Leadership
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.
Academic Team
Senior Lecturer
Dr TOH Tai Chong
Lecturer
Dr Kevin S.Y. TAN
Dr Kevin S.Y. Tan
kevintan@nus.edu.sg
Dr Kevin S.Y. Tan is a cultural anthropologist and sociologist. He acquired his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Department of Sociology 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, borderlands studies, transnational mobilities and Asian martial arts.
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 is an anthropologist. She 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 a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research, supported through the Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship, focused on housing, romantic temporalities, and labor in Singapore. She is currently working on a project focused on Taiwanese immigrants in Singapore.
Recent work includes a forthcoming article "Built to Order Romances: Laboring for a Flat and Love in Singapore" in the Journal of Asian Studies, a forthcoming co-authored book chapter "Tasting Loss" in Reading Violence and Trauma in the World (Routledge), and "Ghosts as Political Possibilities" in Southeast Asian Studies (2021, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 339–357). Her research interests include the anthropology of time, kinship, care, fate and memory.
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