Students Achievements

PhD students Chen Anqi and Sidra Naveed participated in the International Symposium titled “Challenges and Opportunities for Social Work and Social Welfare in a Changing World” held from 5 - 6 December 2024 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The symposium hosted by CUHK have received 37 PhD students from United States of America, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, Mainland China, Macau and Hong Kong. The students presented their research papers that contributed to developing knowledge in different fields of social welfare and social work. Faculty and students who attended the symposium benefited greatly via scholarly exchanges and networking to gain more insights on their research.

Psychology PhD student Michelle Neoh emerged as the Winner for the Graduate College’s Research Excellence Award in the academic year 2023-2024. The Research Excellence Award recognises original, creative, and widely disseminated student research with significant impact on the field or society.

Her research interests are in interpersonal relationships such as parent-child and romantic relationships, and how individual differences and our interpersonal environment influence social interactions, emotional responses, and relationship outcomes. Her research encompasses social, cultural, and neuroimaging perspectives and her work has received awards at the Student Research Awards organized by the Singapore Psychological Society. Michelle has also published her work in journals including Scientific Reports and Family Process and presented at several international conferences including the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) organized by the Association for Psychological Science and the International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Psychology PhD student Stephanie Hilary Ma Xinyi emerged as winner of the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) NTU 2022 and 3MT SSS 2022 competition for her presentation on “Ageing Artfully in Singapore: Exploring the health and wellbeing impact of participatory arts and cultural heritage engagements among older adults”. She represented NTU at the 3MT Singapore Finals on 08th August 2022. She is grateful for the experience and generous support from Assoc. Prof Andy Ho, the OIKLS team and many others. Hilary continues to strengthen the empirical foundation for arts for health interventions locally and internationally.

Psychology PhD student Shaik Muhammad Amin Bin Mohamed Basheer was presented with Best Postgraduate Student Research Award and the prestigious Fred Long Award for Research Excellence for his paper 'Recovery Needs and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Trajectory of Stroke Survivors (PReTS): An Overview of Systematic Reviews'. His paper critically examines the rehabilitation and recovery needs and trajectory of stroke survivors. Amin hopes to use this recognition as momentum to continue his pursuit of generating empirical and translational knowledge in addressing the myriad challenges that Singaporean stroke survivors and their families face with regularity.

Psychology PhD students Sam Yan Ting Joyce, Dayton Leow Wei Yang and Alumnus Dr. V.Kopparumsolan were invited to give a talk on how technology can help to mitigate for the various challenges in polygraph assessment; specifically on how Virtual Reality may be used to recreate crime scenes and to improve eyewitness memory at the 54th Annual American Polygraph Association Seminar in Florida in August. Joyce shared the results of her study where memory recall in a virtual environment designed to resemble the original scene was found to be comparable to that in the actual physical scene. Moreover, memory performance in a virtual environment was also found to be better than memory recall produced by the use of photographs depicting the actual scene. The seminar was attended by individuals from the law enforcement and polygraph community - FBI, polygraph examiners, and personnel from the MINDEF Centre for Credibility Assessment in Singapore.

PhD students, Kwa Kai Xiang-PPGA, Richelle-Joy Chia-Psychology and Wendy Tan-Psychology won a Commendation Award for their research proposal at NISTH’s (NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity) ‘Ideas Challenge: ​AI for Humanity’ which aims to involve the entire campus communi​ty in mapping the fundamental issues and principles that would help guide the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the benefit of society and humanity. Their proposal laid out an ethical governance framework that sought to address key issues that an increasing AI influence on Singapore society can bring.