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“Open Collaboration to Understand Social Needs: Facilitating Technology-Enabled Networks to do the Work of Bureaucracies. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 31st Annual Meeting, Kyoto, 24 June 2018.
“Evaluating the Design of Non-Profit Programs” at Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research Annual Conference. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. 1 June 2017.
“Selected Issues in Programme Evaluation” at 4th Singapore Children’s Society Programme Evaluation Workshop, 18 January 2017.
“Reimagining the Social Service Sector”, “Comparing Councils of Social Service” and “Evaluating Impact of the Social Services” at IPS Roundtable on Reimaging the Social Service Sector. 28 November 2016.
Presenter, “Mobilising diverse community assets to meet social needs”, at Topophilia and Topophobia: A Multi-Pronged Community Engagement Project on Migrant Workers and the City, The Substation, Singapore, 25 September 2016.
Presenter, “What counts as inclusion for people with disabilities at work?”, at the Institute of Policy Studies Conference on Managing Diversity in Singapore, Singapore, 5 August 2016.
Presenter, “Open collaboration to identify social needs and mobilise collective solutions”, at Institute of Policy Studies – National Youth Council Roundtable on Open Collaboration, Singapore, 16 July 2016.
Presenter, “Lessons from constructing a sector-wide innovation strategy for the social services in Singapore”, at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Conference, Chicago, 20 November 2015.
Presenter, “An analytic framework to support open collaboration needs assessment”, at the American Evaluation Association Conference, Chicago, 11 November 2015.
Presenter, “How to be a connoisseur of research: Making genre-appropriate judgments of analytic work”, in Brown Bag Session, SIM University, Singapore, 16 July 2015.
Presenter, “The promise of design tools for improving public policy and services”, at the Professional Competency Talk Series organised by Singapore Institute of Management, Global Education, Singapore, 10 March 2015.
Trainer at workshop, “Design thinking”, at the Communities of Practice Power-Up session organised by Social Service Institute, Singapore, 23 January 2015.
Presenter, “Techniques of co-production and creative solutioning: Designing thinking project on employment for people with mental illness”, at the Singapore Mental Health Conference, Singapore, 17 October 2014.
Poster presentation, “Seeking collaboration for needs assessment of seniors facing end-of-life in Singapore”, at the Singapore Palliative Care Conference, Singapore, 28 June 2014.
Moderator, “Building a conducive system for research in the social service sector”, at the Social Service Research Network organised by IPS and NCSS, Singapore, 31 March 2014.
Presenter, “Designing a research ecosystem conducive for solving problems and creating social impact”, at the inaugural workshop The Impact of Social Science on Policy Research in Singapore organised by the Social Science Research cluster, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 4 March 2013.
Presenter, “Research for improving programmes and practice: Why practitioners can and should do research”, at the Impact Seminar organised by the National Council of Social Service, Singapore, 30 January 2013.
Presenter, “Conditions for progressive research programs in qualitative sociology”, at the XVII International Sociological Association World Conference session on Theoretical Integration, Gothenberg (Sweden), 11–17 July 2010.
Presenter, “Conditions for progressive research programs in qualitative research”, at the American Sociological Association 103rd Annual Meeting, Boston, 1–4 August 2008.
Presenter, “Biomedicalizing the periphery: Media representations of alternative healing practices at a workshop on mass media & medicine in Asia”, organised by the Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 28–29 February 2008.
Presenter, “Institutionalising integration: A sociological investigation of the science & practice of psychotherapy integration”, at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland (California), 29 March–1 April 2007.
Presenter, “The structural sources of occupational coalescence: Investigating the hybridity of wellness practices”, at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, 11–14 August 2006.