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Established in 2022, the College of Integrative Studies is SMU’s seventh School and plays a pivotal role in helping students traverse the disciplinary areas associated with the other SMU Schools – Accountancy, Business, Economics, Computing, Law and Social Sciences. The CIS is different in that it emphasises the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across disciplines to derive new solutions in areas related to SMU’s Strategic Priorities. Its faculty members research on topics such as Computer Science, Economics, Environmental History, Geography, Law, and Urban Climate, amongst others. The College seeks to cultivate an environment conducive to intellectual exploration across academic disciplines and to bring their distinct disciplinary perspectives together to address modern challenges in today’s complex world.

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Submissions from 2025

Right-sizing the smart city in Southeast Asia, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Forging more-than-Indian citizenship pathways: (Inter)national education, religious values, and new frontier of multicultural belonging in Singapore, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Confronting the smart city governance challenge, Luca MORA and et. al

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On/ in the ground with Vietnamese communists: The Cu Chi Tunnels in the classroom, Wen-Qing NGOEI

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Book review: The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire by Karl Hach, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing) NGOEI

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Cities and climate change, Matthias ROTH, Enric AGUILAR, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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A comparison of comparisons: Evidence from an international comparative study of 'smart cities', Kevin WARD, Teresa ABBRUZZESE, Tim BUNNELL, Paolo CARDULLO, I-Chun Catherine CHANG, Byron MILLER, Ramon RIBERA-FUMAZ, Haeran SHIN, Zachary SPICER, Orlando WOODS, and Orlando WOODS

Imperial weather : Meteorology, science, and the environment in colonial Malaya, Fiona WILLIAMSON

The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces, Orlando WOODS

China's global leadership aspirations and domestic support for climate policy, Chen XIANG and Terry van GEVELT

Submissions from 2024

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Impact of rainfall on air temperature, humidity and thermal comfort in tropical urban parks, Juan A. ACERO, Philip Carl KESTEL, Hieu T. DANG, and Leslie K. NORFORD

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A comparison of four approaches to modeling information insufficiency, Pengya AI and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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The model of norm-regulated responsibility for proenvironmental behavior in the context of littering prevention, Pengya AI and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Assessing impact of urban densification on outdoor microclimate and thermal comfort using ENVI-met simulations for Combined Spatial-Climatic Design (CSCD) approach, Shreya BANERJEE, Rachel X.Y. PEK, Sin Kang YIK, Graces N. CHING, Xiang Tian HO, Dzyuban Yuliya, Peter J. CRANK, Juan A. ACERO, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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Urban heat and within-city residential sorting, Stefan BORSKY, Eric FESSELMEYER, and Lennart VOGELSAND

Reducing urban overheating risks through climate-resilient development in the warming tropics, Winston T. L. CHOW

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Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India, Prerona DAS, Gaurav MITTAL, and Jasnea SARMA

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Human sensors in the city of super apps: Mobilizing people as infrastructure for smart city development in Jakarta, Indonesia, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Using simulations of future extreme weather events to escape the resilience trap: Experimental evidence from Hong Kong, Terry Van GEVELT, J. YANG, K. N. CHAN, L. LI, Fiona WILLIAMSON, B. G. MCADOO, and A. D. SWITZER

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Forests are chill: The interplay between thermal comfort and mental wellbeing, Loïc GILLEROT, Kevin ROZARIO, Pieter DE FRENNE, Rachel OH, Quentin PONETTE, Aletta BONN, Winston CHOW, and et al.

Educating Indians, learning ‘Indianness’: Navigating pluralistic educational infrastructures in diasporic Singapore, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Here, there, and elsewhere: Ethnicity, identity, and global orientation at an Indian international school in Singapore, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

"The Catholic Church has a big structure": Social movement activists and the role of local Catholic churches in Hong Kong and Ukraine within the civil societies, Halyna HERASYM and Justin Kh TSE

Crisis and emergency risk communication and emotional appeals in COVID-19 public health messaging: Quantitative content analysis, Shirley S. Ho, CHUAH, Agnes S. F., Sonny ROSENTHAL, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Hye Kyung KIM, and Shannon S. H. Soh

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Digital transformation: Two sides of a coin, Tze K KOH

Handbook of the geographies of religion, Lily KONG, Orlando WOODS, and Justin Kh TSE

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Trust: The feature that vending machines and ATMs share, but SimplyGo lacks, Sun Sun LIM

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Deploying chatbots to build students' critical thinking skills: Leveraging generative AI effectively and purposefully in higher education, Sun Sun LIM and Tamas MAKANY

Digital parenting burdens in China: Online homework, parent chats and punch-in culture, Sun Sun LIM and Yang WANG

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Social media and performative parenting, Sun Sun LIM and Yang WANG

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Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans, Sapphire H. LIN, Rich LING, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Growing natural connections: The effects of modality and type of nature on connectedness to nature, Audria Huixuan LOW, Carynn Yan Min CHUNG, Irene Jia Yi CHEONG, Charmaine Xin Yu LOKE, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Multiethnic elites and the management of tropical heat in colonial Malaya, circa 1870s-1930s, Claire LOWRIE, Nicole TARULEVICZ, Fiona WILLIAMSON, and Charmaine H. LAM

Current state of geoengineering, Joshua LUCZAK

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Of light and shadows: Buddhism, cinema, and the question of diffused religion in modern China, Teng-kuan NG

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Spatial trajectories, theories, and topoi in the study of religion and film, Teng-kuan NG

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Big infrastructure and/as flexibility: The Sites Reservoir story, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE and David LINVILLE

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Geographies of storage, Sayd RANDLE

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Wild hogs in the water: Contested infrastructural ecologies of reservoir storage in texas, Sayd RANDLE

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Does the use of media and other information sources cause the perceived experience of climate change or is it the other way around?, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Pengya AI

Media use, interpersonal communication, and personal relevance as external and internal representations of climate change, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Pengya AI

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Rethinking the inclusionary potential of religious institutions: The case of gurdwaras in Singapore, Siew Ying SHEE and Orlando WOODS

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Discontent in the world city of Singapore, Gordon TAN, Jessie P. H. POON, and Orlando WOODS

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What is beyond measurement for social cohesion?, Qian Hui Tricia TOK, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Christian geographers, Christian geographies, Justin Kh TSE

Conclusion: Local Hong Kong religion after 2020. Special Forum on Diffusion, Polyphony, and Diversity: Religion, Politics, and Identity in Hong Kong since 2014, Justin Kh TSE

Reflections on "Grounded theologies’ : ‘Religion’ and the ‘secular’ in human geography," by Justin Tse, Justin Kh TSE

Sheets of scattered sand : Cantonese protestants and the secular dream of the Pacific Rim, Justin Kh TSE

The postsecular and the pedagogical in political theologies in Sinophone communities, Justin Kh TSE

Conclusion: Geographies of Religion as Integrative Study, Justin Kh TSE, Lily KONG, and Orlando WOODS

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Disasters and history: The vulnerability and resilience of past societies by Bas van Bavel, et al, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Reflections on “Geography and Religions”, Orlando WOODS

Reflections on “Veiled meanings : Young British Muslim women and the negotiation of differences”, Orlando WOODS

The community economics shaping alternative spaces of Islamic futurity in Singapore, Orlando WOODS

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Island platforms and the hyper-terrestrialisation of Singapore's smart city-state, Orlando WOODS, Tim BUNNELL, and Lily KONG

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Territorialising the cloud or clouding the territory? Volumetric vulnerabilities and the militarised conjunctures of Singapore's smart city-state, Orlando WOODS, Tim BUNNELL, and Lily KONG

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The irreducible otherness of desi and desire in Singapore’s gurdwaras: Moral boundary-making in the shadows of a multicultural society, Orlando WOODS and Lily KONG

The end of the beginning for the geographies of religion?, Orlando WOODS, Lily KONG, and Justin Kh TSE

Submissions from 2023

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Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise, Ben ANDERSON, Stuart AITKEN, Jana BACEVIC, Felicity CALLARD, Kwang Dae (Mitsy) CHUNG, Kathryn S. COLEMAN, Robert F. HAYDEN, Sarah HEALY, Rita L. IRWIN, and Justin TSE

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Disrupting the grid: Encountering fire and smoke through energy infrastuctures, Deepti CHATTI and Sayd RANDLE

Working with the IPCC: A Singapore boy’s view of climate change, Winston T. L. CHOW

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Data is the new gold: A Singapore perspective on the duty of care concerning a dataset’s role in contributing to bias and AI hallucinations, Daniel SEAH

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Within-development density and housing prices in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER, Haoming LIU, and Louisa POCO

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Heat and observed economic activity in the rich urban tropics, Eric FESSELMEYER, Haoming. LIU, Alberto. SALVO, and Rhita P B. SIMORANGKIR

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Using virtual simulations of future extreme weather events to communicate climate change risk, Terry Van GEVELT, Brian G. MCADOO, Jie YANG, Linlin LI, Fiona WILLIAMSON, Alex SCOLLAY, Aileen LAM, Kwan Nok CHAN, and Adam D. SWITZER

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Vulnerability to climatic and environmental disaster and change in the Indian Ocean World, Philip GOODING, Fiona WILLIAMSON, and Julie BABIN

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Green stormwater infrastructure: A critical review of the barriers and solutions to widespread implementation, Bardia HEIDARI, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE, Dean MINCHILLO, and Fouad H. JABER

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Revisiting Tocqueville's American Woman, Christine Dunn HENDERSON

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Hawker culture and its infrastructure: Experiences and contestations in everyday life, Lily Kong and Aidan Wong

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Re-evaluating natural intelligence in the face of ChatGPT, Elvin T. LIM and Tze K KOH

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Motivating physical activity with fitness tracking and the interpersonal context, Sapphire H. LIN, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Rich LING

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Ten years as boundary object: The search for identity and belonging as 'Hongkongers', John LOWE, ESPENA Darlene Machell, and George WONG

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Climate denialism bullshit is harmful, Joshua LUCZAK

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Toys as tools for good science, Joshua LUCZAK

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After great pain: The uses of religious folklore in Kenji Mizoguchi’s SANSHO THE BAILIFF (JP 1954) and Kaneto Shindo’s ONIBABA (JP 1964), Teng-kuan NG

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Running out: In search of water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire, Sayd RANDLE

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Exposure to climate change information predicts public support for solar geoengineering in Singapore and the United States, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Peter J. IRVINE, Christopher L. CUMMINGS, and Shirley S. HO

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When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore, Siew Ying SHEE, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Algorithm's Cradle: Commemorating al-Khwarizmi in the Soviet history of mathematics and Cold War computer science, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

Religion, Justin Kh TSE and Lily KONG

An ocean apart: meteorology and the elusive observatories of British Malaya, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Atmosphere, environment, society: The typhoon vulnerability nexus in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890-1930, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Ten years as boundary object: The search for identity and belonging as 'Hongkongers', George WONG, Darlene Machell ESPENA, and George WONG

Gamified bodies and the illusory meaning of muscle, Orlando WOODS

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No destination: Queering mobility through the virtuality of movement, Orlando WOODS

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The illusory infrastructure of ink: Machinic bodies and epidermic affects in Singapore, Orlando WOODS

Topological spaces of embodied becoming: Queens, queerness and (infra)structural subterfuge in Singapore, Orlando WOODS

Volunteer tourism - 'doing it for the 'gram': Cambodia, Southeast Asia, Orlando WOODS

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Insourcing the smart city: Assembling an ideo-technical ecosystem of talent, skills, and civic-mindedness in Singapore, Orlando WOODS, Tim BUNNELL, and Lily Kong

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The state-led platformisation of financial services: Frictionless ecosystems and an expansive logic of "smartness" in Singapore, Orlando WOODS, Tim BUNNELL, and Lily KONG

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The demands of displacement, the micro-aggressions of multiculturalism: Performing an idea of "Indianness" in Singapore, Orlando WOODS and Lily KONG

Submissions from 2022

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What the latest science on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability means for cities and urban areas, I ADELEKAN, A. CARTWRIGHT, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al See comments for full list of authors

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Technical Report: Reviewing the relationships between urban morphological variables and Outdoor Thermal Comfort (OTC) to assess comfort implication of densification for Singapore, Shreya BANERJEE, Ngai Yan CHING, and Sin Kang YIK

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Analysing impacts of urban morphological variables and density on outdoor microclimate for tropical cities: A review and a framework proposal for future research directions, Shreya BANERJEE, Ngai Yan CHING, Sin Kang YIK, Yuliya DZYUBAN, Peter Jay CRANK, Xin Yi PEK, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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OFFICERS: Operational Framework For Intelligent Crime-and-Emergency Response Scheduling, Jonathan David CHASE, Siong Thye GOH, Tran PHONG, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

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Risk-aware procurement optimization in a global technology supply chain, Jonathan CHASE, Jingfeng YANG, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

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Climate change and Lord of the Rings?, Winston T. L. CHOW

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Commentary: Coastal cities like Singapore face outsized risks – and opportunities – in a warming world, Winston T. L. CHOW

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Developing climate resilient cities, Winston T. L. CHOW