Month: November 2015

New book by A/P Konstadina Griva “Caregiving in the Illness Context”

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A/P Konstadina Griva’s book “Caregiving in the Illness Context”, which she co-authored with international colleagues,  has just been published by Palgrave Pivot. A description of the book is provided below; click on this link for more details.

With more and more people of all ages living with chronic illnesses, greater numbers of family and friends become caregivers. A major focus of health professionals and scientists is to maximize quality of life among those living with illness and those caring for them. As health care systems around the world become limited in what people can afford, informal supports – primarily family and close friends – are being called on to care for ill people. Yet, the task of providing care takes a toll on caregivers’ health and well-being, including depression, social and family strains, increased physical illness, and diminished quality of life. Caregiving in the Illness Context synthesizes current research and brings attention to how personal, social and structural factors affect caregivers and how the research literature has informed emerging interventions to help caregivers.

Golden Point Award Winners Adopt Different Approaches

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4 November 2015

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Ms He Yingshu, a Chinese Master’s student, was among the two authors featured in an article on this year’s Golden Point Award – Singapore’s biennial creative writing for short stories and poetry by emerging writers. This year, a total of 43 participants were recognised for their literary excellence. Ms He was awarded for her short story entitled “Pregnant Fish” which she had written over a period of two days, developed from a 150-character micro-blog message into a 5000-word short story.

 

Two scholars publish new book that looks at food from an academic perspective

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3 November 2015

Lianhe Zaobao

Professor Vineeta Sinha, Head of the Department of Sociology and South Asian Studies Programme and Professor Lily Kong, SMU Provost, had co-edited Food, Foodways and Foodscapes – a book of ten essays that introduce readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. The book was launched at the National Library yesterday.

Internship: McKinsey & Company External Relations Intern, Singapore

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McKinsey & Company – External Relations Inter, Singapore

Open to Year 2 and 3 students in FASS, Business School or Yale-NUS.

NUS TalentConnect Job Reference: JR1500024754

https://talentconnect.nus.edu.sg/career/Default.asp?PID=3&AC=NUS&EC=NUS&GC=&JobID=11500&LID=1

OVERVIEW OF THE POSITION
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm dedicated to helping the world’s leading organizations address their strategic challenges. With consultants deployed in over 100 offices and more than 50 countries around the globe, McKinsey advises on strategic, operational, organizational and technological issues. For more than eight decades, the firm’s primary objective has been to serve as an organization’s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management.
The External Relations intern will assist the Head of Public Affairs and External Relations with media monitoring, issues tracking, managing events, relations with McKinsey alumni and developing material for different external communications channels.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
Responsibilities:

  • Media monitoring – tracking and recording media coverage of relevance to McKinsey & Company. Some analysis of media trends.
  • Reputation building – supporting the efforts of External Relations on targeted reputation building programs including forums, roundtable meetings, targeted media outreach, relations.
  • Event Management – assisting with preparations for events, including liaison with venues, speakers, managing invitation and RSVP lists. Provision of support at events.
    Written Communications – developing a range of material for internal and external communications, including newsletters, articles for the intranet, media releases, reports.
  • Stakeholder mapping – assist with mapping and maintaining data base of key policy-makers, senior executives, academics, and editors/journalists for each location and specific industry sectors, and drive outreach programs to the respective audiences.

Qualifications:

  • An undergraduate degree (Year 2 or 3 students welcome), with study in the area of communications; PR or business preferred, with good problem solving skills.
  • Self–motivation, with an appetite for working independently, and being functionally effectively within a fast-paced professional services partnership.
  • Exemplary networking and influencing skills, with a track record of working effectively and forming peer–level relationships with senior members of an organization.
  • Strong editing and writing skills
  • Strong event management skills and a track record of executing complicated programmes with speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
  • Flexibility, and the ability to manage conflicting demands and a positive attitude
  • An uncompromising commitment to quality.
  • Candidate must be available for internship from Jan – Jun 2016 (either full time or minimum of 2 full working days per week)

Interested applicants, kindly upload your cover letter & resume (in a single PDF file) onto NUS TalentConnect (Job Reference: JR1500024754), so that we can follow up with the Recruiter. Please take note that the Cover Letter needs to be addressed to Sharmeen Alam.

FASS Bookshare – November 24 2015

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Bookshare-poster nov2015Date and Time: November 24 (Tuesday), 1-2pm

Venue: FASS Faculty Lounge

This edition of FASS Bookshare features three single-authored books focusing on Asia by political scientists at NUS. The Bookshare Catalogue is available here.

If you would like to attend Bookshare, RSVP with your full name and email, along with the subject line “Bookshare” to fassresearchevents @ nus . edu . sg.

More information about each book and author can be found here.

Invitation to Apply – HultPrize@NUS Competition

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Take part in the world’s biggest social entrepreneurship competition – Hult Prize 2016. The global competition returns with the theme: Crowded Urban Spaces. This year, the winning team will walk away with USD$1 Million in start-up funding.

The previous edition saw 20, 000 entries by participants from over 130 countries worldwide. However, with an internal selection competition – HultPrize@NUS, NUS teams stand the chance to enter the regional finals without competing against 20,000 teams!

The HultPrize@NUS Competition will take place on 24 November 2015. Interested students are encouraged to register in teams of 3 or 4 by 15 November.

For registration or more information, click here.