Educational Qualifications

2023
Advanced Learning and Teaching Certificate (Fellow), Advance HE (UK)

2005
Ph.D.in Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

2001
Professional Diploma in Asia Pacific Marketing, Marketing Institute of Singapore-NUS

1995
M.Sc.in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK

Academic and Professional Experience

2025
Deputy Head of Programme (Communication), Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

2024
Senior Lecturer, Communication Programme, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

2014
Singapore Discipline (Media and Communication), Murdoch University, (Singapore Office)

2011
Asst Director (Special Projects), Communications Division, Media Development Authority Singapore

2008
Deputy Director (Industry Development), Creative Industries Division, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts

2002
Assistant Director (several portfolios), Media Development Authority, Singapore

1996
Assistant Director (Industry Development), SME (Public Service Broadcast), Singapore Broadcasting Authority

1994
Research Associate, Survey Research Singapore-AC Nielsen; Outbound Producer (CNNI London).

Selected Publications

British Council (2025, October). Regional Perception Poll on ASEAN Creative Economy. https://doi.org/10.57884/S1NY-T022. (Research team member)
Xu, E., Lee, H., Lim, T. & Lee, T. (2025). Developing sustainability literacy through transmedia storytelling: Usingapore The Singapore Farmed Forces to confront climate change and food insecurity (conference paper).  Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) Conference, 25-28 November 2025, UniSC, Australia.
Lim, T. & Tan, E. (2025). Sustaining Peranakan cultures and Identity within East Asian Pop Culture in multicultural Singapore: From ‘The Little Nyonya” to “Emerald Hill”. (conference paper) IAMCR 2025 (International Association for Media and Communication Research) Conference, 13- 17 July 2025, NTU, Singapore
Xu, E., Lee, H., Lim, T., & Lee, T. (2025). Delivering security out of scarcity: “Our Singapore Food Story” as engagement and empowerment. (conference paper) IAMCR 2025 (International Association for Media and Communication Research) Conference, 13- 17 July 2025, NTU, Singapore,
Lim, T. (2024, 26 November). Post-COVID Changing Perceptions of the Creative Economy in Singapore: Stakeholder Perspectives (2020 - 2024) (conference paper), The Inside-out” approach to Identity and Creativity in Singapore”. Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) Conference, 25-27 November 2024, RMIT, Australia.
Xu, E., Lim, T., & Lee, H. (2024). Stakeholder engagement and chaotic narrative spaces: Singapore’s COVID-19 outbreak in foreign-worker dormitories. Communication Research and Practice, 10(2), 129–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2024.2347690
Fong, S. Y., & Lim, T. (2024). Regional partnerships and media policy in the age of China’s rise: the case of Singapore-China film co-productions. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2333860
Lim, T., Mwagwabi, F., Nallor, J. & Khan, S.T. (2023, 22 November). Digital Inclusion or Exclusion of Older Adults in a Post-COVID Era: Comparison of Singapore and Dubai (conference paper). Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), 21-24 November 2023, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Tan, E., Mwagwabi, F., Lim, T., & Lim, A. (2023). Graduate employability concerns amidst a crisis: Student perspectives from Singapore on COVID-19. Industry and Higher Education, 37(3), 370-383. https://doi.org/10.1177/09504222221126420
Lim, A.J., Tan, E. & Lim, T. (2021) Infodemic: the effect of death-related thoughts on news-sharing. Cognition Research 6, 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00306-0
Zhang, W., Lim, T., & Lee, T. (2021). Disruptive information technologies and society: evidence from digital China. Chinese Journal of Communication, 14(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2020.1848405
Mwagwabi, F. & Lim, T. (2021). Improving quality of life perceptions in older adults with ICT use for leisure. 2021 NUS-ARI conference on Leisure for Older Adults in Asia, (conference paper). Singapore.
Lim, T., Lee, T., & Zhang, W. (2020). Editorial and Critical Reflections on the future of identity moments and social media in China and beyond. Global Media and China, 5(3), 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420939322
Lim, T., Bali, A., & Moo, M. (2019). New digital realities and old public service broadcasting models – the case of public access and participation in Singapore’s televisual landscape. Media International Australia, 170(1), 100-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X17743348

 

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