Academic Qualifications
PhD, University of Wollongong (2016)
B.Soc.Sc., National University of Singapore (2011)
Work Experience
Max Weber-NUS Research Fellow, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (July 2020 - present)
Max Weber-NUS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (June 2017 - June 2020)
Policy officer, International Division, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (2016 - 2017)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (2011)
GE1101E: Geographical Journeys: Exploring World Environments (Semester 2, AY2017/18 to AY2020/21) (*taught both human and physical geography components in AY2017/18 and AY2019/20);
GEH1022: Geopolitics: Geographies of War and Peace (Semester 2, AY2017/18)
GE3230A: Field Studies in Geography: Southeast Asia (Semester 3, AY2017/18 and AY2018/19);
GES1003/GEK2001/SSA2202: Changing Landscapes of Singapore (Semester 1, AY2018/19);
GE2218: Leisure, Recreation and Tourism (Semester 1, AY2020/21);
GEH1076/GEC1029: Worlds of Football (Semester 1, AY2020/21 and AY2021/22)
OTHERS
Lin, S. (2021) Nimble at work: equipping students with first-order and second-order thinking. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.1957800
Lin, S., Shimazu, N. and Sidaway, J.D. (2021) Theorizing from the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路). Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 62(3): 261-269.
Grundy-Warr, C. and Lin, S. (2020) COVID-19 geopolitics: Silence and erasure in Cambodia and Myanmar in times of pandemic. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(4-5): 493-510. (Free access, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2020.1780928)
Grundy-Warr, C. and Lin, S. (2020) The unseen transboundary commons that matter for Cambodia’s inland fisheries: Changing sediment flows in the Mekong hydrological flood pulse. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61(2): 249-265.
Lin, S. and Grundy-Warr, C. (2020) Navigating Sino-Thai ‘rocky’ bilateral ties: The geopolitics of riverine trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38(5): 826-833.
Lai, K.P.Y., Lin, S and Sidaway, J.D. (2020) Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(2): 109-124.
Lin, S., Sidaway, J.D. and Woon, C.Y. (2019) Reordering China, respacing the world: Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) as an emergent geopolitical culture. Professional Geographer, 71(3): 507-522.
Lin, S. and Schofield, C. (2014) Lessons from the Bay of Bengal ITLOS case: Stepping offshore for a ‘deeper’ maritime political geography. Geographical Journal, 180(3): 260-264.
Lin, S. and Grundy-Warr, C. (2012) One bridge, two towns and three countries: Anticipatory geopolitics in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region. Geopolitics, 17(4):952-979.
Lin, S. and Grundy-Warr, C. (2012) ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: Lessons for the Indian Ocean Region. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 8(1): 54-70.
EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS
Lin, S., Shimazu, N. and Sidaway, J.D. (2021) BRI as method forum. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 62(3): 261-294.
Lai, K.P.Y., Lin, S and Sidaway, J.D. (2020) Research colloquium: Financing Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(2): 109-161.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Boyle, M., Hall, T., Lin, S., Sidaway, J.D. and van Meeteren, M. (2020) Geography and Public Policy. In A. Kobayashi et al. (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, second edition, Elsevier. pp. 93-101.
POLICY BRIEFS
Lin, S. (2020) Communicating “reopening” to the public credibly and strategically: “Hardware and heartware” considerations from Singapore for Liverpool City Region. Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, COVID-19 Policy Briefs, Policy Brief 025.
BOOK REVIEWS/ REVIEW ESSAYS/REVIEW FORUM
Lin, S. (2022) Review forum: The neighbour up north: Unlocking Johor’s potential in SIJORI. A review of Francis E. Hutchinson and Serina Rahman (2020) (eds). Johor: Abode of development? ISEAS Publishing, Singapore. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 43(1): 140-142.
Lin, S., Yang, Y., Alff, H., Frost, M.R., Kaneti, M., Oakes, T., Rigg, J., Rippa, A., Wang, J. and Winter, T. (2021) Book review forum: Reading Tim Winter’s Geocultural power: China’s quest to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century. Tim Winter, University of Chicago Press, IL, USA. Political Geography, 84: 102297.
Sidaway, J.D., Lin, S., Chouinard, V., Ferretti, F., Gibson, K., Kenney-Lazar. M., Philo, C. van Meeteren, M., Wills, J., Wisner, B., Barnes, T., Sheppard, E. (2020) Book review forum: Reading Trevor Barnes and Eric Sheppard’s Spatial histories of radical geography: North America and beyond. Trevor Barnes and Eric Sheppard Wiley (Antipode Book Series), NJ, USA; West Sussex, UK: Wiley. The AAG Review of Books, 8(4):236-258.
Lin, S. (2020) Review essay: Closer to home: Enabling the Dragon's global outreach through engaging interests in Asia., Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 41(2): 299-302.
Holland, E.C, Lin, S., Sidaway, J.D., Das, P., Hughes, S., Mohammad, R., Murphy, A.B., Simon, A.M., Sneddon, C., Toal, G. and Koch, N. (2020) Book review forum: Reading Natalie Koch’s The geopolitics of spectacle: Space, synecdoche, and the new capitals of Asia. Natalie Koch, Cornell University Press, Itacha. Political Geography, 76: 102043
Feng, C-C., Lin, S., Sidaway, J.D., Hawkins H., Jefferson, B., Lin, W., O’Sullivan, D., Pavlovskaya, M., Shelton, T., Sui, D., Tsou, M-H. and Wilson, M.W. (2019) Book review forum: New lines: Critical GIS and the trouble of the map. Matthew W. Wilson, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. Transactions in GIS, 23(1), 158-179.
Lin, S. (2018) Review essay: Framing the political geographies of Asian transboundary environments: land, river, and sea. Political Geography, 63, 185-188.
Lin, S. (2017) Energy, governance and security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A critical approach to environmental politics in the South. Adam Simpson. Ashgate, Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT, 2014, pp. xii + 260 (ISBN: 9781409429937) (hbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 38(1), 141-143.
Lin, S. (2016) Review Essay: The breadth and depth of maritime and polar geopolitics. Geopolitics, 21(4), 990-994.
Lin, S. (2014) Cashing in Across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Thein Swe and Paul Chambers. Mekong Press, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011, pp. xx + 192 (ISBN: 978-616-90053-4-6) (pbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 35(1), 152-154.
Lin, S. (2012) Dynamics of Cross Border Industrial Development in Mekong Sub-region: A Case Study of Thailand. Chuthatip Maneepong, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, 2010, 298 pages (ISBN: 978-3-8383-1910-0) (pbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 33(2), 273-274.
OTHER RESOURCES (NON-REFEREED)
Lin S. (2021) Comparative research in/of Southeast Asia. In J.D. Sidaway and F. Waldenberger (eds.), Comparing comparisons, Miscellanea 23, German Institute for Japanese Studies. pp. 25-27.
Digital Field Studies blog (NUS Department of Geography’s module, GE3230A - Field Studies in Southeast Asia, conducted in 2019)
Editor Roles
2022 – Social Media Editor, Space and Polity
2021 – Book Review Editorial Assistant, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Editorial Board Membership
2022 – Political Geography Open Research
Research Affiliation
China Made (University of Colorado Boulder): https://chinamadeproject.net/ (since April 2020)
Service to Academic Community
Reviewer for Asian Geographer; China: An International Journal; Chinese Journal of Communication; Chinese Political Science Review; Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space; Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space; Eurasian Geography and Economics; Environmental Policy and Governance; Geoforum; Geographical Research; Journal of Geography in Higher Education; New Perspectives; Pacific Affairs; Political Geography; Progress in Human Geography; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Space and Culture; Space and Polity; Structural Change and Economic Dynamics; Territory, Politics, Governance; The International Spectator; Third World Quarterly
Academic Awards
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Staff Research Support Scheme (SRSS) (Co-PI)
2020-2021 | National University of Singapore, research grant of $8000 SGD | Project title – Digital Field Studies portal for pedagogy of geography (held with Carl Grundy-Warr)
Asia Research Institute (ARI) Academic Event Funding (Co-organiser)
2019-2020 | academic workshop grant of $23,000 SGD | Project title – “Crossing the river by feeling the stones”: Alternative imaginaries of China’s presence in Southeast Asia in contemporary contexts (held with Yang Yang)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Staff Research Support Scheme (SRSS) (Co-PI)
2018-2019 | National University of Singapore, research grant of $7713 SGD | Project title – The political geography of Cambodia’s hydrological flood pulse in the Mekong River and Tonle Sap (held with Carl Grundy-Warr)