ORGANIZERS AND PARTNERS

The International Sociological Association (ISA) is a non-profit association for scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences. The ISA was founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO. The goal of the ISA is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world. Its members come from 167 countries. 

The Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) was established in 1968. RC28 general objectives are to promote high quality research on social stratification and social mobility, and the international exchange of scientific information in this field. You must be a member of RC28 before presenting your work at an RC28 conference.
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MAIN ORGANIZER

The Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) is an interdisciplinary Centre at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS that advances scientific research and training on family and population changes particularly in Asia.

Our missions are to promote (1) research, (2) training, (3) mentoring on family and population research. The research can be expected to lead to the centre playing a policy advisory role on issues related to family and population in Singapore and beyond.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

SECRETARIAT

CO-ORGANIZER

Established in 2004, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) at NTU is developing and nurturing graduates and researchers to confront the challenges of the 21st-century world through teaching and scholarship. The School is at the forefront of conducting new interdisciplinary research and education programmes based upon the School’s comparative strengths, and leading-edge research trends in the international academe. HSS has five strategic research clusters namely: Humanities, Science and Society; Environment and Sustainability; Global Asia; Cognition and Neuroscience; and Literary and Cultural Studies. These clusters are centrally aligned with NTU’s Five Peaks of Excellence: Sustainable Earth; Future Healthcare; New Media; New Silk Road and Innovation Asia. HSS is now home to over 200 faculty members who inspire and mentor more than 3,100 undergraduate and graduate students.

CO-SPONSOR

The NUS Global Asia Institute aims to take the lead in research and scholarship directed at topics pivotal to Asia's future. Driven by the mission to provide in-depth insights to shape the nature of 21st Century Asia, the NUS Global Asia Institute will take a holistic approach to the fundamental issues confronting Asia and the world. By focusing on integrative studies, the work of the Institute will go beyond public policies and also deal with matters of technological importance. The Institute will complement existing NUS programmes that already have a significant Asian component.
The NUS Global Asia Institute, an initiative of NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, will bring together existing expertise from NUS and other universities, particularly those with expertise in India and China, in its quest for solutions that will solve the critical issues within Asia.
Established in 2001, ARI is one of the very few advanced research institutes in Asia that undertakes basic, inter-disciplinary and innovative research in the humanities and social scientific study of Asia. As one of the university-level research institutes of the National University of Singapore, ARI pursues the motto of its parent institution, to be “a Global University centred in Asia.” It collaborates actively with scholars from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business, School of Design and Environment, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Global Asia Institute, as well as the area research centers of NUS, such as East Asia Institute, Institute of South Asian Studies and the Middle East Institute. It also actively pursues international research collaborations and hosts many renowned researchers in Asian Studies from around the world.
The department is a diverse, dynamic and innovative research and teaching unit with strong expertise in research on Southeast Asia, East Asia and South Asia as well as on Singapore society. One of the largest Sociology departments in the world, it offers comprehensive undergraduate, honours and graduate programmes, led by a group of dedicated and creative researchers and educators. The strength and vitality of the department are rooted in its teaching capacity fronted by excellent educators not to mention its stellar research and publication profile given a strong core of accomplished researchers and intellectuals. The classrooms, departmental seminars, graduate workshops and conferences organized through department initiatives afford opportunities for debating and debunking ideas and perspectives on culture, politics and society, challenging students to problematize everything - in the spirit of refusing to take anything for granted.
Established in 2007, the SMU School of Social Sciences (SOSS) set out to offer tertiary students the very first multi-disciplinary social sciences programme in Singapore. SOSS continues to provide our undergraduate students with the flexibility to focus on one of our core disciplines (Psychology, Political Science, Sociology) and to combine them with disciplines offered by the other schools in SMU including Accounting, Business, Economics, Information Systems, and Law. At the postgraduate level, we offer an innovative Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration that aims to develop a new generation of leaders from business, government and civil society who are capable of working together to find solutions to complex transdisciplinary problems. Our PhD in Psychology programme offers aspiring young researchers doctoral-level knowledge and research skills with an emphasis in experimental, social, and organizational psychology.