The following are brief descriptions of my current and completed research projects (organised by completion year). Please contact me for any further information.
Policy design and the power of algorithms: The politics of on-demand food delivery (Funding: Ministry of Education, Singapore; Academic Research Fund, AcRF Tier 1 Grant, 2023-2026)
This project investigates the relationship between policy design and the power of algorithms to explore the ways of reforming the on-demand food delivery sector. ( I am the PI with Catherine Gomes, RMIT.)
Selling food heritage: Exploring drivers of Eurasian and Peranakan home catering food businesses (Funding: CoHASS Incentive Grant Scheme, 2022-2024)
This project explores the role of home catering businesses in Singapore’s foodscape. ( I am the PI with Catherine Gomes, RMIT.)
European Transoceanic Encounters and Exchanges (ETEE) (Funding: EU Jean Monnet Network Grant, 2019-2023)
This project aims at enhancing understanding and teaching about Europe’s place and role in today’s world by looking at its present and past transoceanic relations and connectivities. ( I am the PI with Els van Dongen and Yeo Lay Hwee, all NTU.)
Competing for talent in a globalised world (COMPETE) (Funding: NTU Nanyang Assistant Professorship Start-Up Grant, 2014-2021)
This project examined how governments in Asia and Europe strategise in the global competition for talent - nationally and at the regional level. A specific case study was the health sector. (I was the PI with Lucie Cerna, OECD.)
Nexus of European Centres Abroad for Research on the European Higher Education Area (NEAR EU) (Funding: EU Jean Monnet Network Grant, 2016-2019)
This project aimed to broaden the field of European integration studies by incorporating the domain of higher education in the research and activities of European Study Centres. (I was the PI from NTU.)
Regionalism and the global higher education market (Re-Global): Asia and Europe in Comparison (Funding: Ministry of Education, Singapore; Academic Research Fund, AcRF Tier 1 Grant, 2014-2018)
This project developed a new concept to describe and explain the proliferation of regional higher education initiatives throughout the last two decades. (I was the PI with Pauline Ravinet, Université de Lille.)
Singapore in the global talent race (Funding: National Research Foundation, Singapore; Science of Research, Innovation, and Enterprise Grant, 2015-2017)
This project assessed the value-added of international academic talents on Singapore's Science, Research, Innovation, and Enterprise investments and interventions. (I was the Co-PI with Wang Jue, NTU.)
Doing higher education regionalism: the role of research and university administrators in achieving global excellence (Funding: Institut Français de Singapour and NTU; Merlion Grant, 2015-2017)
This project identified the administrative apparatus essential to facilitating the movement of researchers across national borders and achieve global excellence. (I was the PI with Pauline Ravinet, Université de Lille.)
Organising scholarly networks (Funding: Society for Research into Higher Education, SRHE Scoping Award, 2014-2015)
This scoping project surveyed the literature within the fields of history, research, and education policy on how scholarly exchanges were organised, and analysed a specific case on academic exchange, Rhodes Scholarship. (I was the Collaborator with Tamson Pietsch, University of Technology Sydney.)