Academic Profile : Faculty
Assoc Prof Loh Chin Ee
Associate Dean, Impact & Partnerships, Office for Research
Associate Professor, National Institute of Education - English Language & Literature
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LOH Chin Ee is Associate Professor at the English Language and Literature Department and Associate Dean (Impact & Partnerships) at the Office for Research (OfR) at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her primary research interest is in literacy and equity, with a focus on adolescent reading and school libraries as well as place-based literature education.
She is the author of The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore (Routledge, 2017), The Reading Lives of Teens: Research and Practice (Routledge, 2025), co- editor of Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times (Routledge, 2018), and various textbooks and anthologies. Her work has been published in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Changing English, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literature, Teaching and Teacher Education, among others. She is Senior Editor of Pedagogies: An International Journal.
Her most recent study is the Reading Futures Study, a qualitative longitudinal study that tracks secondary school students’ print and digital reading across four years, from 2025 onwards. You can read more about her studies on her project website: https://www.readingbydesignsg.org/
She is the author of The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore (Routledge, 2017), The Reading Lives of Teens: Research and Practice (Routledge, 2025), co- editor of Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times (Routledge, 2018), and various textbooks and anthologies. Her work has been published in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Changing English, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literature, Teaching and Teacher Education, among others. She is Senior Editor of Pedagogies: An International Journal.
Her most recent study is the Reading Futures Study, a qualitative longitudinal study that tracks secondary school students’ print and digital reading across four years, from 2025 onwards. You can read more about her studies on her project website: https://www.readingbydesignsg.org/
adolescent literacies, school libraries, print and digital reading, literacy at the intersection of globalisation and equity, place-based literature education, ethnographic methods, learning environments
- Emotional Capital and Teacher Professionalism
- Evaluating Reading Gain from a Mobile Library Intervention in a Low-Income Neighbourhood
- Core 3 Research Programme: Baseline Investigation of Subject-Domain Pedagogies in Singapore's Primary and Secondary Classrooms (C3-PP)
- Reading Futures and Mobilities: A Life History Study of Learning to Read
- Reading Futures Study: A Longitudinal Cross-Case Comparison of Adolescents' Print and Digital Reading Practices
- Main Study of CORE 4 Research Programme: Education Trend Studies of Designated Subject Domain (DSD) Pedagogies in Singapore's Primary and Secondary Classrooms (C4MS)
- Words in two Languages: Fostering Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten Children through Synchronized Bilingual Reading Programme
- Deepening The Dialogic Discourse and Thinking of NTU Students Through Student-Led Book Clubs on Children's Literature: Strengthening Prevailing Practices
- Designing School Libraries of the Future (LOTF Study)
- Leisure Reading in Two Languages: Reading Habits and Preferences of Bilingual Children in Singapore
- Children and Adolescents' Print and Digital Reading Practices in Pandemic Times
- A Study on Children's Home ICT Use on their Language and Development (CHILD)
Awards
2025 NIE Research Excellence Award
2022 John Cheung Social Media Award
2021 NIE Nexus Team Award
2019 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award (NIE)
2022 John Cheung Social Media Award
2021 NIE Nexus Team Award
2019 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award (NIE)
Fellowships & Other Recognition
2023 President's Design Award (Shortlisted)
2018 University of South Australia Research Fellowship
2018 University of South Australia Research Fellowship
Courses Taught
MEL918 Reading in a Multimodal Age
MAE917 The History and Practice of Reading
MEL902 Analysing language and literature
ACR42A Designing Literature Curriculum & Assessment
IEL0033 Designing your school's learning environment
IEL2090 Managing the secondary school library
MAE917 The History and Practice of Reading
MEL902 Analysing language and literature
ACR42A Designing Literature Curriculum & Assessment
IEL0033 Designing your school's learning environment
IEL2090 Managing the secondary school library
Supervision of PhD Students
Gan Sujia, Developing Global Citizenship through Postmodern Picturebooks
Edmen Leong, Reading Motivation: Strategies for Learners with Dyslexia
Edmen Leong, Reading Motivation: Strategies for Learners with Dyslexia