Research

My academic research is concerned with how technology governance influences knowledge production: How do the rules and affordances that structure data/information technologies shape our understanding of the world?

Peer-reviewed publications:

• “Closed by Default”: Authoritarian Data Governance and Civil Society in Singapore, International Journal of Communication, 2026. (Open access)

• Civil Society Responses to Singapore’s Online “Fake News” Law, International Journal of Communication, 2021. (Open access)

Awards and prizes:

• Chevening and Cambridge Trust Scholarship (which fully funded my tution costs for my master's degree)

• MPhil Sociology Polity Prize (for achieving the top mark within my University of Cambridge cohort of around 60 sociology students)

• Hart-Marshall Arts and Humanities Prize (from Clare Hall, in recognition of promising early-career research)

Conferences and panels:

• Social Media and Online Spaces (panelist), Young Singaporeans Conference, 2022, Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore.

• Civil Society and Data Justice in Singapore (conference presentation), Chevening Conference, 2022, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London.

• Comparing Legal and Non-Legal Anti-Misinformation Mechanisms in Singapore (conference presentation), 3rd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, 2021, Oxford Internet Institute.

Datasets:

• POFMA'ed Dataset (2019-2022): A dataset of every use of Singapore's law against online "fake news", which has been cited by Freedom House, the International Commission of Jurists, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights and many others in their analyses of this law's impact on political discourse.