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

Current state of geoengineering, Joshua LUCZAK

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Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse, Negin Nazarian, Benjamin Bechtel, Gerald Mills, Melissa Anne Hart, Ariane Middel, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Gaby S. Langendijk, Lei Zhao, Andy Pitman, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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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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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

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Chinatown, part five? ‘Capitalism with Asian values’ in Vancouver: Commentary on Elvin Wyly’s ‘Regarding the pain of (Indigenous) others, Justin Kh TSE

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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Vertical expansion in the making: Planning against deindustrialization by promoting "Industry's Going Upstairs" in Shenzhen, Qianqian WEI and Yong ZHANG

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

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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

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The sacred dimensions of the BRI's infrastructural commons, Orlando WOODS and David A. PALMER

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The partnership question as a scale question: Extending the theorization of entrepreneurial urbanism in China, Yong ZHANG

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The scale question as an urban question: The making of homo urbanicus amid state entrepreneurialism, Yong ZHANG

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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Competition and innovation in the financial sector: Evidence from the rise of FinTech start-ups, Doina CARAGEA, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Mihai DOBRI, Andreas HOEPNER, Oana PEIA, and Davide ROMELLI

Laozi qian shuo 老子淺說, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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

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Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance: Evidence on the Paris alignment of members’ disclosure, proxy voting, and fossil fuel bond investing, L. CHIN, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, D. MORENO, R. PATIL, and Anh VU

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

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The city never sleeps: But when will investment banks wake up to the climate crisis?, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andrea G. F. Hoepner, Fabiola I. Schneider, Michael Urban, Anh Vu, and Dariusz Wojcik

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Are cities venturing green? A global analysis of the impact of green entrepreneurship on city air pollution, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, Xi HU, Moustafa RAMADAN, Paolo VENERI, and Dariusz WÓJCIK

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance climate voting transparency and benchmarking, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, Yanan LIN, Kate VAN DER MERVE, and Anh VU

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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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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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“Back to the jungle”: Investigating rats, grass, scrub typhus, and plantations in Malaya, 1924–1974, Jack GREATREX

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Swarming Infrastructures, Jack GREATREX

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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

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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Private market impact investing firms: Ownership structure and investment style, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, and Yanan LIN

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A comparison between the EU green taxonomy and South Africa’s green taxonomy, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, and Anh VU

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Impact investing via affiliation with academia, NGOs, or other collaborations?, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNNER, Yanan. LIN, and Fabiola SCHNEIDER

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From impacts to dependencies: A first global assessment of corporate biodiversity risk exposure and responses, Sergio Henrique COLLAÇO DE CARVALHO, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, and Francisco ASCUI

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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

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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

A medical history of Hong Kong: The development and contribution of outpatient services, Jack GREATREX

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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

Saul’s bullshit: It’s not all good, man, Joshua LUCZAK