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Research in the Social Work Department is integrated with our practice and teaching of social work. Many of our research projects are collaborations with local community partners and international researchers. The projects analyse trends on issues of societal concern, and evaluate policies, programmes and services for populations in need. Research also provides hands-on learning to students who are engaged in the projects.

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Department of Social Work: Research Interests

Our staff are involved in a variety of research projects. Students interested in a specific area or research interest can refer to the list below and contact the respective Professors for more information.

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Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
Mrs Lee Choon Guan Endowed Research Fund

Lee Geok Ling

Associate Professor & Head of Department of Social Work;
Co-Editor, Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
swklgl@nus.edu.sg

Prof Lee's research interests include death, dying and bereavement; loss and grief; caregiving; quality of life; palliative care and end-of-life care. Her studied populations include patients with advanced cancer, receiving palliative care or end-of-life care, and their families. Her work often brings to bear a more contextual and human approach in a field dominated by a more strictly and traditionally defined medical practice.

Choo Hyekyung

Associate Professor
swkch@nus.edu.sg

Prof Choo has been conducting extensive research and has published on adolescent health risk behaviors and cyber-wellness issues, particularly on Internet Gaming Disorder. She has also delved into social support systems and the service use of immigrant or transnational families with low income and their children.

Irene Y.H. Ng

Associate Professor & Steering Committee Chair of NUS Social Service Research Centre
swknyhi@nus.edu.sg

Prof Ng's research areas include poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, and social welfare policy. She is active in the community, serving or having served in committees in the Ministry of Social and Family Development, National Council of Social Service, Ministry of Manpower, and various voluntary welfare organizations.

Goh Chor Leng, Esther

Associate Professor
esther_goh@nus.edu.sg

Prof Goh's research centres on championing the need to utilize a more dynamic theory to examine childrearing and parent-child relationship. She adopts a bilateral lens that conceptualizes both children and parents (including adult caregivers) as agentic beings influencing each other. Together with her students, they have empirically illustrated children and young persons, even those living in vulnerable conditions, as capable agents who contribute to solutions of problems.

Srinivasan Chokkanathan

Associate Professor
swksrini@nus.edu.sg

Prof Chokkanathan's area of research centers on ageing and wellbeing. Specifically, in finding about the interaction between resources and stressors and its subsequent influence on the wellbeing of older adults in Singapore and India. Through acknowledging resiliency in elderly persons, his research findings assert for interventions that go beyond deficits and focus on creating a robust environment wherein the older adults could grow and thrive.

Lee Jungup

Assistant Professor
swklj@nus.edu.sg

Dr Lee's research interests include cyberbullying and cyber well-being in a digital age, at-risk children and youth in urban society, school violence, deviant behavior and safety, child maltreatment and adverse childhood experiences, youth mental health and substance misuse, technology-facilitated sexual violence and campus sexual misconduct, social media and online behavior, juvenile justice and criminal justice, and cultural diversity.

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