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PEREIRA Shane Nicolas

PEREIRA Shane Nicolas

PEREIRA Shane Nicolas

Research Associate

Mr Shane Pereira is Research Associate at IPS Social Lab. He specialises in applied ethnography and social research methods, and holds qualifications in Sociology and social research methods, which he taught for the last 11 years in both the NUS and King’s College London. He also taught Cognitive Processes and Problem Solving in Republic Polytechnic.

Shane’s research focus centres on issues of diversity, pluralism, and multiculturalism. His current research interests include ethnographic methodology, in-work poverty in the gig economy, intergenerational poverty, social and cultural diversity, and Singapore’s religious landscape.

He also has a keen interest in the social construction of cults, sects, and other minority religions. His last foray in this regard was a multi-sited, 6-year ethnographic study of the Sathya Sai Baba Movement. 

Research Interests

Ethnographic methodology; in-work poverty in the gig economy; intergenerational poverty; social and cultural diversity; Singapore’s religious landscape

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