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LEE, Justin

LEE, Justin

LEE, Justin
李兴业

Senior Research Fellow
Head, Policy Lab

Dr Justin Lee is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies where he heads the Policy Lab.  

He has substantive interests in issues relating to disadvantaged populations, and has done research on the social inclusion of people with disabilities, proper end-of-life planning for vulnerable seniors and the re-integration of ex-offenders.

He is also interested in the non-profit sector at large, and has been paying keen attention to the role and strengths of new and untapped resources like game designers, community artists and other social innovators.

In his previous position as Senior Research Fellow at the National Council of Social Service, Justin led needs-assessment projects, helped design programmes and conducted evaluation studies in partnership with various Voluntary Welfare Organisations.

He is also Chairman of ArtsWok Collaborative, a non-profit organisation, which seeks to connect communities by harnessing the power of the arts to create dialogue, invite social participation and build bridges across difference. Visit him on ResearchGate.

Research Interests

Non-profits; philanthropy and voluntarism; social services; design thinking and social innovation; community arts; community development; participatory research and qualitative methodology

Publications

Op-eds/Commentaries

Conference Participation and Presentations/Speeches

  • Keynote, “Are you sure you are doing inclusion right? And whose job is it anyway?” International Conference on Student and Disabled Student Development. 29 Nov-1 December 2019.
  • “Citizen Mapping of Social Needs through Open Collaboration and Community Networks”, Festival of Ideas, LKYSPP, 22 November 2019.
  • “Centralisation and its Discontents: Coordinating or Controlling Voluntary Sector Social Service Providers in Singapore” ISTR Asia-Pac, 15 July 2019.
  • Association of Muslim Professional’s Community-in-Review: Addressing the Drug Menace: Rethinking Preventive, Rehabilitative and Reintegration Strategies, 16th March. “Re-integration or inclusion in the first place?”, 2019.
  • “Open Collaboration to Understand Social Needs: Mobilising Civil Society & Mass Participation in Singapore” 13th International Conference of International Society for Third Sector Research, Amsterdam, 12 July 2018.

Courses taught

  • Design Thinking for Community Work and Social Services, Social Service Research Centre Workshop, 12 Nov 2019.
  • Mapping Needs, Co-Creating Solutions & Evaluating Impact, Temasek Foundation Workshop, 25 Oct 2019.
  • Theory of Change and Logic Model for Strategic Grantmaking, Temasek Trust Corporate Giving Workshop, 8 Mar 2019.
  • Qualitative Analysis Masterclass, 9-10 Jan 2019. (for Singapore Children’s Society)
  • Basic Programme Planning, Organising and Evaluation Skills, Social Service Institute, Singapore.

Awards

  • Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2000). Awarded by National University of Singapore.

Committees/Directorships

  • Research Committee, Singapore Children’s Society
  • Chairperson, ArtsWok Collaborative