Ooi Giok Ling
Adjunct Professorial Fellow

Research Interests: Urban studies and the environment, ethnic relations and health care delivery

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of IPS Professorial Adjunct Fellow, Dr Ooi Giok Ling. She left us on the evening of 5 October 2009. Professor Ooi made significant contributions to IPS, in particular, the Urban and Environmental Studies research cluster. She will be fondly remembered by the IPS community.

Professor Ooi Giok Ling is an Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies. She is Professor at the Humanities and Social Studies Education Department, National Institute of Education.

Her research and publications have been on urban studies and the environment, ethnic relations and health care delivery.

Her recent publications are Future of Space – Planning, Space and Society and Beyond the Port City – Development and Identity in 21st Century Singapore.

She has a PhD from the Australian National University in Canberra.

• The Benefits for Cultural Tolerance: Multiethnicity in Singapore
  Ooi Giok Ling, in Cultural Issues of Our Time, edited by J. Lidstone Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 168-177
• Sustainability And Cities: Concept and Assessment
  Ooi Giok Ling, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd, 2005
• Future of Space: Planning, Space and the City
  Ooi Giok Ling, Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2004
• Beyond the port city: Development and Identity in 21st Century Singapore
  Ooi Giok Ling & Brain J. Shaw. Singapore: Prentice Hall, 2004
• Model Cities: Urban Best Practices (Volumes I)
  Ooi Giok Ling, ed. Singapore: Urban Redevelopment Authority & IPS, 2000
• Model Cities: Urban Best Practices (Volumes II)
  Ooi Giok Ling, ed. Singapore: Urban Redevelopment Authority & IPS, 2000
• State-Society Relations in Singapore
  Koh, G. & Ooi Giok Ling, eds. Singapore: IPS & Oxford University Press, 2000
• Report on the Workshop on Volunteerism: The Way Forward
  Ooi Giok Ling, ed. Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies, 1999
• The City and the State: Singapore'S Built Environment Revisited
  Ooi Giok Ling & Kwok K., eds. Singapore: IPS & Oxford University Press, 1997
• Environment and the City
  Ooi Giok Ling, ed. Singapore: IPS & Times Academic Press, 1995
• Management of Ethnic Relations in Public Housing Estates in Singapore
  Ooi Giok Ling, Siddique S. & Soh K.C. Singapore: IPS & Times Academic Press, 1993

• Professor at the Humanities and Social Studies Education Department, National Institute of Education.
• Adjunct Professorial Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies.

• Tutor, Dept of Geography, University of Malaya, 1975-78.
• Lecturer, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1981-82.
• Lecturer, University of Malaya, 1982-83.
• Executive Systems and Research Officer, Housing and Development Board, Singapore, 1983-89.
• Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, 1989-1990
• Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, 1990-2003
• Director, Research Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore [on secondment 1995-1997]