PEDAGOGICAL GRANTS

I received over SG$88,000 (US$68,500) in pedagogy grants to improve teaching across campus.

SIG GRANT

2026-2029

This Teaching Enhancement Grant (TEG) supports a Special Interest Group (SIG) on "Developing Pedagogical Strategies for Effective Interdisciplinary Education." We will run tri-annual meetings on topics relevant to interdisciplinary teaching. We plan to investigate effective interdiscplinary teaching methods across campus, and present our findings at conferences. We received SG$28,000 (US21,845)

LC GRANT

2024-2025

This TEG supports a Learning Community (LC) that a colleague from the Department of Pharmacy and I coordinate. We run monthly meetings on topics relevant to interdisciplinary teaching. We will use the funds to hire a student to help us compile data for research on interdiscplinary teaching across campus, and to fly in a guest speaker to discuss efforts elsewhere. We received SG$6,000 (US4,458)

The university is aiming to increase the number of permanently hybrid courses to 30% across campus. I was asked to serve as hybrid learning ambassador for my department and was awarded a grant of SG$55,544 (US$$41,165) to work with an external vendor to convert an existing introduction to sociology course to be permanently hybrid.

2023-2024

BLENDED LEARNING GRANT

TEACHING AWARDS

Despite teaching large, compulsory courses, my teaching scores are consistently well above the faculty average. I won the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award three times.

FTEA

2019, 2020, 2021

The Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) is awarded to faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching. Each year, a select few colleagues are recognised for their teaching based on peer reviews, student feedback and exposition of their teaching philosophy.

BEST IN SHOW

2015

At the LSE Annual Film Festival, I helped to produce a film on my research in Mindanao that won "Best in Show." The film was produced and edited by two undergraduate students and a colleague. One of the students who worked on the film was my honors thesis supervisee. He won the prestigious Outstanding NUS Undergraduate Research Prize that year.