2024
Top Conference Paper Award [4th Place] from the Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk (ComSHER) Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference
2023
Social Science & Humanities Research Fellow from the Ministry of Education, Singapore.
Funding awarded for fellowship: SGD 907, 543.
2023
Top Paper Award from the Mass Communication Division at the International Communication Association
Paper Title: Understanding public perceptions and intentions to adopt traditional versus emerging investment platforms: the effect of message framing and regulatory focus theory on the technology acceptance model
2022
Top Faculty Research Paper Award 2022 from the Communication Technology Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference
Paper Title: Health Apps and Wearables Use: A Scoping Review of Theoretical Frameworks, Motivators, Barriers, and Health Impacts.
2020
McQuail Honorary Fellow at Amsterdam School of Communication Research
2019
National Communication Association Human Communication and Technology Division Dissertation of the Year Award
Best Published Paper Award awarded by the International Communication Association’s Children, Adolescents, and Media Division
McQuail Award for best article advancing communication theory in 2018
2017
Nanyang Technological University Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences International Postdoctoral Fellowship (HIPF)
Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme (START)
2016
Scholarship for the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Inaugural Research Summit: Digital Methods & Social Development (21-27 August 2016)
2015
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Summer School Scholarship at the University of Essex
2014
Honarable Mention Presentation Award at Conference of Communication, Medicine and Ethics 2014
2013-2017
NTU Research Scholarship 2013 to 2017 [PhD in Communication Studies]
2011-2013
NTU Research Scholarship 2011 to 2013 [Master of Communication Studies]
2010
Recipient of the Tan Chin Siong Scholarship for Financial Journalism
Edmund W. J. Lee 