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WHEN /
APRIL 21, 2017
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
WHERE /
NUS
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
AS7-01-02
SCHEDULE /
ABOUT THE EVENT /
Welcome to the NUS Geography Graduate Research Workshop 2017 – the 5th since the series of annual workshops commenced in 2012!
The annual workshop is the culmination of the Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) module, which all Graduate research students in the Department of Geography are required to complete. The class includes both Masters and PhD students, some of whom only commenced their studies in January this year. As with previous years, a range of nationalities and a diversity of topics are represented among the students and the presentations, respectively. The range of topics included in the programme reflects the breadth of research interests in the Department. According to its Graduate Strategy, the Department aims to “build and maintain a graduate school commensurate with the Department’s high-standing internationally”; this Workshop – and these Graduate research students – are an important part of achieving that aim.
The Workshop showcases students’ individual projects. They will be presenting the ‘what?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of their research, describing their respective projects, placing each in its academic context, outlining the significance of their planned work, and detailing how they aim to tackle the underpinning puzzles and problems. Some of the students may even be in a position to present preliminary findings of their research. Most, however, will focus on research that they propose to carry out during the remainder of their time in the Department.
For many of the students involved, this has been their first experience of organizing and hosting an academic event such as this. The fact that they have managed to put on the Workshop while also developing their own presentations is commendable. I am sure that the students will have gained much from the experience. I am equally certain that the students will also have benefited from presenting their own research ideas so soon after embarking on their graduate research; it is not easy to expose ideas to scrutiny when, often, much is unsure and unclear.
I hope you will enjoy the presentations, as well as providing constructive input and friendly advice to the students presenting their work.
David Taylor
Graduate Coordinator,
Department of Geography
1 - 2.30 PM
MORE PEOPLE TALKING
2.30 - 3 PM
TEA
PROGRAMME /
9:15 AM
REGISTRATION
9:30 AM
OPENING ADDRESS
9:45 AM
SESSION 1 - SOCIAL-CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN URBAN SPACES
Timo Sysioe – An urban social geography of the corps diplomatique
Andy Tan - Music and The City – Street Performers in Taipei
Tan Qian Hui - Playing solitaire: The spatio-temporalities of singlehood among young adults in Singapore
10:45 AM
BREAK
11:05 AM
SESSION 2 - GEOGRAPHIES OF (DIS)CONNECTIONS I
Gaurav Mittal - Power, territories, and governance: Transport geographies of urban India
Prerona Das - Contested Spaces: Conflicts, Contestations and Security Politics in the City of Guwahati
Hiromi Inagaki-Wagner - Geography of Transmissions: Thailand’s Energy Grids and Uneven Landscapes of Power
12:05 PM
LUNCH
1:05 PM
SESSION 3 - GEOGRAPHIES OF (DIS)CONNECTIONS II
Victoria Marshall - Mega Delta
Diane Bouleau - Entrepreneurs Across Borders
1:45 PM
SESSION 4 - SPACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
Carlos Alberto Morales Ramirez - Evaluation of spatial thinking skills on ecosystem change using open source GIS
Huiying Ng - Re-earthing: A Social Semiotics of Agroecological Futures
2:25 PM
BREAK
2:55 PM
SESSION 5 - TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Jared Moore - Assessing resilience of community mangrove management on Tanakeke Island, Indonesia
Rachel Koh - Naturally acidic or anthropogenically acidified? Uncovering the sources and extent of acidity in streams in Singapore
Letisha Sarah Fong Rui Zhen - Inferring environmental changes and ecosystem response associated with urbanisation and industrialisation in lowland tropical Asia: Sedimentary evidence from Singapore’s Central Catchment
Hasan Akhtar - Carbon Dynamics of Tropical Peat Swamp Forest (TPSF) under Land use change
4:15 PM
CLOSING REMARKS
PRESENTERS /
An urban social geography of the corps diplomatique
Music and The City – Street Performers in Taipei
Playing solitaire: The spatio-temporalities of singlehood among young adults in Singapore
Power, territories, and governance: Transport geographies of urban India
Contested Spaces: Conflicts, Contestations and Security Politics in the City of Guwahati
Mega Delta
Entrepreneurs Across Borders
Evaluation of spatial thinking skills on ecosystem change using open source GIS
Re-earthing: A Social Semiotics of Agroecological Futures
Geography of Transmissions: Thailand’s Energy Grids and Uneven Landscapes of Power
Assessing resilience of community mangrove management on Tanakeke Island, Indonesia
Naturally acidic or anthropogenically acidified? Uncovering the sources and extent of acidity in streams in Singapore.
Inferring environmental changes and ecosystem response associated with urbanisation and industrialisation in lowland tropical Asia: Sedimentary evidence from Singapore’s Central Catchment
Carbon Dynamics of Tropical Peat Swamp Forest (TPSF) under Land use change
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS /
The participating graduate students would like to extend their heartfelt appreciation to the following people:
PROFESSOR DAVID TAYLOR
For his teachings and mentorship leading up to the workshop
THE RESPECTIVE SUPERVISORS
For their invaluable advice
THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
For the financial support
THE GUEST SPEAKERS
For taking precious time off to provide advice and insight
PAULINE LEE
For logistical and administrative support
PREVIOUS CLASSES OF GRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS
For their practical suggestions