Apart from being highly dedicated teachers, our faculty members are also top-notch researchers.
As leaders of cutting-edge research between the Social Sciences and other disciplines, their research contribute to the societal progress of Singapore and beyond. Some of them have received prestigious or generous grants for their research.
| Asst Prof Laavanya Kathiravelu |
Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) Fellowship |
Does citizenship matter? Interrogating second-generation (im)migrant incorporation in Singapore and Qatar
Press Release here. |
| Asst Prof Xu Hong |
Land Transport Authority |
Study on the acceptable reflectance level of body wrap and paintwork on road vehicles – Objective and Perceptual Measurements |
| Asst Prof Xu Hong |
AI Singapore |
An end-to-end Adaptive AI-Assisted 3H (A3C) system |
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Nanyang
Asst Prof Suzy Styles
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National
Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) – Science of Learning
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How language
mixes contribute to effective bilingualism and effective biliteracy in
Singapore
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Assoc
Prof James Ang
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Ministry
of Education Tier 2
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Cultural
orientations and long-term comparative economic development
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Assoc
Prof Joyce Pang Shu Min
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DSO National Laboratories
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Examining contact
theory in online environments
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Asst
Prof Kenichi Ito
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NRF – Behavioural Studies in Energy,
Water, Waste and Transportation Sectors (BSEWWT)
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Making recycling
fun in Singapore
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Asst
Prof Andy Ho Hau Yan
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National Art Council
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Project ARTISAN: Fostering Aspiration and
Resilience through Intergenerational Storytelling & Art-Based Narrative
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Asst
Prof Eunae Cho
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Ministry of Social and Family Development
(MSF)
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Predictors and Consequences of Work-Family
Experiences: Study of Working Caregivers of Older Adults
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Featured Publications
Our faculty’s cutting edge research takes an interdisciplinary perspective that contributes to the Social Sciences and other disciplines. They investigate a wide range of subjects - all of which endeavour to answer important questions about human behaviours and the changing world.
| Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and Legalizing Prostitution |
Yew-Kwang Ng |
Considering efficiency, equality, and morality, this book argues for qualified market expansion, particularly in legalizing kidney sales and prostitution. The book supports the use of markets to increase efficiency while also increasing the effort to promote equality, making all income groups better off.
More information here. |
| Routledge Focus on Public Governance in Asia |
Hong Liu, Wenxuan Yu |
Focusing on new governance challenges, practices and experiences in and about a globalizing Asia, particularly East Asia and Southeast Asia, this focus series invites upcoming and established researchers all over the world to succinctly and comprehensively discuss important public administration and policy themes such as government administrative reform, public budgeting reform, government crisis management, public private partnership, science and technology policy, technology-enabled public service delivery, public health and aging, talent management, and anticorruption across Asian countries.
More information here. |
| This Is What Inequality Looks Like |
Teo You Yenn |
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but have been arranged to be read as a totality and in sequence. Each aims to accomplish two things: first, to introduce a key aspect of the experience of being low-income in contemporary Singapore. Second, to illustrate how people’s experiences are linked to structural conditions of inequality.
More information here. |
| Sustainability through the Lens of Environmental Sociology |
Md Saidul Islam |
This Special Issue of Sustainability will provide an environmental sociology approach to understanding and achieving the widely used notion of “Sustainability.” The Special Issue will focus on, among other topics, the inherent discursive formations of environmental sociology, conceptual tools and paradoxes, competing theories and practices, and their complex implications on our society at large.
More information here. |
| Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora |
Gregor Benton, Prof
Hong Liu and Dr Zhang Huimei |
This book seeks to examine the qiaopi (letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances) from two interconnected perspectives. One view qiaopi from a political and institutional angle, the other from a financial and social angle. As one of the first books in English on the qiaopi trade and its significance, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history and Chinese migration, as well as Migration Studies and Diaspora studies more generally.
More information here.
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| Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820 - 1980 |
Gregor Benton and Hong Liu |
Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.
More information here. |