Nur Diyanah Anwar is pursuing her PhD at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is a recipient of the Nanyang Technological University Research Student Scholarship (NTU-RSS). She is also an Adjunct Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), where she was a senior analyst previously. Her research interests revolve around identity issues, multiculturalism, education and state-society relations.

• Social Policies
• State and Societal Relations
• Strategic Communication

Policy Reports

• Singaporean Youth and Socioeconomic Mobility

  20 November, 2018

RSIS Commentaries

• Christchurch Terror Attack: New Zealand’s Multi-Faceted Response

  23 July, 2019

• CO18070 | Going Halal: Balancing Ingredients For Mutual Understanding

  19 April, 2018

• CO18021 | “Regardless of Religion”: Building a Stronger Singaporean Society

  12 February, 2018

• CO17041 | State and Society: Securing Social Cohesion

  13 March, 2017

• CO15048 | Plot Archetypes: ‘Overcoming the Monster’ Still Useful for Singapore

  10 March, 2015

• CO15030 | Negotiating Singapore’s Meritocracy: A Subtle Shift?

  12 February, 2015

• CO14211 | Immigration and Singaporean Identity: The Ethnicity Conundrum

  27 October, 2014

Commemorative / Event Reports

• CENS Workshop: The Age of Rages

  29 April, 2019

• Countering Extremism: Now What?

  17 December, 2018

• The 2018 Southeast Asia Counter-Terrorism Symposium: A Collective Approach

  05 December, 2018

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Disinformation and Fake News (with Shashi Jayakumar, and Benjamin Ang), Eds. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Fake News and Disinformation: Singapore Perspectives” (with Shashi Jayakumar, and Benjamin Ang) in Shashi Jayakumar, Benjamin Ang, Nur Diyanah Anwar (Eds.), Disinformation and Fake News. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 137-158
• “The Maligned Malays and National Service” (with Norman Vasu) in Ho Shu Huang and Graham Ong-Webb, National Service in Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2018, pp. 203-225

Op-Eds

• “Education in Singapore and the Future Economy in the Digital Age”, IRAHSS 2017 Think Pieces., 11 July 2017
• “Lessons in preparedness and unity” (with Norman Vasu), The Straits Times, 25 May 2017
• “Othman Wok, Multiculturalism and the Nation” (with Norman Vasu), The Straits Times, 19 April 2017