Our Team
Our Team
Director
Assoc Prof CHNG Huang Hoon
Assoc Prof Chng Huang Hoon, Director
clcchh@nus.edu.sg
Dr Chng Huang Hoon is an Associate Professor (Department of English Language & Literature) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has degrees in Linguistics (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) and Philosophy (B.A. Honours, NUS). She has held several academic leadership positions in NUS, including Deputy Director (American Studies Centre, 1998-2000); Assistant Dean (External Relations, FASS, 2004-2008); Director of the Centre for the Development of Teaching and Learning (2008-2012); and Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education, 2012-2020). She currently serves as the Director of the Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Centre at NUS (2019-present). She is currently on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), serving as co-President, and has established a related education network in Asia called SoTL-Asia.
Her most recent papers include “Leading change from different shores: The challenges of contextualizing the scholarship of teaching and learning” (with Katarina Mårtensson and Brenda Leibowitz, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020); “The idea of the university: National asset or ivory tower”? in Places of Engagement: Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 – A Global Approach, Armand Heijnen and Rob van der Vaart (eds.), Amsterdam University Press, 2018; and “Teaching excellence and the rise of education focused employment tracks” (with Johan Geertsema, Mark Gan and Alan Soong), in Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence: A New Era for Higher Education, Christine Broughan, Graham Steventon and Lynn Clouder (eds.), London: Routledge, 2018.
She has served on various academic journal boards over the years, including the International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD); Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (AJSoTL); and International Journal of Students as Partners (IJSaP). She is currently on the editorial board of Teaching and Learning Inquiry (TLI) and serves as a member of the Global Advisory Group for the 2022 ICED-Denmark Conference.
Deputy Director
Dr TOH Tai Chong
Academic Team
Lecturer
Dr Kevin S.Y. TAN
Dr Kevin S.Y. Tan
kevintan@nus.edu.sg
Dr Kevin S.Y. Tan is a cultural anthropologist. He acquired his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the National University of Singapore and obtained his PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include ageing societies, urban enclaves, informal street economies and transnational mobilities.
Lecturer
Dr Joy WANG Xin Yuan
Dr Joy WANG Xin Yuan, Lecturer
joywang@nus.edu.sg | Full CV will be provided upon request
Dr Joy Wang Xin Yuan holds a B.Soc.Sci. (Hons) in Sociology from the National University of Singapore, an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Supported by the Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship, her doctoral research examined housing, romantic temporalities, and labour in Singapore.
She is currently working on two book projects: a monograph based on her doctoral research, Housing, Luck and the State: Built-to-Order Romances in Singapore, and a casebook on community leadership co-authored with Dr Angeline Lim, Associate Director of NUS Care Unit.
Her publications include “Across Time, Through Silence” in the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology; “Built-to-Order Romances: Laboring for a Flat and Love in Singapore” in the Journal of Asian Studies; and “Ghosts as Political Possibilities” in Southeast Asian Studies.
Her research interests include the anthropology of housing, time, kinship, care, and silence, as well as emerging questions surrounding artificial intelligence and the creative industries in Asia.
Instructor
Ms KUAH Ting Ting
Ms Kuah Ting Ting, Instructor
tingting@nus.edu.sg | CV will be provided upon request
Admin Team
Senior Manager
Ms Elsie LIM
Senior Manager
Mr Marcus CHAN
Assistant Manager
Ms LIM Tee Hui