Courses

Undergraduate Introductory

Title: Changing Landscapes of Singapore 
Institution: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Years taught: 2020 – 2025 / 8 semesters
Role: Coordinator and (co)lecturer
Enrolment size: 120-270
Contribution: Taught multidisciplinary students geographical concepts such as landscape, space and place, and how to apply these to various landscapes in Singapore, e.g. tourism landscape, immigration landscape. This general education course exposed students to experiential field-based learning and the historical and contemporary developments in Singapore.

Title: Geographical Journeys: Exploring World Environments
Institution: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Years taught: 2021 – 2024 / 5 semesters
Role: Co-lecturer
Enrolment size: 70-110
Contribution: Covered the human geography component that explores contemporary socio-economic issues that shape the world, and introduced students to qualitative data collection and analysis. Developed students understanding of key geographical concepts, i.e. geographical imaginations, sense of place,  and scale. Co-conducted fieldtrips to train students in application of theory and synthesize human and physical geography.

Undergraduate Intermediary

Title: Facts or Feelings: What Drives Environmental Decision-making
Institution: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Years taught: 2025 / 1 semester
Role: Coordinator, co-lecturer
Enrolment size: 220
Contribution: Designed and taught this interdisciplinary course that synthesized perspectives from environmental sciences and social-cultural geography. Students learnt to critically evaluate environmental initiatives and policies by comparing evidence-based arguments and opinion-based public discourses.

Title: Living Space: Introduction to Social and Cultural Geography
Institution: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Years taught: 2025 / 1 semester
Role: Co-lecturer
Enrolment size: 220
Contribution: Designed and taught this interdisciplinary course that synthesized perspectives from environmental sciences and social-cultural geography. Students learnt to critically evaluate environmental initiatives and policies by comparing evidence-based arguments and opinion-based public discourses.

Undergraduate Advanced

Title: Cultural Geographies
Institution: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Years taught: 2020 – 2025 / 7 semesters
Role: Lecturer
Enrolment size: 10-50
Contribution: Through seminar style lectures, taught the theoretical and methodological developments within cultural geography and how the subdiscipline expanded to engage with politics, economics and nature. Assessments and practical application of cultural geography concepts emphasized the themes of alterity and care.

Title: Geographies of Migration
Institution: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Years taught: 2021 / 1 semester
Role: Co-lecturer
Enrolment size: 30
Contribution: Taught the applied perspectives on international migration, with particular reference to the Asia-Pacific region. Lectures also focused on consequences of migration for ageing, gender relations, citizenship and socio-economic development in sending and receiving countries.

Postgraduate

Title: Transnationalism
Institution: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Years taught: 2021 – 2022/ 2 semesters
Role: Lecturer
Enrolment size: 10
Contribution: Through seminar-based discussions, taught the theoretical foundations, historical perspectives, methodological premises and innovative developments of transnationalism studies.  Content focused on institutional governance, socio‐political mobilisations, corporations, urbanism and popular culture with comparative examples from Asia and beyond will be drawn upon to inform discussions. My assessment structure focused on giving students the option to create differing outputs that best aligned with their individualised career aspirations, e.g. research-intensive, teaching-focused or practice-based.  

Jun 2008 – Jun 2009
Monash College, Sri Lanka
Delivered pre-university Geography (first-year pathway to Monash University), aligning curriculum objectives with measurable learning outcomes and cultivating critical inquiry and analytical competencies

Process Documenter 
Jun 2005 – Jun 2006
Practical Action, Sri Lanka
Documented the formulation of solid waste management systems for a municipal and an urban council under the UN-Habitat’s ‘Basic Urban Services Project’. Prepared final report for the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.

Research Assistant
Sep 2003 – Oct 2004
Marga Institute, Sri Lanka
Conducted qualitative data analysis for projects on poverty and medical care affordability, female trafficking and female labour migration.