Grants & Awards

• 2019 – 2022: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
• 2021: CHASE Climate Justice Network small grant
• 2021: Newcastle University’s HaSS Faculty’s Research Institutes Pioneer Award
• 2018-2019: Newcastle University’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion fund, to start the BAME network (lead applicant)
• 2017-2018: British Sociological Association early career forum regional event fund (co-applicant)
• 2017: AHRC-Creative Fuse North East Innovation Pilot Fund (collaborative, creative digital project with five academic and SME partners)
• 2012-2016: University scholarship to undertake PhD studentship at the RCUK-funded dot.rural Digital Economy Research Hub, University of Aberdeen
• 2008-2009: President’s Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore
• 2008-2010: Research Scholarship to undertake Masters at the National University of Singapore
• 2007: Rosie Heng-Ko Poh Choo Gold Medal (award for best female Sociology honours student, National University of Singapore)
• 2006-2007: Cambridge Scholarship, National University of Singapore
• 2005-2006: Max Lewis Scholarship, National University of Singapore
• 2004-2005: Shaw Foundation Scholarship, National University of Singapore
• 2003-2006: Dean’s list awardee 5 consecutive semesters, National University of Singapore

Teaching/Tutoring

• 2022 – : Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University
  • Understanding Social Change and Transformation (lecturer)
  • Understanding Everyday Life (lecturer)
  • Critical Approaches to Environment and Society (forthcoming 2024, module leader/convenor)
• 27-30 June 2022: lecturer and convenor, Interdisciplinary Research in Practice Summer School, University of Groningen
• Sept-Dec 2021: tutor, Researching Social Life, Newcastle University
• May 2021: lecturer and co-convenor, Navigating Research Boundaries: Disciplines, methodologies, environments, identities Summer School, University of Groningen
• April 2021: guest lecturer/panellist, Sociology for the Anthropocene, Newcastle University
• April 2019: facilitation of workshop on transdisciplinary teaching, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, 16 April 2018
• April-May 2018: guest lecturer, Internet and Society, Newcastle University
• Jan-June 2016: visiting lecturer at ESCP Europe (co-convenor on Introduction to Psychology & Sociology, for the school’s inaugural Bachelor in Management degree program)
• 2012-13: demonstrator,University of Aberdeen
  • Humans & Other Animals
  • Oceans & Society
• 2007-8: tutor, National University of Singapore
  • Social Inequalities
  • Anthropology & the Human Condition
  • Race & Ethnic Relations