Our People

liching.ho@wisc.edu

Li-Ching Ho is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Faculty Director of Global Engagement of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research, conducted primarily in East and Southeast Asia, attends to ideas organised around socio-political and environmental sustainability. Specifically, she has focused on social diversity in civic education, differentiated access to citizenship education and environmental citizenship. In her latest co-authored book titled Curriculum for Justice and Harmony, she argues that education must prepare young people to act on issues pertaining to social justice and harmony in order for communities to sustain themselves. She is a co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education and has published research articles in Theory and Research in Social Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Teachers College Record, Teaching and Teacher Education, among others.

perrine.hamel@ntu.edu.sg

Perrine is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Principal Investigator at the Earth Observatory of Singapore. Her research examines how nature in cities, such as parks, trees, green roofs, among others, contributes to urban sustainability while rendering these places resilient and inclusive. She is well-versed in the fields of ecosystem services modeling, stormwater monitoring and management as well as climate resilience. She offers authentic, project-based learning experiences in the courses that she teaches on urban resilience, geospatial information systems, and field practice in Southeast Asia (including Singapore).

Related publications
Blue–green infrastructure for flood and water quality management in Southeast Asia: evidence and knowledge gaps.

Mapping the benefits of nature in cities with the InVEST software.

melissa.low@nus.edu.sg

Melissa Low is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions. She holds an LLM in Climate Change Law and Policy (with distinction) from the University of Strathclyde, MSc in Environmental Management. For her Master’s thesis on past and contemporary proposals on equity and differentiation in shaping the 2015 climate agreement, she was awarded the Shell Best Dissertation Award in 2013. She has previously worked at the Energy Studies Institute, NUS where she carried out research projects on a range of energy and climate issues of concern to Singapore and the region. She has participated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) for over a decade and is an active sustainability thought leader, authoring, publishing and presenting at various forums. In 2021, Melissa was conferred the NEA EcoFriend Award and the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) for her contributions towards environmental sustainability, climate change awareness and impact on youth. She serves as Chair of the Climate Action SG Alliance and is also an Advisory Committee Member for the MSE SG Eco Fund.

ding0141@e.ntu.edu.sg

Ding Ning is a PhD student with the Asian School of the Environment (ASE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Her research project focuses on the important role that nature-based solutions (NBS) for sustainable stormwater management within urban Southeast Asia can play, especially in light of the effects engendered by climate change (e.g. greater extent of flooding). The project’s twin objectives are first, establishing a low-cost, open-source, real-time, autonomous and continuous mode of monitoring the quality of nature-based systems. The second objective involves modeling the performance of such nature-based solutions for stormwater management (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification) on a larger watershed scale.

tqh@nus.edu.sg

Qian Hui provides research and administrative support to the Sustainability Learning Lab (SLL). She is actively involved in the conceptualisation of its new website, including its signature pedagogies on sustainability/environmental education with Dr. Tricia Seow. Additionally, she has co-edited a special issue of HSSE online that spotlights issues and educational practices related to sustainability. Her research interests in the politics of sustainability as well as the intimate connections between waste and labour are often informed by critical theoretical perspectives. Further, Qian Hui is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), where she examines how plastic objects (especially single-use disposable plastics) are consumed, handled, discarded and reused/recycled within households in Singapore.