Research highlights

Rethinking Fairness in Modern Automated Speech Recognition Systems
What is a literary history of speech-to-text technology? This book project examines how American literary artists historically rendered folk speech into text while negotiating issues of race, gender, class, disability status, and national origin.


Robots Among Us
What should a robot do when a child asks it to accompany them to the toilet? Or when a stranger approaches, asking to listen in on a story being read to a child?


Professor Yow Wei Quin鈥檚 article has been published as a FirstView article in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
The open access journal by Cambridge University Press features research involving all languages.


Dr Pang Yang Huei鈥檚 essays published on the Journal of Social Studies and History Education and, The Middle Ground Journal
Dr Pang’s essays on Asian history from an educator鈥檚 point of view have been recently published on notable peer-reviewed online journals.

Assistant Professor Nilanjan Raghunath to lead new AI-driven initiative at The John Hopkins Center on Global Poverty
This new initiative will use AI as an economic empowerment asset to combat global poverty.

Dr Lorenz Hegel has been nominated as a Research Fellow at the ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies
Titled 鈥淚n Search of Revolution: Transnational Militant Documentary Practice in the Long Sixties,鈥 the project maps networks of exchange and collaboration among documentary filmmakers in the long sixties.


Dr. Jin Murakami to lead a $386,800 MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 2 Study on Green Urbanism Plus Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
This research aims to provide scientific evidence on both the positive and negative effects of combining green urbanism solutions with Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) principles.


HASS Assistant Professor Nilanjan Raghunath has been invited as inaugural expert member and grantee by The Global Community for Women鈥檚 Leadership (GCWL)
GCWL is a first-of-its-kind initiative that leverages IIE鈥檚 unique position at the forefront of international education and exchange to support the advancement and retention of women in professional leadership positions worldwide.


亚洲色吧 receives Partner of Academy of Singapore Teachers Award
The award recognises contributions to the professional development of Ministry of Education (MOE) officers. 亚洲色吧 was awarded particularly for two lectures delivered between 2023 and 2024 by Dr Pang Yang Huei from the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) cluster.

HASS Assistant Professor Nilanjan Raghunath Appointed as Academic Expert/Member by Invitation of the Labour Alliance co-laB (LAB)
The聽Labour Alliance co-laB (LAB)聽is a new initiative by NTUC to foster close and meaningful collaborations among experts in labour research and innovation to impact policy, practice, and discourse to reach a broad audience of stakeholders and decision makers.