Shirley S. Ho

Assoc Prof. Shirley S. Ho
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

Cluster Director
Sustainable Built Environment
Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Shirley Ho is Associate Vice President (Humanities, Social Sciences & Research Communication) in the President's Office at Nanyang Technological University. She is President's Chair Professor of Communication Studies in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at NTU. She is an elected fellow of the International Communication Association, a recognition of her distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication.

Her primary research area focuses on cross-cultural public opinion dynamics related to science and technology, with potential health or environmental impacts. Her work emphasizes the roles of values, social media and other emerging modes of communication in shaping public attitudes toward emerging technologies (e.g., nuclear energy and renewable energies), applications of artificial intelligence technologies (e.g., autonomous vehicles), as well as novel food technologies (e.g., cultured meat, nano-enabled food, and plant-based protein). As a firm believer of science communication, her research investigates how best to motivate scientists to take the role of the “public intellectual” to communicate their research findings to the general public and the media. Science communication is pertinent amidst the current climate of misinformation. Dr. Ho is invited by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering to serve as member of their study committee to address inaccurate and misleading information about biological threats through scientific collaboration and communication.

She has been an advisor for a number of honors, masters, and PhD students. Under her guidance, her students have won numerous top research paper awards at international conferences.

She received a Ph.D. in mass communications and a M.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008 and 2005, respectively. She also received a B.A. in communication studies (first class honors) from NTU in 2002. Her personal homepage is https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/shirleysho/