I won the 2024 Andrew Pickup Global Citizens Award, in addition to the Turing scheme award 2024. These awards allowed me to carry out a six-week research placement at the Migrant Writers of Singapore (MWS), a Singapore-based migrant- led initiative aiming to promote a sense of collectivity across the citizen-migrant divide through the shared love for literature and arts. I thank the family of late Andrew Francis Pickup for their generous donation, which has enabled many emerging scholars to conduct path-breaking research in various fields and continue their beloved son’s legacy.

I am also grateful to MWS for helping me immerse in their literary activism and become involved with wider migrant rights movements in Singapore. Without their assistance, I would not have been able to complete my dissertation project which, aside from fufilling the requirements of my MA degree, has become a tool of activism in itself.

See my bursary report here.