Awarded with additional funding from the Singapore Economic Development Board, the Centre aims to empower and enable brick-and-mortar and online retailers to tackle key retail industry challenges for their businesses. To achieve this aim, the Centre seeks to:
- Establish an ecosystem of retailers, retail experts, knowledge partners, talent and students, with the support of the government and academia
- Enhance retail know how through research by SMU faculty experts for traditional and non-traditional retailers to grow their retail businesses in Singapore and beyond
- Explore and resolve talent and manpower gaps in the retail industry through the development of academic curriculum, leadership training and internships for SMU undergraduate and postgraduate students, coupled with masterclasses for industry stakeholders, managers and C-Suite executives.
The research will help understand how the learning of new work skills can be promoted among lower-income workers. It will test novel, cost-effective, and scalable psychological interventions that can help lower-income workers learn new work skills. The designed interventions will be implemented in Singaporean organisations through a randomized controlled trial to reveal which approaches produce the most benefit for low-income workers and their organizations.
The project aims to understand the impact of health and ageing on employment patterns among mature workers by analysing data from the Singapore Life Panel®.
The project, led by Chuo University, aims to clarify the diversity of legal systems in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on three specific areas – civil law (focused on business transaction), dispute resolution, and data privacy.
The project, led by Trampolene Limited, aims to design a scalable, self-sustaining system that can collect, classify and determine accessible point-to-point routes that are suitable for barrier-free access.
The research study aims to develop an understanding on how schemes of arrangement are used as debt restructuring tools in Singapore, with a particular focus on the outcomes to creditors and shareholders. In particular, the project will review the kinds of issues and problems that can be solved by the use of schemes of arrangement in Singapore; evaluate the impact of the 2017 Companies Act reforms on the practice of schemes of arrangement in Singapore; and evaluate the utilisation of schemes of arrangement in Singapore with the practice in the UK.
The objective of the project is to understand holistically the social needs of various under-served communities (youth at-risk, single parents and low-income families) from the perspective of the social service providers and their beneficiaries.
The project seeks to identify factors that lead to resilience of cottage industries in Singapore. Given that cottage industries have relied on passing down traditional practices and craftsmanship across generations, this research addresses questions of heritage and identity by seeking to understand the ability of contemporary cottage industries to preserve and adapt traditional craftsmanship.
The project aims to understand MRT events and commuting experience through sentiment analysis of public tweets related to MRT events generated by Singapore's Twitter users.
