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 2026

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Knowledge of lifespan and healthspan and interest in Healthy Longevity Medicine among the general population in Singapore: The Singapore HEalthy LOngevity (HELO) survey, Jonas John Posko AMALARAJ, Belinda WANG, Anna SZUCS, Louis Island, Laureen Yi-Ting Wang, Liz J. Horberg, Paul A. O'Keefe, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Yap-Seng Chong, Johannes J. Meij, and Andrea B. Maier

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Public pool usage as adaptation against urban heat, Stefan BORSKY and Eric FESSELMEYER

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Walking through green and grey: Exploring sequential exposure and multisensory environmental effects on psychological restoration, Sifan CHENG, Binyu LEI, Kunihiko FUJIWARA, Clayton MILLER, Filip BILJECKI, and Jeroen VAN AMEIJDE

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Modelling nature? The digital twinning and untwinning of urban farms, 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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How do you fix knowledge in place? Digital nomads and infrastructural stickiness, Emma GRIMLEY, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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A dynamic inspection and replacement policy for systems subject to degradation and periodic shocks, Jiawen HU and Qiuzhuang SUN

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Geopolitical ecologies of cloud capitalism: Territorial restructuring and the making of national computing power in the US and China, Justin KOLLAR and Sol Andrew STOKOLS

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Multidimensional analysis of human outdoor comfort: Integrating just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) in urban digital twins, Binyu Lei, Pengyuan Liu, Kunihiko Fujiwara, Mario Frei, Clayton MILLER, Xuan Yun Chua, and Filip Biljecki

Robust data-driven design of a smart cardiac arrest response system, Weiliang LIU, Qiuzhuang SUN, Loon Ching TANG, and Zhisheng. YE

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The city as showroom: Singapore and the rise of the "urban solutions" industry, Sol Andrew STOKOLS

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AI models as cultural beings: Investigating AI cultural biases and the impact of cultural alignment on human-AI creative collaboration, Choon Ngee TAN, Meng HAN, Roy Y. J. CHUA, and Chi-Ying CHENG

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Weather rescue at sea: Recovering historical weather observations from 19th Century British naval ships, Praveen TELETI, Ed HAWKINS, and Clive WILKINSON

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Lessons learned from the ADRENALIN Load Disaggregation Challenge, András Balázs Tolnai, Zheng Ma, Igor Sartori, Clayton MILLER, Stephen White, Matt Amos, Gustaf Bengtsson, Akram Hameed, and Nørregaard Bo Jørgensen

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Atmospheric circulation reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) 2025: Climate data recovery, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Rubber imperialism Britain, the United States, and the Malayan rubber industry, ca. 1920-57, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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The affective economy of toxic atmospheres: Sensory governance, ecological intelligences and the performative politics of urban mosquito management, Orlando WOODS and Creighton CONNOLLY

The experimental governance of urban nature in Asia, Orlando WOODS and Creighton CONNOLLY

Pentecostalism in Sri Lanka: Proselytization, Buddhist Nationalism and the Contested Ethics of Engagement, Orlando WOODS and Barnabas MAH

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Mind the hazard: Modeling and interpreting comfort with personalized sensing, Yufei ZHANG, Matteo FAVERO, Patrick CHWALEK, Sailin ZHONG, Denis LALANNE, A. Joseph PARADISO, Clayton MILLER, and Andrew SONTA

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

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Privately owned companies dominate renewable energy generation ownership around the world, Dyaran BANSRAJ, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Xi HU, Khaladdin RZAYEV, and Francisco URZUA

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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; HaeRan SHIN; and Orlando WOODS

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Assembling diasporic faith amidst China’s rise: (De)territorialization and the multi-scalar production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora, Ningning CHEN and Orlando WOODS

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Park cool island modifications to assess radiative cooling of a tropical urban park, Graces N. Y. CHING, Sin Kang YIK, Su Li HENG, Beatrice H. HO, Peter J. CRANK, Moshe Eliezer MANDELMILCH, Xiang Tian HO, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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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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Banking on incumbents: how do FinTech start-ups benefit from collaborations, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Pia HELBING, Vladimir PAZITKA, Dariusz WOJCIK, and Beiyun XIAO

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Global standards and local ambitions across green taxonomies: climate change mitigation from the European Union to South Africa, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, Ifigeneia PALIAMPELOU, Anh VU, and Dariusz WOJCIK

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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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Navigating AI-nature frictions: Autonomous vehicle testing and nature-based constraints, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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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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

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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Home and religion, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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

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The climate-biodiversity-pollution nexus: The pricing of environmental credit risks for European industrial polluters, Dominik HIRSCHBÜHL, Andrej CEGLAR, Theodor COJOIANU, Tina EMAMBAKHSH, Yifan QI, Caterina RHO, Elsie HU, Marco PETRACCO, Fabrizio BIGANZOLI, Alfred DE JAGER, Laura GARCIA HERRERO, Andrea MANDRICI, and Carlo PASQUA

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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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Built environment and public electric vehicle charging: an investigation using POI data and computer vision, Junfeng JIAO and Seung Jun CHOI

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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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Mapping the end of coal: How policy strength, ownership, finance shape global plant retirements, Jiwon KIM, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Theodor F. COJOIANU, Maretno Agus HARJOTO, and Dariusz WOJCIK

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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

Online robust degradation analysis with measurement outlier, Xingchen LIU, Carman K. M. LEE, Jingyuan HUANG, and Qiuzhuang SUN

More concerns about atmospheric methane removal efforts, Joshua LUCZAK

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Rethinking Singer: Toward a valid argument for helping the global poor, Joshua LUCZAK

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What is a digital twin anyway? Deriving the definition for the built environment from over 15,000 scientific publications, Abdelrahman MAHMOUD, Edgardo MACATULAD, Binyu LEI, Matias QUINTANA, Clayton MILLER, and Filip BILJECKI

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Towards the next generation of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, Gengchen MAI; Yiqun XIE; Xiaowei JIA; Ni LAO; Jinmeng RAO; Qing ZHU; Zeping LIU; Yao-Yi CHIANG; and JIAO, Junfeng

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Sensor lag adjustments on a mobile meteorological cart in tropical environments: A case study from an Urban Park in Singapore, Moshe Eliezer MANDELMILCH, Sin Kang YIK, Beatrice H. HO, Graces N. Y. CHING, Peter J. CRANK, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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Make yourself comfortable: nudging urban heat and noise mitigation with smartwatch-based just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI), Clayton MILLER, Xuan Yun CHUA, Matias QUINTANA, Binyu LEI, Filip BILJECKI, and Mario FREI

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

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Book review: The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire by Karl Hack, Wen-Qing NGOEI

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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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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

A ‘City in Nature’ and its porcine interlopers: Confronting the edges of urban ecological order, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

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

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

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

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Scenarios for CSRD scope amendments - Advancing reporting scope while reducing further burden, Andreas RASCHE, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, and Fabiola SCHNEIDER

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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

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IoT sensors as a tool for assessing spatiotemporal risk to extreme heat, Kijin SEONG, Seung Jun CHOI, and Junfeng JIAO

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Towards a digital twin for smart resilient cities: real-time fire and smoke tracking and prediction platform for community awareness (FireCom), Kijin SEONG, Junfeng JIAO, Ryan LEWIS HARDESTY, Arya FARAHI, Paul NAVRATIL, Nate CASEBEER, Braniff DAVIS, Justice JONES, and Dev NIYOGI

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

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A new city for a new era: Xiong'an as showcase of China's evolving urban ideology, Andrew STOKOLS

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The insurgent smart city: How a social movement created an alternative imaginary of the smart city, Andrew STOKOLS

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Landscapes of state capitalism: Reconciling the vernacular, national development imaginaries, and green capital accumulation, Sol Andrew STOKOLS

Pivot of China: Spatial politics and inequality in modern Zhengzhou, Sol Andrew STOKOLS

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Extended state infrastructure power in an age of networked competition: The cases of Thailand and Taiwan, Sol Andrew STOKOLS and Justin KOLLAR

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Optimal abort policy for mission-critical systems under imperfect condition monitoring, Qiuzhuang SUN, Jiawen HU, and Zhi-Sheng YE

Cracks, Justin Kh TSE

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The miseducation of model minorities: The gospel of ‘schoolvation’ and the myth of the schooled society, Justin Kh TSE

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BIM-to-BRICK: Using graph modeling for IoT/BMS and spatial semantic data interoperability within digital data models of buildings, Filippo VITTORI, Fu Chuan TAN, Laura Anna PISELLO, Adrian CHONG, Cristina PISELLI, and Clayton MILLER

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Early signs the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism is reshaping EU-India steel trade, Gian Luca VRIZ, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Carolyn FISCHER, and Luca TASCHINI

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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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Analysis of access and egress mode choice to high-speed railway stations, Jiaoe WANG, Yongling LI, and Junfeng JIAO

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HLCG: a hierarchical lane-changing gaming decision model for heterogeneous traffic flow on two-lane highways, Tianyi WANG, Chong HE, Hao LI, Yixuan LI, Yiming XU, Yangyang WANG, and Junfeng JIAO

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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

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

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Meteorology, weather and war in South East Asia: Malaya c. 1940-1960, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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

The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces, 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