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Sustainability Solutions for the Future NEW HORIZONS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES JANUARY 2020 • ISSUE 04 Sustainability solutions for the future News • NTU establishes Jek Yeun Thong Community Development Fund at SSS • Exposing the truth about lying to children • Singapore Bicentennial Conference in NTU - SG200: Heritage, Identity, Progress People • Welcoming our scholars back as new faculty members SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES CONTENTS AUGUST 2019 I ISSUE 03 1 Chair’s Message NEWS 2 Welcoming new faculty and recognising Sustainability8 solutions excellence for the future 2 NTU establishes Jek Yeun Thong Community Development Fund at SSS 2 Assoc Prof Md Saidul Islam elected Chair of Sociology for CSA EAUI Summer School 2019 2 Assoc Prof Laura Wu conferred 2019 National 5 Day Awards’ Commendation Medal 3 Assoc Prof Andy Ho picks up top awards at APHC and SHBC 2019 Professor Liu Hong 3 Exposing the truth about lying to children Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor of 4 SSS Convocation 2019: Life should not be CHAIR’S MESSAGE Public Policy and Global Affairs perceived as a zero sum game Chair, School of Social Sciences 4 NTU Sociology launches Community Fund Nanyang Technological University 5 EAUI Summer School 2019: East Asian Singapore Bicentennial Regional Integration in a Populist and Conference in NTU Nationalist Age 7 6 Singapore Economic Review Conference FEATURE Dear Colleagues, Students, Alumni and Friends, NTU have been renamed to recognise the pioneers 2019 who have contributed to education in Singapore. 6 EGC pens networking group agreement with Welcome to the fourth issue of NEW HORIZONS. Nankai University 8 Sustainability solutions for the 7 Singapore Bicentennial Conference in NTU— future The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences— Our feature article looks at sustainability solutions which our School is part of—has been renamed the SG200: Heritage, Identity, Progress RESEARCH GRANTS PEOPLE from the perspective of the social sciences. While the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Building. A stone’s hard sciences are key to advancing technologies for throw away from the building, the road in front of Assoc Prof WELCOMING OUR SCHOLARS 14 MOE Academic Research Grant Andy Ho at BACK AS NEW FACULTY Awards sustainability solutions, the social sciences also play the Chinese Heritage Centre, has been renamed the 3 APHC 2019 MEMBERS 14 External Grants an important role in influencing individual behaviours ‘Tan Lark Sye Walk’. This is to mark the contributions and policy outcomes. (And in line with NTU's of the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan and its then PUBLICATIONS 12 When inquisitiveness leads to a sustainability development goals, we have reduced President, Mr Tan Lark Sye who was also the founding path less travelled 15 Books our printed version of the newsletter by half, and will father of Nanyang University. 13 Unravelling the black box of 15 Book Chapters be moving towards a digital version in our collective 16 Journal Articles China’s foreign policy efforts to protect the environment.) In the spirit of philanthropy that the late Mr Tan Lark Sye had together with community leaders in We closed the final months of 2019 with a few exciting Singapore’s pre-independence period, we are proud events. Some of our faculty members received to announce that NTU has established the Juek Yeun SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE EDITORIAL TEAM recognition for their outstanding contributions to Thong Community Development Fund at School of education at School and NTU. We also recognise Social Sciences (SSS). The late Mr Jek was one of the exceptional members of our management and the pioneering political leaders who helped to build Chair Prof Liu Hong Advisor Dr Tan Joo Ean support staff, who are the backbone of our School's Singapore into a harmonious and multi-cultural Assoc Prof Laura Wu Ms Lissa Johari Associate Chair, Academic Editor operations. We welcomed two new faculty members society it is today. In honour of his contributions Associate Chair, Faculty Assoc Prof Ringo Ho Member Ms Janice Goh Associate Chair, Research Assoc Prof Wan Ching Catherine Contributors Ms Elizabeth Tay who are part of the College of Humanities, Arts, and and legacy, the Fund will be used to support Associate Chair, Graduate Education Assoc Prof Kamaludeen Ms Tay Xin Yi Social Sciences (HASS) International PhD Scholarship undergraduate research and internships relating to Mohamed Nasir (HIPS) programme—they are featured in this issue’s community engagement. Associate Chair, Students Dr Tan Joo Ean Contact Us School of Social Sciences People. Head, Economics Prof Euston Quah Nanyang Technological University We hope that 2020 will be a fruitful and prosperous Acting Head, Psychology Prof Annabel Chen 48 Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639818 Together with the Nanyang Centre of Public year for everyone, including us at NTU and SSS. Head, Public Policy and Global Affairs Assoc Prof Wang Jue Administration (NCPA) and Chinese Heritage Head, Sociology Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn www.sss.ntu.edu.sg Centre, the School hosted a Singapore Bicentennial Thank you, as always, for your continued support, and ntusocialsciences ntu_sss Conference in NTU—SG200: Heritage, Identity, I hope you will enjoy this issue of NEW HORIZONS! Progress. Coincidentally, a building and a road in 01 NEWS WELCOMING NEW FACULTY AND RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE ASSOC PROF ANDY for advancing Holistic Care in A warm welcome to our new faculty to the School of Social HO PICKS UP TOP Asia Palliative Care: Preliminary Sciences, and our heartiest congratulations to the faculty and staff Findings from a Randomized AWARDS AT APHC Controlled Trial’, at APHC and for their outstanding contributions to the School! AND SHBC 2019 ‘Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for advancing Holistic Care Associate Professor Andy Ho in Asia Palliative Care: Results from Psychology picked up top from a Randomized Controlled NEW FACULTY FACULTY PROMOTION AND MANAGEMENT & SUPPORT awards at two major healthcare Trial in Singapore’ at SHBC. TENURE OFFICER (MSO) AWARDS events in 2019. Both his papers were among the Economics top abstracts selected for oral Tang Cheng Keat Promotion to Associate Professor Best Customer Service He came in first in the Best Oral and poster presentations at the with Tenure Ms Constance Yong Presentation Award presented respective events. Public Policy and Global Affairs Assoc Prof Andy Ho Hau Yan at the Asia Pacific Hospice and Dylan Loh (Psychology) Best Leadership Palliative Care Conference (APHC) “Psycho-socio-spiritual care is Ms Christina Teu on 4 August 2019, and bagged utmost important to support Assoc Prof Xu Hong the Gold Award of the Best Poster terminally-ill patients and families FACULTY AWARDS (Psychology) Best Teamwork Award in Allied Health at the as they approach the final stages SSS Undergraduate Education Office Singapore Health and Biomedical of life,” said Associate Professor Nanyang Education Award (School) Assoc Prof Christopher Holman Congress (SHBC) on 10 October Ho. “However, most palliative care Assoc Prof Andy Ho Hau Yan (Public Policy and Global Affairs) 2019. His presentations at both interventions focus predominately Assoc Prof Andy Ho at APHC 2019 events shared his research on the physical aspect of Nanyang Research Award findings of psycho-socio-spiritual care, with pain management powerful existential distress Ministry of Education Academic (Young Investigator) care. He presented the paper, and symptom control taking and suffering of mortality.” His Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 Asst Prof Setoh Pei Pei ‘Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) precedence over the deep and research is supported by the grant. NTU ESTABLISHES NTU has established the Jek Yeun in propelling the multicultural working with the less fortunate effects lasting into the latter’s Her research areas include JEK YEUN THONG Thong Community Development society the nation has today. He through internships with social Fund at the School of Social was known for his compassion service organisations in the adulthood. The study also showed developmental psychology, infant COMMUNITY Sciences, with a generous for the disadvantaged and non-profit sector. It will support that adults who reported being cognition, and causal reasoning. DEVELOPMENT donation from Madam Huang vulnerable, and the Fund was faculty discussion of social issues lied to more as children were also FUND AT SSS Kek Chee, the widow of the late set up to honour his legacy. The through public seminars by NTU inclined to report lying to their In the study, 379 Singaporean Mr Jek Yeun Thong. Mr Jek was Fund will enable undergraduates faculty as well. The Fund will be parents as adults. young adults were asked whether one of Singapore’s pioneering to conduct field research on launched in February 2020. their parents had lied to them politicians, and was responsible social issues, and to experience The study was done in when they were children, how collaboration with the University much they lie to their parents of Toronto, the University of now, and how well they adjust to ASSOC PROF MD Associate Professor Md Saidul currently the coordinator of the Water and Food Systems Lab California, San Diego, and adulthood. SAIDUL ISLAM Islam was elected as the Chair Environment and Sustainability in Massachusetts Institute of Zhejiang Normal University. It has of the Sociology of Development Research Cluster in SSS and Technology. been featured in many local and “Parenting by lying can seem to ELECTED CHAIR OF Cluster, Canadian Sociological Asian School of the Environment international news outlets around save time especially when the SOCIOLOGY FOR CSA Association (CSA) for 2019-2020. (ASE). He is a former Visiting the region and across the globe in real reasons behind why parents A professor of Sociology, he is Scholar of the Abdul Latif Jameel Europe and in the United States. want children to do something In addition, NTU Psychology's is complicated to explain,” said Asst Prof Setoh Pei Pei (centre) with CNA938 radio hosts Melanie Olivero (left) and Lance Alexander (right) Assistant Professor Setoh Pei Assistant Professor Setoh.
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