Highlights

Green Horizons: SUTD sustainability research exchange
Organised by HASS’ Green Economy and Sustainability Society (GESS), in conjunction with the Sustainability Centre in order to connect researchers working on sustainability issues.


Networking with experts in human-centred design
Our Human-Centred Design Master’s program was honoured to host Ms Liu Hanmo (Hana), Product Experience Design Expert, and Mr Shu Weiqi from Tencent LightSpeed Studios (Singapore) as part of our Dialogues with Leaders series.

Launch of Artificial Intelligence Management Systems Accreditation Programme
Assistant Professor Jeffrey Chan is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee (AITC), which contributed to the launch of SS ISO/IEC 42001:2024 standard.

Visit to Carousell on 7 March 2025
Our Master of Science in Technology and Design (Human-Centred Design) programme students had an inspiring visit to Carousell hosted by Keith Oh, Head of Product Design.


Featured Freshmore research: Felix Teo’s Analysing Poverty in Singapore
Our HASS Freshmore core course, ‘02.003 Social Science: Understanding Behaviour, Culture and Society’, begins with the foundational debates of political economy. We read selections from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, including his famous discussion of the origin of the division of labour and its role in promoting national wealth.


HASS announces co-winners for 2022 Digital Humanities Award
The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) cluster at SUTD is pleased to announce the 2022 co-winners of the Digital Humanities Award.


Students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul receive excellent review for their online repository project on the Japanese Army Occupation during World War II
As their final project for the course 02.126 Southeast Asia under Japan: Motives, Memoirs, and Media, students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul designed a voluminous online repository for primary and secondary sources related to studying the occupation of Southeast Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.


Student Huang Qiuhong’s article on Endau Settlement published in Emory Journal of Asian Studies
We interviewed student Huang Qiuhong who published her article “The Japanese Occupation of Singapore: Examining the Success of the Endau Settlement” in the Emory Journal of Asian Studies.


ISTD Senior Caleb Lee’s Short Film “The Broken Circuit” is an Official Selection for the Essex DocFest
Graduating ISTD Senior Caleb Lee has been receiving some recognition for his short film, “The Broken Circuit”, a moving, personal account of how he experienced the ‘circuit breaker’ – Singapore’s nationwide lockdown of two months to contain the spread of Covid-19.


HASS’ students’ paper accepted for presentation at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP) 2020 (postponed to 2021)
Four SUTD students who took Associate Professor Yow Wei Quin’s course 02.218 Introduction to Psychology in 2019 submitted a research paper to the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP) in 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to covid-19). Their paper has been accepted for presentation!
