🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

🎉 Congratulations to our faculty members Matthew Hammerton and Yasmin Y. Ortiga on their well-deserved promotions! Your dedication to teaching, research, and contributions to the SOSS community continue to inspire us all. #sgSMUSOSS

🌟 A warm welcome to our new faculty appointments, Jacqueline Ho and George Wong! We're excited to have you join the SOSS community and look forward to the incredible impact you'll bring to our community. #sgSMUSOSS

🎉 SMU turns 25! 🎉 To celebrate, we’re offering over 25% off the tuition fees for the Master of Sustainability programme! 🌍 Learn to lead sustainability efforts and join a community making real-world impact. 🌱 📅 Apply by 31 May 2025: masters.smu.edu.sg/programme/mast…

Will AI create better jobs or deepen inequality? While tech drives progress, it also brings challenges like job loss and precarious work. Join us to explore how egalitarian values can guide AI towards a fairer, more just future of work. Register now: forms.office.com/pages/response…

As we welcome the Lunar Year of the Snake 🐍, we wish you a year filled with wisdom, resilience, and success. 🧧

📢 SOSS Insights | Issue 9 The latest issue of SOSS Insights is now available! Explore key research highlights and achievements from the School of Social Sciences. 🔗 Read more: smu.sg/soss-insights-9

Is it bad to embrace workism and make work your primary source of meaning and identity? Recently, many social scientists and cultural critics have argued that it is. Assoc Prof Matthew Hammerton challenges this narrative in his new article. 🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Say hi to Jacqueline Ho, who recently joined SOSS as an Asst Professor of Sociology. A native of Singapore, she studies parents’ experiences of the local education system, examining how recent education reforms are being received on the ground. Read more: research.smu.edu.sg/news/2025/feb/…

This week on Sero Boost: The Happiness Science Insights Podcast, host Sabrina Oktavelia sits down with Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy Matthew Hammerton to explore the age-old question: What makes life truly meaningful? 🎧 Tune in now: youtube.com/watch?v=yW56LH…

This article titled 'Heidegger’s Gelassenheit, Daoist Wuwei 無為, and Non-Willing' written by Assoc Prof Steven Burik explores the Daoist concept of wuwei (无为) through Martin Heidegger’s idea of Gelassenheit (releasement). Read more here: doi.org/10.1080/175706…

Does flexible work truly empower women? SMU Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr Cheng Cheng and her team uncover a surprising reality: while flexible work promises freedom, it may be silently reshaping gender roles in ways we didn’t expect. Read more: cityperspectives.smu.edu.sg/article/gender…

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri! 🌙✨ Wishing everyone a joyous and blessed celebration with your loved ones. May this festive season bring you happiness, peace, and togetherness.

🎉 Congrats to Lain Shae Goh, our 1st-year Psychology student, on having 2 papers accepted at the APA Annual Conference! 🌈 Psychological Intersections in Queer Physical Spaces 🔍 Operationalising Intersectionality in Psychology: SPLICE-ing it up! We wish you all the best! 👏

🎓🎉 Congratulations to Associate Professor of Psychology Tsai Ming Hong on receiving the 2025 NCMR Paper of the Year Award! 🔗 Read the paper: doi.org/10.34891/y2w2-…

Is it a mistake to center your life on work?💼❓ In this post, Assoc Prof Matthew Hammerton discusses ideas from his recent article where he explores the phenomenon of people who make work their primary source of meaning. Read more: 🔗 justice-everywhere.org/general/whats-…

Leading with vision: SMU SOSS Dean Professor Kenneth Benoit is championing an interdisciplinary future for social sciences. From AI ethics to sustainability, SMU SOSS Dean Professor Kenneth Benoit believes complex issues require more than one lens. 🔗 research.smu.edu.sg/news/2025/may/…

AI is reshaping our world—but it can also reinforce gender bias in hiring, education & healthcare. Fixing this means better data, fairer algorithms & strong policies. It takes teamwork across tech & policy. Read more by Assoc Prof Andree Hartanto: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Assistant Prof Beomgeun Cho has received the inaugural Kyujin Jung Memorial Research Award at the 2025 ASPA Conference! The award recognises outstanding early-career scholars in public administration — a well-deserved honour for Prof Cho!