Job Description

Research Associate/ Research Fellow (quantitative/mixed methods)

Type: 1-year contract (renewable), full-time, Singapore-based

About the Role
Join an interdisciplinary research team exploring how co-located community hubs influence social capital, intergenerational connection, and community capacity in Singapore. Designed to optimise land use and bring together health, social, and cultural programs and services, these hubs are becoming vital spaces for community engagement and wellbeing in dense urban settings. This role offers a rare opportunity to work across public health, behavioural science, urban design, and community arts, generating actionable insights on how the built environment and community programming foster inclusion, belonging, and resilience.

What You’ll Do
1) Measurement Research
•    Design and lead the development of measurement frameworks and tools to assess constructs such as social capital and community capacity
•    Conduct literature reviews and qualitative research to adapt and refine existing instruments and create new scales or indexes.
•    Use consensus-building methods (e.g. Delphi survey) to validate item relevance, wording, and weighting.
•    Pilot, revise, and finalize tools for use in both academic research and practitioner settings.
•    Perform psychometric testing to establish reliability and validity of the developed instruments.
2) Socio-Spatial Analysis and Community Hub Typologies
•    Examine diverse models of co-located community hubs to identify design, programming, and contextual features that foster social capital and community connection.
•    Apply multi-level modelling to analyse variations in social capital across hubs, distinguishing individual-level factors (e.g., user characteristics, usage patterns) from hub-level influences (e.g., spatial design, location context).
•    Integrate survey, GIS, and observational data across research streams to generate spatially informed insights and develop a typology of co-located community hubs.
3) Stakeholder Engagement and Translation
•    Coordinate a multi-agency advisory group involving academics, government, and industry partners.
•    Translate research findings into toolkits, templates, and recommendation guides for policy and practice.
•    Prepare and present policy briefs, reports, and visual summaries for government and community audiences.
4) Project Management and Ethics
•    Manage IRB submissions, ethics documentation, and data governance processes.
•    Ensure data integrity, documentation, and reproducibility across research partners.
•    Track project milestones, reporting, and deliverables for the grant

Requirements
•    Minimum 3 years of applied research experience in community, health, or built-environment projects.
•    Proficiency in R, Stata, SPSS, or Python with skills in quantitative and measurement skills (survey design, psychometrics, regression, multilevel modelling, factor analysis).
•    Strong writing, synthesis, and analytical skills, with evidence of scholarly publications or policy outputs.
•    Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders and translate findings for non-academic audiences.

Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter via the application portal and to awsu@nus.edu.sg

Qualifications

• Master’s/PhD in Public Health, Urban Planning, Human Geography, Psychology, Data Science, or related disciplines.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Department : Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Employee Referral Eligible: No

Job requisition ID : 30541