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 2022

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Heat and colonial weather science in the Straits Settlements c. 1820-1900, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Digital diasporas and the religious reproduction of "home", Orlando WOODS

Political signalling and emissions trading schemes in China: Insights from Guangdong Province, Chen XIANG and Terry VAN GEVELT

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ScreenLife Capture: An open-source and user-friendly framework for collecting screenomes from Android smartphones, Andrew Z. H. YEE, Ryan YU, Sun Sun LIM, Kwan Hui LIM, Tien Tien Anh DINH, Lionell LOH, Andre HADIANTO, and Miguel QUIZON

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Linking online vaccine information seeking to vaccination intention in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Han ZHENG, Shaohai JIANG, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

Submissions from 2021

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Technological opportunities for sensing of the health effects of weather and climate change: A state-of-the-art-review, V. Anderson, A. C. W. Leung, H. Mehdipoor, B. Janicke, D. Milosevic, A. Oliveira, S. Manavvi, P. Kabano, Yuliya DZYUBAN, and et al

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Jobs for justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India, Madhav S. ANEY, Shubhankar DAM, and Giovanni KO Journal Article

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High-intensity monsoon rainfall variability and its attributes: a case study for Upper Ganges Catchment in the Indian Himalaya during 1901-2013, Alok BHARDWAJ, Robert J. WASSON, Winston T. L. CHOW, and Alan D. ZIEGLER Journal Article

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Latest climate change report is the most important by far, Winston T. L. CHOW News Article

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We’re in a climate casino: Here’s how to fight against the odds, Winston T. L. CHOW News Article

Vaccine hesitancy and secondary risks, Christopher L. CUMMINGS and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Secondary Risk Theory: Validation of a novel model of protection motivation, Christopher L. CUMMINGS, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Wei Yi KONG

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Public transit infrastructure and heat perceptions in hot and dry climates, Yuliya DZYUBAN, David M. HONDULA, Paul J. COSEO, and Charles L. REDMAN

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The impact of temperature on labor quality: Umpire accuracy in Major League Baseball, Eric FESSELMEYER

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Declining discount rates in Singapore's market for privately developed apartments, Eric FESSELMEYER, Haoming LIU, and Alberto SALVO

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Focus on sustainable cities: Urban solutions toward desired outcomes, M. GEORGESCU, M. ARABI, Winston T. L. CHOW, E. MACK, and K. C. SETO Editorial

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Singapore: Value creating elites lead the world, Christine HENDERSON Book Chapter

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Beyond the "formidable circle": Race and the limits of democratic inclusion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Christine Dunn HENDERSON Journal Article

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Urban agglomeration worsens spatial disparities in climate adaptation, Seung Kyum KIM, Mia M. BENNETT, Terry VAN GEVELT, and Paul JOOSE

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Making online learning more satisfying: The effects of online-learning self-efficacy, social presence and content structure, Jun Rong Nigel LIM, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Ye Jun Marcius SIM, Zhao-Yi LIM, and Kai Rong OH

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Lessons from our living rooms: Illuminating lockdowns with technology domestication insights, Sun Sun LIM and Yang WANG

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Internal and external factors’ influence on recycling: Insights from a laboratory experiment with observed behavior, Nooh LINDER, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Patrik SORQVIST, and Stephan BARTHEL

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Tree effects on urban microclimate: Diurnal, seasonal, and climatic temperature differences explained by separating radiation, evapotranspiration, and roughness effects, Naika MEILI, Gabriele MANOLI, Paolo BURLANDO, Jan CARMELIET, Winston T. L. CHOW, Andres M. COUTTS, Matthias ROTH, Erik VELASCO, Enrique R. VIVONI, and Simone FATICHI Journal Article

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Project Coolbit: Can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?, Negin NAZARIAN, Sijie LIU, Manon KOHLER, Jason LEE, Clayton MILLER, Winston T. L. CHOW, S. B. B. ALHADAD, Alberto MARTILLI, Matias QUINTANA, Lindsey SUNDEN, and Lindsey NORFORD Journal Article

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Battling over bathwater: Greywater technopolitics in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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Holding water for the city: Emergent geographies of storage and the urbanization of nature, Sayd RANDLE

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Missing power: Nostalgia and disillusionment among Southern California water engineers, Sayd RANDLE

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On aqueducts and anxiety: Water infrastructure, ruination, and a region-scaled Anthropocene imaginary, Sayd RANDLE

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The (digital) medium of mobility is the message: Examining the influence of e-scooter mobile app perceptions on e-scooter use intent, Rabindra RATAN, Kelsey EARLE, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Vivian Hsueh Hua CHEN, Andrew GAMBIRO, Gerard GOGGIN, Hallam STEVENS, Benjamin LI, and Kwan Min LEE

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Influence of rapid COVID-19 vaccine development on vaccine hesitancy, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Christopher L. CUMMINGS

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Effects of bin proximity and informational prompts on recycling and contamination, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Noah LINDER

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Lethal, viral, global: The role of mobile media and the growing international scourge of fake news, Gordon Kuo Siong TAN, Sun Sun LIM, and Roy KHENG

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Russian logics and the culture of impossible: Part 1. recovering intelligentsia logics, Ksenia TATARCHENKO, Anya YERMAKOVA, and Liesbeth DE MOL

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Preparing workplaces for digital transformation: An integrative review and framework of multi-level factors, Brigid TRENERRY, Samuel CHNG, Yang WANG, Zainal SUHALIA, Sun Sun LIM, Han Yu LU, and Peng Ho OH

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ICTs and transnational householding: The double burden of polymedia connectivity for international ‘study mothers’, Yang WANG and Sun Sun LIM

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Nomadic life archiving across platforms: Hyperlinked storage and compartmentalized sharing, Yang WANG and Sun Sun LIM

Musing on national education in higher education, Aidan Marc WONG

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Online patriarchal bargains and social support: Struggles and strategies of unwed single mothers in China, Xiaoman ZHAO and Sun Sun LIM

Submissions from 2020

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Marriage migrants’ use of social media, Soontae AN, Sun Sun LIM, and Hannah LEE

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Singapore's climate action: It is time to be more ambitious, Winston T. L. CHOW News Article

Climate change audience segmentation: An international review, Benjamin H. DETENBER and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Screening Southeast Asia: Film, politics, and the emergence of the nation in postwar Southeast Asia, Darlene Machell ESPENA Book Chapter

Indigenous communities, ICT and rural development: Case studies in Tanzania and Sarawak, Malaysia, Terry Van GEVELT

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Evaluating human versus machine learning performance in classifying research abstracts, Yeow Chong GOH, Xin Qing CAI, Walter THESEIRA, Giovanni KO, and Khiam Aik KHOR Journal Article

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Impacts of green infrastructure on flood risk perceptions in Hong Kong, Seung Kyum KIM, Paul JOOSE, Mia M. BENNETT, and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Manufacturing hate 4.0: Can media studies rise to the challenge?, Sun Sun LIM

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Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates, Sun Sun LIM and Kai Ryn TAN

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The Ehrenfests’ use of toy models to explore irreversibility in statistical mechanics, Joshua LUCZAK and Lena ZUCHOWSKI Book Chapter

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Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction, Alberto MARTILLI, Matthias ROTH, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al Working Paper

Sino-Christian Theology, Teng-kuan NG

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Claiming the Los Angeles River for ‘the public’, by boat and by permit, Sayd RANDLE

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Ordinary disasters: On unexceptional flooding in LA's San Fernando Valley, Sayd RANDLE

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Unmaking California’s Central Valley, Sayd RANDLE

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Media literacy, scientific literacy, and science videos on the internet, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Minding other people's business: Community attachment and anticipated negative emotion in an extended norm activation model, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Kang Leng HO

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When doing more requires knowing more: Explaining the intention to seek procedural information about recycling, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Yan Wah LEUNG

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Reputation cues as signals in the sharing economy, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Jean Yi Colette TAN, and Ting Fang POH

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A tripartite model of trust in Facebook: acceptance of information personalization, privacy concern, and privacy literacy, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Ole-Christian WASENDEN, Gorm-Andreas GRONNEVET, and Rich LING

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To thine communication partner be true: The effect of presentation consistency on perceived authenticity and liking after making a first impression online, Nicholas TANG, Janell CHU, Kahmun LEONG, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

The water-energy-food nexus: Bridging the science-policy divide, Terry VAN GEVELT

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End-user perceptions of success and failure: narratives from a natural laboratory of rural electrification projects in Malaysian Borneo, Terry VAN GEVELT, T. ZAMAN, F. GEORGE, M.M BENNETT, S.D. FAM, and J.E. KIM

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A global regression method for thermal sharpening of urban land surface temperatures from MODIS and Landsat, James. W. WANG, Winston T. L. CHOW, and Yi-Chen WANG Journal Article

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Central inspection teams and the enforcement of environmental regulations in China, C. XIANG and Terry VAN GEVELT

Submissions from 2019

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Commentary: How effectively can Singapore adapt to sea level rise?, Winston T. L. CHOW News Article

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What they meant: On Helena Rosenblatt’s "The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century", Christine HENDERSON Book Review

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The UK summer heatwave of 2018 and public concern over energy security, Shaun LARCOM, Po-Wen SHE, and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Explicating perceived sustainability-related climate: A situational motivator of pro-environmental behavior, Yan Wah LEUNG and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Tuning networks for prosocial behavior: From senseless swarms to smart mobs [Commentary], Sun Sun LIM and Roland BOUFFANAIS

Comparative global knowledge about the use of digital technologies for learning among young children, Sonia LIVINGSTONE, Sun Sun LIM, Anulekha NANDI, and Becky PHAM

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An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0), Naika MEILI, Gabriele MANOLI, Paolo BURLANDO, Elie BOU-ZEID, Winston T. L. CHOW, Andrew M. COUTTS, Edoardo DALY, Kerry A. NICE, Matthias ROTH, Nigel J. TAPPER, Erik VELASCO, Enrique R. VIVONI, and Simone FATICHI Journal Article

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Vietnamese pre-schoolers’ tablet use and early childhood learning: an ecological investigation, Becky PHAM and Sun Sun LIM

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Bare mountaintops and thirsty cities: On California and its snowpack, Sayd RANDLE

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Harvesting Alternative Water Resources (U.S. West), Sayd RANDLE

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Perceived influence of proenvironmental testimonials, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Michael Field DAHLSTROM

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Catching up with the ‘core’: The nature of the agricultural machinery sector and challenges for Chinese manufacturers, M. T. SAFDAR and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Thinking algorithmically: From Cold War computer science to the socialist information culture, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Indigenous perceptions of climate anomalies in Malaysian Borneo, Terry VAN GEVELT, H. ABOK, M. M. BENNETT, S. D. FAM, F. GEORGE, N. KULATHURAMAIYER, C. T. LOW, and T. ZAMANE

Submissions from 2018

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Predictors and outcomes of nurses’ use of smartphones for work purposes, John Robert BAUTISTA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Trisha T.C. LIN, and Yin Leng THENG

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Psychometric evaluation of the smartphone for Clinical Work Scale to measure nurses' use of smartphones for work purposes, John Robert BAUTISTA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Trisha Tsui-Chuan LIN, and Yin Leng THENG

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The two foundings thesis, Sonu BEDI and Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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Climate change and technology: Examining opinion formation of geoengineering, Christopher L. CUMMINGS and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Third-person perception of science narratives: The case of climate change denial, Michael Field DAHLSTROM and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Constructing underachievement: The discursive life of Singapore in US federal education policy, Roberto Santiago DE ROOCK and Darlene Machell ESPENA Journal Article

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Public support for censorship in a highly regulated media environment: The influence of self-construal and third-person perception over time, Benjamin H. DETENBER and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Cosmopolitan cinema: Cross-cultural encounters in East Asian film [Book review], ESPENA Darlene Machell Book Review

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The value of green certification in the Singapore housing market, Eric FESSELMEYER

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How much do users value a network expansion? Evidence from the public transit system in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER and Haoming LIU

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The effect of localized density on housing prices in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kiat Ying Sky SEAH, and Jonathan Ci Yi KWOK

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Do voluntary commons associations deliver sustainable grazing outcomes? An empirical study of England, Shaun LARCOM and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Scaling the nexus: Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food, Scott J. MCGRANE, Michele ACUTO, Francesca ARTIOLI, Po-Yu CHEN, Robert COMBER, Julian COTTEE, Geremy FARR-WHARTON, Nicola GREEN, Ariella HELFGOTT, Shaun LARCOM, Julie A. MCCANN, Patrick O'REILLY, Gloria SALMORAL, Marian SCOTT, Lindsay C. TODMAN, Terry VAN GEVELT, and Xiaoyu YAN

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Pedestrian dharma: slowness and seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker, Teng-kuan NG

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Landscapes of power: Politics of energy in the Navajo Nation, Sayd RANDLE

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The meanings and limits of ‘local water’ in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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Liquid futures: Water management systems and anticipated environments, Sayd RANDLE and Jessica BARNES

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Audience prototypes and asymmetric efficacy beliefs, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Procedural information and behavioral control: Longitudinal analysis of the intention-behavior gap in the context of recycling, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Efficacy beliefs in third-person effects, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Benjamin H. DETENBER, and Hernando ROJAS

Environmental communication among minority populations, Bruno TAKAHASHI and Sonny ROSENTHAL

The Great Soviet calculator hack, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Achieving universal energy access and rural development through smart villages, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, S. FENNELL, B. HEAP, J. HOLMES, M.Hurley DEPRET, B. JONES, and M.T. SAFDAR