Podcasts

Voice-based marketing is becoming increasingly popular on social media and video sites – Even in this very podcast, your player may drop an advert in for you to listen to.

How successful are voice-overs at increasing sales, though? And for a product or charity still raising funds, is it possible to increase their appeal through narration alone?

Researchers from Singapore…

Finding out why some collaborations are more successful than others is complex, and includes factors of culture, gender, and attitudes to conflict and creativity.

Associate Professor Roy Chua of Singapore Management University and Assistant Professor Mengzi Jin of Peking University have been investigating the way that men and women interact with people from other cultures when they face…

The trend of companies using technologies to improve their products, processes, and teams effectively is collectively described as a digital transformation. As digitization proliferates, companies are beginning to put more emphasis on their governance, risk, and compliance – but do investors understand their values and impacts?

Researchers from Singapore Management University…

Well-being is a well-established and growing field within psychology, and an increasingly popular area of study for psychology students. However, it’s also challenging to define: What does good well-being look like for any person, and what do we need to know to study it?

A team of researchers, led by Dr William Tov of Singapore Management University, attempt to define well-being, not…

Mobile Health, or mHealth, is a branch of digital health focussed on monitoring health-related information which can be sent directly to doctors and other healthcare professionals.

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and Singapore Management University investigate how head-worn technologies have only come about in the last couple of years or so, but look set to…

General equality rights can seem quite straightforward. But treating someone equally can become complicated when we apply the concept of equality to a specific government decision. How do we decide if a person has been treated equally in relation to a particular government decision? To what or to whom do we compare them?

Kenny Chng from Singapore Management University compares different…

Earth's changing climate is causing more frequent, more severe extreme weather events, which are having a devastating impact on ecosystems across the planet. Some areas show much greater vulnerability to climate change, with countries such as the Philippines, Myanmar and Thailand among the worst affected.

Professor David Ding and Sarah Beh at Singapore Management University have produced…

Ecological concerns and climate change have risen on governmental policies around the globe, but regulatory differences between nations may leave gaps – or even work against each other – if not planned deliberately.

Research led by Associate Professor Ishani Mukherjee at Singapore Management University focuses on the case of biodiesel policy in Indonesia, using policy network…

We all get bored at work from time-to-time, but some jobs are more monotonous than others.

Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, mindfulness has been found to be an effective way to improve the boredom associated with remote working. So could boredom during jobs such as working on an assembly line or providing delivery services be improved with mindfulness practices too?

The COVID-19 virus and subsequent series of lockdowns had a major effect on mortality among the young and old of different countries. Whilst this may be a sensitive topic for some listeners, it is important to understand lockdowns in the case of future epidemics.

Professor Lin Ma and colleagues at the World Bank and University of Michigan investigate the impact of economic downturns…