Grants

Ongoing Grants

Singapore’s Entanglement in the Energy Transition. Challenges and Potentials for a Regional, Just Transition.

PI & Co-PI(s): Naomi C. Hanakata
Collaborator(s): Filip Biljecki & Hiromi Inagaki
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Business Networks in a Global City: Chinese Merchants’ Records in Singapore since the Late 19th Century

PI & Co-PI(s): Yu Kang
Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
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(De)Carbonizing Asia: Histories and Futures of Energy, Space, and Infrastructure

PI & Co-PI(s): Chang Jiat Hwee & Stefan Huebner
Collaborator(s): Fathun Karib, Seohyun Park, Dorothy Tang & Kenneth Tay
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund (Collaborative Research)
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Heritage Diplomacy Futures in Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Tim Winter, Maitrii Aung-Thwin & Yang Yang
Collaborator(s): Naoko Shimazu, Ryoko Nakano & Sabina Insebayeva
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Framing Migration: The Role of Religious Actors in the Production of International Law

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean (NUS PI) & Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po PI)
Funding Agency: Paris-NUS Grant
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Capitals of the Future: Place, Power and Possibility in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Daniel Goh PS & Tim Bunnell
Collaborator(s): Lee Kah-Wee & Nick Smith
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition: China’s Rise and the Remaking of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Ian Chong
Collaborator(s): Khun Eng Kuah, Orlando Woods, Wong Sin Kiong, Ying Ruo Show, Danny Wong Tze-Ken, Ngeow Chow-Bing, Emily Hertzman, Kwee Hui Kian & Charlotte Setijadi
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Treating Lifestyle Disease Infodemics: Building Trust within the Clinical Encounter

PI & Co-PI(s): Eric Kerr
Collaborator(s): Kathryn Muyskens, Chong Foong-Fong Mary, Gregory Clancey, M. Prakash Hande, Bimlesh Wadhwa, Zhang Weiyu & Jane Lim
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Dancing Ecologies in the Asia-Pacific: Negotiating Identities through Dance in the Context of Change and Dispossession

PI & Co-PI(s): Céline Coderey
Collaborator(s): Aparna R Nambiar, Alvin Eng Hui Lim, Roslynn Ang, Liang Peilin, Maiya Murphy, Miguel Escobar Varela & Amin Farid
Funding Agency: Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund, NUS
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Reconstructing and Rediscovering Kampong Heritage through Local Chinese Temples

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean & Wu Qi
Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
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History & Sustainability of Animal-Based Drugs in Asian Traditional Medicines

PI & Co-PI(s): Gregory Clancey & L. Roman Carrasco
Collaborator(s): Liz P.Y. Chee, Stefan Huebner, Kathryn Muyskens, Sabina Insebayeva, Chang Che-chia, Chheang Vannarith, C. Michele Thompson & Amy Hinsley
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Climate Governance of Nature-based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): David Taylor, Koh Lian Pin & Miles Kenney-Lazar
Collaborator(s): Daniel Friess, Dixon Gevaña, Janice Lee, Melissa Low, Max Lupascu, Daniel Marks, Alberto Salvo, Simon Tay, Prayoto Tonoto, Helena Varkkey, Darren Chong Jinn Yeo, Lahiru Wijedasa, Andrew Jackson & Sithong Thongmanivong
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Social Science and Humanities Research Thematic Grant
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Mapping Middle Road: Prewar Japanese Community in Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Clay Eaton, Naoko Shimazu & Lee Chee Keng
Funding Agency: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
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Plastic Waste and Women’s Household Practices in Asia and Australia

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA & Natalie Pang
Collaborator(s): Shiori Shakuto & David Reynolds
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Archiving the Underclasses: Knowledge, Law, and Everyday Agency in Modern Southeast Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Maitrii Victoriano Aung-Thwin, Matthew Reeder, George Radics, Ho Chi Tim, Koh Keng We, Simon Creak & Elliott Prasse-Freeman
Collaborator(s): Kwa Chong Guan & Samson Lim
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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Belt and Road Initiative and Student-Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (BRISM)

PI & Co-PI(s): Ho Kong Chong & Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA
Collaborator(s): Cho Hichang, Johanna Waters, Koh Sin Yee, Ravinder Sidhu, Rochelle Ge Yun, Yang Peidong, Yi'En Cheng & Chen Caijian
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2
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