Gerard Chung
I’m an assistant professor at the Department of Social Work in the National University of Singapore. My academic journey includes a PhD from the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before entering academia, I worked as a social worker at Fei Yue Family Service Centre. Additionally, I gained valuable postdoctoral experience as a research fellow at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, and the Social Service Research Centre, NUS.
My research mainly focuses on parenting, fathers, stepfamilies, and intervention studies in the field of social work. I’m also passionate about leveraging administrative data and textual data in the social service sector to enhance practices, evaluate interventions, and improve services. Exploring the potential of technology to support social work practices is another area of interest for me.
I consider myself a quantitative methodologist, and my research involves using computational social science methods and advanced statistics. I’m particularly excited about employing text-as-data methods to gain insights from unconventional sources of textual data.
Drop me an email here: gerard@nus.edu.sg
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| Oct 23 | Commented on why I think the extended 2 to 4-weeks paternity leave can help fathers to feel empowered in TodayOnline Big Read here | |
| Sept 23 | Our report on Symposium on In-Work Poverty and the Challenges of Getting By Among the Young” is out! | |
| Aug 2023 | Taught SW4103 “Research and Evaluation” to 4th year Social Work Students Present initial findings on effects of marital quality on late pregnancy depression to Health Promotion Board - super happy to demonstrate the role of fathers with the DADSCAN team |
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| July 2023 | Gave my comments to an article published in TodayOnline “Child abuse cases in larger families: Why parents may pick on one child and who’s more at risk” | |
| June 2023 | Completed a computational text analysis of adoption home assessment reports for Fei Yue Community Services Yeah! My A*STAR intern Samuel (LinkedIn) from NUS Statistics Department finished his internship! |
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| June 2023 | Joined NUS! |