ABOUT / PEOPLE
Research Fellow
Dr. Emily Soh
Research Fellow at NUS Department of Architecture
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566
Dr Emily Soh is a Research Fellow at the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. She received her PhD (D.Phil in Urban Planning) from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. She has worked on cross-cutting issues including ageing and the city, transport, and food systems. Emily’s foray into food studies began when she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she embarked on her research on food system transitions and their normative and value-based facets. Emily’s current research focuses on emerging discourses and practices in Singapore’s food system including citizen-led food initiatives, urban food commons, food rescue, and reimagining pathways to food security. She is also developing another strand of research on the critical analysis of technology-driven agrifood system transitions of small open economies.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Food system transitions
- Urban food commons
- Food sustainability
- Food security
- Critical studies on agrifood technologies
LATEST
- Soh E (2026). A vignette of ecological urban gardening in Singapore. ARIscope.
- Soh E (2026). Global city goes local? State ambitions and societal undercurrents of food localisation in Singapore. Geoforum.
- Soh E., Feitelson E., and Berry E.M. (2025). Normative facets of transitioning food systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
- Soh E., Berry E.M., and Feitelson E. (2025). Towards Sustainable Food Systems for Israel – from Science to Policy.
- Soh E., Berry E.M., and Feitelson E. (2024). Expert opinion survey on Israel’s food system: implications for food and health policies. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research.
- Beyazit E., Soh E., and Martens K. (2024). Rescuing Transport from Inequities: How Can Automated and Connected Transport Contribute to a More Inclusive Transport System? Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport.
- Soh E., and Martens K. (2023). Public values in the socio-technical construction of autonomous vehicle futures. Public Management Review.
- Soh E., and Martens K. (2023). Value dimensions of autonomous vehicle implementation through the Ethical Delphi. Cities.
- Masron I.N. and Soh E. (2022). The weight of the city: the burden and opportunities of urban villages. Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination.
- Full list of publications available at https://wordcraftes.wixsite.com/emilysoh