A/P Corinne Ghoh is an Associate Professor (Practice) of Social Work in the National University of Singapore. She holds concurrent appointments as Co-Director of the Next Age Institute at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Social Development Asia at the Department of Social Work. She is also an Associate Director with the Social Service Research Centre.
Prior to joining the National University of Singapore in July 2012, Corinne held several key appointments at the previous Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Singapore. She was the Director of Social Welfare, responsible for the administration of statutory functions under various legislations pertaining to the protection and welfare of vulnerable children and individuals and the Director of Rehabilitation, Protection and Residential Services Division in charge of administration and delivery of social services for vulnerable families, children and youths. Over the last 25 years of her experience in the social work field, she has been greatly involved in policy planning and development as well as in direct practice in areas pertaining to family and child welfare, child protection, family and elder protection and juvenile delinquency.
Corinne teaches both social work post graduate and undergraduate level modules. Her key topics of interest in teaching include Management of Human Service Organisations, Community-based Family Services, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Comparative Social Service Systems and Family and Interpersonal Violence. In teaching, she emphasises the importance of integrating knowledge with workplace /social work related scenarios and challenged students to think out of the box to be creative in their conceptualisation and solutioning. She incorporates case examples from the social work field in learning so that students' will get the opportunities to appreciate challenges in the field and apply the principles learnt in an experiential manner.
Corinne 's current research areas include social work services for vulnerable families, caregiving for older persons, and capability and capacity building of nonprofit organisations.
Corinne's research interests include geronotology, family and child welfare, organisational development and accountability .