Completed Grants

Digital Twin Models: A Comparative Approach to Global Methods

PI & Co-PI(s): Farzin Lotfi-Jam & Chaewon Ahn
Collaborator(s): Connor Graham, Chang Jiat Hwee, Rudi Stouffs, Flip Biljecki, Yi-Chieh Lee & Steven Jackson
Funding Agency: Cornell-NUS Global Strategic Collaboration Awards
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Follow the Code: Urban Models and Resilient Future

PI & Co-PI(s): Chaewon Ahn, Connor Graham, Chang Jiat Hwee & Rudi Stouffs
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Ageing Immigrants and Integration Over the Life Course in Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Elaine Ho Lynn-Ee & Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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A Study on Cross-National Families in Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA, Khoo Lin Zhi Bernice, Esther Goh & Theodora Lam
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UWCSEA-APP Partnership

PI & Co-PI(s): Kishore Mahbubani
Funding Agency: United World College of South East Asia
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Bolstering Partnerships to Study the Impact of China’s Belt and Road

PI & Co-PI(s): Edward Schatz, Rachel Silvey, Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA & Neil Collins
Funding Agency: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada & Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto
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Linking the Digital Humanities to Biodiversity History in Singapore and Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Anthony Medrano, Stefan Huebner, Darren C.J. Yeo, Lily Chen & Cheng Ean Lee
Collaborator(s): Paul Smith, Huism Tan, Ronald Milne, Chen-Chieh Feng & Cynthia Zayas
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Social Science and Humanities Research Thematic Grant
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Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples 1974-2021

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Hue Guan Thye, Caroline Chia & Xue Yiran
Funding Agency: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
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Cohesion, Community Care and Confidence in Singaporean Chinese Temples and Associations and Other Asian Religious Institutions: The Impacts of Globalisation and Religious Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Manimaran Pushpanatan
Funding Agency: Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth
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International Student Mobility in a Time of COVID-19: Regimes, Experiences and Aspirations

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Yi'En Cheng & Yang Peidong
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Chinese Huiguan and the Re-making of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Ningning Chen
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1
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Governing Diverse Cities in Europe and Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Ho Kong Chong, Camille Schmoll, Marie Gilbert-Flutre & Delphine Pages El Karoui
Funding Agency: Université de Paris & National University of Singapore (UParis NUS Joint Research Project Grant)
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Healthcare and ‘Foodwork’ among Foreign Domestic Workers and their Left-behind Children in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA & Theodora Lam
Funding Agency: NUS-Global Asia Institute NIHA (NUS Initiative to Improve Health in Asia) Research Grant
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Climate Governance of Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): David Taylor & Michelle Ann Miller
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Mapping Female Religious Heritage in Singapore: Chinese Female Temples as Sites of Regional Socio-Cultural Linkage (19th Century to the Present)

PI & Co-PI(s): Show Ying Ruo & Kenneth Dean
Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
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Capitals of the Future, Then and Now: Singapore and Southeast Asia’s Planned Administrative Centres

PI & Co-PI(s): Tim Bunnell, Nicholas Smith, Maitrii Aung-Thwin & Daniel Goh
Collaborator(s): Jessica Clendenning
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Smart Cities in Global Comparative Perspective: Worlding and Provincializing Relationships

PI & Co-PI(s): Bryon Miller & Tim Bunnell
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Partnering Development Grants
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Songs of the Old Madmen: Recovering Baul Songs from the Notebooks of the 19th and 20th Century Bengalis Saint-Composers

PI & Co-PI(s): Carola Lorea
Funding Agency: Endangered Archives Programme (EAP1247), British Library
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Heat in Urban Asia: Past, Present, and Future

PI & Co-PI(s): Gregory Clancey, Fiona Williamson & Chang Jiat-Hwee
Collaborator(s): Winston Chow, Bertrand Timbal, Peter Schoppert, Feng Yi Kang, Mark Wong, Christopher Courtney, Amita Baviskar, Awadhendra Bhushan, Krishna Mirle Achutarao, Johnny C L Chan, Ashawari Chaudhuri, Dongxin Zou, Liz Chee, Gregory Bankoff, Simon Marvin, Madlen Kobi, Danny Marks, Aalok Khandekar & Nausheen Anwar
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Migrants in Global Cities: Experiences from Asia, The Gulf and Beyond

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh & Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
Funding Agency: Merlion Programme & National University of Singapore
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Qing Dynasty Tombs of Singapore: A Digital Archival Project

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Hue Guan Thye, Feng Chen-Chieh & Wang Yi-Chen
Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
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Mapping the Southern Islands’ Heritage Landscapes: Integrating Culture and Nature in Heritage Conservation

PI & Co-PI(s): Hamzah Muzaini, Creighton Connolly, Rita Padawangi, Sonia Yue Chuen Lam-Knott Desmond Hok-Man Sham
Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
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Transnational Relations, Ageing and Care Ethics (TRACE)

PI & Co-PI(s): Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang & Thang Leng Leng
Collaborator(s): Chiu Tuen Yi, Jenny
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Urban Gardening in East and Southeast Asia: Transformations in Perspective and Practice

PI & Co-PI(s): Ho Kong Chong
Collaborator(s): Cho Im Sik, Minna Valjakka & Fiona Williamson
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Heat in Urban Asia: Past, Present, and Future (2017)

PI & Co-PI(s): Gregory Clancey, Fiona Williamson, Winston Chow, Chang Jiat-Hwee, Chris Courtney & Johnny Chan
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Making Identity Count in Asia: Identity Relations in Singapore and its Neighborhood

PI & Co-PI(s): Chong Ja Ian & Reuben Wong
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Social Science and Humanities Research Thematic Grant
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Sustainable Governance of Transboundary Environmental Commons in Southeast Asia (TECSEA)

PI & Co-PI(s): David Taylor
Collaborator(s): Jonathan Rigg, Rini Astuti, Thong Anh Tran, Roman Carrasco, Daniel Friess, Alberto Salvo, Sooyeon Kim, Miles Kenny-Lazar, Alan Tan, Helena Varkkey, Diana Suhardiman, Melissa Marschke, Louis Lebel & Carl Middleton
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Social Science and Humanities Research Thematic Grant
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Migrants in Global Cities: Experiences from Asia, the Middle East and Europe

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh & Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
Collaborator(s): Michiel Baas
Funding Agency: National University of Singapore & Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
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Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Circulation

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Kim Hui Yeon
Collaborator(s): Shanthini Pillai, Claire Tran Thi Liên, Kwanchewan Buadaeng & Bernardo Brown
Funding Agency: National University of Singapore & Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
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Collective Biography of the Singapore Chinese Community (1922–1972): The Digitization and Analysis of the Bukit Brown Burial Records in the National Archives

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Ong Chang Woei, Koh Khee Heong & Hue Guan Thye
Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
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Religious Elites & Mobility: Catholic Priestly Formation in South and Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Bernardo Brown
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Folklore and Digital Technology in (South) East Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Gregory Clancey
Collaborator(s): Connor Graham, Eric Kerr, John Phillips, Mike Fischer, Crystal Abidin & Natalie Pang
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe

PI & Co-PI(s): Michael Douglass & Ho Kong Chong
Funding Agency: National University of Singapore & Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
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Religion and NGOs in Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michael Feener, Philip Fountain, Robin Bush & Wu Keping
Funding Agency: Henry Luce Foundation
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Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanizing Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michael Douglass & Gregory Clancey
Collaborator(s): Rita Padawangi, Michelle Ann Miller, Jerome Whitington, Eric Kerr, Robert Wasson, Caroline Brassard, Lisa Onaga, Sulfikar Amir & Earl Tyson Vaughn
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Collaborator(s): Lu Melody Chia-Wen, Zhang Juan, Esther Goh & Kamalini Ramdas
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, NUS
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Aspirations, Urban Governance, and the Remaking of Asian Cities

PI & Co-PI(s): Tim Bunnell
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Funding Agency: Department for International Development (DFID), UK, & University of Sussex
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Asian Biopoleis: Biotech & Biomedicine as Emergent Forms of Life and Practice

PI & Co-PI(s): Gregory Clancey & Ryan Bishop
Collaborator(s): Edison Liu, John Phillips. Catelijne Coopmans, John DiMoia, Axel Gelfert, Denisa Kera, Karen Winzoski, Philip Cho, Connor Graham, Alfred Montoya, Michael M. J. Fischer & Venni Venkata Krishna
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 & Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Globalising Universities and International Student Mobilities

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Francis Collins & Ho Kong Chong
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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State Boundaries, Cultural Politics, and Gender Negotiations in Commercially Arranged International Marriages in Singapore and Malaysia

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Gavin W Jones & Heng Leng Chee
Collaborator(s): Vu Thi Kieu Dung, Lu Melody Chia-Wen, Zhang Juan & Rashidah Shuib
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Transnational Migration in Southeast Asia and the Health of Children Left Behind (CHAMPSEA Wave 1)

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Elspeth Graham, Paul Boyle, Chee Heng Leng & Wong Mee Lian,
Collaborator(s): Sukamdi, Maruja Asis, Aree Jampaklay, Dang N. Anh & Ian Wilson
Funding Agency: The Wellcome Trust, UK
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Transnational Care Workers, State Policies and Gender Dynamics in Ageing Societies: A Comparative Study of Singapore and Japan

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Toyota Mika & Shirlena Huang
Funding Agency: National University of Singapore & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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