Our Team

TEO You Yenn​ ​

Associate Professor ​
Provost's Chair in Sociology
Director, Centre for the Study of Social Inequality

TEO You Yenn is Associate Professor and Provost’s Chair in Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research focuses on poverty and inequality, governance and policy, gender and class inequalities. Ongoing projects focus on care/welfare regimes and minimum income standards. She is the author of Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society (Routledge, 2011) and This is What Inequality Looks Like (Ethos Books, 2018). She is a founding editor of AcademiaSG, which promotes Singapore scholarship and public discourse.

More information about her work at: https://teoyouyenn.sg

Shannon ANG Jia Wei

Assistant Professor
Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of Social Inequality 

Shannon Ang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University. He uses primarily quantitative methods to pursue his research interests in life course sociology, focusing on the health and social lives of older adults. So far, he has studied the social support and social participation (including online participation) of older adults, and their implications for mental and physical health outcomes. Findings from these studies have been published in academic journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Demography, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, amongst others.