Published on 13 Apr 2026

Celebrating Research Grant Successes

The NTU School of Social Sciences warmly congratulates its faculty on their outstanding success in securing a wide range of competitive research grants. These awards recognise innovative and impactful projects across diverse areas, including health and ageing, education, sustainability, social behaviour, financial decision‑making, and public policy.

These achievements reflect the School’s strong research excellence and collective dedication to advancing knowledge that makes a meaningful difference to society. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all awardees on this well‑deserved success.

Grant

PI

Title of Project

Alibaba-NTU Global e-Sustainability CorpLab (ANGEL)

A/P Xu Hong

Sustainable Living

National Medical Research Council – Healthy and Meaningful Longevity - Future Seniors Grant Call

Asst/P Shannon Ang

Bridging Evidence to Assess Social Connectedness among Future Seniors (BEACON)

National Medical Research Council

Asst/P Luo Lizhu

Neural Signatures for Early Detection and Prediction of Adolescent Self-Harm: A Longitudinal Community Study

Education Research Funding Programme (ERFP)

Asst/P Darren Yeo

PATHS: Profiling Academic Trajectories and Heterogeneity of Low-Progress Learners for Enhancing Learning Support

MOE AcRF Tier 1 Seed Funding

Asst/P Lisa Walsh

Human Well-Being in the Age of AI: A Cross-Country Study of Chatbot Use, Perceived AI Threat, and Psychosocial Functioning

CoHASS Incentive Grant Scheme

A/P Ringo Ho

Future Work-Self Salience and Proactive Career Behaviours in Mid-Career Workers: A Pilot Study

A/P Wang Jue

AI and Knowledge Inequality

 

A/P Laavanya Kathiravelu

Migration, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Global Asia (MIGRASIA)

 

Prof Setoh Peipei

Targeting Responsible Screen Use in Pre-Adolescence: Promoting Healthy Trajectories of Child, Parent, and Family Well-being

CoHASS-NBS Collaboration Grant

A/P Bao Te

Financing Investment Opportunities by Selling: Evidence from the Crypto Market

CoHASS Joint NTU-ANU NTU-KCL Conference, Symposium and Workshop Scheme

Prof Victoria Leong

NTU-KCL IoPPN Joint Workshop on Lifespan Brain & Psychological Health

CoHASS Research Support Grant

Asst/P Chua Yeow Hwee

Tracking Attention in Macroeconomic Expectations

Asst/P Akshar Saxena

AI-Driven Measurement of Public Sentiment and Narratives Around Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes in Developing Southeast Asian Countries

A/P Xu Hong

Understanding the influence of AI on our judgment in bias confidence and error detection

A/P Wang Wenjie

New Robust ANOVA with High-Dimensional Covariates and Clustering

MOE AcRF Tier 2Asst/P Luo LizhuRecalling Emotions: a WINdow into adolescent Depressive symptoms (REWIND)
 A/P Wang WenjiePrecision, Prediction, and Equity: Machine Learning-Driven Innovations for Healthy Aging