Heartiest Congratulations on the promotion of Lim Ni Eng to Associate Professor!

 

In recognition of excellent research and teaching at the School of Humanities, Lim Ni Eng (NTU Chinese) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

His ongoing interest is on the interactional, socio-cultural and cognitive operations at work in everyday talk. Currently, Ni Eng is involved in investigating doctor-patient interaction in various medical settings, with a focus on Advance Care Planning (ACP) or End-of-Life conversations. Research grants that Ni-Eng is or has been involved in as a PI or Co-PI include: Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 for "Doctoring the Elderly: Doctor-Patient Interaction in a Urology Clinic", ARISE Strategic Initiatives Fund for "Quality Healthcare Delivery for the Elderly: Consent-taking in a Cataract Surgery Clinic in Singapore", ARISE-GERI Joint Research Fund for "Examining doctor-patient communication triadic versus dyadic medical interactions in geriatric clinics in Singapore"; NTU Start-up Grant (SUG) for "Communicative Difficulties in Healthcare settings: Talk and Interaction with Chinese-speaking Elderly Patients"; and the University of California Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching (UCCLLT) grant for "Developing a Library of Video Clips for Mandarin Chinese Class Use".