| Name | Research Interests |
| Prof Ang Peng Hwa | Ang Peng Hwa's research area is internet governance and media law and policy. |
| Assoc Prof Arul Indrasen Chib | Dr. Arul Chib pursues action-oriented research in varied cross-cultural contexts. His research agenda focuses on the impact and role of mobile phone in (a) healthcare systems in resource-constrained environments of developing countries, and (b) transnational migration to developed countries. He investigates the key factors influencing the adoption of technology for positive health outcomes, and has engaged in the design and development of healthcare technology systems spanning online and mobile platforms. He increasingly interested in issues of power, with one research trajectory focusing on the intersection of gender with technology, and the role of agency and appropriation in the achievement of goals ranging from socio-economic development, human well-being and empowerment, and societal change. He has published over 60 research articles. Global collaborations with IDRC, Red Cross Red Crescent, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Vision have led to research grants of S$ 5Mn.
At the Singapore Internet Research Center, Dr. Chib has led the SIRCA programme (established 2008), mentoring 30 emerging country researchers in Asia, Africa and Latin America, with mentoring events in Atlanta, Bangkok, Cape Town, Jamaica, Mauritius and Singapore. The SIRCA III programme is currently focused on theory-building in the area of Open Development, and runs till 2017.
Dr. Chib's contributions have led to a number of research awards, including the 2011 Prosper.NET-Scopus Award for the use of ICTs for sustainable development. This award was accompanied by a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, one of the highest honours within the European scholarly tradition. He has been awarded fellowships at Ludwig Maxmilians University and University of Southern California, and the Best Graduate Student Award of S. I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. He serves on the editorial boards of Human Communication Research, Communication Yearbook, and Mobile Media and Communication, and is Senior Editor of The Electronic journal for Information Systems in Developing Countries.
Dr. Chib’s research in as many as a dozen countries has been profiled in the media ranging from the United Nations Chronicle to the Singaporean press. He has lectured at numerous global events and presented the keynote speech at the Media Health Communication Conference 2012 in Munich Germany. He is the General Conference Chair for ICTD2015, and a member of the organizing committees of the IFIP 8.6 2013 and ICTD 2012. He has been an expert speaker at events organized by UNESCO, UN-APCICT.
Dr. Chib has worked at the local level with non-governmental agencies such as INPPARES, Nyaya Health, Text to Change, Udaan, UNICEF and World Vision, securing external grants worth over S$ 5 million. Arul has lived and worked extensively in India, Indonesia, China, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States of America.
Most recently, Associate Prof Arul Chib has released the SIRCA II co-edited volume ‘Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South’ (New York: Springer; ISBN 978-981-287-380-4). The international scholarly community has taken a variety of approaches to question the impact of information society research on populations in the Global South. This book addresses two aspects-Impact of research: How is the research on ICTs in the Global South playing a role in creating an Information Society? (for example, policy formulation, implementation in practice, and shaping of public opinion), Secondly, what does the Research on Impact reveal: What is the evidence for the impact of ICTs on society? The volume brings together a multiplicity of voices from developing countries and approaches within the social scientific community to address these vital questions. |
| Prof (Adj) Arunachalam Mahizhnan | - |
| Assoc Prof Augustine Pang | Crisis management and communication
Image management and repair
Media management
Public relations
Journalism |
| Prof Ben Alvin Shedd | Prof Ben's research concerns creating effective science and technology media about very large and very small phenomena seen on displays from handheld size to multi-story high screens. He received a 1989 summer long Residential Creativity Fellowship from the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, Northwood University where he began his EXPLODING THE FRAME research comparing small screen and giant screen imagery and creating a new filmic language for effective giant screen production. This research began for producing IMAX giant screen films and continues today with ever larger high-resolution digital screens and full dome immersive presentations where the edges of the screen frame are outside our field of vision. |
| Assoc Prof Benjamin Hill Detenber | Dr. Detenber's research interests include the following:
Cognitive and Emotional Responses to Media
Use and Impact of Information and Communication Technologies
Internet Studies
Computer-mediated Communication
Media and Public Opinion
Political Communication
Quantitative Research Methods |
| Assoc Prof Chan Hiu Dan Alice | Her research work mainly utilizes neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral measures to investigate how cultural experiences such as language and socialization may shape our brains and affect the way we see and hear the world. Her studies demonstrated that the auditory perception pattern is different between members from East Asian and Western cultures, which is in connection with previous findings on visual perception. She is interested in looking at the underlying cognitive and neuroanatomical mechanisms as well as the genetic bases of these culturally sensitive perceptual patterns and behaviors. Her current work also looks at possible neurophysiological realizations that would support the Whorfian hypothesis, with a specific interest in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, as well as bilingual and multilingual communities. |
| Prof Charles Thomas Salmon | His current research focuses on health communication, public opinion and communication campaigns, with particular emphasis on:
* unintended consequences of well-intentioned efforts to promote public health and safety
* the use of stigma in communication efforts to warn populations about disease
* the role of public will in mobilizing support for health and environmental causes |
| Assoc Prof Chen Hsueh-hua | Dr. Chen’s research interests include the interplay between culture and communication, how technology brings changes in communication behaviors, the social impact of digital media and intergroup relations. Particularly, she investigates the ways in which individuals negotiate their identities and social relationships through interpersonal interaction cross cultural boundaries both in real life and virtual communities.
•Chen, V.H.H. (2014, Dec). Online Participation and Public discourse: A case study in Singapore. In Proceedings of Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, Asia 2014, Hong Kong.
•Chai, S. L., Chen, V.H.H. & Khoo, A.C.E. (2011, May) Social Relationships of Gamers and their Parents. Paper to be appeared in proceeding of 2nd World Conference on Psychology, Counseling and Guidance, Antalya, Turkey.
•Sri, R. M.H., & Chen, V. H.H. (2010, June). Identity Negotiation of the Black African Diaspora through Discourse with Singaporeans. In proceedings of International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, Paris, France. (Student class paper)
Special attention has also been paid to the impact of new media on minority groups such as school children, migrants, women and older adults.
•Chen, V.H.H. & Chng, S.E.G. (2015 May). Parental Monitoring and Youths’ Online Risky Behaviors: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Effects. Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Project PI)
•Tzuo, P.W., Chen, D., & Chen, V. H.H. (2013). A Student-Centered Method of Incorporating Computer Games into School: A Study in Singapore. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher. (Project PI)
•Chib, A. and Chen, V. H. H. (2011). Midwives with mobiles: A dialectical perspective on gender arising from technology introduction in rural Indonesia. New Media and Society, 13(3), 486-501.
To enhance understanding of the ways new media technology and human communication interrelate, Dr. Chen has worked on several interdisciplinary projects that investigate specifically video game design for educational and social purposes.
•Tzuo, P.W., Ong, J. I. P., Yang, C. H., & Chen, V. H.H. (2012). Reconceptualizing pedagogical usability of and teachers’ roles in computer game-based learning in school. Educational Research and Reviews, 7(20), 419-429. (Project PI)
•Klopfer, E., Sheldon, J., Perry, J. & Chen, V. H. H. (2011). Ubiquitous games for learning (UbiqGames): Weatherlings, a worked example. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00456.x (Project PI)
•Chu Yew Yee, S. L., Gu, Y. X., Chen, V.H.H. & Duh, H. B. L. (2010). A Game Design Method Empowering Children and Adults. IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter (Special Issue on Game-Based Learning), 12(1). (Project PI)
•Mehrabi, M. & Chen, V.H.H. (2010, November) Interactivity in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: A Concept Explication. In proceeding of 7th ACM International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
•Duh, H.B.L., Chu Yew Yee, S. L., Gu, Y. X., Chen, V.H.H. (2010, July) A Narrative-Driven Design Approach for Casual Games with Children. In the Proceedings of the 37th International Conference and Exhibition of Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, USA. (Project PI)
The most recent project gamifies the process of attitude change towards cultural diversity to facilitate social integration. Future projects will focus on utilizing game mechanisms to promote empathy and social inclusion towards marginalized groups and achieve positive intergroup relations. |
| Asst Prof Chen Lou | Consumer Psychology
Social Media Marketing
Marketing Communication
Media Effects |
| Asst Prof Christopher Cummings | Improving predictions of public understanding and acceptance of nanotechnology-enabled food products and labels
Predicting public support for use of geoengineering technologies
Expert decision making regarding synthetic biology
Comprehension of consumer products and messages
Multi-criteria decision analysis of governance options regarding synthetic biology
Investigating media portrayals of risks associated with transboundary air pollution in Southeast Asia
Investigating communication influences on secondary risk perceptions associated with vaccine use |
| Mr Chua Chong Jin | Creative works (eg biographies, poetry, literary journalism, book and movie reviews)
Commissioned works (eg coffee table books for clients to mark special events or anniversaries)
In-depth features on issues in developing countries in Asia as well as profiles on movers & shakers in fields like politics, business, academia, IT, sports, entertainment and the arts.
Communication strategies - eg the communication styles of leading personalities in different fields
The increasing importance of communication skills in the new economy and its implications (eg the type of teachers needed; the nature of communications training in formal education etc)
Changing media landscape and its implications
Language patterns in speaking and writing |
| Assoc Prof Danne Ojeda Hernandez | Her current research is devoted to the disciplinary redefinitions of Graphic Design and its implications in contemporary visual culture. It analyses antithetical aspects within the evolution of graphic design, like its communicative and allegoric nature, autonomy and social commitment, and expressivity and new media standards. The theoretical basis of this research includes binary concepts like natural/artificial, original/copy, public/private, and physical/virtual. The research is methodologically structured upon close readings of a variety of visual objects from the perspective of graphic design. These objects are discusses in connection with different sorts of conceptual platforms, like manifestos, (un)realized projects, curatorial proposals and critical reviews among others sources within today's dominant orientations in graphic design.
Moreover, her areas of interest can be summarized as follow: Issues in Visual Communication/Contemporary Design, Design Theory, Design and Science and Art and Design relations. Her areas of specializations regarding professional practice are mainly editorial and exhibition design.
At NTU, Prof. Ojeda is engaged (or has been engaged) with the following projects:
TIER1 [2013] by Ministry of Education (MOE) › D-SIGN-LAB. Research Experiments on Art, Design and Science with a focus on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Analysis.
TIER0 [2010] Asian-Pacific Mega-exhibitions: A Critical Perspective
RCC [2009] For the Sake of a Second Life: Approaches to Sustainable Design
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Selection of Danne Ojeda’s works:
http://www.d-file.com
https://www.paperbrains.net/
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| Mr David Yew Kai Sin | Asia-Pacific, communication, negotiation, information technology, information-communications, telecommunications, manufacturing, government, finance, strategy, consulting, strategic advice, research, business intelligence, competitor intelligence, customer intelligence, market opportunity analysis, market profiling, market sizing, forecasting, modelling, business expansion, market entry, partner evaluation and selection, partnering |
| Asst Prof Duffy Andrew Michael | Journalism in Singapore
Cross-cultural journalism education
Online journalism education |
| Asst Prof Edson C Tandoc Jr. | media gatekeeping, journalism studies, web analytics, social media, environmental journalism |
| Mr Eugene Lim | My research interests are in the areas of journalism, criminology and social media. I am interested to know how the proliferation of internet affects the crime rates and how does it also affects human criminal behaviours. I have been adopting investigative reporting and ambush reporting to get my answers, and I believe in-depth research can be done on these areas as well. |
| Prof (Adj) Goh Nguen Wah | Dr. Goh's areas of interests include: government and politics of Singapore, government's media, education and language policies, language planning; the rise of China and the global Chinese language fever, the prospects of Chinese language in a globalized world, cross-cultural studies, journalism of the West and the East. |
| Ms Grace Kim May Lin | Structural cognitive modifiability and mediated learning. Oral presentation anxiety of undergraduate students |
| Asst Prof Han Sam | (1) The dynamic of religion and digital technology in contemporary American Christianity
(2) Digital-diasporic religious practices in Asia
(3) Death and mourning in the digital age
(4) The religious discourse of technology as sinful
(5) General social and cultural theory (e.g., affect theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, psychoanalysis, network theory)
(6) Parochialism in popular representations of “genius” in media depictions of US ethnic minorities |
| Prof Hao Xiaoming | Dr Hao Xiaoming's research interests include international communication, comparative media systems, social impact of new communication technologies, audience studies and media effects. |
| Miss Joan Marie Kelly | Joan Marie Kelly is an Urban Ecologist, she investigates the ecosystem of the city initiating artistic connections with migrant and marginalized communities. The aim is to empower the community with the experience of creation. Kelly reinvigorates concepts of figure painting and drawing in collaborations with ethnographic methodologies. She focuses her participatory workshops on communities of lower caste women and children in India. The women and children tell their stories through drawings, knitted pieces, photographs, and audio documentaries.
Kelly applies her participatory art workshops to interdisciplinary collaborations with several researchers and communities. Collaborating changes the intension and outcome of the participatory workshops opening up whole new fields. Creativity and rudimental tools of drawing applied in different contexts with scholarly researchers has the ability to transform the intension and meaning of the scholarly work through visual language.
The interdisciplinary work is with these different fields and scholars:
1) Sustaining oral languages with three linguist working in different focus areas in Asia, by creating the first illustrated children’s books with the oral language communities.
2)Drawing as a tool for engineers to develop and record ideas.
3) The use of multi-media arts as a means to provoke communication and awareness of cultural heritage within host communities prior to tourism development. The collaboration involves Yuthasak Chatkaewnapanon from University of Chiang Mai, a Thai Tourism sociologist, and Prof. Ross Adrian Williams, a sound artist.
All of these particular sectors of society influence Kelly’s personal artwork which is inspired by urban life of South East Asia. |
| Prof Joseph Bart Walther | Prof. Walther's research focuses on how people perceive one another via Internet applications and social media, how people manage their self-presentations, and how presentations and perceptions affect a variety of types of relationships. The work integrates dynamics from communication, psychology, and information science. Its foci include
(1) how Internet users' perceptions of their similarity to and relationship with others affect persuasion (for example, how social media comments from those who appear to be peers affect persuasion from otherwise authoritative sources, in online personal or medical advice);
(2) how individuals exploit the aspects of social media to improve their self-presentations (in online chats, Facebook, and dating sites), and how their self-presentations affect their self-perception and well-being;
(3) how online collaborations and international or intercultural virtual team members get to know one another, and the social, technical, temporal, and psychological factors that promote effective relationships, productivity, and the reduction of prejudice among group members with different backgrounds.
Prof. Walther's work attempts to develop, refine, and test novel theoretical ideas as well as to extend and adjust existing theoretical models from Communication and Social Psychology from as far back as the 1950s. Several of his publications have successfully employed pre-Internet theories to incorporate the characteristics of contemporary social media systems to predict and explain online behavior. At the same time, his work has produced several original theoretical models, including the social information processing theory of computer-mediated communication, the hyperpersonal model of communication, warranting theory, and the efficiency framework of media selection and effects. Prof. Walther employs experimental and survey research methods to test and evaluate these models. |
| Assoc Prof Jung Younbo | Dr. Jung has published research on the use of new interactive technologies in medical interventions (e.g., virtual reality and haptics-enhanced systems for learning motor functions in stroke rehabilitation; and patient/clinician distribution platform with tele-rehabilitation application), the Internet and computer training for seniors to cross the digital divide, the effects of social robots' embodiment on their meaningful social interactions with humans, and the use of videogames and social TV for seniors' subjective well-being and intergenerational bonding. His work has appeared in International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, ,Computers in Human Behavior, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, and proceedings of CHI and IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops. Currently, Dr. Jung examines the effects of virtual social interaction on marginalized populations in various media forms. |
| Asst Prof Kang Hyunjin | Interactive Technology for Strategic Communication; Online / Mobile Privacy; Internet of Things; Media Effects |
| Asst Prof Kim Hye Kyung | Dr. Kim’s research draws theoretical concepts from literatures in narrative persuasion, attitude function, and self-affirmation and examines how these theories can help enhance health communication decisions. Much of her research has explored the interplay of individual factors relevant to self-defense (e.g., identity and social concerns and autobiographic history) and message features (e.g., framing and narrative effects) in shaping people’s judgment and beliefs on public health issues as well as their personal health decisions. She have mostly utilized quantitative research methods to investigate study predictions in a variety of health topics, including obesity, cancer prevention, the influenza pandemic, mental health issues, and food safety.
Major Research Areas:
• Risk and Health Communication
• Communication Theory
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Media Effects and Narrative Persuasion |
| Prof Kingsley Bolton | Professor Bolton's research interests include English in Asia, English in higher education, language and media, the sociolinguistics of globalization, world Englishes, and other related topics. His publications include fifteen books (edited and authored), five journal special issues, and seventy journal articles and book chapters. He is Co-editor of the influential SSCI-indexed journal World Englishes (Wiley-Blackwell), founding editor of the book series Asian Englishes Today (Hong Kong University Press), and The History and Development of World Englishes (Routledge). He is also a member of the editorial board of Applied Linguistics Review, Educational Studies, English Today, English World-Wide, and the international book series Multilingual Education (Springer). He has an active and continuing publication agenda, much of which focuses on English in the Asian region and worldwide.
A number of Professors Bolton's publications can be found here, http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/kbolton/ |
| Ms Kristina Marie Tom | The impact of media type (digital vs. non-digital) on cognitive construal levels, specifically in regards to teaching (evaluation) and learning (reading comprehension and critical thought) applications. |
| Asst Prof Kristy H.A. Kang | Dr. Kang's research interests include urban studies, histories and theories of digital media arts, database cinema, animation, spatial and mobile narrative, and media and ethnic studies in the U.S. and Asia. |
| Prof Kuo Chen-Yu, Eddie | Communication policy and planning
New media and globalization
Cultural policy and national integration
Sociology of multilingualism.
Perspectives in Asian communication |
| Asst Prof Kuo Szu-Yu, Arista | Audiovisual translation, subtitling, translator training, translation quality assessment, and cross-cultural communication. |
| Dr Kym Campbell | Mobile media and communication
Media communication and performance
Visualising data from a cinematic perspective |
| Assoc Prof Lee Chei Sian | Her research interests include computer-mediated communication, social computing, and mobile content sharing. |
| Assoc Prof Lee Chun Wah | Research Areas: Business Advertising Management, Brand Communications, Public Communications.
Current Focus:
(1) Managing the Business Operations and Account-servicing of Advertising Agencies in Singapore.
(2) Managing Financial Technology Advertising and Food Advertising in the Internet Economy. |
| Prof Lee Kwan Min | See Biography |
| Asst Prof Lee Sang Joon | My current manuscript project, tentatively titled 'The Asian Film Festival and the Emergence of Transnational Cinema Network in Cold War Asia' is a book-length study on the cultural history of the Asian Film Festival. This will trace the early history of the festival and explore the ways in which cold war politics, ideology, international relations, and nationalism have shaped this regional film festival, led by the Japanese film industry, in postwar Asia, and to what extent the festival had influenced the regional film industries and cultures during its first two decades, from 1953 to 1972.
As part of my future research plans, I also plan to write a critical investigation of the Korean cinema renaissance in the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium. Instead of analyzing industrial structures or scrutinizing single/multiple texts, this project, tentatively titled 'Celluloid Korea: Cinema at the End of the Century,' will examine the particular phenomenon from the perspectives that consider manifold factors; cine-club movements, the emergence of film schools, translations and interpretations of critical theories, film journals, multiplexes, and the intellectuals’ turn to the cultural industries throughout the 1990s. I will particularly address to what extent politics, new economic conditions, social changes, and nationalism have shaped Korean screen cultures and industry throughout the past two decades.
In tandem with the above project, I am writing critical essays on contemporary practices of transnational media connections between Korea, Japan, and China, Korean popular culture and social media, and a new method of writing transnational film history that is especially important for regions linked by both cultural correspondences and political systems. |
| Asst Prof Liew Kai Khiun | 1. Transnational Popular Cultural Flows
2. Heritage Studies
3. Social media cultures
4. Singapore Studies
5. Medical Humanities |
| Asst Prof Lim Ni Eng | My on-going research focuses on the interactional, socio-cultural and cognitive operations at work in normal everyday Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction, using quantitative statistical methodologies on large Mandarin corpora and qualitative conversation analysis of real-time video and audio recordings. Through investigating commonplace social action/expression and their discourse-pragmatic functions, cognitive phenomenon such as theory of mind and intersubjectivity can be empirically and discursively explicated. As insights into the language-specific resources available for interactional accomplishments is gained, pedagogical methodologies for teaching spoken Mandarin Chinese can be further refined. |
| Asst Prof Marijke Van Kets | Research on Cinematography
A study on the perception of cinematic technique and its influence on film language.
The research focuses on the use of cinematic technique by the director of photography when shooting a feature film. Is this juggling with technical properties: lenses, lights, speed, shutter, f-stop and so on, effective? Can cinematography influence how audiences perceive movies?
I argue that the application of cinematic technique adds additional layers of meaning, nuance and emotional context to shots and scenes along with their objective content. The study also suggests that the use of cinematographic differentials like composition, three-dimensional field and lens language, contributes to the film language. |
| Dr Mark Alan Cenite | Media law and ethics, and relevant social science research to inform policy. Intellectual property. |
| Prof May Oo Lwin | May O. Lwin's research interests are mainly in the areas of strategic communication and health communication. In particular, in the area of health, she examines how digital communication can influence food intake, exercise, and communicable diseases and cardiovascular health. Her research in the area of cyberwellness looks at how family and parental communication influences children and adolescents' user behavior. In the area of sensory marketing, she has conducted research on scents, auditory factors and culture-specific symbolism in advertising. She has co-authored a number of marketing books and book chapters, including the best-selling Clueless Series (includes titles like Clueless in Advertising and Clueless in Marketing Communications) and a leading textbook for Asia, Principles and Effective IMC Practice. |
| Asst Prof Michelle Lim | Contemporary Art
History of Exhibitions
Contemporary Curating
Sustainability and Communities in Urban Ecologies
Art History (East Asia) |
| Dr Nemeth-Chay Cheng Choo, Constance | Constance's research interests include, but are not limited to the following areas: strategic communication management, crisis management, health communication, nonverbal communication, especially in the science of body language. |
| Assoc Prof Oh Soon-Hwa | Associate Professor Oh's research interest focuses on the artist and dealer relationship. Based on her observation and experience as an emerging artist in NYC, she developed a study that explored the cultural, social, and psychological roles of the networks of relationships among artists and art world professionals. By employing a qualitative research method of case study she documents and analyzes the experiences and practices of emerging artists in NYC and in Paris, and their significant art dealers, curators, and collectors. The study identifies various roles of networks of relationships and examines in which ways their relationships contribute to the development of their creative works. She is the author of the book "From art school to art world" (2009).
Her more recent research focus lies on the interaction between Art & science, Photography & Technology. Teaching and researching on digital photography has incited her to explore and expand the boundaries of the photographic medium by collaborating with scientists in various projects in development.
In her photographic practice, her interest lies in documentary projects that deal with issues of identity, gender, and human condition. For instance, her “Girls from Mekong Delta” essay is a semi-documentary project that explores the identity and environment of young Vietnamese women from a small island nicknamed “Taiwanese Island” who intend or are pushed to marry foreigners in their quest to have a better life and to support their own family. This project was Finalist (2009) and Semi-Finalist (2007) for the prestigious Lange-Tyler Prize at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.
Aesthetics
Creativity
Sociology of Arts
Studio Practice
Documentary projects
Photography Theory and Criticism |
| Assoc Prof Peter Richard Giulioni, Jr | Pete is most interested in examining how talent be most effectively sourced, recruited, deployed, developed and retained in today's complex and changing global marketplace. |
| Prof Richard Seyler Ling | I am interested in investigating the social consequences of mobile communication. This includes the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods along with the use of so-called big data to better understand how the mobile phone and mobile communication have effected social structure. |
| Mr Roger Vivek Placidus Winder | Roger Winder has a keen interest in the field of critical linguistics and critical discourse analyses, but has more recently started exploring doing research in Language Teaching and Learning, Technology in Language Teaching and Learning, Communication and Culture, Discourse, Text and Genre Analysis, Language for Specific Purposes, Language and Culture, and Language Attitudes and Identity. |
| Assoc Prof Shirley Ho Soo Yee | Media effects and public opinion in the context of science, health, and environmental issues
Impacts of new media and social-psychological factors on attitudinal and behavioral outcomes
Mass communication theory and quantitative research methods |
| Asst Prof Sonny Ben Rosenthal | Environmental communication, public understanding of science, media effects, media psychology, research methods, scale development |
| Assoc Prof Stephen Teo Kian Teck | Associate Professor Stephen Teo's current research work focuses on several aspects of theoretical interest in film. Firstly, contributing to the discourse on Asian Cinema as an alternative paradigm to Hollywood as the global form, and thus to evolve a concept of Asian Cinema as a viable cinematic and media theory supporting pedagogical and creative modules. Asian cinema and the concept of national cinema are inter-related forces but it is the latter that tends to subsume the former in theoretical discourse. Teo's research work seeks a concentrated, rigorous approach to defining Asian cinema as a specialized norm of aesthetics and thematic field that can be broadly applied to Asian films produced by diverse national film industries in Asia. How do Asian cinemas transcend national interests and become an Asian Cinema as a unitary and unifying element? With Asian film industries modelling themselves on Hollywood,how can an Asian cinema stand up as an alternative model to Hollywood? A second area of Teo's reasearch interest revolves around the nature of film in relation to cultural theory and other fields of cultural interest, including literature, history and popular arts. The literary and visual contrast inherent in cinema is a striking anomaly that calls for more theoretical investigation. Teo's work has concerned itself with how historical literary works are transposed into the cinema and how historical prototypes are transfigured as cinematic personalities but retaining essential qualities. A third area of Teo's work lies in genre and auteur studies. Teo is interested in standard Hollywood genres such as the Western, the action-adventure film, the thriller, the epic, the musical, and he seeks to explore their inter-textual connections with Asian genres such as the martial arts film, the gangster action film, the melodrama, horror, and historical epic. How do auteurs transform genre? A fourth area of research interest lies in the study of emerging Asian "New Waves" in traditionally ignored film industries such as those in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. Can these Southeast Asian cinemas make a lasting impact on the discourse of Asian cinema? |
| Dr Sujata Surinder Kathpalia | Dr Sujata Kathpalia's research interest is in the areas of discourse analysis, composition theory, second language teaching/learning and information technology in education. Her MA thesis is on textual coherence mediated through the theory of frames and her PhD thesis is on the genre analysis of promotional texts that include book blurbs, sales promotional letters and print advertisements. The majority of her publications are a blend of theory and practice in English language teaching, technical communicatin and academic writing from the point of view of discourse. |
| Mr Sven Pfrommer | Sven Pfrommer’s areas of research interests include: advertising communication, art and advertising, visual communication and technology, photography in advertising, brand communication, |
| Mdm Ulrike Marianne Murfett | Agent-customer interactions in call centres
Social media and their use in organisations
Communication strategies of extremist groups |
| Dr Wee Wei Ling, Constance | Systemic Functional Linguistics provides a theoretically principled framework for Constance Wee's research into the texts produced within business contexts.
Her research interests include:
interpersonal meaning-making resources;
impression management and communicating to the public;
the management of expectations by stakeholders |
| Ms Wong Pei Wen | Pei Wen Wong's research interests are mainly in the areas of strategic communication, marketing, digital and social communication and international public relations. |
| Assoc Prof Wu Wei | Wu Wei specializes in communication and management. He has conducted a wide range of studies on media effects, public relations with publications in top-ranking international journals and presentations at major international conferences. He has also taught courses of Government-media Relations, Public Relations, and Organisational Communication at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His recent research projects involve on studies of public communication, government-media relations in Singapore, and NGO management in China. |
| Ms Yang Mei Ling | Yang Mei Ling's research interests are mainly in the areas of consumer communications, particularly in written communication with customers and customer complaint behaviour. |
| Ms Yong Oi Hing Audrey | Ms Audrey O.H Yong research interests include child language development, and sociolinguistics issues. In partial fulfilment of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master degree in English Language, she researched on 'Factors affecting the choice of language use in hawker centres' and 'The characteristics of language development of four children age between 3 and 6 coming from different socioeconomic background', respectively. |
| Assoc Prof (Adj) Zhou Zhaocheng | His research area includes history and politics of Singapore, China-Southeast Asian relationship and media-politic relationship. |
