Arun Mahizhnan

Deputy Director

 

 
 

 
  Research Interests

Arts, culture, information society and mass communications
   

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Curriculum Vitae

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Mr Arun Mahizhnan is  Deputy Director at the Institute of Policy Studies.

 

Mr Arun's responsibilities include assistance in setting the strategic direction of IPS, overseeing its research output and the management of the Institute.

 

In addition, he leads the research work in the areas of Arts & Culture and Information Society at the Institute. His past research interests included business issues such as regionalisation of the Singapore economy, and development of entrepreneurship.

 

Mr Arun is concurrently an Adjunct Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information at the Nanyang Technological University.

 

Before joining IPS in 1991, he had worked in both the public and private sectors for 20 years, mostly in public communication fields.  

 
Major Publications

 

New Asia: Projecting Soft Power

Arun, Mahizhnan and Tan, Tarn How. 2008. Paper delivered at The Nanyang Academy of Fine Art’s International Symposium on "New Asian Imaginations", 1&2 August 2008, Singapore

 

Subverting Seriousness and Other Misdemeanours: Modes of Resistance Against OB Markers in the 2006 Singapore General Election

Tan, Tarn How and Arun, Mahizhnan. 2008. Paper delivered at the 17th Annual Conference of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) on “Changing Media, Changing Societies: Media and the Millennium Development Goals” held on July 14—17, 2008, in Manila.

 

The IFER (IPS Forum on Economic Restructuring) Report
Tommy Koh, Tan Khee Giap, Arun Mahizhnan, et al. Singapore: Times Academic Press for IPS, 2002

 

Broadcast Media in Asean
Henry Tan & Arun Mahizhnan, eds. Singapore: ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information, 2002

 

Internet In Singapore: A Study on Usage & Impact

Eddie Kuo, Alfred Choi, Arun Mahizhnan, et al. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 2002

 

Broadcast Industry Report,

Arun Mahizhnan & Henry Tan,  commissioned by Singapore Broadcasting Authority, 2001. (Restricted circulation)

 

Selves: State of the Arts in Singapore

Arun Mahizhnan, Kwok Kian Woon & T. Sasitharan, eds. Singapore: National Arts Council, 2001

 

Singapore: Re-Engineering Success

Arun Mahizhnan & Lee Tsao Yuan, eds. Singapore: IPS & Oxford University Press, 1998

 

Singapore As A Renaissance City

Arun Mahizhnan, Lee Weng Choy & T Sasitharan, Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, 1998 (Restricted circulation)

 

Report of the Committee on National Arts Education

Arun Mahizhnan, Kuo Pao Kun, Kwok Kian Woon & T. Sasitharan. Singapore: Ministry of Information and the Arts, 1996 (restricted circulation)