Staff

Co-Directors

Jungup Lee

Associate Professor Lee Jungup
Co-Director

(65) 6516 4835

swklj@nus.edu.sg

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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

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Full-Time Research Staff

Dr Seah Lay Hoon

Dr Seah Lay Hoon
Deputy Director & Senior Research Fellow

(65) 6601 7282

lhseah@nus.edu.sg

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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

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Ms Fadiah Johari

Ms Nurul Fadiah Binti Johari
Research Associate

(65) 6601 7283

fasnuru@nus.edu.sg

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Ms Linda Tay

Ms Linda Tay
Research Associate

(65) 

lindatay@nus.edu.sg

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Mr Asher Goh

Mr Goh Mingyuan Asher
Research Assistant

(65) 6601 6331

fasgohm@nus.edu.sg

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Admininstrative Staff

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Ms Rose Yong
Manager

(65) 6601 4910

roseyong@nus.edu.sg

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Ms Chan Sze Qian

Ms Chan Sze Qian
Project Manager

(65) 6601 5060

fascsq@nus.edu.sg

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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

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Adjunct and Courtesy Staff

Dr Neo Yu Wei

Dr Neo Yu Wei
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

neoyuwei@nus.edu.sg

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Dr Ong Qiyan

Dr Ong Qiyan
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

qyong@nus.edu.sg

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Dr Adam Oei

Dr Adam Oei
Adjunct Research Fellow

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Dr Li Dong Dong

Dr Li Dong Dong
Adjunct Research Fellow

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Dr Liu Mengru

Dr Liu Mengru
Adjunct Research Fellow

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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.

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.

Lay Hoon Seah joins SSR as a Senior Research Fellow. She received her postgraduate diploma from the National Institute of Education (NIE) and her masters and doctorate in education from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has previously worked in a number of research centers including the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice and the Learning Science Lab in NIE, the International Centre for Classroom Research in University of Melbourne as well as the Hasselblad Graduate School of Molecular Science Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research work entails the use of qualitative methods and analysis such as interviews, ethnographic observations, researcher-participant collaborative inquiry, thematic analysis, discourse analysis and applied linguistic analysis.

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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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Nurul Fadiah is a Research Associate at the Social Service Research Centre. She obtained her Master of Arts degree in Malay Studies from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include the interplay of power and ideology in the construction of dominant narratives on socio-economic issues, as well as the intersection of socio-economic class, ethnicity and gender in the shaping of policies and their impact on marginalised communities.

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.

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.

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. Prior to joining SSR, Rose worked in NTU as a Centre Manager.

Chan Sze Qian joins SSR as a project coordinator for Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Youth Offenders and the Community (EPYC) research project. Before joining SSR, Sze Qian worked at National Computer Systems as a support officer in project coordination and taxonomy operations for SkillsFuture Singapore (National Movement Project). With her involvement in taxonomy research on occupation roles, she has been trained on RAISEC Holland Coding for individual personality career mapping.

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. 

Neo Yu Wei is an adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Social Service Research Centre. She obtained her doctorate in public policy at the Australian National University, with a thesis on social inclusion policies and children in Australia. Her research interests include understanding how low-income individuals and families meet their basic needs, as well as how they experience public and social services. She has employed different qualitative methods in her past and current research projects, including focus group discussions, participant-observations, in-depth interviews and research methods with children.

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.

Adam Oei is a research specialist at the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). He is currently involved in two longitudinal studies investigating the long term outcomes of children in out of home care and youth offenders. He is a cognitive psychologist by training and has keen interests in cognition and neuroplasticity across the lifespan. In line with these interests, he has examined the impact of video game play as well as bilingualism on cognitive skills in young adults and elderly adults.

Li Dong Dong, Ph.D., is a senior research specialist in the Centre for Research on Rehabilitation and Protection, Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore. Her research involves the study of child protection issues and youth offender rehabilitation, such as the predictors and outcomes of involvement in child protection service; effects of childhood maltreatment and the cycle of violence. She also studied media effects on child development, for example, the relationship between violent digital games and children and adolescents’ aggressive behaviours. She uses mainly quantitative data and relies on statistical modelling to test relevant research hypotheses.

Liu Mengru is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Social Service Research Centre. She obtained her PhD in Psychology from Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests lie in understanding why people follow social norms as well as why people perform certain behaviors. She is currently involved in the Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Youth and the Community (EPYC) research project.