The CASMIDA research team is multidisciplinary with a diverse range of skills, expertise, and experience working with sexual violence survivors and marginalized individuals in society. Our team is deeply invested in enacting change from within university campuses in Singapore as well as creating a safe environment for our students. As researchers and educators, we hope to improve the well-being and lived experience of individuals affected by campus sexual misconduct.
Michelle H. S. Ho
Principal Investigator
Dr. Michelle Ho is an Assistant Professor of Feminist and Queer Cultural Studies at the Department of Communications and New Media (CNM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and on the Steering Committee of the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (GSRC). Coming from an interdisciplinary background, her work has explored gender and sexuality issues in the context of (East) Asia, including (mis)representations of women in the media and gender-based discrimination of transgender women, with a strong emphasis on feminist methodologies, (digital) ethnography, and critical discourse analysis.
She has nearly a decade of experience teaching feminist, gender, and sexuality issues in higher education, including but not limited to workplace sexual harassment and campus sexual misconduct.
Jungup Lee
Co-Investigator
Dr. Jungup Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, NUS and a social work expert specialized in cyber bullying, violence, safety, and psychological well-being among adolescents and young adults in urban society. Related to this project, she has undertaken 1) online survey research on traditional bullying, cyberbullying and mental health outcomes among Singaporean university students, and 2) evaluation research on an intervention program, “Digital Mindset” for adolescents’ Internet addiction.
Bimlesh Wadhwa
Co-Investigator
Dr. Bimlesh Wadhwa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, NUS. Her expertise is in human-computer interaction design and software engineering practices. Her work relevant to this project is in: (i) gender in design, (ii) data visualization, and (iii) development and evaluation of smart phone apps for well-being.
Olivia Choy
Co-Investigator
Dr. Olivia Choy is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research focuses on the etiology of criminal and antisocial behavior, as well as interventions to reduce such behaviors in adults and in children. Specifically, she examines biological factors together with psychological and social environmental ones to gain a more complete understanding of criminal behavior. She has authored publications on crime, delinquency, aggression, antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder, and psychopathy.
Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Co-Investigator
Dr. Edson C. Tandoc Jr. is an Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information and Director of the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His studies have focused on the impact of journalistic roles, new technologies, and audience feedback on the news gatekeeping process. He has also looked at how readers make sense of critical incidents in journalism and take part in reconsidering journalistic norms; and how changing news consumption patterns facilitate the spread of fake news.
Our Research Assistants
Ng Wi En
Wi En Ng (she/her) holds a Master’s degree in Communication and New Media from the National University of Singapore, where she also completed her Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (Hons). She is presently a Research Associate for the CASMIDA project. Her research broadly explores how individuals interact with technologies and how these interactions shape communication and engagement in everyday life. Currently, she is interested in looking at how socio-technical imaginaries have reconfigured everyday life in Singapore.
Philippa Self
Philippa Self (she/her) is a full-time research assistant at the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. She holds a BA (Hons.) in Urban Studies from Yale-NUS College, where she was actively involved in student organizations such as Kingfishers for Consent, The G-Spot (now NUSG), and Body-ody. Her research explores how affective and embodied experiences of sexuality, gender, and body size are shaped by social and spatial interactions in urban contexts.
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