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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

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

(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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

South-South Migration and Migrant Food Insecurity: Interactions, Impacts, and Remedies (MiFOOD Project)

Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Two Steps, Triple Wins and Bus Stops: A Comparative Analysis of Skilled Migration Systems in Canada, Germany and Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Margaret Walton-Roberts, Danièle Bélanger, Ivy Bourgeault, Sharon Chia, Felicitas Hillmann, Colin Robertson & Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Transnationalism and Diaspora: Enhancing Demography’s Contribution to Migration and Development

PI & Co-PI(s): Yan Tan, Andrew Rosser, Fei Guo & Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Funding Agency: Australian Research Council

Child Health and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia (CHAMPSEA)

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Elspeth Graham & Lucy Jordan

Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 with supplementary funding from Hong Kong Research Grants Council through its General Research Fund and Social Science and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant on “Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care” (CHAMPSEA Wave 2), & The Wellcome Trust (CHAMPSEA Wave 1)

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

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

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

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

ISAC: Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics

PI & Co-PI(s): Michel Chambon & Bernardo E. Brown

UWCSEA-APP Partnership

PI & Co-PI(s): Kishore Mahbubani

Funding Agency: United World College of South East Asia

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

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

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

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

Living with Covid-19 in Southeast Asia: Personal and Visual Experiences of Crisis, Control and Community

PI & Co-PI(s): Gerard McCarthy, Naoko Shimazu & Yang Yang

Funding Agency: ARI Research Grant (Collaborative)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Singapore Ecological History Map

PI & Co-PI(s): Stefan Huebner

Collaborator(s): Kenneth Dean

Funding Agency: ARI Research Grant (Collaborative)

Datuk Spirits in the City of a Thousand Temples: Chinese Indonesian Spirit-medium Practices and Ethnic Politics in Singkawang, West Kalimantan

PI & Co-PI(s): Emily Hertzman

Funding Agency: Collaborative Research Fund of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (C7052-18G)

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

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

CoronoAsur: Religion and Covid-19

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Carola Lorea, Fabian Graham, Nan Ouyang, Natalie Lang, Ning Ning Chen, Ying Ruo Show, Alicia Chan, Emily Hertzman & Erica M. Larson

Funding Agency: Asia Research Institute, NUS & Yap Kim Hao Memorial Fund for Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore

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

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

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: 1911–2019 and Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples

PI & Co-PI(s): Kenneth Dean, Hue Guan Thye, Caroline Chia & Xue Yiran

Funding Agency: The Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Understanding Neighbourhood Experiences in HDB Estates

PI & Co-PI(s): Ho Kong Chong

Funding Agency: Ministry of National Development

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

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

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

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

The Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World

PI & Co-PI(s): Minna Valjakka

Funding Agency: Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Hivos, and the European Cultural Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

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

Internet Life & Lore in Southeast Asia: Histories, Mythologies & Materialities

PI & Co-PI(s): Gregory Clancey, Connor Graham, Eric Kerr & Aieshah Arif

Collaborator(s): Celine Coderey, Crystal Abidin, Hallam Stevens, John W P Philips, Nancey Mauro-Flude, Sarah-Tabea Sammel & Song Dong Hyun

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

Transnationalism and Diaspora: Enhancing Demography’s Contribution to Migration and Development

PI & Co-PI(s): Yan Tan, Andrew Rosser, Fei Guo & Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Funding Agency: Australian Research Council Discovery Program Grant

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

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

Digital Living and Dying in (South) East Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Connor Graham, Eric Kerr, Alfred Montoya, Jolynna Sinanan & Crystal Abidin

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

Religion and NGOs in Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michael Feener, Philip Fountain, Robin Bush & Wu Keping

Funding Agency: Henry Luce Foundation

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

Vernacular City

PI & Co-PI(s): Michael Douglass

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

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

Natural Disasters and Governance: Enhancing Preparedness, Response and Rebuilding (Theme: Disaster Governance)

PI & Co-PI(s): Michael Douglass

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema (Theme: Spaces of Hope)

PI & Co-PI(s): Nausheen Hafeeza Anwar

Religion and Gobalisation Reading Group

PI & Co-PI(s): Robin Bush, Philip Fountain & Bernardo Brown

Religion and Development in Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Lim Khek Gee Francis, Michael Feener, Philip Fountain, Robin Bush, Wu Keping, Kyuhoon Cho & Ronojoy Sen

Culture and Cognition

PI & Co-PI(s): Philip Cho

Funding Agency: Fetzer Franklin Trust & Asia Research Institute

Great Migrations: Southeast Asia and New Theorizations of Global Mobilities

PI & Co-PI(s): Heng Leng Chee, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Toyota Mika, Xiang Biao, Lu Melody Chia-Wen & Zhang Juan

Funding Agency: NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences & Asia Research Institute, NUS

Asian Connections Reading Group

PI & Co-PI(s): Prasenjit Duara

Cyber China: Making Space for Change (Theme: Spaces of Hope)

PI & Co-PI(s): Peter Marolt

Asia’s Civil Spheres: New Media, Urban Public Space, Social Movements

PI & Co-PI(s): Peter Marolt & Rita Padawangi

Death, Grieving and Memorialization in a Broadband-Enabled Society

PI & Co-PI(s): Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Connor Graham & Tamara Kohn

Funding Agency: Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society & University of Melbourne

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

Attitudes Toward Emigration and Perceptions of Foreign Talents in Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Leong Chan Hoong

Funding Agency: Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

Mapping the Technological and Cultural Landscape of Scientific Development in Asia

PI & Co-PI(s): Philip Cho

Funding Agency: Global Asia Institute, NUS & Asia Research Institute

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

Wallace Online

PI & Co-PI(s): John van Wyhe

Impacting Economy and Society: Role of Universities in Asia-Pacific

PI & Co-PI(s): Venni Venkata Krishna & Seeram Ramakrishna

India and China: Scientific Communities to Innovation Systems

PI & Co-PI(s): Venni Venkata Krishna

Research and Innovation Policies: India

PI & Co-PI(s): Venni Venkata Krishna

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

Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers and the Organization of Transnational Mobility

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Xiang Biao & Johan Lindquist

Funding Agency: Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education

Migration, Societal and Market Transformations–Perceptions, Debates and Policies in Asia and Europe

PI & Co-PI(s): Francis Collins

Funding Agency: Asia Research Institute, NUS, and the Korea Foundation

Networks in Practice (2009–2014)

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

Migrants Workers, English Teachers and Urban Life in Seoul: Examining the Everyday Lives of Temporary Migrants in Multicultural South Korea

PI & Co-PI(s): Francis Collins

Funding Agency: Asia Research Institute, NUS, and the Korea Foundation

‘Talent’ Migration in and out of Asia: Challenges for Policies and Places

PI & Co-PI(s): Lai Ah Eng, Leong Chan Hoong, Brenda S.A. Yeoh & Shirlena Huang

Funding Agency: Asia Research Institute, NUS

Investment Promotion and Local Economic Development in Indonesia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michelle Miller, Tim Bunnell & Nicholas Phelps

Funding Agency: Bartlett School of Planning, University College London

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

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

Life Histories of Older Women in Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Lai Ah Eng

Funding Agency: Asia Research Institute, NUS

Female Labor Migration in Globalizing Asia: Translocal/Transnational Identities and Agencies

PI & Co-PI(s): Arianne Gaetano

Funding Agency: Asia Research Institute, NUS and Asian MetaCentre

Singapore Tertiary Students’ Perceptions of National Identity, Overseas Exchange Program, Intention to Emigrate and Adjustment

PI & Co-PI(s): Leong Chan Hoong

Funding Agency: Singapore National Youth Council

Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing in Culturally Diverse Groupings

PI & Co-PI(s): Leong Chan Hoong, Thomas Menkhoff, Chay Yue Wah & Hans-Dieter Evers

Funding Agency: Singapore Management University

Islam and Social Dynamics in Indonesia: Comparative Analyses of Law, Culture, Politics and Religion since c.1998 in Three Decisive Regions (Java, Jakarta and Aceh)

PI & Co-PI(s): Merle Calvin Ricklefs, Michael Feener & Chaider S. Bamualim

Funding Agency: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2

Measuring Social Distance in Plural Societies: The Singapore Case

PI & Co-PI(s): Bryan Stanley Turner & Alexius Pereira

Funding Agency: NUS Academic Research Fund

Secularization, Religion and the State (2006–2011)

Social Transformation in Post-Tsunami/Post-Conflict Aceh (2006–2011)

Fabrications: Technology, Masculinity, and Architectural Modernism

PI & Co-PI(s): Gregory Clancey

Funding Agency: NUS Faculty Research Grant

Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia (2005)

PI & Co-PI(s): Nicola Piper

Funding Agency: Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Manila)

Education and the Transnational Family: A Study of China’s Study Mothers in Singapore

PI & Co-PI(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh & Shirlena Huang

Funding Agency: Ministry of Education, Singapore

Decentralization and Urban Change in Indonesia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michelle Miller & Tim Bunnell

Decentering Nation: The New Geography of Urban and Regional Development in Indonesia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michelle Miller, Tim Bunnell & Nicholas Phelps

Funding Agency: British Academy (Association of South East Asian Studies)

Situating Decentralization in Urban Milieux: Challenges and Opportunities of Autonomy for Urban Indonesia

PI & Co-PI(s): Michelle Miller

Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974

PI & Co-PI(s): Stefan Huebner

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Ongoing

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

Business Networks in a Global City: Chinese Merchants’ Records in Singapore since the Late 19th Century

(De)Carbonizing Asia: Histories and Futures of Energy, Space, and Infrastructure

Heritage Diplomacy Futures in Asia

Framing Migration: The Role of Religious Actors in the Production of International Law

Capitals of the Future: Place, Power and Possibility in Southeast Asia

Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition: China’s Rise and the Remaking of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

Treating Lifestyle Disease Infodemics: Building Trust within the Clinical Encounter

Dancing Ecologies in the Asia-Pacific: Negotiating Identities through Dance in the Context of Change and Dispossession

Reconstructing and Rediscovering Kampong Heritage through Local Chinese Temples

History & Sustainability of Animal-Based Drugs in Asian Traditional Medicines

Climate Governance of Nature-based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia

Mapping Middle Road: Prewar Japanese Community in Singapore

Plastic Waste and Women’s Household Practices in Asia and Australia

Archiving the Underclasses: Knowledge, Law, and Everyday Agency in Modern Southeast Asia

Belt and Road Initiative and Student-Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (BRISM)

South-South Migration and Migrant Food Insecurity: Interactions, Impacts, and Remedies (MiFOOD Project)

Two Steps, Triple Wins and Bus Stops: A Comparative Analysis of Skilled Migration Systems in Canada, Germany and Singapore

Transnationalism and Diaspora: Enhancing Demography’s Contribution to Migration and Development

Child Health and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia (CHAMPSEA)

Completed

Digital Twin Models: A Comparative Approach to Global Methods

Follow the Code: Urban Models and Resilient Future

Ageing Immigrants and Integration Over the Life Course in Singapore

A Study on Cross-National Families in Singapore

ISAC: Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics

UWCSEA-APP Partnership

Bolstering Partnerships to Study the Impact of China’s Belt and Road

Linking the Digital Humanities to Biodiversity History in Singapore and Southeast Asia

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples 1974-2021

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

Living with Covid-19 in Southeast Asia: Personal and Visual Experiences of Crisis, Control and Community

International Student Mobility in a Time of COVID-19: Regimes, Experiences and Aspirations

Chinese Huiguan and the Re-making of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia

Governing Diverse Cities in Europe and Asia

Healthcare and ‘Foodwork’ among Foreign Domestic Workers and their Left-behind Children in Southeast Asia

Climate Governance of Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia

Mapping Female Religious Heritage in Singapore: Chinese Female Temples as Sites of Regional Socio-Cultural Linkage (19th Century to the Present)

Singapore Ecological History Map

Datuk Spirits in the City of a Thousand Temples: Chinese Indonesian Spirit-medium Practices and Ethnic Politics in Singkawang, West Kalimantan

Capitals of the Future, Then and Now: Singapore and Southeast Asia’s Planned Administrative Centres

Smart Cities in Global Comparative Perspective: Worlding and Provincializing Relationships

CoronoAsur: Religion and Covid-19

Songs of the Old Madmen: Recovering Baul Songs from the Notebooks of the 19th and 20th Century Bengalis Saint-Composers

Heat in Urban Asia: Past, Present, and Future

Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: 1911–2019 and Chinese Epigraphy of Singapore: United Temples

Understanding Neighbourhood Experiences in HDB Estates

Migrants in Global Cities: Experiences from Asia, The Gulf and Beyond

Mapping the Southern Islands’ Heritage Landscapes: Integrating Culture and Nature in Heritage Conservation

Qing Dynasty Tombs of Singapore: A Digital Archival Project

Transnational Relations, Ageing and Care Ethics (TRACE)

The Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World

Urban Gardening in East and Southeast Asia: Transformations in Perspective and Practice

Heat in Urban Asia: Past, Present, and Future (2017)

Making Identity Count in Asia: Identity Relations in Singapore and its Neighborhood

Sustainable Governance of Transboundary Environmental Commons in Southeast Asia (TECSEA)

Migrants in Global Cities: Experiences from Asia, the Middle East and Europe

Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Circulation

Internet Life & Lore in Southeast Asia: Histories, Mythologies & Materialities

Collective Biography of the Singapore Chinese Community (1922–1972): The Digitization and Analysis of the Bukit Brown Burial Records in the National Archives

Transnationalism and Diaspora: Enhancing Demography’s Contribution to Migration and Development

Religious Elites & Mobility: Catholic Priestly Formation in South and Southeast Asia

Folklore and Digital Technology in (South) East Asia

Digital Living and Dying in (South) East Asia

Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe

Religion and NGOs in Asia

Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanizing Asia

Vernacular City

Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore

Aspirations, Urban Governance, and the Remaking of Asian Cities

Natural Disasters and Governance: Enhancing Preparedness, Response and Rebuilding (Theme: Disaster Governance)

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema (Theme: Spaces of Hope)

Religion and Gobalisation Reading Group

Religion and Development in Asia

Culture and Cognition

Great Migrations: Southeast Asia and New Theorizations of Global Mobilities

Asian Connections Reading Group