The Major Research Funding (MRF) scheme provides financial assistance to support significant research activities. It assists staff members in the undertaking and realisation of high-level academic-theoretical or practice-based research activities based on clearly articulated research questions, and that lead to a publishable output in a refereed journal or a book/book chapter with a recognised academic publisher.

Past-approved MRF projects include:

  • Natalia Grincheva (F/FAMCI): Mapping and Measuring the Global Impacts of Hallyu
  • Adeline Kueh (F/FAMCI) & Hazel Lim-Schlegel (F/FAMCI): Craft in Singapore (A study)
  • Natalia Grincheva (F/FAMCI): GLAM and Digital Soft Power in the Post-pandemic World: Risks, Opportunities and Approaches
  • Gan Sheuo Hui (F/FAMCI): Anime Atlas: Japanese Postwar Animation from National Cool to Global Aesthetics
  • Caterina Riva (ICAS): Curating and the digital: shifts in exhibitions, art making and audiences
  • Natasha Lushetich (LTR): Imaginations of Disorder in Art Science and Philosophy II
  • Michelle Loh (F/FAMCI): Traditional and Contemporary Practice and Identity in the Education, Performance and Policies concerning Chinese Music in Modern Singapore (1999-2015)
  • Stanley Lim & Nur Hidayah (F/DE): Way, Shape, Form
  • Gilles Massot (F/FAMCI): Searching for Jules
  • Andreas Schlegel (F/DE) &, Brian O'Reilly (F/FOPA): Implementation of a Real-time Messaging System with Applications for Audio, Visual, and Spatial Performance