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Prof

Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Professor

Geography

Orcid identifier0000-0002-0240-3175
  • Professor
    Geography
  • +65 6516 6105 (Work)
  • +65 6777 3091 (Fax)
  • Asia Research Institute, AS8 07-01, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities
• Landscapes of heritage
• Global cities, transnationalism and diaspora
• Gender and migration
• Health geographies

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On-going and Past Research Projects include:

• South-South Migration and Migrant Food Insecurity: Interactions, Impacts and Remedies (MiFOOD)
• A Study on Cross-National Families in Singapore (X-FAM)
• Plastic Waste and Women’s Household Practices in Asia and Australia (PLASTICS)
• Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Student Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (BRISM)
• Understanding Low-Income Binational Families in Singapore: Profile, Social Capital and Integration
• Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia (CHAMPSEA): Waves 1, 2 and 3
• Healthcare and ‘Foodwork’ among Foreign Domestic Workers and their Children in Southeast Asia (HealthFood)
• Transnational relations, ageing and care ethics (TRACE): Connections and comparisons
• Building Human Capacity in Singapore's Population: Testing Innovations in Human Development (SGLeads)
• Transnationalism and Diaspora: Enhancing demography’s contribution to migration and development
• Changing Ethnicities: Peranakans and Eurasians across Generations
• The Global City of Encounters: Migration, Precarity and Diversity in Asian Urbanism
• Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore
• Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium
• State Boundaries, Cultural Politics and Gender Negotiations in Commercially Arranged International Marriages in Singapore and Malaysia
• Transnational Care Workers, State Policies and Gender Dynamics in Ageing Societies: A Comparative Study of Singapore and Japan
• Gender, Households and Identity in British and Singaporean Skilled Migration to China