| Name | Research Interests |
| Asst Prof Andrew Michael Duffy | Journalism in Singapore
Cross-cultural journalism education
Online journalism education |
| Assoc Prof Arul Indrasen Chib | Assoc Prof 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, 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 100 research articles.
As Director of the Singapore Internet Research Center, Dr. Chib 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, Michigan, and Singapore.
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 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 has been profiled in the international such as the United Nations Chronicle. He presented keynote speeches at the Media Health Communication Conference 2012 in Munich Germany and Global Fusion Conference at Texas A&M University. He was General Conference Chair for ICTD2015, and on organizing committees for IFIP 8.6 2013 and ICTD 2012. He has been an expert speaker at events organized by UNESCO and UN-APCICT.
Dr. Chib has worked 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 learned in India, Germany, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States of America. Dr. Chib is currently PI for MOE TIER 2 grant worth S$ 602,856 examining digital nativism.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Pei & Chib (2020). Defining mGender: The role of mobile phone use in gender construction processes. The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society
Brew-Sam & Chib (2020).Theoretical advances in mobile health communication research: An empowerment approach to self-management. Technology and Health. Elsevier
Chib, Bentley, & Wardoyo (2019). Distributed contexts of digital media and learning: Open practices as a response to marginalization. Comunicar
Rossmann, Riesmeyer; Brew-Sam, Karnowski, Joeckel, Chib, & Ling (2019). Appropriation of mHealth for Diabetes Self-Management: Lessons from two qualitative studies. JMIR Diabetes
Chib, & Shi (2018) Structured imaginings: Social media as a tool to reduce intergroup prejudice. Intercultural Communication Studies
Chib & Lin (2018) Theoretical advancements in mHealth: A systematic review of mobile apps. Journal of Health Communication
Loh, & Chib (2018) Tackling social inequality in development: Beyond access to appropriation of ICTs for employability. Information Technology for Development
Kang, Ling & Chib (2018) The flip from fraught to assumed use: Mobile communication of North Korean migrant women during their journey to South Korea. International Journal of Communication |
| Assoc Prof Chou Meng-Hsuan | Regionalism and regional integration (European Union, ASEAN)
Global policy and transnational administration
Institutional and organisational theory
Migration and asylum policy
Research and higher education policy (knowledge policies) |
| Assoc Prof Chul Heo | Chul's scholarly interests focus on the study of production culture and aesthetics of film and television with a critical cultural studies approach. In particular, he is interested in critical and aesthetic implications of the look and sound of film and television, e.g. production design and sound design. To understand production culture of film and television, he pays attention to people who make creative decisions to deal with production conventions, creative rights, constraints and possibility in their institutional contexts, and the imagined audience in production process.
Research areas
- Imagined Audience in Media Production
- Production Culture: Convention, Aesthetics, and Style
- Media and the Public Sphere
- Cultural Politics of Sound and Production Design
- Digital technology and Filmmaking: Data Mining and Media Production
- Production Culture of South East Asian Cinema and Korean Cinema
- Documentary: History, Theory, and Aesthetics
Selected Creative Works
Feature Films, Theatrical release nationwide.
- The Return (2017, 96 min., 4K HD), Director/Writer. Narrative feature. (in Korean w/English-French subtitles), Commercial release on Dec. 7, 2017; Golden Zenith Award, the 41st Montreal World Film Festival; Ulju Mountain Film Festival; Jeonju International Film Festival; Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
- Mira Story (2014/2015, 84 min., HD), Director/Writer/Producer. Documentary feature. (in Korean w/English subtitles), Commercial release on Jan. 15, 2015; Seoul Green Film Festival.
- Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2011/2012, 83 min., HDV), Director/Writer/Producer. Documentary feature. (in Korean w/English subtitles). Commercial release on Dec. 10, 2012; Busan International Film Festival, Seoul Independent Documentary Film Festival, Korean Film Festival in Bhutan; Paris Korean Film Festival
Short Films
- The Secret of Hanji Craft (2014/2015, 10 min., HD), Producer/Director. Short film. (in Korean w/English-French subtitles), New FIFMA programme at Empreintes, France, Sep. 12 - Dec. 31, 2017; Singuliers Objets, Plessis Robinson, France, Dec. 09 - 10, 2017; Festival de Metiers d'art, Deauville, France, July 14-17, 2017; Revelation International Fine Craft & Creation Biennial 2017, Paris, France, May 2017.
- Kismet (2013, 30 min., HD), Producer/Director. (in Korean w/Turkish subtitles), Istanbul-Gyeongju World Culture Expo 2013, Istanbul, Turkey. August 31-September 22, 2013.
- Constancy and Change in Korean Craft Arts (2013, 60 min., HD), Producer/Director. (in Korean w/English subtitles), Hidden Match ― An Exhibition of Korean Craft, National Museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. November 24 - December 23, 2013; Taiwan International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo, Taipei, Taiwan. November 21-24, 2013; Milan Design Week, the Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy. April 9 - 14, 2013.
- The Job (2006, SD). Producer. thirteen 30-min. episodes for TVK-24, Comcast cable in Southern California. (In English)
- Between Two Worlds (1996/1998, 30 min., SD), Director/Writer/Producer. (In English), National broadcast on PBS in the United States, 1996. Distributed nationwide in America by UC Berkeley Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1998-2003; Rochester International Film Festival; Sinking Creek Film Festival; VideoScape Asian American Video Showcase; Busan Universiade for Digital Contents; Williams College; UC Davis Asian Pacific Film Fest; Korean American Film Festivals in San Francisco, Chicago, & NYC. |
| Asst Prof Corinne Tan | Broad research interests are in: Platform Governance; Law & Technology; Intellectual Property Law; and Media Law.
Currently researching on: Blockchains; Fake News; and Regulating Artificial Intelligence. |
| Dr Daniel Siew Hoi Kok | Daniel has spoken in the International Military Testing Association (IMTA) conference, international conference on Researching for Work and Learning (RWL) and the Adult Learning Symposium (ALS). His research interests include:
1. Leadership and leadership development
2. Professional learning and development
3. Adult learning, development and performance
4. Human resource consulting |
| Assoc Prof Edson C Tandoc Jr. | media gatekeeping, journalism studies, web analytics, social media, fake news |
| Dr Ella Raidel | Experimental Cinema, Sinophone Cinema, Contemporary Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Interdisciplinary Research Urban Studies |
| Asst Prof Fang Xiaoping | History of medicine, health, and disease in twentieth-century China
Sociopolitical history of Mao’s China after 1949 |
| Asst Prof Felicity Chan | My core research interest lies at the intersections of the formation of social life in cities, global immigration and the planning/design of the urban built environment. I particularly enjoy including mapping as a method of inquiry. Thus, I am intrigued by research (visual and textual) that concurrently explores the joint dimension of society and space and how they interface with urban policies and institutions.
My current research:
1. HAB-itat
How does our perception of urban change shape our sense of home and belonging? How do children and youth construct home and belonging in this age of global mobility? What is the role of the urban built environment in the formation of home and belonging?
2. Urban Imprints of Immigration in Singapore : the socio-spatial impacts of international schools on locales
This project examines the social and spatial changes experienced in locales close to international schools, as a means to study the size and pattern of the imprints of global immigration on local neighborhoods in Singapore.
3. Inter-cultural Learning and Urban Planning in Diverse Places
How do multi-ethnic and multi-national locales function? What are the tensions in diversity? How can the urban built environments be planned and designed for inter-cultural learning in diverse locales? |
| Assoc Prof Hallam Stevens | My research focuses on the intersection between information technology and biotechnology. My first book is an historical and ethnographic account of the changes wrought to biological practice and biological knowledge by the introduction of the computer. Especially in highly computerized fields such as genomics, the computer has changed how biologists work, how biologists collaborate, and how biologists make knowledge.
I am currently pursuing two ongoing research projects. The first is an attempt to develop new methods of studying scientific practice by deploying tools from performance studies. In collaboration with a performance studies scholar, I am examining spaces of biomedical work in East Asia in an effort to deepen our understanding of how such spaces fit into the economic, social, and political context of the cities in which they sit. Sites under examination include Biopolis in Singapore and BGI in Shenzhen.
The second project examines the emergence of "big data." This apparently new field is quite suddenly having an immense impact on politics, the economy, and many aspects of our social world. What is really new about big data? What kinds of changes may it bring? Who will benefit? Historians of technology, in particular, are well equipped to ask and answer such important questions about this emerging phenomenon.
In addition to these projects, I have just completed a general audience book that examines that provides a broad overview of the social, political, and economic effects of biotechnology. The book will be published under the title "Biotechnology & Society" in 2016 (University of Chicago Press).
I am interested in supervising PhD students on topics related to the history of the life sciences, the history of information technology, and science and technology studies. |
| Assoc Prof Ho Hau Yan Andy | Psychosocial Gerontology, Healthy and Creative Ageing with Art-based Research
Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Quality of Life in Stroke and Mental Health Recovery
Caregiver Support and Resilience Building in Bereavement and Dementia Care
Public Health Palliative Care and End of Life Care Provision and Policy Research
Intervention Studies, Holistic Therapies, Life and Death Education, Medical Humanities
Community Empowerment, Health Service Research, Participatory Action Research |
| Asst Prof Ian Rowen | Cultural and political geography, social movements, tourism, transitional justice, innovation, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia. |
| Assoc Prof James Patrick Williams | Professor Williams is trained in the symbolic interactionist tradition of sociology, a social-psychological perspective that foregrounds language and meaning as key dimensions of understanding the everyday life.
Prof Williams' research focuses on youth cultures and subcultures, self and identity, digital media, and games. Much of Prof Williams' publications has centered on the construction of subcultural selves/identities among young people who feel in some way separate from mainstream society. His main contributions to sociology have been theorizing (1) the role new media technologies play in facilitating the development and diffusion of subcultures and subcultural identities and (2) theorizing the social construction of subcultural authenticity. His second interest relates to the increasing salience of fantasy and digital games in everyday life. |
| 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. |
| Assoc Prof Julien Cayla | • Customer experience
• Service interactions
• Consumer culture in Asia
• Recognition theory |
| Asst Prof Jung Jong Hyun | Sociology of Mental Health, Religion, Aging and Life Course, Social Psychology, and Quantitative Methodology |
| Assoc Prof Kamaludeen Bin Mohamed Nasir | Sociology of Religion; Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Deviance and Social Control; Globalization; Sociology of Youth. |
| Asst Prof Koh Keng We | Asian and Comparative Business History; Maritime Trade; Southeast Asian History; Chinese Religions and Comparative Religions; Asian Migrations and Comparative Diasporas; Colonialism; Colonial Knowledge-Formation; State-formations; World History/Global History |
| Asst Prof Kristy H.A. Kang | Dr. Kang's research interests include urban studies, histories and theories of digital media arts, urban media art and digital placemaking, 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 |
| Prof Kwok Kian Woon Anthony | Social and Political Theory; Qualitative Social Research; Social Memory; Comparative Cultural Policy (Arts, Heritage & Creative Cities); Singapore Studies; Mental Health and Illness; and Higher Education in Southeast Asia |
| Asst Prof Laavanya Kathiravelu | My research falls at the nexus of contemporary migration and cities. I am interested in how these two categories of analysis interact with each other in social and spatial terms. I explored this in my PhD looking at labour migration and city-building processes in Dubai. In my postdoctoral work, I have built on previous interests in everyday interactions and diversity by exploring how increased migration is affecting the ways in which a diverse urban population effectively co-exist. This was done in the context of a multi-sited project in three continents, and collaborating with a team of researchers, as well as film makers.
My work aims to disrupt the victimhood discourse surrounding marginalised migrants and broadens understandings of contemporary cities with a focus on more embodied and affective modes of everyday life. Friendship and social networks has been one aspect of contemporary city life that I have started developing a research focus in. My current research expands on the interests on migrants and urban areas by looking at middle class Indian migrants and new citizens in Singapore - a group that has been largely under researched but have contributed to the increase in Singapore's minority racial groupings.
In the future I hope to expand the focus of my work in keeping up the comparative element of the research. This I believe will lead to the opportunity for theory-building. I am especially committed to pushing the theory-building agenda in Asia and more broadly, the Global South. |
| Assoc Prof Lang Chin Ying, Josephine | Dr. Lang's areas of expertise are in organizational behavior, strategic management, and knowledge management. Her current research works focus on the decay of knowledge clusters, the impact of social networking sites in business, and the particularities of executive training and development. |
| Assoc Prof Laura Miotto | My research interests span the areas of:
• theories, methods and design processes used in exhibitions design and spatial narratives in the context of museums and public places
• understanding Exhibition Design historically and in relation to the new socioeconomic realities of Singapore and other modern Asian societies |
| Asst Prof Lee Hyo Jung | Aging and Health, Late-Life Social Relationships, Health Behavior and Health Care Use among Older Adults, End-of-Life Care for Older Adults, Quality of Life and Death |
| Assoc Prof Lim Beng Chong | Team effectiveness, team composition, leadership, multilevel issues, decision making, social network, sensemaking |
| Assoc Prof Lim Khek Gee, Francis | religion, tourism, China, Singapore, South Asia (Nepal, Tibet) |
| Prof Liu Hong | Current Research Areas
• China rising and implications for Southeast Asia
• Chinese international migration, nationalism, transnationalism
• Transnational knowledge transfer and dynamic governance in the Global South (with special reference to China, Southeast Asia and Africa)
• Global talent strategies and management |
| Asst Prof Loh Ming Hui Dylan | Chinese Foreign Policy, ASEAN, norms in inter-governmental organizations; and inter-disciplinary approaches to International Relations with a particular focus on social theory. |
| Assoc Prof Md Saidul Islam | Within the two broad fields of his specialization, environmental sociology and international development, Dr. Islam is particularly known for his research on food and global aquaculture. His scholarship and interests also span in other substantive yet related areas such as neoliberal globalization, sustainability, gender and labor, social power, environmentalism, climate change, disaster vulnerabilities, social and environmental justice, and religion and human rights. |
| Asst Prof Monamie Bhadra Haines | My cross-disciplinary homes include: science and technology studies; postcolonial studies; political theory; energy policy
The primary areas I am interested include: the relationship between science and democracy; liberal and illiberal democratization; social movements; the politics of risk and uncertainty; energy transitions; renewable energy; nuclear power; solar power; humanitarian crisis; refugees; migration.
Secondary areas of interest include: disaster studies; science fiction; human-animal relationships.
Prof Bhadra welcomes applications from undergraduate and PhD students interested in developing projects in STS. |
| Dr Natasha Bhatia | Dr Bhatia's research interests are centered around understanding the interactions between environmental economics and the marine environment. Through the identification and valuation of ecosystem services, policy and management decisions can be made in a way which promotes the sustainable use of the environment, something which impacts us all. Specific projects have previously included socio-economic valuation of Special Areas of Conservation along the east coast of England; Non-market modelling of the changing value of coastal ecosystem services in the wake of the 2013 UK storm surge; the FP7 project ‘VECTORS’ which investigated the drivers, pressures and vectors of change in marine life and its impact on marine economic sectors; and the EU project ‘DEVOTES’ which aimed to develop innovative tools for understanding marine biodiversity and the assessment of good environmental status, as well as creating conceptual models for the effects these pressures have on society. |
| Assoc Prof Ng Sok Ling, Sharon | Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior
Branding Issues
Consumer Information Processing |
| 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 |
| Asst Prof Olivia Choy | Antisocial behavior, Psychopathy, Psychophysiology, Transcranial direct current stimulation, Nutrition, Biosocial criminology, Experimental criminology, Developmental and life-course criminology |
| Assoc Prof Park Hyung Wook | History of Biomedical Science and Medicine
History of the Body
History of Aging and Gertontology
Korean Science and Medicine |
| Assoc Prof Premchand Varma Dommaraju | My research focuses on social and demographic transformations and their implications in Asia. I’m particularly interested in marriage and divorce, families and households, and ageing in South, Southeast and Central Asia. My work has appeared in leading population and demographic journals including Population and Development Review, Population Studies, Demographic Research and Social Science & Medicine.
For further information please visit my blog: https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/premchand |
| 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. |
| Asst Prof Shannon Ang | Social Gerontology; Health and Demography; Social Connectedness; Sociology of the Life Course; Quantitative Methodology |
| Assoc Prof Sourav Saha Bhowmick | Data management, human-data interaction, data analytics, network biology, computational social science, data-driven adult learning. |
| Asst Prof Stephen Campbell | anthropology of the state, postcolonial political economy, labour migration, informal economy, border studies, Myanmar, Thailand |
| Assoc Prof Sulfikar Amir | Science and Technology Studies (STS); Technological Politics; Globalization; Nationalism; Development; Southeast Asia; Risk and Crisis; Nuclear Power; Design Studies, Resilience Studies. |
| Assoc Prof Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley | Science, Technology and Society (STS)
Medical Sociology (social impacts of precision medicine)
Population and Reproduction
Citizenship and Social Inequalities
Changing Families |
| Dr Tan Joo Ean | Marriage and Family Issues; Identity and Social Change; Southeast Asia (urban); Social Demography. |
| Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn | Public policy and governance; state and the familial; welfare and citizenship; state-society relations and culture; gender and class inequalities; poverty; Singapore. |
| Assoc Prof Tsui-Auch, Lai Si | the institutional perspective
varieties of capitalism
legitimacy management
multinational corporations |
| Asst Prof Van Dongen Els | Research Areas
Chinese intellectuals
Intellectual debates in reform China (post-1978)
Conceptual history and knowledge circulation
Twentieth-century Chinese historiography
Intellectual history of modern China
Chinese diaspora and migration
Diaspora policies and nationalism
Education of returned overseas Chinese during the Cold War
Universities for Chinese overseas in the PRC during the reform period (post-1978)
For my publications, see:
http://nanyang.academia.edu/ElsvanDongen
Teaching Areas
HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800
HH3001 Historiography: Theory and Methods
HH3003 Migration and Diaspora: Chinese Experiences in Comparative Perspective
HH3015 In the Name of the Nation?: Nationalism in Asia
HH3021 Traitors, TV Stars, and Taboos: Representing History in Contemporary China
HH3043 The Cultural Revolution as History and Memory
HH4012 Intellectual History of Modern China
HH7090 Special Topics in History: Global Asia |
| Asst Prof Ye Junjia | My research interests lie at the intersections of difference and diversity, critical cosmopolitanism, class, gender studies and the political-economic development of urban Southeast Asia. Alongside extensive ethnographic methods, I also use techniques of film and photography in collaboration with research respondents to create visual narratives through my work. The fundamental question that underlies my research and teaching programmes is what accounts for how social and economic inequalities are constituted through people's mobilities to, through and from diversifying cities? My first monograph entitled "Class inequality in the global city: migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore" (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) won Labour History's 2017 book prize.
My current study problematizes the notion of “migrant integration” by investigating how inequality emerges through forms of differential inclusion. I address the politics of diversification by showing how diverse peoples are incorporated through uneven modes of governance, ordering and management. |
| Asst Prof Yeo Xiong Wei, Jonathan | Currently he is focusing on two main research topics. The first is on social identity, in particular the process of social identity formation and their consequences. The second broadly relates to social/moral preferences and norms, in particular in how these influence economic outcomes in society and organisations. |
| Asst Prof Zhan Shaohua | Economic sociology; Global development; Historical sociology; Labor migration; and China studies |
