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Dr Weiqiang LIN (林伟强) is a Cultural Geographer who is interested in mobilities and infrastructures of moving. He has over ten years of experience researching on contemporary mobility issues (particularly in transport) and has contributed to furthering cultural geographical concepts and theories through examining institutions. His work uses a distinctive infrastructural lens to shed light on the often-micro processes of mobilities production (e.g. norms, laws, STS, technologies, affects), offering unique and insightful windows into pressing real-world policy questions. His recent research examines labour and automation in four of Asia's biggest international airports, and extends to post-pandemic futures of work, citizenship and mobilities.
Previously, he has worked on topics related to the production of airspaces in Southeast Asia; and the discursive and technological framings of air logistics in Singapore and China, including the Belt and Road Initiative. In addition, Weiqiang was a recipient of the UK Commonwealth Scholarship from 2011 to 2014, and an NUS Overseas Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto in 2015. He sits on the editorial boards of Dialogues in Human Geography, Digital Geography & Society, Journal of Transport Geography, Mobilities, and Mobility Humanities, and is a Section Editor for Transfers (Ideas in Motion). Weiqiang was also one of three recipients of the inaugural Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) Fellowships awarded in 2019 [Fellowship tenure from 2020 to 2025].
If you would like to have access to any of his articles, please email him at weiqiang@nus.edu.sg. You can also find him on ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5484-0860 / ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Weiqiang_Lin4 / Twitter https://twitter.com/wqlin29 / Kudos: https://www.growkudos.com/profile/weiqiang_lin
Academic Qualifications
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My teaching interests are in transport geography, mobilities, infrastructures and logistics. I teach the following modules at the department:
Prospective graduate students interested in working on the broad fields of mobilities and transport are welcome to contact me at weiqiang@nus.edu.sg for a discussion. Some suggested topics (standalone or in any combination) are listed below:
Current students:
Naomi Veenhoven (PhD) - The "KPI-ification" of Labour: Data-Mediated Management Practices in Airport Operations
Lu Yichun (PhD) - Evaluating and improving the sound environment for airport staff at airside in Singapore Changi Airport
Graduated students:
Timo Sysiö (PhD) - Everyday Geographies of Interstate Diplomacy: Assembling the Finnish Foreign Mission in Ankara, Turkey
Bryan Tan Yi (Bachelors) - Studying Airports: Under-the-Radar Emotions of Non-Travellers
Gordon Oh Jing Wei (Bachelors) - The Patchy Place of Platforms: Examining Everyday Geographies of Food Delivery (Winner of 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Research)
Ummu Syafiqah Azlan (Masters in Geography) - Indonesian foreign workers and their migration through the lens of religion
Tan Yi Yang (Masters in Environmental Management) - Electric cars and green transportation in Singapore
Ng Zi Xin, Eunice (Bachelors) - Gardens by the Bay
Ong Ching Hui (Bachelors) - Religious spaces and public space contestation
Jonathan Tan Song Yi (Bachelors) - Big data, social media and public transport
Lim Jun Yu (Bachelors) - National identity and bus riding in Singapore (Graduated)
Ng Su Yin Andrea (Bachelors) - Bus drivers, friendship and resilience (Graduated)
Rachael Ann Ang (Bachelors, BES) - Environmental consciousness among primary school students (Graduated)
ISM
Tok Ru Jin - Digital geographies and infrastructure (supervised Aug 2020 - Dec 2020)
Marissa Tan Sok Yee - ISM project on 'PMD Mobilities: A Tactics Approach in UnderstandingTensions and Resistance towards the PMD FootpathBan in Singapore' (supervised Jan 2020 - Apr 2020)
Justim Lam Tian Wei - ISM project on 'Going Green for Whose Sake? A Look into the New Normal Lifestyle in Shanghai' (supervised Jan 2020 - Apr 2020)
Ivin Yeo Si Jie - ISM project on 'Conceptualising practices around autonomous vehicles in urban space' (supervised Jan 2019 - Apr 2019)
Sheryl Seet Su Sing - ISM project on Foreign migrant workers and bike sharing (supervised Jan 2018 - Apr 2018)
Boey Soon Kiat - ISM project on 'Transposed (mobile) tourist landscapes' (supervised Jan 2018 - Apr 2018)
Jessie Wong - ISM project on creative spaces and urban street performance in Singapore (supervised March 2016 - December 2016)
Kellie Chua Jia Qi - ISM project on elderly bus travel in Singapore (supervised March 2016 - December 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Liu Xiaofeng (July 2023 - Present)
Dylan Brady (September 2021 - September 2022)
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PUBLISHED REPORTS
The Straits Times (2018) 'Malaysia has done itself in with actions', 10 December, https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/malaysia-has-done-itself-in-with-actions
Lianhe Zaobao (2018) '每天来回新马 超人游子 天微明时醒在长堤', 26 August, https://www.zaobao.com.sg/zlifestyle/powerup/story20180826-885981?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1535246994
Channel News Asia (Leong, Wai Kit) (2018) 'Lao Airlines halts direct Singapore-Laos route again', 13 March, https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/lao-airlines-halts-direct-singapore-laos-route-again-10038542
The Straits Times (2018) 'SIA must go the extra mile to win new fliers', 13 November, http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/sia-must-go-the-extra-mile-to-win-new-fliers
TODAY (2016) 'The Big Read: High-speed rail’s benefits go far beyond an easy commute', 23 July, http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/big-read-high-speed-rails-benefits-go-far-beyond-easy-commute