FASS Staff Profile
DR MENUSHA DE SILVA
LECTURER
DEPARTMENT of GEOGRAPHY
- Appointment:
- LECTURER
- Office:
- AS2/04-35
- Email:
- geokmds@nus.edu.sg
- Tel:
- +65 65166533
- Fax:
- Homepage:
- http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geokmds/
Brief Introduction
My disciplinary research examines the intersections of transnational migration and ageing, within the context of Sri Lankan migrants’ later-life mobility and negotiations of transnational citizenship, and eldercare relations within transnational families. My more recent work on geographical education focuses on online and blended forms of learning through a feminist pedagogy lens. I teach modules in social and cultural geography.
Academic Positions
Lecturer, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (2020 - )
Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (2018-2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (2018)
Visiting Lecturer, Monash College, Sri Lanka (2008-2009)
Academic Qualifications
PhD in Geography, National University of Singapore (2018)
M.Soc.Sc., National University of Singapore (2012)
B.A. (Hons), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2008)
Teaching Areas
GE1101E - Geographical Journeys: Exploring World Environments
GES1003 - Changing Landscapes of Singapore
GE4213 - Cultural Geographies
GE4236 - Geographies of Migration
GE6222 - Transnationalism and Society: Comparative Spaces
Graduate Supervision
Graduate Research
Sreetama Bhattacharya (PhD) - Immigrant Parenting and the Social Reproduction of Culture Shaped through Intercultural Encounters: a Gendered Perspective. Co-supervisor, in progress
Undergraduate Honours Thesis
Vera Khoo - Migrant mothering: South Asian Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore, in progress.
Chee Elizabeth Lynne - Caring for Singapore’s Foreign Domestic Caregivers, graduated 2022.
Nicholas Ong Yew Hui - Re-thinking Agency: An Analysis of Youth Agency through the Play Experiences of Singaporean Youths, graduated 2022.
Too Zhi Han Gwendalyn - All that Sparkles in Jewel Changi Airport – A New Icon for Nation Building in Singapore, graduated 2021.
Publications
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
- De Silva, M. (2023) Pragmatic transnationalism: Sri Lankan-British retired migrants’ negotiations of transnational citizenship and (un)belonging. Professional Geographer, 75(1), 155-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2022.2087693
De Silva, M., Woods, O. and Kong, L. (2020) Alternative education spaces and pathways: Insights from an international Christian school in China. Area, 52(4), 750-757. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12634
De Silva, M. and Gandhi, K. (2019). ‘Daughter’ as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field. Area, 51(4), 662-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12525
De Silva, M. (2018). Making the emotional connection: Transnational eldercare circulation within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families. Gender, Place and Culture, 25(1), 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1339018
De Silva, M. (2017). The care pentagon: Older adults within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families and their landscapes of care. Population, Space and Place, 23(8), e2061. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2061
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
- De Silva, M. (forthcoming) Aging over the Life Course. In Jamie Winders and Ishan Ashutosh (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography.
Cheng, Y. E. and De Silva, M. (2022) Geographies of education: data, scale, and pedagogy. In S. Lovell, M. Rosenberg and S. Coen (eds) Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography. Routledge, pp. 295-305. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003038849-26
De Silva, M. (2020) Beyond the ‘age’ lens: Older migrants’ negotiation of intersectional identities over the lifecourse. In Shirlena Huang and Kanchana Ruwanpura (eds) Handbook on Gender in Asia, Edward Elgar, pp. 275–291. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-on-gender-in-asia-9781788112901.html
De Silva, M. (2020) Intersectionality. In Kobayashi, A. (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd ed), Elsevier, pp. 397-401. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780081022955101970
BOOK REVIEWS
- De Silva, M. (2020) Book review of ‘The City as Power: Urban Space, Place and National Identity’ (2019), edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen, for Journal of Cultural Geography, 38(1), 123-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1824358
De Silva, M. (2013) Book review of ‘Return migration and identity: A global phenomenon, a Hong Kong case’ (2010) by Nan M. Sussman, for Journal of Population Studies, 46, 185-188.
OTHERS
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De Silva (2022) Gender, Women and International Migration. Geography Digest, Issue 2, Curriculum Planning and Development Division 2, Ministry of Education (Singapore).
The Sikh Road (2021). A shared virtual fieldtrip video (26 minutes) created for the general education module ‘GES1003: Changing Landscapes of Singapore’ and community awareness. Co-created with Shirlena Huang (NUS Geography) and in collaboration with Mr. Sarabjeet Singh of the Young Sikh Association - Singapore.
De Silva, M. (2013) Sinhala-Buddhist migrant professionals in Australia. In Reeves, P. (ed) The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet Pty Ltd, pp. 166.
Other Information
Academic Awards
2023-2025 Education Research Funding Programme, National Institute of Education (Collaborator; PI: Kamalini Ramdas, NUS Geography; Collaborators: Shobha Avadhani, NUS Communications and New Media; Robin Loon, NUS Theatre Studies; Josef Tan, Ministry of Education) Teaching Pre-University Geography through Role-play and Deep Listening: Enhancing Geographical Inquiry using Interdisciplinary Strategies for Managing Classroom Dynamics.
2022-2023 Blended Learning 2.0, NUS Provost’s Office (PI) Blended Learning and Interactive Fieldtrip Worksheets.
2020-2021 Staff Research Support Scheme (SRSS), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS (Co-PI; Co-PI: Kamalini Ramdas, NUS Geography) Online Learning and Collaborative Pedagogy.
Selected Other Awards
2023 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
2020 Wiley Publisher’s Area Prize for New Research in Geography, for “‘Daughter’ as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field”
2012-16 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore
2009-11 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore
2008 Professor Yogambikai Rasanayagam Gold Medal in Geography, University of Colombo
Services to Academic Community
Co-chair, Young and Early Career Scholars (YES!), Gender and Geography Commission, International Geographical Union (website)
Reviewer for Gender, Place and Culture; Information, Communication and Society; Social and Cultural Geography; Area; Journal of Intergenerational Relationships; Population, Space and Place; International Migration; Journal of Family Studies; Wellbeing, Space and Society; Journal of Geography in Higher Education; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Intercultural Studies; Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
Media Engagement
2024 TodayOnline report on Time for youths to question social norms around parental care, work and climate change in the face of a volatile future: Experts, 22 January.
2024 Newspaper interview for Lianhe Zaobao, 学者：或可效仿欧盟 让国人在亚细安养老享当地同等待遇 (Scholar: We may follow the example of the European Union and allow Chinese people to enjoy the same treatment in ASEAN for their elderly care), 22 January.
2023 Newspaper interview for Lianhe Zaobao, 离乡背井的木棉花 承载梦想燃烧青春 (The person who left their hometown carries the burning dreams of youth), 11 June.
2021 Video interview on ‘The Sikh Road’ virtual fieldtrip. On Thalam Indian Beat, Mediacorp Vasantham (Singapore), 30 July.
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