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Employment (after PhD)

• Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Health Sciences, James Cook University, 2024-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, 2022-2024
• Associate Lecturer, School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences, Singapore University of Social Sciences, 2020-2023
• Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 2020-2022
• Research Consultant, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, 2020
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2018-2020
• Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 2017-2018

Employment (before PhD)

• Freelance Copyeditor, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2015-2023
• Research Associate, Centre for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University, 2016-2017
• Consultant, YJM Consulting, 2014-2017.
• Research Assistant, Behavioural Sciences Institute, Singapore Management University, 2011-2012
• Research Analyst, Bain & Co., 2010
• Regional Publishing Higher Education Editor, Pearson South Asia, 2009-2012
• Data Processing and Research Staff, International Survey Research, 2006-2007

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Singapore Management University, 2014-2017 (advised by Dr. Norman Li)
• Master of Science in Psychology, Singapore Management University, 2012-2014
• Bachelor of Social Science in Psychology and Political Science, Singapore Management University, 2007-2011

Awards (after PhD)

• HEA Fellowship, Advance HE UK, 2024
• S$7,960 for research on social goal chatter (Principal Investigator), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Staff Research Support Scheme, National University of Singapore, 2019
• US$1,500 for research on cross-national variation in fertility (Principal Investigator), Henry P. David Early Career Research Grant, American Psychological Foundation, 2019

Awards (before PhD)

• ​Graduate Development Programme, Centre for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University, 2016
• US$800 for Registered Replication Report on relationship commitment and forgiveness (Co-PI), Association for Psychological Science, 2015
• S$3,500 for conference travel (HBES, Columbia), Singapore Management University, 2015
• Presidential Doctoral Fellowship and S$3,600, Singapore Management University, 2014
• S$3,500 for conference travel (APS, San Francisco), Singapore Management University, 2014
• S$2,000 for conference travel (SPSP, San Diego), Singapore Management University, 2012
• Best Senior Thesis in Psychology, Singapore Management University, 2011
• Baylis & Smith Prize for best World Politics Essay, Oxford University Press, 2011
• S$500 for research on the effects of resource cues on mating standards (Principal Investigator), Singapore Management University, 2010

Teaching
James Cook University, 2024-present

• PY2103: Introduction to Scientific Approaches in Psychology (undergraduate module)

Northumbria University, 2022-2024

• PY0659: Consumer Psychology​ (undergraduate module)
• PY0793: Social Psychology (masters module)

Singapore University of Social Sciences, 2020-2023

• HBC201: Research Methods for the Social and Behavioural Sciences (undergraduate module)
• SSC211E: Social Sciences Research Methods (undergraduate module)​

Singapore Management University, 2008-2017

• PSYC108: Social Psychology (undergraduate module)
• PSYC109: Group Processes (undergraduate module)
• PSYC205: Evolutionary Psychology (undergraduate module)
• OBHR602: Negotiating in Business (EMBA module)
• OBHR218: Negotiation Skills for Business (undergraduate module)
• SSCS400: Capstone Seminar (undergraduate module)

Thesis Reviewer

• Research School of Management, Australian National University

Editorial Board

• ​Frontiers in Psychology, Review Editor, 2020-present

Ad Hoc Peer Reviewer

• American Journal of Psychology
• Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
• Asian Journal of Social Psychology
• British Journal of Psychology
  
• Complementary Therapies in Medicine
• Current Psychology
• Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
• Evolution and Human Behavior
• Evolutionary Psychological Science
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
• Journal of Family Issues
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• ​Personality and Individual Differences
• PLoS ONE
• Proceedings of the Royal Society: B
  
• Psychological Science
• Sexes
  

Conference Organization

• (2015, Feb) Psychology and Public Policy 2015 Conference-Workshop, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Public Service

• (2020, Sep) Alumni mentor for SMU Alumni Mentoring Programme, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• (2020, Aug) Expert panelist for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Programme, Ministry of Education, Singapore

Academic Memberships

• Academy of Management
• Advance Higher Education
• Association for Psychological Science
• Association for Research in Personality
• ​Human Behavior and Evolution Society
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology​
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology