edu.sg

Linda Tay is a Research Associate at the Social Service Research Centre. She graduated with a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the National Institute of Education (NIE), NTU. Prior to joining SSR, she worked on research projects in sociology and education at SUTD, NIE, and SUSS. Her research interests include language acquisition, pedagogy, and their impact on learning outcomes and policy-making.

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Admininstrative Staff

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Ms Rose Yong
Manager

(65) 6601 4910

roseyong@nus.edu.sg

Rose Yong graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from NTU Nanyang Business School. Rose started her accountancy career in the public sector before she transitioned to administrative work in the education industry. Rose supports the Faculty Research Centres in FASS.

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Ms Jess Tan Aiwen
Management Assistant Officer

(65) 6601 5019

fastaj@nus.edu.sg

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Ms Sandy Chen

Ms Sandy Chen
Senior Executive

(65) 6601 7284

sandyc@nus.edu.sg

Sandy is a Senior Executive in Marketing and Corporate Communications at the Social Service Research Centre, where she leads the marketing initiatives and key communications campaigns. Her role involves overseeing the Centre's branding, social media, event planning, media relations, design and video editing, and more. She is also on the research project "In-work Poverty and Challenges of Getting By Among the Young", where she manages a mobile application with the team, and contributes in design and writing in news commentaries, reports, and presentations. Prior to joining SSR, she had 4+ years of marketing experience in the private sector, before she made the switch to realise her career goals of increasing conversation around social issues that have an important impact in society. 

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