Welcome to Academia.SG

Academia.SG is an international network of Singaporean scholars aiming to promote publicly engaged scholarship about Singapore, including by encouraging debate on the systemic impediments to such engagement.
The group originally coalesced around an effort in April 2019 to represent academics’ interests in the debate over impending government legislation against online falsehoods. This experience crystalised long-held concerns about the position of academia in Singapore. These include the lack of research on Singapore; the under-representation of Singaporeans in many local university departments; and the state of academic freedom.
Our primary outreach vehicle is a website, Academia.SG. We are also on Facebook and Twitter. In 2020, in line with our view that scholars have a responsibility to communicate their research beyond academia, we launched an Academic Views section publishing original commentaries and essays about Singapore. In May 2020 we entered a collaboration with New Mandala with the intention of amplifying the voices of our authors to a broader audience.