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socialservice.sg presents: "Before the Ballot"
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Climate and environmental issues as election issues (with Bertrand Seah)
51 mins; October 21, 2024
“Are unelected voices still necessary in parliament?” (with former NMP Anthea Ong)
56 mins; September 19, 2024
Parliamentary vacancies and parliamentary representation (with PhD student Joel Yew)
32 mins; August 18, 2024
Singapore, first? Issues of migration, citizenship, multiculturalism, and nationalism in Singapore (with Dr. Rebecca Tan) - Part 2
54 mins; July 18, 2024
Singapore, first? Issues of migration, citizenship, multiculturalism, and nationalism in Singapore (with Dr. Rebecca Tan) - Part 1
26 mins; July 08, 2024
“Are we OK with the price of not being OK?”: The mental health and well-being of Singaporeans (with former NMP Anthea Ong)
43 mins; June 23, 2024
Looking back and looking ahead: Dr. Kenneth Paul Tan on PAP’s governing principles, PM Lawrence Wong, and the next general election - Part 2
42 mins; June 13, 2024
Looking back and looking ahead: Dr. Kenneth Paul Tan on PAP’s governing principles, PM Lawrence Wong, and the next general election - Part 1
38 mins; June 06, 2024
Singapore's opposition parties: The WP, PSP, SDP, and coalitions of electoral losers (with author Loke Hoe-Yeong)
36 mins; May 16, 2024
“It’s the economy, stupid?”: Inflation, incomes, inequality, and Singapore’s general elections (with Dr. Linda Lim)
51 mins; May 05, 2024
GE2024? GE2025? "Before the Ballot" preview
9 mins; March 31, 2024
The arts and publishing as civic engagement and political participation in Singapore (a conversation with Alfian Sa’at and Ng Kah Gay)
50 mins; October 18, 2023
The future of… Community and community-based governance (with Aaron Maniam)
51 mins; September 30, 2023
Veteran journalist Bertha Henson on PE2023, the PEC and CPA, and the office of the elected presidency
37 mins; September 14, 2023
"International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city"
27 mins; September 03, 2023
Singapore's presidential... Group job interview? (PE2023)
24 mins; August 28, 2023
A “GE2020 Jamus Lim debate moment”?, PE2023's young voters (with Aamir Bana)
31 mins; August 27, 2023
Constitution? Ceremonial? Community?, PE2023’s young voters (with Liang Weiting)
17 mins; August 26, 2023
Much ado about “independence”, PE2023’s young voters (with Rosamund Lim)
20 mins; August 24, 2023
The Book Club: "Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it" (Richard V. Reeves)
56 mins; July 30, 2023
Politically speaking: MP’s legislative assistants and parliamentary preparations (with MP Louis Ng)
22 mins; July 16, 2023
Leading a young direct-service charity as a young leader (Glyph Community's Lim Si Hui)
30 mins; July 09, 2023
The future of… Asian philanthropy (II - “Strategies for a better future”)
29 mins; June 18, 2023
The future of… Asian philanthropy (I - “Scenarios for Asia in 2050”)
31 mins; June 04, 2023
“Beyond Fairness”: AWARE's advocacy for anti-discrimination in the workplace
38 mins; May 20, 2023
Representation, not just conversation and consultation: DPA’s recommendations for Singapore’s workplace anti-discrimination law for people with disabilities
28 mins; May 07, 2023
"Tak Boleh Tahan": Encouraging ordinary Singaporeans to speak up
46 mins; April 28, 2023
A 2023 preview: "The Future of…" mini-series
30 mins; April 25, 2023
A 2023 preview: The "Civic Engagement and Action" mini-series
6 mins; April 18, 2023
Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore
22 mins; March 31, 2023
The future of community work and community development
26 mins; March 19, 2023
“Collecting stories, discovering places, and connecting people”: Participatory research, practice research, and Photovoice
29 mins; March 06, 2023
Community development in social work practice
18 mins; February 23, 2023
What makes a community?
23 mins; February 16, 2023
The community: Community development in Singapore
3 mins; February 07, 2023
Singaporean youth civic and community engagement and political participation under COVID-19 lockdown and during GE2020
22 mins; November 01, 2022
Let’s talk about “Jom”: Singapore’s new digital magazine
45 mins; September 14, 2022
"Seeking Shelter: Homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore"
45 mins; September 04, 2022
The future of... Finance and leaving nobody behind (with Givfunds’ and Masref’s Edward Yee)
28 mins; August 20, 2022
Sustaining migrant worker advocacy and volunteer involvement in Singapore (with HealthServe executive director Michael Cheah)
40 mins; August 13, 2022
The “Social Work Made Accessible” podcast
42 mins; July 27, 2022
The future of... Eye-care and eye-health (with Eyeviser's Chen Weiwen)
28 mins; July 20, 2022
Save.Me: Singapore’s first national survey on suicide (with Prof. Rosie Ching)
43 mins; July 03, 2022
“Pragmatic resistance as counter-conduct: Civil society advocacy in Singapore” (with political and security risk analyst Isaac Neo)
47 mins; June 30, 2022
The future of… Marrying purpose and profit (with StoneSoup Partner’s Samantha Lee)
35 mins; June 09, 2022
"It's amazing how this project has unknowingly reunited our family in powerful ways": The HappyUrns initiative
48 mins; May 19, 2022
"The hunger report, part two": COVID-19's impact on food-insecure Singaporean households
25 mins; May 10, 2022
COVID-19's effect on children's outdoor play and associations with family income (with Dr. Jonathan Huang)
32 mins; May 03, 2022
Role-playing as a Singaporean civil servant in “What’s the Matter, Mr. Monster?” (with director Roshan Singh Sambhi)
38 mins; April 24, 2022
The future of... Water and water scarcity (with Wateroam’s Lim Chong Tee)
42 mins; April 17, 2022
“Grief doesn't have an expiry date”: Normalising conversations around the end of life, death, and dying with dignity (Both Sides, Now’s “Kata-Kata Kita”)
59 mins; April 06, 2022
Sitting by the fire.place: Positioning an AI therapist chatbot in a broader constellation of mental health and wellness support
16 mins; April 03, 2022
The potential and challenges of social media civic discussions in Singapore (with assistant professor Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah)
33 mins; March 30, 2022
“Beneath the rug”: Documenting the lived experiences of the poor/marginalised/disadvantaged through Singaporean social service perspectives (with editor Lewin Low)
30 mins; March 10, 2022
"Scaled, citizen-led, and publicness": Improving qualitative research through citizen social science in Singapore and beyond (with Amirah Amirrudin, Dr. Nicholas Harrigan, and Dr. Ijlal Naqvi)
44 mins; March 06, 2022
Learning to listen: “Low-income communities” (A Good Space)
21 mins; February 08, 2022
Learning to listen: “Migrant worker communities” (A Good Space)
33 mins; February 07, 2022
Learning to listen: The Listening Living Labs and Listening Reports (A Good Space)
10 mins; February 01, 2022
Advocating for social work and social workers in parliament (with MP Louis Ng)
22 mins; January 30, 2022
What’s next for youth climate change activism and action in Singapore?
58 mins; January 27, 2022
So you want to be a social worker?
7 mins; January 25, 2022
COVID-19, over 716 days later: Confronting Singapore’s long-term, pandemic-linked social challenges
12 mins; January 24, 2022
The State of Happiness Study: So what makes the average Singaporean happy?
18 mins; December 12, 2021
What is “a basic standard of living”? A deeper research and methodological dive into the Minimum Income Standard study (with Drs. Ng Kok Hoe and Teo You Yenn)
48 mins; December 11, 2021
#AreWeOkay and the proposal for a Mental Wellbeing and Sustainable Development Office in Singapore
31 mins; August 27, 2021
A podcast update and a call for research help
3 mins; August 24, 2021
Ground-ups in Singapore (Part 2): Building synchronicity among communities of communities
24 mins; August 01, 2021
Ground-ups in Singapore (Part 1): Emergence and impact, activator journeys, and funding
33 mins; July 31, 2021
Long-term lessons from the pandemic: Government interactions and online/offline civic engagement (Adriel Yong; COVID-19, one year on)
17 mins; July 30, 2021
Beyond the laptop: From digital access to digital inclusion and literacy (Lim May-Ann; COVID-19, one year on)
14 mins; July 26, 2021
Building solid ground for those in Singapore facing online harassment, abuse, and harms
31 mins; July 17, 2021
Advising career and further education choices through a pandemic (Mock Yi Jun; COVID-19, one year on)
14 mins; July 05, 2021
“Are we listening?”: Coalescing around downstream and upstream mental health action (Anthea Ong; COVID-19, one year on)
29 mins; July 01, 2021
Advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ Singaporeans
33 mins; June 30, 2021
Sustaining the muscles of active citizenry and ground-ups for a more participatory democracy (Vincent Ng; COVID-19, one year on)
20 mins; June 30, 2021
“Thinking about futures”: Taking stock (with Eddie Choo)
23 mins; June 27, 2021
Sustaining an ecosystem of ground-ups and changemakers (Abhishek Bajaj; COVID-19, one year on)
20 mins; June 22, 2021
“People buy into what they help create”: Citizen foresight work and the influence of language and metaphors on futures thinking
42 mins; May 31, 2021
“No one group has a monopoly on good ideas”: Building anticipatory capacity and democratising, diversifying futures thinking
24 mins; May 18, 2021
"What if we’re wrong?": Interdisciplinarity, education, and higher education in Singapore
33 mins; May 16, 2021
“Thinking about futures”: A preview
4 mins; May 12, 2021
Burnout and self-care experiences of two young Singaporean social workers
27 mins; May 02, 2021
Intersectional climate justice, climate change and its unequal effects, and aspirations for a low-carbon Singapore
28 mins; April 21, 2021
Contested framings of climate change and climate governance in Singapore: PhD student Belicia Teo
22 mins; April 21, 2021
Scarcity, the bandwidth tax, and the effect of debt reduction in low-income Singaporean households: Dr. Ong Qiyan
20 mins; April 08, 2021
A survey for youths in Singapore, on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
1 min; April 05, 2021
On homelessness and housing insecurity, income insecurity and minimum income standard, and bridging research, practice, and policy: Dr. Ng Kok Hoe
38 mins; March 18, 2021
Students for a Safer NUS: Centring survivors, centring the community, and centring the margins
27 mins; March 18, 2021
OpenJio and the challenge of sustaining youth volunteerism and interest in social causes
19 mins; March 17, 2021
Mental health at the Singaporean workplace
23 mins; March 17, 2021
"The hunger report": Singapore's first nationally representative food insecurity study
27 mins; March 15, 2021
“Mind the Chasm”: The pandemic’s devastatingly uneven impact and the insecurities of low-income families across multiple, intersecting dimensions
43 mins; March 02, 2021
Macro inequality and mobility trends, felt inequality, and the case for a healthy degree of equality of outcomes: PhD candidate Nathan Peng Li
27 mins; February 28, 2021
The Birthday Collective: Going beyond the essay-writing crowd and holding conversational space upon uncommon ground
26 mins; February 27, 2021
The history of the making of youth - and the history of the present - in youth-conscious, youth-centred Singapore: PhD candidate Edgar Liao
38 mins; February 21, 2021
“Hard at Work: Life in Singapore”: Prof. Gerard Sasges on the book’s conceptualisation and the power of interviewing and stories
28 mins; February 20, 2021
AWARE’s “Saga” podcast: Conceptualisation, production, and challenges
32 mins; February 04, 2021
SchemesSG: A searchable, indexable directory of aid and assistance schemes in Singapore
26 mins; February 04, 2021
On the researcher’s privileged position, community partnerships, data and research advocacy: Postdoctoral fellow Rayner Tan
25 mins; February 04, 2021
Gift for Good: Galvanising in-kind donations and completing wishes in Singapore
19 mins; December 15, 2020
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