Principal Investigator
Professor Brenda S. A. Yeoh FBA is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, as well as the Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She has a DPhil in Geography from University of Oxford.
Professor Yeoh was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize for outstanding achievements in Geography in 2021 for her contributions to migration and transnationalism studies. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and she has considerable experience working on a wide range of migration research in Asia, including key themes such as cosmopolitanism and highly skilled talent migration; gender, social reproduction and care migration; migration, national identity and citizenship issues; globalising universities and international student mobilities; and cultural politics, family dynamics and international marriage migrants. She has published widely in these fields.
Co-Principal Investigator
A/P Natalie Pang is an educator at the Department of Communications and New Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She also holds a concurrent appointment as University Librarian at NUS Libraries. A/P Pang received a Commendation for Meritorious Teaching in 2007 from Monash University. She was also nominated for the John Cheung Social Media in Teaching Award in 2016 and for the Nanyang Education Award in 2015 and 2014. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from Monash University, Australia.
She specialises in socio-technical studies of technology, including social media and civil society, as well as the convergence of data and immersive technology in the contexts of culture and heritage in urban cities. While her research is largely based in Singapore, she has also published research from Indonesia and China.
Collaborator
Shiori Shakuto is a lecturer in Anthropology at The University of Sydney from 2022. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Shiori worked as a Project Assistant Professor at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo (2020-2022) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2018-2020). She also worked for teamLab, a digital art collective in Tokyo, from 2017 to 2018. Taking inspiration from feminist anthropology, her research approaches the space of the household as a generative site to counter taken-for-granted norms and practices.
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024), Collaborator (2024-present)
Dr David O. Reynolds undertakes research shaped by an interest in waste and food, a curiosity about politics and practicality in how people live, and a concern with sustainability and social justice issues. His PhD research investigated the experiences, practices and perspectives of people who avoid using plastic materials in their households in Australia. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at ARI between 2022-24, where he investigated households’ consumption and disposal of plastic materials, and the social, historical and digital practices that shape household management of plastic waste in Asia and Australia, with a focus on women’s experiences.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Tan obtained her PhD in Geography from NUS and her dissertation examined how the spatio-temporalities of single individuals in Singapore could be queered or problematised. Her research interests in intimate relationalities, embodiment and more recently, sustainability politics are often informed by critical feminist as well as queer theoretical perspectives. As a socio-cultural geographer by training, her work has been published in Gender, Place & Culture, and Social & Cultural Geography. At ARI she will extend her investigations on intimate geographies and work in an interdisciplinary project on plastic waste management within households across Singapore and Australia.
Research Assistant
Immanuela Asa Rahadini completed her BSocSci (Hons) in Political Science at the National University of Singapore in 2022. She is part of the Plastic Waste and Women’s Household Practices in Asia and Australia project team. She also assists in various research work done in the cluster. Her research interests cover migration studies and plastic entanglement in foodways.