Dr Tania Nagpaul

Diversity education and training research, evaluating effectiveness of social initiatives and social experiments to demonstrate existence of bias.

Intervention research, occupational well-being, issues such as social mobility, environmental sustainability, persons with disabilities and mixed methods research.

29^th May 2026 - Awarded the SUSS Sustainability Research Seed Funding grant to conduct a study “Measuring the Impact of an On Campus Food Waste Composting project on Food Waste Reduction and Pro Environmental Behaviours at SUSS”. 

7^th May 2025 - Awarded the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) Grant research funding for project titled, “Barriers to Workforce Participation and Job Support Utilisation Among Low-Income Women: Exploring Support Needs and Meritocracy Beliefs”.

22^nd March 2024 - Awarded the MOE-SUF research funding for project titled, “Investigating the effectiveness of a university level diversity and inclusion course in influencing students’ diversity related attitudes and behaviours”.

Yeo, N. & Nagpaul, T. (2025, October 24). Hijacked by politics, DEI is under attack in the US. Where does it leave the global movement for inclusive workplaces? CNA Big Read.

Tay, H.Y. & Nagpaul, T. (2025, September 29). What to do when you’re stuck between 2 feuding colleagues? Straits Times askSTJobs.

Nagpaul, T. (2024, October 24). Daily Cuts – Is the customer always right? How to handle abuse towards service staff? CNA 938Live Podcast.

Tay, H.Y. & Nagpaul, T. (2022, December 19). Overcoming impostor syndrome at work. Straits Times askSTJobs.

Nagpaul, T. (2022, July 29). Decoding workplace personality tests (translated). Lianhe Zaobao.

Nagpaul, T., Sidhu, D. & Ng, W. (2022, May 11). Podcast Interview with Social Service SG on the Hunger Report. “The hunger report, part two”.

Nagpaul, T. (2021, March 13). Media Interview for CNA Insider for 3-part series on Food Wastage. Can Urban Farming Fix Our Broken Relationship With Food?

Nagpaul, T., Sidhu, D. & Chen, J. (2020, September 17). ‘The Hunger Report’ featured in The Straits Times and TODAY Online.

Nagpaul, T. (2025). The impact of a diversity course on undergraduate students’ multicultural awareness and inclusive behavioural intentions: A mixed-method investigation. Paper presented at the 2025 Sustainable Asia Conference held at Suntec City Convention Center, Singapore, on October 29, 2025.

Nagpaul, T. (2025). Confronting unconscious bias in self and others. Conference workshop delivered at the Re:Define Success Conference (RDSC) 2025 held at Singapore University of Social Sciences, on September 9, 2025.

Nagpaul, T. (2025). Challenging unconscious bias in self and others. Pre-conference workshop delivered at the Psychological Science and Well-Being Conference 2025 held at James Cook University, Singapore, on January 13, 2025. https://www.jcu.edu.sg/psych-sci-wellbeing-conference-2025/sub-pages/featured-speakers-and-pre-conference-workshops#Workshops

Nagpaul, T. (2021). Exploring Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit among Security Officers: The Role of Work Hygiene and Motivator Factors. WAPOR Asia 4th Annual Conference, Bangkok.

Nagpaul, T. & Pang, J.S. (2016). Materialism lowers well-being: The mediating role of need for autonomy—correlational and experimental evidence. Paper presented at the 3rd Canadian Conference for Positive Psychology, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.

Nagpaul, T. & Pang, J.S. (2015). Psychological resources can attenuate the effects of materialism—an investigation of gratitude and mindfulness as possible solutions. Paper presented at the 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioural Psychology, Singapore.

Holding a Graduate certificate In Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging from Harvard. Completed all 4 courses in pursuance of the certificate with distinction.

Invited to conduct workshops internally within SUSS by SUSSHR, TLC, Student Success Center to promote inclusion, foster psychologically safe learning environments and leading with empathy

Invited to conduct corporate workshops at RECKITT, M-DAQ and OFFSHOOTS Academy around confronting unconscious biases in self and others.

August 2026 - Present
Member of the Australian Association for Research in Education

April 2025 - Present
Appointed member of the SUSS Sustainability Committee