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 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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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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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

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

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

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Fact sheet - Human settlements: Climate change impacts and risks, Winston T. L. CHOW, Richard DAWSON, Bruce GLAVOVIC, Marjolijn HAASNOOT, Mark PELLING, and William SOLECKI

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Cities, settlements and key infrastructure, David DODMAN, Bronwyn HAYWARD, Mark PELLING, Vanesa CASTAN BROTO, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al.

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The lives of late Soviet science, 1945-1991, Grégory DUFAUD and Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Outdoor thermal comfort research in transient conditions: A narrative literature review, Yuliya DZYUBAN, Graces N. Y. CHING, Sin Kang YIK, Adrian J. TAN, Shreya BANERJEE, Peter Jay CRANK, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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Sentiment analysis of weather-related tweets from cities within hot climates, Yuliya DZYUBAN, Graces N. Y. CHING, Sin Kang YIK, Adrian J. TAN, Peter J. CRANK, Shreya BANERJEE, Rachel Xin Yi PEK, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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Evidence of alliesthesia during a neighborhood thermal walk in a hot and dry city, Yuliya DZYUBAN, David M. HONDULA, Jennifer K. VANOS, Ariane MIDELL, Paul J. COSEO, Evan R. KURAS, and Charles L. REDMAN

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Exploring the empirical relationship between inner-city blight and urban sprawl in the United States, Eric FESSELMEYER and Kiat Ying SEAH

Squeezed out by the market, seeking strength in the network: Makeshift temples and the spatio-affective logics of survival in Singapore, Quan GAO, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Lived religion in a digital age: Technology, affect and the pervasive space-times of “new” religious praxis, Quan GAO, Orlando WOODS, Lily KONG, and Siew Ying SHEE

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Individual perceptions of climate anomalies and collective action: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Malaysian Borneo, Terry Van GEVELT, T. ZAMANB, K.N. CHANC, and M.M. BENNETTD

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Forest structure and composition alleviate human thermal stress, Loïc GILLEROT, Dries LANDUYT, Rachel OH, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al

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Cities and settlements by the sea, Bruce GLAVOVIC, Richard DAWSON, Winston T. L. CHOW, Matthias GARSCHAGEN, Chandni SINGH, and Adelle THOMAS

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Transboundary air pollution and cross-border cooperation: Insights from marine vessel emissions regulations in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Seung Kyum KIM, Terry VAN GEVELT, Paul JOOSSE, and Mia M. BENNETT

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Media and peer culture: Young people sharing norms and collective identities with and through media, Sun Sun LIM

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Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites, Matthew LIPSON, Sue GRIMMOND, Martin BEST, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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Integrated assessment of urban overheating impacts on human life, N. Nazarian, E. S. Krayenhoff, B. Bechtel, D. M. Hondula, R. Paolini, J. Vanos, T. Cheung, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al

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Making universal digital access universal: Lessons from COVID-19 in Singapore, Irene Y. H. NG, Sun Sun LIM, and Natalie PANG

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America's 'Chinese Problem' in Southeast Asia and the emergence of the Domino Theory [Come tessere del domino: Il pericolo comunista e la “questione cinese” nel Sud-Est asiatico negli anni Cinquanta], Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing) NGOEI and Raimondo (translator) NEIRONI

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Technical summary, Hans PORTNER, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al. See Comments for full list of authors

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Desert arcologies and path dependencies, Sayd RANDLE

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Ecosystem duties, green infrastructure, and environmental injustice in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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The rural price tag of California's clean energy transition, Sayd RANDLE

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Wages for climate stewardship?, Sayd RANDLE

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Where should water come from?, Sayd RANDLE

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Information sources, perceived personal experience, and climate change beliefs, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Balancing learning and enjoyment in serious games: Kerbal Space Program and the communication mediation model, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Rabindra A. RATAN

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Anticipated guilt and anti-littering civic engagement in an extended norm activation model, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Max S. C. YU

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Five key points in the IPCC report on climate change impacts and adaptation, Lisa SCHIPPER, Vanessa CASTAN BROTO, and Winston T. L. CHOW

Moving forward against misinformation or stepping back? WhatsApp’s forwarded tag as an electronically relayed information cue, Edson C. TANDOC, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Zoe ONG, Tingting YANG, Shelly MALIK, Mengxue OU, Yichen ZHOU, Jingwei ZHENG, Hamka Afiq MOHAMED, Jonne TAN, Zhi Xin LAU, and Jia You LIM

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Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives, Gordon Kuo Siong TAN and Sun Sun LIM

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Man-machine dialogues: Computer representations and appropriations in the Soviet Union and the United States, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Why we should remember the Soviet Information Age?, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

Your computer is on fire, Ksenia TATARCHENKO