Today, in the first episode, we have 29-year-old Rosamund Lim, a postgraduate student in the Singapore Management University. This was recorded on August 21, 2023.
Tag: Politics
Politically speaking: MP’s legislative assistants and parliamentary preparations (with MP Louis Ng)
Singapore’s members of parliament receive an allowance to engage legislative assistants to help them with their parliamentary questions and speeches. Different members adopt different strategies and use the allowance differently. Some have larger teams who split the allowance, and in other instances volunteers may also be involved. Across two episodes, we learn more about the roles, responsibilities, and motivations of legislative assistants, the process behind drafting and re-drafting parliamentary questions and speeches, as well as how parliamentarians and their teams integrate feedback from walkabouts.
Today, in this first part, we hear from Louis Ng Kok Kwang, a member of the governing People’s Action Party. He was previously on this podcast, highlighting his advocacy for social work and social workers in parliament.
Singaporean youth civic and community engagement and political participation under COVID-19 lockdown and during GE2020
On this podcast, I’ve traditionally featured the research and social work and projects of others. I make a small exception today, because I want to share about two recent research journal articles I’ve published, which, I think, in an interesting fashion, draws from earlier episodes I produced for past seasons of this socialservice.sg podcast.
The potential and challenges of social media civic discussions in Singapore (with assistant professor Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah)
Today, we have assistant professor Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah from the School of Social Sciences in Nanyang Technological University, whose research focuses on religion and politics with a special focus on Singapore and Malaysia. On his Instagram page, he hosts “Teh Tarik With Walid” (TTWW), a series of live chats with prominent socio-political figures about their work and current affairs. In this episode, we ask him about his motivations for starting this series as well as the prospects of such a format in furthering civic engagement on social media.
Advocating for social work and social workers in parliament (with MP Louis Ng)
Member of parliament Louis Ng has been a leading legislative voice on the work and welfare of the Singaporean social worker. We touch on four themes in this episode – pay and compensation, burnout and retention, case management and caseload ratio, as well as community work – before sharing his ongoing public consultation for social workers.
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