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

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Global Cooling Watch 2025, Omar Abdelaziz, Ray GLUCKMAN, Ian HAMILTON, Radhika KHOSLA, and Lily RIAHI

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Bridging policy and grassroots action with technology: A framework for civic engagement in environmental sustainability, Mikhail Ola ADISA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Shola OYEDEJI, Ifeoma ADAJI, and Jari PORRAS

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Natural capital credit risk assessment in agricultural lending: An approach based on the Natural Capital Protocol, Francisco ASCUI and Theodor Florian COJOIANU

The citizen and the smart city: A global comparison of institutional logics, Tim BUNNELL; Zachary SPICER; Byron MILLER; Teresa ABBRUZZESE; Paolo CARDULLO; I-Chun Catherine CHANG; Greig CHARNOCK; Ming-Kuang CHUNG; Kwon HEO; Sue-Ching JOU; Andrew KARVONEN; Olga KORDAS; Kong, Lily; Ramon RIBERA-FUMAZ; Orlando WOODS; HaeRan SHIN; and Orlando WOODS

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On the origin of green finance policies, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, D. French, Andrea G. F. Hoepner, Sheenan L., and Anh Vu

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

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

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Seeing beyond the state: Private sector-led smart city governance in BSD City, Indonesia, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Smart cities beyond methodological cityism: Foregrounding developmentalism, scalar flexing and the rebranding of the 'urban', Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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What are the limits to smart innovation? The digital underground initiative and new frontiers of “smartness” in Singapore, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Environment and natural disasters, Jack GREATREX

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Catchwater colonialism: Reshaping Hong Kong’s hydrology, infrastructure, metabolism and landscape, 1937–1968, Jack GREATREX and Florence MOK

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How do you fix knowledge in place? Digital nomads and infrastructural stickiness, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, 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

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Miserly thinking: Understanding the factors shaping public support towards Project Wolbachia in Singapore, Shirley S. HO, Agnes S. F. CHUAH, Fiona J. W. GOH, Nova Mengxia HUANG, Mengxue QU, Hye Kyung KIM, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Public health messaging about dengue on Facebook in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic: Content analysis, Shirley S. HO, Mengxue OU, Nova Mengxia HUANG, Agnes S.F. CHUAH, Vanessa S. HO, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Public support for and reactive behavior toward technological risk interventions: An extension of secondary risk theory, Hye Kyung KIM, Rui GU, Fiona GOH, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Shirley S. HO

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Navigating “I” and “we”: Coupled identity and spousal influence in the physical activity of older adults., Sapphire H. LIN, Rich LING, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Decarbonising digital infrastructure and urban sustainability in the case of data centres, Felicia H. M. LIU, Karen P. Y. LAI, Bertrand SEAH, and Winston T. L. CHOW

More concerns about atmospheric methane removal efforts, Joshua LUCZAK

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

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Emulating Empire: Washington’s preoccupation with British counterinsurgency in Malaya and U.S. commitment to Vietnam, Wen-Qing NGOEI

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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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Nationalism and Anglo-American Neo-colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1945-1965, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing) NGOEI

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A summoned life: Vocation in the Analects, Teng-kuan NG

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Full circle: Historiography, missiology, and theology in Lin Yutang’s From Pagan to Christian, Teng-kuan NG

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Review of Victor Fan, “Cinema illuminating reality: Media philosophy through Buddhism”, Teng-kuan NG

Unlocking aural skills through improvisation, Patrick OLSEN

Improvising for the test: Influences of graded music examinations on the teaching and learning of improvisation within studio lessons, Patrick (olsen P.) OLSEN

Replumbing the City: Water management as climate adaptation in Los Angeles, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

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Political ecologies of storage for the 21st century, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE and Matthew ARCHER

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Novice instructors can make satisfying video lectures by using familiar techniques: A repeated-measures test of video lecture formats and learner satisfaction theory, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Stuart BRAIMAN, and Dawn Z. Y. POH

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Direct and indirect experiences, risk perceptions, and vaccine booster intention: A mediation study in Singapore using secondary risk theory, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Agnes S. F. CHUAH, Hye Kyung KIM, and Shirley S. HO

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An eye-tracking study of gaze guidance and visual integration effects on attention, learning, and instructor social presence, Sonny ROSENTHAL, John KOMAR, and Vanessa Simin HO

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Framerate sensitivity and cinemagoing explain the soap opera effect of films: A preregistered study of undergraduate students in Singapore., Sonny ROSENTHAL and Benjamin J. LI

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

Conditional inclusion in the sensory contact zone: coexisting with desis in Singapore’s gurdwaras, Siew Ying SHEE and Orlando WOODS

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Awareness, knowledge, and motivations about lifespan, healthspan, and Healthy Longevity Medicine in the general population: The HEalthy LOngevity (HELO) conceptual framework, Belinda WANG, Anna SZUCS, Elena SANDALOVA, E. J. HORBERG, Paul A. O'Keefe, Louis ISLAND, Hans J. MEIJ, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Andrea B. MAIER

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Public views towards lifespan, healthspan, and healthy longevity medicine in Singapore: A qualitative study from the HEalthy LOngevity (HELO) initiatives, Belinda WANG, Anna SZUCS, Elena SANDALOVA, Zhi Meng LIM, E. J. Horberg, Paul A. O’Keefe, Louis ISLAND, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Andrea B. MAIER

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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

The transcendent patterning of medical pluralism: Religion and medical practices among Miao migrants in China, Shixian WEN, Orlando WOODS, and Quan GAO

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

The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces, Orlando WOODS

Remaking the smart city through the COVID-19 pandemic: Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, Orlando WOODS, I-Chun Catherine CHANG, and Haeran SHIN

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Casual killing in the home: Ecological citizenship and the micro-geopolitics of mosquito cohabitation, Orlando WOODS and Junxi QIAN

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Ecological responsibility in the city: The surfaces and volumes of urban mosquito management, Orlando WOODS and Sayd RANDLE

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A debt to whom? The nature questions in Sino‑Sri Lankan development narratives, Orlando WOODS, Kanchana RUWANPURA, Loritta CHAN, and Barnabas MAH

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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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Special issues in support of evidence-based policy making in sustainable banking and finance, Lucia ALESSI, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Declan FRENCH, and Andreas G. F. HOEPNER

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Accounting for the EU Green Taxonomy: Exploring its concept, data and analytics, Lucia Alessi, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. Hoepner, and Giovanna Michelon

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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

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

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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

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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 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 T. L. CHOW, Douglas GODBOLD, Matthias STEINPARZAER, Daniela HALUZA, Dries LANDUYT, Bart MUYS, and Kris VERHEYEN

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

Designing a new aural skills curriculum for a higher education popular music programme, Patrick OLSEN

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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

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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

Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces, Orlando WOODS

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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Topological spaces of embodied becoming: Queens, queerness and (infra)structural subterfuge 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