Core Members

Professor Chang Chew Hung is working in the fields of geography, environmental and sustainability education at NIE. His expertise is in curriculum and teaching within geography education, with a focus on correcting students’ climate change misconceptions and in technology-enabled instruction. He has published widely in the areas of geography, geographical education and environmental education. Additionally, […]

Dr Ivy Tan is Associate Professor at the Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group. Prior to joining the National Institute of Education, she was a secondary school geography teacher who also headed the Humanities Department. She has done research on environmental knowledge and pro-environmental action among students in Singapore. She currently serves as an

Dr Tan is Associate Professor of Science Education at the Natural Sciences and Science Education academic group. She teaches courses on methods in biology education and integrated STEM curriculum. Her current research interests include inquiry-based science learning that is concerned about the sustainability of ecological habitats, the professional development of science teachers and STEM education

J.J. Zhang is a human geographer with research interests in border studies, material culture and critical tourism studies in the Asia Pacific. He has two main research thrusts: one that deals with tourism, heritage and geopolitics, and another that explores leisure travels and sustainable well-being among older adults. His writings have been published in international

Dr. Edward Park is Assistant Professor in Physical Geography at NIE and ASE (courtesy appointment), and a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), Nanyang Technological University, where he is developing a river research program entitled Tropical Rivers in the Anthropocene. His research attends to hydro-geomorphic processes and wetland hydro-sedimentary dynamics, which

Dr. Wang Jingyu is Assistant Professor at the Humanities & Social Studies Education Academic Group. Before joining NIE, he worked as a post-doctoral associate at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he observed and simulated mesoscale convective systems. He is also interested in how climate change might influence

Dr. Johannah Soo has been in the teaching profession for more than 25 years and specialises in the fields of sustainable food consumption, food science education and nutrition. She is currently lecturing modules on Food and Consumer Sciences. Her current research interests pertain to how different segments of the population are invested in sustainable (or

Dr. Kenneth Lim operates at the intersection of cultural anthropology, the learning sciences and cognitive psychology. He has had extensive experience in curriculum design, contextual teaching/training and designing research interventions around new media literacies. He is one of a dozen people worldwide to have been invited by UNESCO to be a member of its inaugural

Ms Ee-laine Oh joined HSSE as a Teaching Fellow in 2022. She is a Senior Teacher (Geography) with 14 years of teaching experience. She strives to inculcate a culture of sustainability among students by helping them to understand the interconnections between human and physical environments. She believes that the youths of today can be influential

Mdm Grace Liow is a key personnel at Corporation Primary School.  She was previously a teaching fellow with the Social Studies Education Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, from December 2017 to Dec 2023.  Prior to that, Mdm Liow was a humanities educator at a secondary school.  Mdm Liow has