I won the 2024 Turing scheme award, managed by the University of Sussex. The award went toward covering my living expenses during a six-week fieldwork and 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. In addition to this award, I also won the Andrew Francis Global Citizens award 2024.

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.