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TAN, Harry

TAN, Harry

TAN, Harry
陈锦权

Research Fellow

Dr Harry Tan is a Research Fellow in the Policy Lab at the Institute of Policy Studies. 

He has interests in issues relating to marginal populations and has done research on the homeless population in Singapore, street children in Thailand and Singapore’s street buskers. 

His research interests are broadly in homelessness, social inequality, social policy, housing insecurity and addiction issues. 

Harry is also a volunteer in the PEERS (Partners Engaging and Empowering Rough Sleepers) network in Singapore and has worked closely with people experiencing homelessness in Singapore since 2012 and in Melbourne from 2015 – 2017.

Harry received his PhD in Sociology from Monash University, Australia in 2018 and was a postdoctoral research fellow in NUS Sociology department from 2019 to 2020.

Research interests
Homelessness; marginal populations; social inequality; social policy; housing; addictions; ethnography


Publications

  • Tan, Harry.  (2021). “We are not like them”: Stigma and the Destitute Persons Act of Singapore. International Journal of Law in Context (special issue).
  • Tan, Harry. (2019). Rethinking Individual Vulnerability and Homelessness in Singapore in Vulnerability in a Mobile World, edited by H. Forbes-Mewett, 29-46.
  • Tan, Harry and Helen Forbes-Mewett. (2018). "Whose ‘Fault’ Is It? Becoming Homeless in Singapore." Urban Studies 55(16):3579-95. 


Op-eds/Commentaries


Conference participation and presentations/Speeches: 

  • Presenter, “The Destitute Persons Act of Singapore: Is it still relevant?” Paper to be presented at Workshop on Stigmatisation, Identities and the Law: Asian and Comparative Perspectives, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 23-24 June 2020.
  • Invited speaker, “Poverty and Homelessness” Online talk given for Bamboo Builders Community Huddle, Singapore, 6 June 2020.
  • Panellist, “Singapore Kindness Movement’s Roundtable on Homelessness: Whose problem is it?” at Straits Times Forum, Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore, 24 March 2020 (https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/a-journey-in-helping-the-homeless).
  • Invited speaker, “Long-term homelessness in Singapore” Talk (not given due to Covid-19 precaution) and Photo exhibition at Bamboo Builders Community Huddle, Singapore, 15 February 2020 (https://issuu.com/bamboobuilders/docs/bb_community_huddle_2020_-_harry_tan).
  • Invited speaker, “Homelessness in Singapore: Questioning stereotypes” Talk given at Raffles Policy Dialogue, Raffles Girls’ School, Singapore, 23 October 2019


Courses taught

  • Social inequality, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
  • Contemporary issues in Social Science Research, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia.
  • Organisational theory, School of Management, RMIT, Australia.
  • Contemporary social theory, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • Ethnographic imagination, TMC Academy, Monash University.


Awards

  • Monash University Graduate Research Scholarship (2017)
  • Monash University Faculty of Arts International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2017)