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Climate and environmental issues as election issues (with Bertrand Seah)
“Are unelected voices still necessary in parliament?” (with former NMP Anthea Ong)
Parliamentary vacancies and parliamentary representation (with PhD student Joel Yew)
Singapore, first? Issues of migration, citizenship, multiculturalism, and nationalism in Singapore (with Dr. Rebecca Tan) - Part 2
Singapore, first? Issues of migration, citizenship, multiculturalism, and nationalism in Singapore (with Dr. Rebecca Tan) - Part 1
“Are we OK with the price of not being OK?”: The mental health and well-being of Singaporeans (with former NMP Anthea Ong)
Looking back and looking ahead: Dr. Kenneth Paul Tan on PAP’s governing principles, PM Lawrence Wong, and the next general election - Part 2
Looking back and looking ahead: Dr. Kenneth Paul Tan on PAP’s governing principles, PM Lawrence Wong, and the next general election - Part 1
Singapore's opposition parties: The WP, PSP, SDP, and coalitions of electoral losers (with author Loke Hoe-Yeong)
“It’s the economy, stupid?”: Inflation, incomes, inequality, and Singapore’s general elections (with Dr. Linda Lim)
GE2024? GE2025? "Before the Ballot" preview
The arts and publishing as civic engagement and political participation in Singapore (a conversation with Alfian Sa’at and Ng Kah Gay)
The future of… Community and community-based governance (with Aaron Maniam)
Veteran journalist Bertha Henson on PE2023, the PEC and CPA, and the office of the elected presidency
"International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city"
Singapore's presidential... Group job interview? (PE2023)
A “GE2020 Jamus Lim debate moment”?, PE2023's young voters (with Aamir Bana)
Constitution? Ceremonial? Community?, PE2023’s young voters (with Liang Weiting)
The Book Club: "Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it" (Richard V. Reeves)
Politically speaking: MP’s legislative assistants and parliamentary preparations (with MP Louis Ng)
Leading a young direct-service charity as a young leader (Glyph Community's Lim Si Hui)
The future of… Asian philanthropy (II - “Strategies for a better future”)
The future of… Asian philanthropy (I - “Scenarios for Asia in 2050”)
“Beyond Fairness”: AWARE's advocacy for anti-discrimination in the workplace
Representation, not just conversation and consultation: DPA’s recommendations for Singapore’s workplace anti-discrimination law for people with disabilities
"Tak Boleh Tahan": Encouraging ordinary Singaporeans to speak up
A 2023 preview: "The Future of…" mini-series
A 2023 preview: The "Civic Engagement and Action" mini-series
Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore
The future of community work and community development
“Collecting stories, discovering places, and connecting people”: Participatory research, practice research, and Photovoice
Community development in social work practice
What makes a community?
The community: Community development in Singapore
Singaporean youth civic and community engagement and political participation under COVID-19 lockdown and during GE2020
Let’s talk about “Jom”: Singapore’s new digital magazine
"Seeking Shelter: Homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore"
The future of... Finance and leaving nobody behind (with Givfunds’ and Masref’s Edward Yee)
Sustaining migrant worker advocacy and volunteer involvement in Singapore (with HealthServe executive director Michael Cheah)
The “Social Work Made Accessible” podcast
The future of... Eye-care and eye-health (with Eyeviser's Chen Weiwen)
Save.Me: Singapore’s first national survey on suicide (with Prof. Rosie Ching)
“Pragmatic resistance as counter-conduct: Civil society advocacy in Singapore” (with political and security risk analyst Isaac Neo)
The future of… Marrying purpose and profit (with StoneSoup Partner’s Samantha Lee)
"It's amazing how this project has unknowingly reunited our family in powerful ways": The HappyUrns initiative
"The hunger report, part two": COVID-19's impact on food-insecure Singaporean households
COVID-19's effect on children's outdoor play and associations with family income (with Dr. Jonathan Huang)
Role-playing as a Singaporean civil servant in “What’s the Matter, Mr. Monster?” (with director Roshan Singh Sambhi)
The future of... Water and water scarcity (with Wateroam’s Lim Chong Tee)
“Grief doesn't have an expiry date”: Normalising conversations around the end of life, death, and dying with dignity (Both Sides, Now’s “Kata-Kata Kita”)
Sitting by the fire.place: Positioning an AI therapist chatbot in a broader constellation of mental health and wellness support
The potential and challenges of social media civic discussions in Singapore (with assistant professor Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah)
“Beneath the rug”: Documenting the lived experiences of the poor/marginalised/disadvantaged through Singaporean social service perspectives (with editor Lewin Low)
"Scaled, citizen-led, and publicness": Improving qualitative research through citizen social science in Singapore and beyond (with Amirah Amirrudin, Dr. Nicholas Harrigan, and Dr. Ijlal Naqvi)
Learning to listen: “Low-income communities” (A Good Space)
Learning to listen: “Migrant worker communities” (A Good Space)
Learning to listen: The Listening Living Labs and Listening Reports (A Good Space)
Advocating for social work and social workers in parliament (with MP Louis Ng)
What’s next for youth climate change activism and action in Singapore?
So you want to be a social worker?
COVID-19, over 716 days later: Confronting Singapore’s long-term, pandemic-linked social challenges
The State of Happiness Study: So what makes the average Singaporean happy?
What is “a basic standard of living”? A deeper research and methodological dive into the Minimum Income Standard study (with Drs. Ng Kok Hoe and Teo You Yenn)
#AreWeOkay and the proposal for a Mental Wellbeing and Sustainable Development Office in Singapore
A podcast update and a call for research help
Ground-ups in Singapore (Part 2): Building synchronicity among communities of communities
Ground-ups in Singapore (Part 1): Emergence and impact, activator journeys, and funding
Long-term lessons from the pandemic: Government interactions and online/offline civic engagement (Adriel Yong; COVID-19, one year on)
Beyond the laptop: From digital access to digital inclusion and literacy (Lim May-Ann; COVID-19, one year on)
Building solid ground for those in Singapore facing online harassment, abuse, and harms
Advising career and further education choices through a pandemic (Mock Yi Jun; COVID-19, one year on)
“Are we listening?”: Coalescing around downstream and upstream mental health action (Anthea Ong; COVID-19, one year on)
Advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ Singaporeans
Sustaining the muscles of active citizenry and ground-ups for a more participatory democracy (Vincent Ng; COVID-19, one year on)
“Thinking about futures”: Taking stock (with Eddie Choo)
Sustaining an ecosystem of ground-ups and changemakers (Abhishek Bajaj; COVID-19, one year on)
“People buy into what they help create”: Citizen foresight work and the influence of language and metaphors on futures thinking
“No one group has a monopoly on good ideas”: Building anticipatory capacity and democratising, diversifying futures thinking
"What if we’re wrong?": Interdisciplinarity, education, and higher education in Singapore
“Thinking about futures”: A preview
Burnout and self-care experiences of two young Singaporean social workers
Intersectional climate justice, climate change and its unequal effects, and aspirations for a low-carbon Singapore
Contested framings of climate change and climate governance in Singapore: PhD student Belicia Teo
Scarcity, the bandwidth tax, and the effect of debt reduction in low-income Singaporean households: Dr. Ong Qiyan
A survey for youths in Singapore, on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
On homelessness and housing insecurity, income insecurity and minimum income standard, and bridging research, practice, and policy: Dr. Ng Kok Hoe
Students for a Safer NUS: Centring survivors, centring the community, and centring the margins
EOpenJio and the challenge of sustaining youth volunteerism and interest in social causes
Mental health at the Singaporean workplace
"The hunger report": Singapore's first nationally representative food insecurity study
“Mind the Chasm”: The pandemic’s devastatingly uneven impact and the insecurities of low-income families across multiple, intersecting dimensions
Macro inequality and mobility trends, felt inequality, and the case for a healthy degree of equality of outcomes: PhD candidate Nathan Peng Li
The Birthday Collective: Going beyond the essay-writing crowd and holding conversational space upon uncommon ground
The history of the making of youth - and the history of the present - in youth-conscious, youth-centred Singapore: PhD candidate Edgar Liao
“Hard at Work: Life in Singapore”: Prof. Gerard Sasges on the book’s conceptualisation and the power of interviewing and stories
AWARE’s “Saga” podcast: Conceptualisation, production, and challenges
SchemesSG: A searchable, indexable directory of aid and assistance schemes in Singapore
On the researcher’s privileged position, community partnerships, data and research advocacy: Postdoctoral fellow Rayner Tan
EGift for Good: Galvanising in-kind donations and completing wishes in Singapore
"PAP v PAP": Cherian George and Donald Low on balancing elite governance and democratic deliberation in Singapore