Student Groups

Asian Journal of Public Affairs

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The Asian Journal of Public Affairs (AJPA) is the flagship student journal of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP). It is a peer-reviewed publication featuring articles by scholars and practitioners on public affairs issues in the Greater Asia including the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the Asia-Pacific region. Published on a bi-annual basis, AJPA seeks to influence public policy-making in Asia through interdisciplinary policy-relevant research.

Association for Public Affairs (APA)

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The Association of Public Affairs (APA) envisions to be a catalyst in building society’s capability for informed debate on public policy through creating a knowledge-empowered active (youth and student) citizenry in Singapore and beyond. Its mission is to be the premier Singapore tertiary student association, leading a ‘whole-of-Singapore-tertiary-students’ effort to promote the theory and practice of public and international affairs for the betterment of society.

Its strategies are:

(1) to apply public and international affairs theory to practice, and propose holistic policy solutions to policymakers, sensitive to policy context and tradeoffs;

(2) to conduct outreach to Singapore’s tertiary students (Junior Colleges, ITEs, Polytechnics and Universities) to educate on public policy to raise the baseline of civic awareness;

(3) to empower Singaporeans to shape their own future through a democracy of deeds.

Whilst APA primarily works on Singaporean issues and pitches solutions to Singaporean policymakers for impact, it endeavours to improve the general theory-praxis collaboration in public and international affairs, and is committed to solving common wicked policy problems across countries, developing and developed. APA members are learners of public policy, and aspire to be the non-partisan student voice of progress, justice and rationality in Singapore through integrity and professionalism in our speech and deeds.

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Bridging GAP (Gender And Policy)

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Gender is a cornerstone of self-identity and a product of social construction. As such, social and cultural environments help shape identities, and ultimately influence how society perceives gender. Understanding these interlaced complexities is imperative in the analysis of multifarious issues that impact the individual and greater society. Bridging GAP aims to propel public policy students to consider gender as an important factor in the policy-making process. Through our work, we aim to stimulate constructive discussions on comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives on gender and its relationship to public policy. We also aim to enhance awareness of the importance of gender-sensitive policy making. Besides advocacy work within the LKYSPP community, we also intend to bridge ties with existing gender institutions and initiate cross-fertilization of ideas and projects.

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Change Makers

We aim to work with children from low-income families and help them build confidence through independent project work. We will work to encourage them to be proactive, to engage them in science experiments and to share different cultures with them to embrace diversity.

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DRR@LKYSPP

Disaster Risk and Resilience at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Understanding Risks, Building Resilience, Saving Humanity

The Disaster Risk and Resilience (DRR) student group in LKYSPP was established by students coming from countries with diverse risk and vulnerabilities to man-made and natural disasters. These students found themselves sharing a common advocacy in making Asia safer and resilient from disasters through bridging the gap between scientific and technical knowledge with public policy solutions. WorldRiskIndex 2016 shows Asia to be one of the hotspots for a high disaster risk area. If Asia wants to ensure the success and sustainability of progress in the region, it must urgently integrate disaster risk and resilience in all its developmental frameworks. Thus, the DRR@LKYSPP student group aims to put disaster risk and resilience into consciousness in the LKY academic community in order to find public policy solutions that will help countries in Asia develop strategies in reducing disaster risks and achieving resiliency for the region and its people.

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Objective/Mission: Bring together experts from various disciplines to exchange ideas on complex public policy issues and explore policy alternatives.

About the Group: We intend to broaden the knowledge base of Public Policy students by bringing the experts and practitioners from diverse fields and exchange ideas that the policymaker’s in the Asian societies facing in an ever more complex and globalized world. IAD would like to promote more inclusive and pluralist discourse on the major global debates on economic, political, social and environmental development, in which Asian countries often face a narrow set of policy prescriptions that may not fully suit their domestic preferences and capabilities. This student led initiative will help public policy students to analyse the complex policy trade-offs that the policy makers in Asia face through the interactions between students and experts/ policy makers.

True Stories

Core Principles

The True Stories (“TS”) community will uphold the following Core Principles:

  1. True stories only for collective learning and growth
  2. Respect one another
  3. Uphold a safe, confidential and comfortable environment for experience sharing
  4. Engage enthusiastically and objectively

Activities

The core activity of TS is monthly True Story Sessions (“TSS”). The sessions are intended for members of the community to share their “failures” and life experiences in an authentic, casual and reflective manner within a safe space. Inspired by the success of the decades long “Interpersonal Dynamics” elective a.k.a Touchy Feely that is being taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and other group sharing programmes, we believe in the power of peer sharing and support for personal transformation and growth.

Variations of the TSS format will be considered from time to time which may be thematic, facilitated by guests / external facilitators and may take place outside the LKYSPP premises to cater to the needs and interest of the community. TS may also seek to partner or co-brand events with other Singaporean or NUS organisations, interest groups, clubs and societies to run similar events that converges with TS’ objectives. Given that TS is a new society, we are open to experimentation with the format such that we are able to be as inclusive and effective as possible.

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