Name | Research Interests |
Mr Abel Perez Abad | His research interests include Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Sociocultural Studies, New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching and Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) |
Assoc Prof Adam Douglas Switzer | Adam Switzers main research interest lies in using coastal stratigraphy to define the recurrence interval of catastrophic marine inundation events (tsunami or large storms).
His most significant contributions to the field include:
* the first study of modern storm deposits from the Australian southeast coast;
* the recognition that immature heavy mineral suites in coastal sandsheets may indicate tsunami deposition rather than storm deposition in coastal settings;
* the recognition of an erosional signature of large scale washover of coastal dunes using Ground Penetrating Radar;
* initial evaluation of the sedimentary processes associated with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the southeast coast of India
a definitive review and re-analysis of large boulder accumulations in coastal settings on the southeast Australian coast. |
Dr Aileen Ng Cheng Cheng | Aileen Ng is interested in the area of Discourse Analysis and Computer Mediated Communication in English Language teaching and learning. She has researched on the use of Information and Communication Technology for teaching Communication Skills based on Socio-cultural Theory as well as analysed the discourse of pre-workplace texts such as job application letters and resumes. Her current research interests are in religious discourse and feedback in academic writing. |
Asst Prof Akshar Saxena | Health economics;
Economics of aging;
Non-communicable diseases and obesity;
Applied econometrics;
Impact evaluation;
Health sector reform and comparative health care systems
Pensions and retirement. |
Assoc Prof Alexander Robertson Coupe | Alexander Coupe's major contributions to linguistic research have focused upon the languages of the South Asia/Southeast Asia region. In addition to documenting the grammars of minority and endangered languages – particularly those spoken in Northeast India – he has investigated evidence of contact and linguistic convergence between Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman languages. This fieldwork-based research is driven by a desire to record and analyse the grammars of poorly understood minority languages, to determine their genetic relationships, to document them for posterity, and to collaborate with speakers to create orthographies for dictionaries and reading books. The output of this work feeds another research goal: to seek functional and diachronic explanations for the structural diversity and commonalities found in human language, and to advance knowledge in the field of linguistic typology.
Specific areas of research interest include the analysis of tone systems, phonetics and phonology, the role of pragmatics in grammar, case-marking systems, morphosyntax, clause linkage, nominalization, grammaticalization, language contact and lexicography. |
Asst Prof Ana Cristina Dias Alves | Her research interest lies in the intersection of Chinese Foreign Policy, economic statecraft and development cooperation in the global south, with particular reference to China’s relations with developing regions in the southern hemisphere. Over the past two decades her research has focused on China’s economic cooperation with Africa, focusing on its engagement in extractive industries, infrastructure development, economic and trade cooperation zones on the continent and more recently on knowledge transfer between China and Africa and its developmental impact. Her research interests also encompass comparative analysis, namely regarding China’s engagement in other developing regions (South America and Southeast Asia in particular), as well as comparing China’s developmental approach with that of other emerging powers in the southern hemisphere. |
Assoc Prof Andrea Nanetti | Dr Andrea Nanetti—as a scholar, who started his research vocation in historical studies at the advent of computer operating systems with graphical user interfaces—has always been fascinated by the exponential growth of interdependencies between artificial actions (i.e., human made) and computational operations (i.e., completed by electronic devices able to store and process data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to them in a variable program or machine learning, which allows algorithms to learn through experience, and do things that we are not able to program). With this interest, he is proposing the theoretical need to direct traditional disciplinary knowledge toward a formal science of heritage (i.e., the treasure of human experiences), which will focus on how data and information—now encoded in complex interactions of written, pictorial, sculptural, architectural, and digital records, oral memories, practices, and performed rituals—may be inherited by machine learning algorithms. This state-of-the-art science pioneers integrated action plans and solutions in response to, and in anticipation of, the exponential growth of emerging needs in our increasingly complex human society. In practice, the research uses multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary methods to identify case studies for interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary teamwork investigations.
Since 2007, Dr Nanetti's main research project is EHM-Engineering Historical Memory (http://www.engineeringhistoricalmemory.com, since 2015 on Microsoft Azure). EHM is both an experimental methodology and an ongoing research project for the organization of historical information in the machine learning age. He first theorized it as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University in 2007. Since his arrival at NTU in 2013, Dr Nanetti has been working on the globalisation of his research interests. Starting from his background studies on the world as seen from Venice through its chronicles and diaries (1205-1433) and world maps (e.g. Fra Mauro), he opened the range of the investigation of other coeval historiographical traditions, in Chinese, Greek, Russian, Persian, and Arab. EHM develops and tests new sets of shared conceptualizations and formal specifications for content management systems in the domain of the Digital Humanities, with a focus on how to engineer the treasure of human experiences and serve decision making, knowledge transmission, and visionarios. In practice, his research develops and applies computationally intensive techniques (e.g., pattern recognition, data mining, machine learning algorithms derived from other disciplines, knowledge aggregators, interactive and visualization solutions). From a theory point of view, EHM focuses on history of historiography and studies new ontologies for the semantic web, inspired by Derrida's notion of trace, Ginzburg's "thread and traces" theory, and last but not least Umberto Eco's semiotics (e.g., 2007 'Dall'Albero al Labirinto', published in English in 2015 as 'From the Tree to the Labyrinth').
In his long-term strategic fit at the NTU Singapore School of Art, Design and Media, Dr Nanetti is designing and engineering a new generation of knowledge aggregators for immersive spaces to test how interactive media and AI can share the century-old experiences of Arts and Humanities with Sciences. In this intellectual framework in 2017 Dr Nanetti initiated an interdisciplinary project to revitalise the social nature of learning experiences from a transcultural perspective. The project is called “Dancing over Ideas of Research”. D.A.N.C.I.N.G. identifies the knowledge aggregation process (Definition, Assumption, Notion, Concept, Interpretation, Narrative, Gamut), which uses AI in immersive spaces to augment and expand the human capacity to discuss complex ideas (i.e., ways of seeing and representing reality) and ultimately facilitate solutions to the 21st century grand challenges. |
Assoc Prof Anilkumar K Samtani | Prof Samtani's areas of expertise are in intellectual property law and information technology law. His current research works focus on trademarks and bilateralism in intellectual property rule-making. |
Prof C.J. Wee Wan-ling | • Globalisation and contemporary cultural production in East and Southeast Asia
• Curation and the idea of 'Asia'
• Literature, theatre and contemporary visual art in Singapore
• Colonialism and nationalism in English and Anglophone literatures and cultures
• Cultural and Postcolonial theory
• Modernity, modernism and the contemporary in Euro-America and East Asia |
Prof Chan Kam Leung Alan | Chinese Philosophy and Religion; Hermeneutics and Critical Theory; Comparative Philosophy and Religion |
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 |
Prof Chen Shen-Hsing Annabel | Prof Chen has a diverse research background, including animal drug studies, human neuropsychological research and cognitive rehabilitation. She has applied Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to study individuals with post-concussion sequelae from mild traumatic brain injury and olfaction in Alzheimer’s Disease, and has been involved in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) research examining language processing, executive functions, and affective memory in healthy and clinical populations (e.g. stroke, anxiety, schizophrenia, dementia), as well as, assessing neural systems used in motor timing/timing perception in patients with Parkinson's Disease. Her main research interests are to investigate underlying neural substrates involved in higher cognition in the cerebellum, as well as changes in cognitive processes in healthy aging and dementia through the application of neuroimaging techniques, such as fMRI, diffusion MRI,Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and most recently electroencephalography (EEG). The goal of her research is to apply these paradigms to study and to develop neuroimaging markers in the cerebro-cerebellar circuitry for clinical groups, and to further understand the processes of neurodevelopmental (e.g. schizophrenia, dyslexia, autism) and neurodegenerative (e.g. dementia, healthy aging) conditions that would be informative to evidence-based interventions.
A recent research development in her lab, the Clinical Brain lab, is focusing on the Neuroscience of Learning and Education. In particular, their lab is investigating the neurophysiological changes in aging neuroscience for learning in language, memory and executive control networks. This allows development of neuromodulation techniques to optimize and/or enhance brain functions for learning. They are also developing research in understanding the effects of emotion on cognition and self-regulation with the use of neuroimaging |
Assoc Prof Chia Wai Mun | Prof Chia's areas of interest include international macroeconomics and cost-benefit analysis. Her current researach work focuses on the effects of real and nominal shocks in a small open economy under different exchange rate regimes, research issues related to Asian economic integration and estimation of value of a statistical life. |
Asst 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 Christos Sakellariou | Associate Professor Chris Sakellariou conducts research in the area of Labor Economics. In particular, his area of expertiese is in the Economics of Education and the Economics of Gender. Currently his is doing reseach on the role of cognitive skills in the labor market and in particular the relationship between education and cognitive skills acquired in school vs. elsewhere. |
Asst Prof Chu Kiu-wai | Kiu-wai’s major research explores how cinema, media and arts represent nature and the environment; and how they impact people’s perceptions and actions towards environmental issues in contemporary world. It also examines how culture shapes, and is shaped by, the contacts and interactions between human and the more-than-human world (including animals, plants, inanimate objects, and the environment) in the Anthropocene age.
Kiu-wai is also actively promoting cross-regional research and educational initiatives and collaborations in Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, particularly in East and Southeast Asian regions. He welcomes global research collaborations with academics from all disciplines, and non-academics such as artists, curators, media workers and others on cultural and ecocritical projects. |
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. |
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 |
Dr Ella Raidel | Experimental Cinema, Sinophone Cinema, Contemporary Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Interdisciplinary Research Urban Studies |
Asst Prof Els Van Dongen | 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
HH4012 Intellectual History of Modern China
HH7090 Special Topics in History: Global Asia |
Assoc Prof Emma Mary Hill | Geodesy, SAR, GPS, tide gauges, satellite gravity, natural hazards, earthquakes, sea level, natural disasters, tectonics, machine learning |
Dr F. Perono Cacciafoco | Historical Linguistics, Etymology, Diachronic Toponymy, Historical Semantics, Onomastics, Indo-European Linguistics, Language Documentation, Descriptive Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Austronesian and Papuan Languages, Landscape Archaeology |
Dr Faizah Binte Zakaria | I am currently working on a book manuscript based on my PhD dissertation titled, "Spiritual Anthropocene: Ecology of Conversion in Maritime Southeast Asian Uplands." The book is under contract with University of Washington Press (anticipated publication, 2021).
My project uses the North Sumatran highlands as a case study to examine how mass religious conversion from animism to monotheism was catalyzed by the transformation of the environment as well as large- scale migration working as a holistic system embedded in global networks. As a postdoctoral research fellow, I will be building on this research to develop a monograph that demonstrates how religious beliefs about the natural world have a dialectical impact on environmental management due to this interconnected global network. Of central interest are the following questions: how do religious beliefs shape a maritime Southeast Asian environmentalism? Conversely, how do changes to our local environments impact religious thought? The project will also further interrogate the idea of the Anthropocene to examine how the concept goes beyond geology and material landscapes as well as time by factoring in how sacred landscapes overlay natural ones.
More broadly, my research interests sits at the nexus of history and anthropology, including: world and imperial history, indigenous peoples and religions, environmental justice and sustainability, mass violence, human rights and the Anthropocene. |
Assoc Prof Feng Qu | Econometrics, Chinese economy, Financial Markets, Machine Learning Applications in Economics and Finance |
Prof Gerard Goggin | Professor Goggin has longstanding interests in the social, cultural, political, and policy dynamics of emerging technology - especially mobile communication and media, Internet, social media, and, most recently, Internet of Things, connected cars, automation and AI.
Among other works, Goggin has co-edited various volumes, including three volumes on aspects of location technologies - Location Technology and Place (2012), Locative Media (2015), and Location Technologies in International Context (2019). In addition, Goggin has co-edited the reference works Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2014), Major Works: Mobile Technologies (2016), and the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society (2020). A founding editor of the journal Internet Histories, Goggin is also co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (2017).
Goggin also has an abiding interest in questions of social inequalities, inclusion and exclusion, and justice in communication and media. He has also worked extensively on consumer and public interest concerns, being among other things, a foundation member of the organization Australian Communication Consumers Action Network (ACCAN). He led a project on Digital Rights in Australia and Asia (2017-2019), and was a member of a group of international scholars who authored a chapter on media and communications for the landmark report of the International Panel on Social Progress (Cambridge University Press, 2018; 3 vols). Goggin has had a particular interest in disability and accessibility, with key books Digital Disability (2003), Disability and the Media (2015), and the new Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2020).
Current projects include: a book on apps, contracted with Polity Press for publication in 2020; and his NTU Start-up Project, 'Smart Equalities in Urban Southeast Asia', which explores disability and ageing in relation to emerging technologies such as connected cars, AI, and Internet of Things - with a focus on Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam. |
Assoc Prof Goh Geok Yian | Associate Professor Goh Geok Yian's areas of expertise are: early history of Burma and Southeast Asia, premodern communication, cultural, religious and trade networks, and study of early urbanization. She currently leads a multi-year project in Bagan, Myanmar and Singapore focusing on ceramics analysis and urbanization. Her current research in Singapore deals with the analysis of materials excavated from two sites: St. Andrew’s Cathedral and Fort Canning Spice Gardens. She is also completing an English translation of a 20th-century Burmese novel by a well-known author, Ma Sandar. Geok has also plans to further her research in the study of Buddhist architecture and mural paintings of Bagan, continuing work on a project which she began in 2008. |
Assoc Prof Hans-Martin Rall | Research profile Asst/Prof. Hans-Martin Rall
Asst/Prof. Rall's research interests are mainly in the areas of digital animation development and interdisciplinary research in art and technology.
He is a renowned director of independent animated short films, with 8 major film-funding grants awarded to him by German and European institutions.
Since 1997 Hannes Rall has built a strong reputation for adapting literature successfully
in his animated short films:
“The Raven“ (1999) and ”The Erl-King“(2003) , adapted from the famous poems by E.A. Poe and J.W. von Goethe respectively, have been screened in over 120 film festivals
world wide and won multiple awards.
His work was shown in group-and solo-shows in galleries in 20 countries worldwide since 2004.
-Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
-National Museum Singapore
-State Gallery of the Arts Stuttgart, Germany
-Bangkok International Film Festival
-Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut
-Egyptian Opera House, Metrogalerie, Kairo
-Cinematheque. Tel Aviv
-Goethe-Institut Damaskus
-Goethe-Institut Ramallah
-Seika Art Academy, Kyoto
-Osaka European Film Festival
-Auckland University of Technology, NZ
-Pataka Museum Wellington, NZ
-Muzium dan Galeri Seni Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
"Tradigital Mythmaking":
-Goethe-Institut Singapore/Singapore International Film-Festival
-Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur/Univesrsiti Teknologi Mara Kuala Lumpur
Asst/Prof. Rall was awarded a 86 000,- SD tier 1 research grant by NTU in 2006.
“Tradigital Mythmaking-Singaporean-Animation for the 21st Century” :
In this project Prof. Rall explores the development of genuinely Southeast Asian animation styles, which are not derived from Western or Japanese concepts.
His book “Tradigital Mythmaking” was published in Singapore in 2009.
In 2010 he was awarded a second tier 1 research grant in the amount of SD 150 000,- to
continue and expand his research in “Tradigital Mythmaking-The Next level”:
In close cooperation with the Co-PI Prof. Seah Hock Soon from the School of Computer Engineering,
Asst/Prof. Rall is exploring the development of digital tools for the adaptation of Asian
mythological stories in local art styles.
External research funding
2007 Film production funding by the Film Funding Board of Baden Württemberg (MFG Filmförderung) for the film “The Cold Heart”
2004 Script-development funding by the MFG Baden-Württemberg for the animated shortfilm „THE COLD HEART“.
2003 Reference-filmfunding for the film ”The Erl-King“ by the FFA Berlin.
2000 Production-funding for „The Erl-King“ MFG Baden-Württemberg
2000 Production-funding for “The Erl-King”by the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film.
2000 Reference-funding for “The Raven”by FFA, Berlin
1997 Production-funding for the short film “The Raven”by the MFG Baden-Württemberg
1994 Script-development funding for animated series „Dicki“ by MEDIA-program
Research areas:
-Exploring Asian culture and history to develop unique and original animation styles, which are not derived from Western concepts.
(Current research project: “Tradigital Mythmaking”)
-Development and application of new digital technology to visualize Asian art styles in animation (Current research project: “The Living Line” Co-PI: Prof. Seah Hock Soon SCE,
10 000,-SD mini seed grant by Institute for Media Innovation NTU)
-The adaptation of literature for animation
(Current research project: “The Cold Heart”, 25 minute animated short film
adapted from the novel by Wilhelm Hauff, 90 000,- Euro film-funding grant
by MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg).
-Marketing animated short films in the 21st century (URECA research project)
-History of German animation
-History of Southeast Asian Animation |
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. |
Prof J. Soedradjad Djiwandono | Monetary Economics, International Economics and Development Economics of Indonesia and the neighboring countries.
Banking, Finance and Central Banking. |
Assoc Prof Jian Ming | financial reporting, corporate finance and corporate governance in the emerging markets |
Assoc Prof Josh Wheatly Keller | Associate Professor Keller's primary research interest is studying how managers think about paradoxes (cooperation and competition, exploration and exploitation and authenticity and legitimacy). He examines cross-cultural differences, the role of the industry environment, and individual differences. He also is looking at the neurological foundation of paradox. |
Assoc Prof Julien Cayla | • Customer experience
• Service interactions
• Consumer culture in Asia
• Recognition theory |
Assoc Prof Kamaludeen Bin Mohamed Nasir | Sociology of Religion; Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Deviance and Social Control; Globalization; Sociology of Youth. |
Assoc Prof Kang Meng Chow | Information Security Risk Management; Information Security Professional Practices; Cybersecurity Strategy, Policy, and Regional Development (Asia). |
Asst Prof Katagiri, Azusa | interstate conflict, diplomatic communication in interstate crises, bureaucratic decision-making in foreign policy, and statistical and computational methods |
Asst Prof Kei Koga | IR theory
International institutions
Institutional change
International Security
East Asian regional security
Comparative regionalism
US-Japan Relations
ASEAN
China |
Asst Prof Kim Soojin | Public Budgeting and Finance
Financial Management and Performance
Contracting Out of Public Services
Public-Private Partnerships
Institutional Arrangements in Policy Choices |
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/ |
Asst Prof Koh Kai Yang, Alan | corporate law; comparative corporate law; comparative law; Japanese law; corporate governance; private international law; international corporate law |
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. |
Dr Kumaran Rajaram | • Organisational Science and Behaviour
• Institutional and Organizational Culture
• Learning Culture and Culture of Learning in Higher Education Institutions and Organizations
• Cross-Cultural Management
• Internationalization of Higher Education
• Learning Analytics
• Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience
• Character Education and Leadership Development in Business Education
Research Interest in the Neuroscience of Learning and Education
• Social-Psychological interventions in Business Education
• Applying Neuroscience to comprehend:
• Empathy, Compassion, Character Education and Leadership traits
• Engagement and Learning Effectiveness amongst learners
• Students’ Performance and Outcomes |
Assoc Prof Kwan Sze Pui Uganda | Translation Studies (Translation History; Gender issues in cross cultural translation; Literary translation)
Comparative Modern Sino-Japanese Literature
British Sinology in the 19th Century
Hong Kong Literature |
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 Lam Siu Lee | Management, strategy and modelling for supply chains, shipping, ports and other related areas;
Development of integrated intelligent systems/ decision support systems;
Innovation, including data analytics, block chain;
Port competition and cooperation;
Energy;
Sustainable development;
Risk management;
Logistics and Supply chain management;
Econometrics;
Maritime and port policy;
Trade and maritime developments, especially for Asia, including Belt and Road Initiative |
Assoc Prof Lau Wai Man | Dr Lau's areas of expertise are Fluidization, Multiphase Flow, and Reactor Design. His current research works focus on the kinetic and hydrodynamic study of Fisher-Tropsch Synthesis process, particle formulation and inhaler design in dry powder inhalation, and process engineering study of microalgae cultivation. For more information, please visit his research homepage at: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/WMLau/ |
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 Lee Ser Huay Janice Teresa | After having worked on a range of topics in conservation (wildlife trade, invertebrate ecology, habitat fragmentation), I now focus on the conservation and development challenges faced in the context of commercial and small-scale agricultural expansion in the tropics. I am interested to pursue more research in the areas of conservation and development in the rural tropics, food security, sustainable certification of agro-commodities, as well as understanding how to curb the haze in Southeast Asia. |
Asst Prof Leong Kaiwen | Under review
Leong, K., Li H., Xu Haibo. "Economics of Criminal Organizations: Evidence from a Drug-Selling Gang in Singapore."
Chiba, S, Leong, K. “Cheap Talk with Outside Options.”
Working Papers
Leong, K., Li H., Xu Haibo. "Policing Loan Sharks: Evidence from the Singapore Unlicensed Money Lending Markets."
Leong, K., Xu, Haibo. “Cheap Talk with Outside Options: An experimental Analysis.”
Leong, K., Xu Haibo. “Coase Theorem’s Breakdown: An Experimental Analysis.”
Leong, K., Li, H. “Economics of Rumors: A Field experiment on Collective Delusions in Organizations.” |
Prof Li Chenyang | Chenyang Li's research interest is primarily in Chinese philosophy. He has published extensively in classical Confucianism. His work also covers feminist philosophy, democracy, and human value. |
Asst Prof Liew Kai Khiun | 1. Transnational Popular Cultural Flows
2. Heritage Studies
3. Social media cultures
4. Singapore Studies
5. Medical Humanities |
Assoc Prof Lim Ai Ching | Emotions and affective display
Culture and Cross-Cultural Consumer Differences
Language Effects in Advertising |
Assoc Prof Lim Khek Gee, Francis | religion, tourism, China, Singapore, South Asia (Nepal, Tibet) |
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.
Currently, Ni Eng is involved in investigating doctor-patient interaction in medical settings as the Principal Investigator of a Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 grant titled "Doctoring the Elderly: Doctor-Patient Interaction in a Urology Clinic". |
Prof Liow Chin Yong, Joseph | My research interests are varied. I have worked extensively on Muslim social and political movements in Southeast Asia, as well as religion, nationalism and political violence in the region. More recently, I have taken a keen interest in broader issues of the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the Asia-Pacific region, focusing primarily on Sino-US relations and the implications of its twists and turns for the wider region. |
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 |
Prof Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy | Interaction between tone and intonation; Prosody in Conversational Interaction; Conversation Analysis; English and Chinese grammar; Chinese Linguistics; History and structure of Cantonese; Language and Cognitive Neuroscience; Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing |
Asst Prof Michael Stanley-Baker | Chinese Medicine
Chinese Religions
Digital Humanities
Medical Anthropology
Chinese Literature and History
Asian Medicines |
Asst Prof Michelle Lim | Contemporary Art
History of Exhibitions
Contemporary Curating
Sustainability and Communities in Urban Ecologies
Art History (East Asia) |
Dr Michelle Phang Mee Seong | Dr Phang’s research interests are in management control systems, risk management, knowledge management, and firm performance. Her projects primarily focus on investigating the impact of management control systems within the risk management context, exploring the relationship between use of management control systems and knowledge sharing, and examining the roles of knowledge sharing in competency development.
She was a recipient of the Best Paper Award (Education) at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference in 2011. Her research projects also received the MIA Articles of Merit Award from the Malaysia Institute of Accountants in 2010, and the Highly Commended Paper Award from the Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence in 2012. |
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. |
Assoc Prof Ng Woon Lam | His research interests include areas in Art Education, Scientific study of art materials, Oriental Art History and Culture, South East Asia Art, Classical Painting language in Contemporary Art and Digital Animation, Digital Painting, Design, Illustration and Fine Art.
Potential researchers, Phd / MA students may contact him directly to discuss possible research collaborations or supervision.
Looking for potential Phd students / Master students in Computer Science or Engineering to work with Python programming for MAYA. The program is to work for Calligraphic brushworks in 3D space. Interested potential students, please contact Asst. Prof. Ng Woon Lam : ngwoonlam@ntu.edu.sg
Looking for suitable MA students to work on Fine Art related research, focusing on colors and design |
Asst Prof Ngoei Wen-Qing | U.S. empire and foreign relations history
Global Cold War history
Decolonization in Southeast Asia
Race and Diaspora
Comparative colonialism and nationalism |
Asst Prof Nicholas Witkowski | Dr. Witkowski is engaged in two research projects, one belonging to the ancient world of South Asia and a second which deals with contemporary South Asian religious communities. The first is a multi-stage project that draws primarily on the Buddhist law codes (Vinaya) to demonstrate the centrality of ascetic precepts (dhūtaguṇas) to the Buddhist monastery of the middle period (0-500CE) in Indian Buddhism. Dr. Witkowski's recent publications have focused on the cultures of everyday life in the Indian Buddhist monastery. A second project focuses on the ascetic practices of South Indian communities, both within India, and across Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. |
Ms Nicole Midori Woodford | Nicole’s works and research seek to explore the myriad parallels between people in Asia and Southeast Asia using cinema as well as the space between the mundane and the profane.
As a filmmaker, she manipulates the day to day gestures of characters within her films and ritualises them while juxtaposing them alongside the uncanny. Her perspective focuses on the female psyche and how trauma is translated to the cinematic form featuring female protagonists. Nicole is also interested in melding works with influences from the horror genre as a means to translate the psychological journeys of such characters.
In her feature film project, Nicole investigates these complex emotions of a person’s departure from his or her life due to trauma, using spirituality as a means of discourse and catharsis for the characters in the film. |
Assoc Prof Oh Joo Tien | Prof Oh'ss areas of expertise are Magnetic Materials, Ceramic Substrate Materials for Microelectronic Packaging, Electrolytic Capacitors and Electron Microscopy. His current research works focus on Nanostructured Magnetic Materials |
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 Ong Soon Keong | Chinese migration and the overseas Chinese
Modern Chinese history
Chinese urban history
Treaty ports, especially Xiamen |
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 |
Assoc Prof Quah Sy Ren | Literary and Cultural Theory
Theatre and Performance Studies
History of Singapore Theatre |
Prof Randy John La Polla | Sino-Tibetan Linguistics
Linguistic Typology
Historical linguistics (including Grammaticalization and Sino-Tibetan reconstruction)
Functional Syntax (esp. Role & Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar)
Pragmatics (particularly Relevance Theory)
Anthropological Linguistics (Asian languages on which I have done fieldwork: Cambodian, Chinese dialects [Southern Fujian, Beijing subdialects, Shanghai, Guangzhou dialects], Dulong [1st Township, 3rd Township, 4th Township, Nujiang dialects], Qiang [Ronghong, Qugu dialects], Rawang [Mvtwang, Dvru dialects], Tagalog, Vietnamese.) |
Dr Ritu Jain | Ritu Jain is interested in aspects of Language Policy and Planning. Her specific focus has been on the impact of language policies on the maintenance of minority languages in immigrant settings. In her work, she has highlighted the negotiation of the language education policy among the transnational Indians in Singapore, and the impact of such processes on language education, individual and group identity, community social positions, and intra- and inter-ethnic community harmony.
Her current Tier 1 research project investigates the large scale shift to English among the Indians in Singapore. She is also editing a volume on the languages of Singapore for the Routledge series, Multilingual Asia. |
Asst Prof Sabrina Luk Ching Yuen | Healthy aging and healthcare financing reforms
Comparative healthcare systems
E-government and governance in Asia
Smart cities
Public administration
Public policy analysis
China studies
Dr. Luk is the leading contributor to the UNESCAP report on Evolution of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development: The Experiences of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore. The report was officially launched on March 18, 2019. In March 2019, Dr. Luk presented her knowledge and expertise on STI policies for frontier technologies in the Training Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which was jointly organized by UNESCAP and the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) of the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with the Asia Research and Training Network on Science Technology and Innovation Policy (ARTNET on STI).
Public lecture:
‘Smart Cities in Asia’ (January 18, 2019), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Trainer for NTU Summer Programme 2019 -The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Are You Ready?
Training session: Cybersecurity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2019 July 18)
Invited presentations
[1] Sabrina LUK (2019 April 11) ‘AI-powered Governance in China: Implications for the Asia Pacific Countries’, the 13th Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers (APPSNO), 8-12 April 2019, Singapore.
[2] Sabrina Luk (2019 March 19) 'Policy responses to frontier technologies from East and North-East Asia’, Training Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Incheon, the Republic of Korea.
[3] Sabrina Luk (2019 March 18) ‘Policies for frontier technologies in China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore’, Expert Group Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the UNESCAP East and North-East Asia Office, Incheon, the Republic of Korea.
[4]Sabrina Luk (2019 March 4) "The Creation of a Dementia-friendly Community in Singapore”,Seminar organized by the Centre for Ageing and Healthcare Management Research (CAHMR) at the School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED), Hong Kong.
[5] Sabrina Luk (2019 February 8) “The Application of Artificial Intelligence in China: Current Status and Future Directions”, The workshop on “Unpacking Industry 4.0: The Limit of Digitalizing Everything”, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
[6] Sabrina Luk (2018 October 20) “The Past, Present and Future of HealthHub in Singapore”, Joint Conference on Medical Informatics in Taiwan and the Hospital Chief Information Officer Summit (JCMIT 2018).
[7] Sabrina Luk (2018 October 17) “E-government and Cybersecurity in Singapore”, Seminar organized by United Nations Students Associations Publication Wing,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
[8] Sabrina Luk (2018 April 12) “Data, Security and Trust- The Case from China”, Gemalto Evolution 2018, Singapore.
[9] Sabrina Luk (2018 April 11) "The Social Credit System in China", ‘Public Service 2030 and beyond’, the UNDP Global Centre for Public Service Excellence, Singapore.
[10] Sabrina Luk (2018 March 28) “The Financial Sustainability of the Health Insurance System in China: Challenges for the Present and Future”,East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. |
Asst Prof Sadat Reza | Econometrics of social and spatial interaction; econometrics of duration data; digital technology in emerging markets |
Asst Prof Saifuddin Ahmed | Civic Engagement; Political Communication; Political Inequality; Social Media; Public Opinion; Minority |
Prof Shane Allen Snyder | • Advanced oxidation processes for water treatment
• Analytical and bioanalytical methods for emerging environmental contaminants
• Novel sensor systems and networks for water treatment
• Water treatment process engineering and optimization
• In vitro bioassay systems for evaluating environmental mixtures
• Characterization of organic matter and disinfection byproducts |
Assoc Prof Sia Siew Kien | Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP systems represent a major change in organisational information systems in terms of their scale and scope, reliance on vendors and advocacy of best practices. They are pervasive and often mission critical. Streamlining and integrating organisational procedures and standardising them over a single platform were what these systems promised. However, cases of expensive ERP implementations going awry has led many to recognise the inherent challenges of successfully implementing such complex package software. Research is currently in progress on these themes: (1) cultural fit of the underlying ERP business models, (2) partitioning the sources of misfits in ERP, (3) challenges in analysing, designing, and implementing ERP, and (4) ERP as an leverage for enterprise integration.
Achieving Global Excellence in Asian Companies: Strategy, Governance and Technology
The growth of the Asian market has led to the development of a select group of Asian companies that have successfully established an international presence. How did these enterprises transform themselves to capture the opportunities in the international market? What strategy and governance principles have they used? How has information technology enabled scale, responsiveness, and innovation in the highly volatile business environment? This research study seeks to understand the practices followed by a handful of leading Asian companies that have clearly established themselves as global leaders.
Tech Disruption and the Quest for New Institutional Legitimacy
Innovation in ICT has disrupted established industries and led to the emergence of new business models which promise to democratize socio-economic relations, bringing new value to customers, workers, and society at large. But as the new business models emerge, they have stirred up many controversies, challenged by various stakeholders in a tussle for new legitimacy. I seek to understand the chaotic process in the dynamic struggle for new legitimacy. What are the legitimacy challenges that tech disruptors face? How can these legitimacy challenges be overcome to achieve success? How are the tech disruptors able to influence the field-level processes of institutionalization to gain legitimacy? What tactics are used in the related struggles?
Tech Innovations for Inclusive Development in Emerging Markets
Exciting new technological innovations are promising new possibilities and opportunities for inclusive growth in the emerging markets. However, real success of such tech innovations in enabling social and economic developments remain elusive as these emerging markets are often stumbled by the lack of fundamental infrastructure and inadequate formal institutional structure. How tech disruptors can innovatively address, bridge or even leverage these institutional voids is a research question that I seek to understand. What are the strategies the tech disruptors employ to address the institutional voids and other institutional challenges in emerging markets? How do these tech disruptors balance the pursuit of market growth and the creation of impactful social outcomes?
Future of Financial Services: FinTech Innovations in Asia
Business digitization is changing the competitive landscape of many industries – the banking industry is of no exception. This research seeks to study the development of digital innovation in financial services in the context of Asia. How is Asia different? What are the unique institutional contexts of Asian market that such FinTech innovations need to cater to? What will the future of financial services in Asia be like? |
Assoc Prof Sim Wai Chew | Singapore literature and culture, Postcolonial literature and theory, Sinophone studies, Comparative literature, and Southeast Asian studies |
Asst Prof Stephen Campbell | anthropology of the state, postcolonial political economy, labour migration, informal economy, border studies, Myanmar, Thailand |
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? |
Asst Prof Sujatha A. Meegama | Keywords: Global Art Histories, Connecting Art Histories in the Indian Ocean, Digital Humanities, Museum Education
Research Grants:
2018 National Heritage Board Grant, Singapore
2017 American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies
2012-2015 Start-up Grant, Nanyang Technological University
Publications:
2017 Sri Lanka: Connected Art Histories. Edited by Sujatha Meegama. Mumbai, India: Marg Foundation, 2017.
2017 “In Search of National Traditions: Mapping Sri Lanka’s Art Histories.” In Sri Lanka: Connected Art Histories. Edited by Sujatha Meegama.
Mumbai, India: Marg Foundation, 2017.
2017 “Albrecht Durer in Sri Lanka: An Ivory Carver’s Response to a European Print.” In Sri Lanka: Connected Art Histories. Edited by Sujatha
Meegama. Mumbai, India: Marg Foundation, 2017.
2017 “The Local and the Global: The Multiple Visual Worlds of Ivory Carvers in Early Modern Sri Lanka.” In Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of
History. Edited by Zoltan Biedermann and Alan Strathern. London: University College London Press, 2017.
2013 “War and Peace: Visual Narratives from Contemporary Sri Lanka.” In exhibition catalog, War and Peace: Visual Narratives from
Contemporary Sri Lanka.
2010 “South Indian or Sri Lankan? The Hindu Temples in Polonnaruva, Sri Lanka” Artibus Asiae Vol. 70.1 (2010): 25-45. |
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 Sureenate Jaratjarungkiat | Syntax, Semantics, Thai grammar, and Teaching Thai as a foreign language. |
Asst Prof Suzy Styles | I investigate how the mind handles that most human of processes: Language. As a psycholinguist, I use methods from cognitive science, experimental psychology and neuroscience to explore the way that language develops in infancy, the way it functions in the mind of the individual, and the way it changes over the life-course.
In one branch of my research, I investigate how we develop systems of meaning that help us to coordinate linguistically-labeled concepts in the developing lexicon. For example, I have been investigating when words like "cat" and "dog" become functionally connected in the mind of infants and toddlers (in a way that "cat" and "bicycle" are not), and what outcome this has on moment-by-moment language comprehension. I am fundamentally interested in 'lexicons' as systems of organizing information about words. I investigate how features of each individual's vocabulary contribute to their comprehension of spoken language. I also investigate the interface between the sounds of words and their meanings, looking at how viewing a picture can trigger in the mind the idea of its name, and whether some pictures 'look more like' what they are called than others.
In another branch of my research, I am interested in how different types of written language influence the way that we encode the sound system of our spoken languages. Some languages have just one way of representing the sounds of their language, while others have multiple alphabets, syllabries, ideographs, or mixed script systems. The human mind is capable of handling all of these systems - but we understand little about how they differ in terms of processing, and underlying cognitive representations.
Furthermore, I am interested in our inter-sensory experience of the world, and how certain sounds correspond more ‘naturally’ to certain aspects of visual perception – for example, sounds differing in pitch are described as ‘high’ or ‘low’. I investigate when these intersensory mappings develop, and how they may differ between speakers of different languages. |
Prof Tan Kong Yam | His research interests are in international trade and finance, economic and business trends in the Asia Pacific region and economic reforms in China. He has published five books and numerous articles in major international journals including World Bank Economic Review, American Economic Review, Long Range Planning, and Australian Journal of Management etc on economic and business issues in the Asia Pacific region. He served as board member at the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board (1984-96) and the National Productivity Board (1989-90). He has also consulted for many organizations including Citigroup, IBM, ATT, BP, ABN-AMRO, People's Bank of China, EDB, Areva, Guangdong provincial government, Samsung, Mauritius Government, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mobil, Singapore Technology, Temasek Holdings, GIC etc.
陈教授的学术研究领域包括国际贸易与金融、亚太地区经济与贸易发展趋势,以及中国经济改革。他出版过12本有关亚太地区经济和商业研究的著作, 1984-1996年期间陈教授担任新加坡中央公积金董事,1989-1990年任国家生产力委员会委员;此外他还为多家公司或组织提供咨询,其中包括:淡马锡公司, 新加坡政府投资公司、花旗银行、IBM、BP石油公司、荷兰银行、宜家、中国银行、嘉德置地、三星公司、毛里求斯政府等 |
Assoc Prof Tan Ying Ying | Tan Ying Ying is trained as a phonetician. Her research in phonetics has focused largely on the prosody (stress, intonation, rhythm) of Singapore English and other languages in Singapore, with particular attention to social-indexical variation, ethnic differentiation and substrate influence. Her current research inquiry concerns the constitution of the Singaporean accent. Besides Singapore English, she is also interested in the tonology of Southern Min languages such as Teochew and Hokkien. A firm believer in interdisciplinarity, she is engaged in understanding and analyzing language policy and planning through the lenses of cultural theory and contemporary thought. She has published in areas as phonetics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and cultural theory. |
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. |
Asst Prof Ting Chun Chun | Social and artistic activism
Chinese Literature and Cinema
Asian Urbanisms
Literary and Cultural Theory
Sinophone Literature
Chinese Ecocriticism |
Assoc Prof Tsui-Auch, Lai Si | the institutional perspective
varieties of capitalism
legitimacy management
multinational corporations |
Asst Prof Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah | My research interests include state-religion relations, political parties and elections, political Islam, and Southeast Asian politics. |
Asst Prof Wang Wanzheng Michelle | W. Michelle Wang's fields of interest are in post-1945 British and American fiction, with a scholarly interest in East Asian popular culture. She specialises in areas of narrative theory and aesthetic theory, and has published articles in the Review of Contemporary Fiction and the Journal of Narrative Theory. |
Assoc Prof Wong Chen-Hsi | Chen-Hsi's directorial focus is on character-driven stories that probe liminal spaces in our contemporary life. |
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 Yeh Hui-Yuan | Biological Anthropology
Archaeological Science
Bioarchaeology
Human migrations
Population genetics
Disease prediction
Disease evolution
Health and society
Full Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivy_Hui_Yuan_Yehyehuiyuan |
Assoc Prof Yeo Puay Hwa Jesvin | Interdisciplinary Design Research – exploring design in different fields/industries (such as media, retailer, banking and financial services, healthcare and pharmaceutical) to integrate functional, emotional and social aspects that are based on actual need.
Intangible and Tangible Heritage Studies – innovation through culture and tradition.
Design and Visual Research Methods – theoretical and practical influences on creative concept development in the design-visual communication processes.
Visual Research – Material Culture; Asian Cultural Identity; Experimental Typography; Inclusive and Innovative Packaging Design; Knowledge Visualization.
Digital Humanities – Cultural Analytics; Visualization and Data Design. |
Asst Prof Yin Ker | Yin Ker works on narratives of art beyond the Euramerican canon, in particular, images classified as "Buddhist art" and artistic productions from South and Southeast Asia. To further her understanding of art, the artist and the history of art in these areas as variable constructs, she is currently examining the historiography of art in modern times, as well as ancient notions of material culture labelled as "art" today. She is keen to rethink art beyond the dichotomies of the pre-modern versus the modern, the sciences versus the fine arts, and spiritual experience versus scientific thinking, for example. |
Assoc Prof Yip Sau Leung | Research Interest
1. International Monetary Economics
2. Foreign direct investments
3. Applied Econometrics in Economics, Finance and Management Studies
4. Exchange rate systems and macroeconomic policies in China, Singapore and Hong Kong
Journal Papers
1. Tsang Eric W. K., Yip Paul S. L. and Toh M. H. 2008, The Impact of R&D on Value Added for Domestic and Foreign Firms in a Newly Industrialized Economy, International Business Review (United States), Vol. 53, No. 3.
2. Yip Paul S.L., Tan K.C., 2008, Impacts of Ageing Population on Monetary and Exchange Rate Management in Singapore, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), Vol. 53, No. 2.
3. Tsang Eric W.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2008, Competition, Agglomeration, and Performance in Beijing Hotels, The Service Industries Journal (United Kingdom), Vol. 29, No. 2.
4. Tsang Eric W.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2007, Economic Distance and Survival of Foreign Direct Investments, Academy of Management Journal (United States), 50(5), 1156-1168.
5. Yip Paul S.L., 2007, China's Exchange Rate System Reform, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 52( 3), 363-402.
6. Yip Paul S.L., Tsang Eric W.K., 2007, Interpreting Dummy Variables and Their Interaction Effects in Strategic Research, Strategic Organization (Canada), 5(1), 13-30.
7. Yip Paul S.L., 2007, Editorial Overview: Important Lessons from Some Major Exchange Rate and Monetary Experiences in Asia, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 52(3), 269-283.
8. Yip Paul S.L., Yao S.T., 2006, Removing Foreign Direct Investment's Exchange Rate Risk in Developing Economies, International Review of Economics and Finance (United States), 15(3), 294-315.
9. Tse Y.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2006, Exchange Rate Systems and Interest Rate Behavior: The Experience of Hong Kong and Singapore, International Review of Economics and Finance (United States), 15(2), 212-227.
10. Yip Paul S.L., 2005, On the Maintenance Costs and Exit Costs of the Peg in Hong Kong, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (United States), 8(3), 377-403.
11. Tse Y.K., Yip Paul S.L., 2003, The Impacts of Hong Kong's Currency Board Reforms on the Interbank Market, Journal of Banking and Finance (Netherlands), 27(12), 2273-2296.
12. Yip Paul S.L., 2003, A Restatement of Singapore's Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 48(2), 201-212.
13. Yip Paul S.L., Wang R.F., 2002, Is Price in Hong Kong That Flexible? Evidence from the Export Sector, Asian Economic Journal (Japan), 16(2), 193-208.
14. Yip Paul S.L., 2002, A Note on Singapore's Exchange Rate Policy: Empirical Foundations, Past Performance and Outlook, Singapore Economic Review (Singapore), 47(1), 173-182.
15. Yip Paul S.L., Wang R.F., 2001, On the Neutrality of Exchange Rate Policy in Singapore, ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Singapore), 18(2), 251-262.
16. Yip Paul S.L., 1999, The Speculative Attack in Hong Kong Amid the Asian Financial Crisis, Asian Pacific Journal of Finance (Singapore), 2(1), 79-92. [Extended from an anti-crisis proposal against the speculative attack and interest rate hike in Hong Kong in 1997-98.]
17. Driver, D., Yip Paul S.L., Dakhil, N., 1996, Large Company Capital Formation and Effects of Share Turbulence: Micro-data Evidence from the PIMS Data Base, Applied Economics (United Kingdom), 28(6), 641-651.
18. Yip Paul S.L., Yeo H.H., Tan T.M., Tan C.H., 1996, The Asian Consumer Durable Market: With Special Reference to China, ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Singapore), 12(3), 380-396.
Books
1. Yip Paul S. L., 2008, The Exchange Rate Systems and Policies in Asia, World Scientific.
2. Yip Paul S. L., 2005, The Exchange Rate Systems in Hong Kong and Singapore: Currency Board vs Monitoring Band, Prentice Hall. |
Assoc Prof Yougesh Khatri | •Global macroeconomics and finance
•Economic development and public policy
•Long-term asset management |
Dr Zeliha Gul Inanc | Contemporary Religious Art and Architecture
Intercultural Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Cultural Heritage Education
Refugee Studies- Higher Education Access for the Refugee Youth |
Asst Prof Zhan Shaohua | Economic sociology; Global development; Historical sociology; Labor migration; and China studies |
Asst Prof Zhou Taomo | Modern Southeast Asian History, Modern Chinese History, Economic History, Migration, International Communist Movement, Cold War, International Relations. |
Assoc Prof Zou Xi | Cultural Psychology, Motivation Science |