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socialservice.sg presents: "Before the Ballot"

"Before the Ballot" is a podcast series focused on Singapore's next general election, co-hosted by Isaac Neo and Jin Yao Kwan. socialservice.sg is a website, podcast, and newsletter dedicated to social service research, practice, and policies in Singapore. Cover art photo by Kelli McClintock on Unsplash.

"PAP v PAP": Cherian George and Donald Low on balancing elite governance and democratic deliberation in Singapore

42 mins; December 11, 2020

"GE2020: Fair or Foul?": Bertha Henson on levelling the electoral playing field

24 mins; December 08, 2020

BeTheWire: Bridging the digital divide for persons of all abilities

16 mins; October 07, 2020

NUS Developer Student Club: #TechForGood within and beyond the university

16 mins; September 30, 2020

COV-AID: NUS law students seek to make legal complexity, simple

20 mins; August 31, 2020

The minimum wage, the Progressive Wage Model, and low-wage labour in Singapore (A conversation with Prof. Linda Lim)

36 mins; July 22, 2020

Five takeaways from #GE2020, in five minutes and five words: Mandate, leader, consolidation, COVID-19, weathering

6 mins; July 11, 2020

#GE2020 Silver Linings in a Post-GE2020 Singapore (Day 09)

5 mins; July 08, 2020

#GE2020 “It's a damp squib”: An assessment of the GE2020 campaign (Veteran journalist Bertha Henson)

19 mins; July 07, 2020

#GE2020 The Sengkang Spotlight (Day 08): Sengkang GRC as a microcosm of GE2020

5 mins; July 07, 2020

#GE2020 The Issues, Please? (Day 07): Two days to get the campaign back on substantive track; the ruling party campaigns for a mandate

4 mins; July 06, 2020

#GE2020 Raising awareness of LGBTQ+ issues in Singapore (Heckin’ Unicorn’s Teo Yu Sheng)

19 mins; July 06, 2020

#GE2020 The national view from Aljunied GRC (Royston Long)

15 mins; July 06, 2020

#GE2020 A mid-campaign report card of the opposition parties (Researchers Loke Hoe-Yeong and Dr. Elvin Ong)

40 mins; July 05, 2020

#GE2020 Raising socio-political literacy and civic engagement in Singapore (CAPE’s Huang Runchen and Joel Yew)

18 mins; July 05, 2020

#GE2020 #IStandWithRaeesah (Day 06): WP’s Raeesah Khan in the news; Pofma, again; coronavirus still in the community

5 mins; July 05, 2020

#GE2020 A brief sketch of social welfare policies and discourse between GE2015 and GE2020

14 mins; July 05, 2020

#GE2020 The Pofma Election (Day 05): Pofma correction directions; youthful glimmers of hope

4 mins; July 04, 2020

#GE2020 On lowering the voting age and the “Singapore Votes” initiative (Nigel Li)

17 mins; July 04, 2020

#GE2020 The national view from Holland-Bukit Timah GRC (Klinsen Soh)

17 mins; July 04, 2020

#GE2020 Evaluating the parties through a design perspective (Muhammad Al-Hakim bin Dasuki)

25 mins; July 04, 2020

#GE2020 Nomination Day, the debate, and mid-campaign impressions (Dhevarajan Devadas and Mohamed Salihin Subhan)

35 mins; July 04, 2020

#GE2020 Still a Pandemic Election (Day 04): The pandemic in the background, the NCMP scheme, and the 10-million-dollar question

4 mins; July 04, 2020

#GE2020 Following the elections as a young environmentalist (Woo Qiyun)

16 mins; July 02, 2020

#GE2020 Volunteering with the political parties (Clarence Ching and Joel Sherard Chow)

33 mins; July 02, 2020

#GE2020 A Muted, Rally-Less Campaign (Day 03): Bland party political broadcasts, lack of physical rallies are hurting opposition parties

4 mins; July 02, 2020

#GE2020 Debates Day (Day 02): Your preferred party won the English TV debate; the PAP swept the Mandarin debate

4 mins; July 01, 2020

#GE2020 Nomination Day (Day 01): East and West Coast plans and the main campaign issues of GE2020

5 mins; June 30, 2020

#20 - On opposition “unity”, party credibility, and electoral strategies (A conversation with researchers Loke Hoe-Yeong and Dr. Elvin Ong)

50 mins; June 24, 2020

#19 - The historical roots of electioneering and campaigning in Singapore

33 mins; June 22, 2020

#18 - “Beyond COVID19: The future of social services for low-income youths and families”

58 mins; June 18, 2020

#17 - Public assessments of the government’s pandemic response (A “Our Class Notes” and socialservice.sg collaboration)

40 mins; June 16, 2020

#16 - Singapore’s “silly season” is upon us: Veteran journalist Bertha Henson on election reporting (A “Our Class Notes” and socialservice.sg collaboration)

32 mins; June 11, 2020

#15 - The clarity of election and electoral regulations (A “Our Class Notes” and socialservice.sg collaboration)

44 mins; June 07, 2020

#14 - The community of overseas Singaporeans in the Bay Area: “Wherever you go, you can create a family”

36 mins; May 31, 2020

#13 - “Of the margins of the margins”: COVID19, marginalisation, and the role of academia (A conversation with Prof. Mohan Dutta)

58 mins; May 25, 2020

#12 - Community-building while circuit-breaking: “What does community mean to you?”

34 mins; May 21, 2020

#11 - Foreign domestic workers: Challenging dominant cultural ideas and perceptions in Singapore

27 mins; May 15, 2020

#10 - Domestic and family violence: Before, during, and after the pandemic

26 mins; May 13, 2020

#09 - On the Majulah Universal Basic Income, UBI experiments, and the design of social welfare policies in Singapore (A conversation with Dr. Ong Qiyan and NMP Walter Theseira)

58 mins; May 12, 2020

#08 - Elderly Singaporeans living alone: “I cannot watch TV the whole day”

33 mins; May 10, 2020

#07 - F&B in Singapore: Where cheap food comes at a price

41 mins; May 02, 2020

#06 - “Moral panic and the migrant worker folk devil”, in neo-authoritarian Singapore (A conversation with Prof. Kenneth Paul Tan)

61 hours 50 mins; April 30, 2020

#05 - Voices of the circuit breaker: Singaporeans in their 20s

45 mins; April 26, 2020

#04 - Mental health: Awareness, acceptance, and action (A conversation with NMP Anthea Ong)

45 mins; April 25, 2020

#03 - Internship and employment challenges for students: Making space and adding value

28 mins; April 11, 2020

#02 - Disadvantaged or low-income families: “Every student should have a laptop. Full stop.”

39 mins; April 10, 2020

#01 - Mutual aid: From spreadsheets to virtual and ground communities

36 mins; April 09, 2020

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