Dr Siva Gopal Thaiyalan

• 2016 - Present
  East-West Center Singapore Chapter

• 2018
  21st Century Outstanding Service Award, East-West Center (EWC) Association, Hawaii, USA
  


• 2016
  Victoria Doctoral Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
  


• 2015
  Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellow, East West Center, Hawaii, USA
  


• 2010
  Post-Graduate Scholarship Award, Ministry of Education Singapore
  


• 2005
  Nanyang Alumni Award – Service Award, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  


• 2005
  Nanyang Award - Humanity (Team), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  


• 2003
  Rotary International 75th Anniversary Gold Medal Award, Rotary Singapore

Service-learning, international service-learning, youth development, youth leadership, character & citizenship education.

Educational philosophy, futures of education, citizenship education, youth studies, adult education and lifelong learning, critical theory and visual methodologies.

Thaiyalan, S. G. (2019, June)
An exploration of young Singaporeans’ lived citizenship through Photovoice – Lessons for citizenship education and service-learning. Resource sharing workshop presented at the The 7th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

Thaiyalan, S. G. (2015, May)
Values in action: A pedagogy of empowerment for students to take ownership in contributing to community and being socially responsible. Paper presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Love Journey: Community Engagement through ServiceLearning, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.

Shumer, R., Giles, D., Thaiyalan, S. G., & Ma, H. K. C. (2013, June).
A dialogue between service-learning elders and young leaders. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on ServiceLearning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.