Social sciences

News

01 Dec 2025
- Exploring practical uses of AI across all areas of research, education, and administration - Creating a ‘DGIST-type AI circular ecosystem to spread AI applications into education
01 Dec 2025
- Lectures scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Innopolis Daegu on December 11, 12, 15, 16, and 17, 2025
01 Dec 2025
DGIST Holds Joint Symposium with Korea University, Collaborating in Future Convergence Research
01 Dec 2025
- Opening DGIST’s advanced research infrastructure to the local community to realize future-oriented convergence education. - Fostering creative and problem-solving talent through programs mainly exploring math and science convergence. - Targeting 5th and 6th grade elementary school students and 1st grade middle school students in Dalseong-gun.
01 Dec 2025
- Fostering next-generation talent through a tailored, non-graded education for elementary, middle, and high school students. - Promoting balanced regional development and strengthening national competitiveness through a full-cycle AI/SW curriculum.
26 Nov 2025
A commoning approach for democratic, community-centric weather modification
26 Nov 2025
Researchers from Japan have unveiled a comprehensive dataset detailing the psychological and social responses of Japanese adults to the COVID-19 pandemic. Spanning 30 survey waves from January 2020 to March 2024, the open dataset captures how Japanese adults’ risk perception, preventive behaviors, policy attitudes, views toward foreigners, and psychological distress evolved over more than four years of uncertainty. Published as a data paper in Data in Brief, this resource is now openly accessible to the global community.
From left: Prof Richard M. Walker, Director of LUIAS; Prof Kim Jeong Bon, Lingnan Fellow; President Qin; Prof Lars Tummers, Senior Lingnan Scholar; Prof Li Lianjiang, Senior Lingnan Scholar.
24 Nov 2025
The Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study (LUIAS) held a conferment ceremony today, 24 November, to honour three renowned scholars: Prof Kim Jeong-Bon, Distinguished SFU Professor at Simon Fraser University; Prof Li Lianjiang, Professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at The University of Hong Kong; and Prof Lars Tummers, Chair Professor of Public Administration and Organisational Science at Utrecht University.
19 Nov 2025
The Philippines remains mired in import dependence despite years of government support.
Train in Senboku New Town Osaka
13 Nov 2025
Determining proper subsidies for walking rewards
07 Nov 2025
DGIST and Korea University Hold Joint Symposium to Foster Collaboration in Future Convergence Research
07 Nov 2025
- Implementing future-oriented convergence education by opening the university’s advanced research infrastructure to the local community - Fostering creative, problem-solving talents through math and science-based convergence inquiry programs - Open to 5th-6th grade elementary and 1st grade middle school students in Dalseong-gun
07 Nov 2025
- Fosters next-generation talent through non-graded tailored education for elementary, middle, and high school students - Balances development among regions and strengthens national competitiveness through a comprehensive AI/SW curriculum
07 Nov 2025
- Strengthen industry–academia collaboration and establish a practice-oriented AI interdisciplinary education system
28 Oct 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided researchers with a wealth of information on contemporary successes and failures in combating an emerging pathogen. This study outlines a total of 22 opportunities and strategies based on urban functionality and typology to help communities better prepare for and mitigate the effects of the next pandemic.
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27 Oct 2025
Almost every big life change, from starting a new school to changing jobs or moving towns, elicits the same advice: get involved and make friends. While there’s some truth to that guidance, it takes more than simply participating in activities to grow a social network, according to research by an international team.
27 Oct 2025
28 October, Singapore – Terrapinn announces the 10th anniversary edition of EDUtech Asia, Asia’s largest and most influential education event, taking place on 5 - 6 November 2025 at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore. Under the theme “Positive disruption: unlocking limitless potential in education with AI and tech,” the event will bring together more than 8,000 education leaders, policymakers and technology innovators to explore how AI is transforming learning while ensuring that human connection, purpose and equity remain at the heart of education.
27 Oct 2025
- Highlight physical AI, human digital twins, and quantum sensing - Share innovation competencies through research exhibitions, technical consultations, and industry collaboration
20 Oct 2025
-AI that detects even “wing-flapping patterns,” the world’s first technology to distinguish birds from small drones at long range - Successfully identifies small drones 8 km away… DGIST joins Google and OpenAI on the global stage
01 Oct 2025
Study reveals a gap between willingness and actual use among people with poor health
29 Sep 2025
- To discuss innovative directions in healthy brain aging and therapeutic strategies
23 Sep 2025
DGIST Student Startups Won Top Excellence and Excellence Prizes at the 2025 R&D Special Zone Science Technology Startup Investment Competition
23 Sep 2025
- Guest lecture by Director Sesin Kim of the Integrity Training Center, the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission to raise awareness about anti-corruption and strengthen integrity capacity - Engaged and resonated with employees with experiential programs, including plays and campaigns
23 Sep 2025
- 6,182 applicants, a 23.4% increase from the previous year, for a competition rate of 27.85:1 - Achieved despite preference for medical schools, declining school-age population, and concentration in the Seoul metropolitan area
23 Sep 2025
- KRW 27.9 billion in total for two research centers... Expected to become an interdisciplinary research hub connecting the region and the world
23 Sep 2025
- To be held September 21-25 at DGIST and Daegu EXCO - About 800 participants from more than 50 countries expected
23 Sep 2025
- Promote collaborative drug screening and identification research and exchanges across the drug development industry
10 Sep 2025
Cultivating top talent for the global high-tech industry through integrated education in engineering and management
08 Sep 2025
- President Kunwoo Lee remarked, “We shall take a step forward as the innovative university that the country needs” - Demonstrate interdisciplinary education achievements, and lead future society with flagship research
The weighted KDE of analysis of the data from the POIs in Pekanbaru (blue), indicating urban functional delineation, overlaid over a Sentinel-2 map of the city. The five deeper blue areas are the hotspots of urban activity, which correspond to urbanized areas. The borders of the delineation do not correspond to the borders of the urbanized area on the map, which indicates a difference between how urban functional delineation and traditional urban delineation define urbanization.
04 Sep 2025
Tracking human behavioral patterns in cities can be used to determine urban delineations and urban land use, which has the potential to improve urban planning.

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Researchers

Co-Founding Member and Managing Director of the Association of Advancing Life And Regenerating Motherland (ALARM), a think tank in Myanmar.
Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation (EMReF)
Roosli is a lecturer and researcher in Disaster and Development at Universiti Sains Malaysia. He focuses on settlement in ASEAN countries in normal and emergency situations.
Associate Professor at Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS)
Takako Izumi
Expert in international disaster mitigation strategy. Associate Professor at Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS).
Anthropologist of disaster, death, grief, public health, disaster and the environment in Japan and Indonesia.
Janhavi Dave is the International Coordinator of HomeNet South Asia.
Maggie Hu is currently an Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Zaw Oo
Zaw Oo is Executive Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Development, an independent think-tank dedicated to inclusive development in Myanmar. Previously, he was the Presidential Economic Advisor from 2012-2016, serving as a principal advisor on finance, industry, commerce and labour issues.
Min Zaw Oo
Dr. Min Zaw Oo is an expert on the peace process in Myanmar. He set up the first joint-ceasefire mechanism and is adviser to the Peace Commission in Myanmar. Previously, Min was involved in election-strengthening activities in Afghanistan and the Genocide Early Warning Project.
Yoshihiko Kadoya is a Distinguished Researcher of Hiroshima University, the Director of Hiroshima Institute of Health Economics Research (HiHER) and a Professor of Economics at Hiroshima University.
Sanen Marshall is a US Fulbright Scholar (2017) and a UK Chevening Scholar who teaches at the Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

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