Gerard Chung
- Research Fellow, Social Service Research Centre, NUS
- gerard@nus.edu.sg
I am a research fellow at the Social Service Research Centre, National University of Singapore. I have a Ph.D. in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. I had also practiced as a social worker in a family service centre in Singapore.
As a social work researcher, I am interested in researching parenting, family services in the community, and risk assessment. I am especially interested in intervention research and in the use of administrative data to improve social work processes. I also identify as a methodologist where the through line connecting my research interests involved the use of computational social science methods and advanced statistical methods.
My scholarly work can be accessed at Google Scholar – ResearchGate – GitHub
Interests. Parenting, Family Services, Intervention research, Evaluation, Administrative data, Risk assessment, Text-as-data analysis, Computational social science
As a social work researcher, I am interested in researching parenting, family services in the community, and risk assessment. I am especially interested in intervention research and in the use of administrative data to improve social work processes. I also identify as a methodologist where the through line connecting my research interests involved the use of computational social science methods and advanced statistical methods.
My scholarly work can be accessed at Google Scholar – ResearchGate – GitHub
Interests. Parenting, Family Services, Intervention research, Evaluation, Administrative data, Risk assessment, Text-as-data analysis, Computational social science
Projects
- Text-mining news on Social Work Profession in Singapore [code] Text data analysis of 7000 news articles related to Social Work Profession in Singapore
- Parenting During COVID-19 in Singapore A survey study of parenting during COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
- Meta-analysis of Risk Factors of Child Maltreatment Recurrence Preliminary results of meta-analysis in interactive table
- Predictive Risk Modeling of Risk Factors of Child Maltreatment Re-reports [code] Use PRM to identify a set of risk factors that have strong predictive relationship with child maltreatment recurrence outcome in the NSCAW data.
Publications
2021
- What predicts mothers' use of spanking in the first 6 years of early childhood? A latent growth curve analysis, Child & Family Social Work. Gerard Chung, Paul Lanier, Chen Ding-Chen
- Identifying treatment moderators of a trauma-informed parenting intervention with children in foster care: Using model-based recursive partitioning, Child Abuse & Neglect. Gerard Chung, David Ansong, Kanisha Brevard, Chen Ding-Chen
- Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Parenting and Children’s Behaviors: Transactional Processes Over Time, Violence Against Women Journal. Gerard Chung, Todd Jensen, Anna Parisi, Rebecca Macy, Paul Lanier
2020
- Mediating Effects of Parental Stress on Harsh Parenting and Parent-Child Relationship during Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in Singapore, Journal of Family Violence. Gerard Chung, Paul Lanier, Peace Wong
- Associations between depression and parenting of fathers in Head Start and parental self-efficacy as a protective factor, Child and Youth Service Review. Gerard Chung, Quinton Smith, Joseph Frey, Paul Lanier
Preprints
- Associations Between Work-Family Balance, Parenting Stress, and Marital Conflicts During COVID-19 Pandemic in Singapore, Community, Work, and Family Journal (Under review). Gerard Chung, Carys Chen Xi Wen, Paul Lanier, Peace Wong
- Text-mining open-ended survey responses using structural topic modeling: A practical demonstration to understand parents’ coping methods during COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, JSSWR (Under review). Gerard Chung, Maria Rodriguez, Paul Lanier, Daniel Gibbs