Thank you for agreeing to be my expert mentor and providing me the opportunity to go through the HSSRP program. Despite the multitude of setbacks on my part while writing the paper, I am grateful for your continued support and patience. The insights that you provided towards my research paper were invaluable during my analysis. The passion you showed for research has been truly inspiring and allowed me to complete my research paper.

Thank you and wishing you good health.

Sincerely,

Chan Yi Xuan

Thank you so much for your guidance and support throughout the programme. We truly appreciate the time and effort you dedicated to helping us at every stage of the project. From patiently teaching us how to collect and analyse data with Likert scales, to helping us refine our survey questions and addressing our uncertainties, your mentorship has been invaluable.

One moment that stood out for us was when you introduced us to JASP and showed us how to properly analyse our graphs. Since this tool was completely unfamiliar to us, your clear explanations and encouragement made something that first felt overwhelming become an important skill we could actually use with confidence.

Beyond the technical skills, what we are most grateful for is the encouragement, constructive critiques, and patience you showed throughout. We have learned so much from you, and your guidance has made this experience both meaningful and memorable.

Sincerely,
Carlos, Kyle, and Shlok

Thank you for your patience when guiding us in our research process! Your guidance was immensely helpful to our project! During the research process, we had to have so many online calls to refine and redevelop our paper. The advice you gave was crucial in our writing process and editing, thank you so much Dr Lee!

Best,

Khua Teng Han, Marcus and Christian Alexander See

Thank you so much for all your encouragement and support throughout this HSSRP period! We had never undertaken anything of this level before, and we were definitely overwhelmed when we were first tasked with writing our research paper. However, through all our emails together, you definitely helped make this entire journey easier for us! Thank you so much for taking time out of your travels around the world to still make time to call us and vet through our research paper drafts. We truly appreciate how approachable and encouraging you are. Thank you! ❤️

Best,

Bethany and Kim

Thank you so much for your guidance and patience with us! You have been a treasure to us, and we could not have done this research paper without your expertise and guidance, constantly being that pillar of support that we needed. Even when we are faced and hit with roadblocks, you never stop encouraging us, giving us suggestions and advice on how to move on. We remembered our first session, where you were willing to come down to meet us face to face, and that would stay as a core memory in our journey through this research paper. You are also always swift to help us, building us upwards each and every step of the way! We hope that you would continue to be an expert mentor, guiding and nurturing other students with a passion like yours, they would definitely be extremely blessed to have you! Wishing you all the best even as we part!

Best,

Joel and Zeemeng

Thank you for patience and guidance throughout the entire research programme. Your attentiveness to our questions and prompt responses has allowed us to thrive during the project. Whenever we faced questions regarding the project, we could rely on your knowledge and guidance to pull through. We are thankful that you always go the extra mile to read through our drafts and give important feedbacks so that we are able to improve our project. Without your technical knowhow and understanding, our project would not have gone so far. Working with you has made our HSSRP experience even more memorable and fulfilling. Thank you :))

Best,

Avery and Kai En

We would like to sincerely thank you for the time, patience, and expertise you have shared with us throughout this journey. Your guidance has been invaluable in teaching us how to approach research in the social sciences. From providing us with the guidance on using the Qualtrics platform, to offering thought-provoking feedback on our report drafts, you have helped us strengthen our research skills. We are extremely grateful for the way you encouraged us to consider different perspectives, and refine our work with rigour. Thank you!

Best,

Yuxuan and Wesley

Thank you so much for spending so much of your precious time helping us, even when you had your personal and work commitments. Thank you for being so patient with us and guiding us through the research process so kindly, especially since we were completely new to it. We really appreciate you replying promptly to our queries via email and being willing to squeeze in online meetings with us into your busy schedule. Thanks to you, we managed to learn so much about research in just a year, and enjoyed the fruitful process tremendously. All the best for your future and we will forever be grateful for your support in this memorable journey! ❤︎❤︎❤︎

Warmest wishes, 

Cheng Lin, Elsa and Joshitha

Thank you so much for guiding us towards the end of our project. Even though you were not our assigned mentor at the start, you still offered so much feedback and helped us make amendments to our paper. Thank you for taking the time to look through our research paper and topic, despite seeing it for the first time and being new to us. We are immensely grateful for your support. We would not have been able to complete our research paper successfully without your help! 

Best,

Cheng Lin, Elsa and Joshitha

Thank you for providing us with all your insights in your field and replying to our emails on such short notice and meeting us for consults online. We enjoyed learning from you over the course of this programme.

Best,

Deston and Rachel

Thank you for your guidance and advice throughout this HSSRP journey. Your mentorship has truly deepened our understanding of the conventions of a literary paper and literary analysis as a whole. We are also grateful for the time you spent meeting us both physically and online, answering our queries, reading our emails and for providing feedback on the drafts of our paper. We are especially thankful for how you guided us through the hardships we faced in deciding on a text to study and later in having to change our book — your suggestions and book recommendations definitely guided us in streamlining our research. We felt extremely reassured by your unwavering support and patience throughout this project, and thank you most of all for providing us with the opportunity to participate in the HSSRP in the first place. We are grateful to have spent this journey with you, and all the best in your future endeavours :)

Best,

Aschea, Kate, Kylie

Thank you so much for your guidance this whole HSSRP journey! This process was extremely valuable, and hence I’d like to thank you for taking me in as a mentee, and allowing me to learn from your expert opinions! Thank you for always being so supportive and patient, especially at the start of the year when I was brainstorming ideas for my project, and seeking your constant advice and explanations. Thank you for taking your precious time to meet with me to rehearse my PR presentation, and also helping to edit my paper even outside of meetings! :))

I cannot imagine how this project would have been without your support, and hence thank you so much, and wishing you all the best for the future! ♡

Best,

Avelia 

Thank you very much for patiently guiding us through the process from collecting raw data and analysing it using the T-test, to refining our survey questions and helping us better understand the expectations for discussion and evaluation. The past eight months have been truly enriching, and we are very grateful for your support.

Best,
Nihal, Elakkian, Xingchen

Thank you so much for your patience and guidance throughout the entire process, from preparing our interviews to collecting and analysing the data for our research. We also truly appreciate how you continually adjusted to our tight schedules just to meet and discuss our progress. The past eight months working with you have been an invaluable and rewarding experience. We are deeply grateful for your support and mentorship.

Best,

Liam, Tristan and JJ

Thank you for helping me through HSSRP, and having the patience to guide me through my mistakes. Your quick response time and your insightful comments helped me to figure out how to improve my paper and better refine it. On top of that, you helped me decide on a scope that is relevant and novel for Myanmar that I myself could not think of. Thanks to your unwavering support throughout the program, I manage to gleam many insights and knowledge about political science that I would use in the future. I am extremely grateful to have you as my expert-mentor throughout this 9 month journey! Thank You!

Best,

Tristan

It's been a wonderful journey working with you for the past year. You have truly helped me every step of the way, and I sincerely thank you for every email and every meeting we shared. Despite you requiring to travel to different countries for work, crossing multiple time zones, you still found time for meetings to clarify different topics, and for that I am especially grateful. I also thank you very much for helping vet and share feedback to all of my paper drafts with immense haste. I truly appreciate everything that you have done for me and this HSSRP experience has been truly unforgettable. Thank you so much!

Best,

Ng Kai Yi

Thank you so much for your consistent help throughout my research paper writing journey. Under your wing, I have not just been able to finish writing the paper adequately, but have also gained invaluable skills regarding research and the analysis of data. Even when I was unable to follow very clearly, you continued to guide me until I was able to grasp the concept of writing the paper. Thank you for the numerous comments that you provided over my multiple drafts of the paper, which helped me to improve it further every time.

Best,

Taher Rangwala

Thank you for giving us the chance to work under your mentorship, and for taking valuable time to guide us along our first research journey. It has been an extremely pleasant first experience writing a real research and we are so incredibly grateful for your kind advice and eternal patience. We appreciate your willingness to meet us for reviews so frequently, as well as your promptness in replying to our emails (even when you might be very busy, or overseas!)

Even though we were quite clueless and confused at some points (especially when we were still trying to refine our RQ), you were still very understanding and encouraging. We were initially quite intimidated by the prospect of writing a research paper, but your friendliness really made the process much less daunting :)

While you mentioned that quantitative research methods were not exactly your forte, we are still deeply grateful for your efforts to aid us in analysing our survey data. We genuinely would not have been able to make it this far without your invaluable comments and feedback which made us rethink our preconceived assumptions to elevate our research paper. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours, and we will be forever grateful to you :)

(We love your cat by the way!)🐱

Best Wishes,

Celine and Rachel

Thank you so much for your help, guidance and support these past 10 months!! We truly could not have done this without you and your constant presence has been so so encouraging throughout this journey so we are so grateful for that. Thank you also for all your feedback, it has always been so helpful and opened our eyes to many intriguing perspectives and arguments, and this HSSRP has really been such an invaluable learning experience. We have learnt so many new things about the linguistics field and Singapore’s linguistic landscape in the past ten(ish!) months. Thank you so much for supporting us throughout our HSSRP journey!!

-Rui en and Raena❤️

We sincerely thank you for your invaluable guidance throughout this year during our research journey. As first-time student researchers, your constant support, patience, and expertise made the entire process not only possible but also deeply meaningful. You have taught us to think critically, persevere through challenges, and approach problems with curiosity and confidence. Through your mentorship, we have gained not just technical knowledge, but also important research skills and a deeper appreciation for the scientific process, such as specific analysis skills like T-test and correlation analysis. We are truly grateful for the time, effort, and encouragement you have given us at every stage. This experience has been an incredible opportunity for growth, and we truly could not have asked for a better mentor to guide us along the way. Thank you so much Prof Luo!

Best regards,

Shoowin Kuhanesan and Mukundhan Ramanathan

Thank you so much for your invaluable guidance throughout our project. We’re truly grateful for your willingness to meet with us so often, even beyond the required number of sessions, to help us clarify our doubts and progress smoothly. Thank you for providing us with so many additional resources, such as the research papers and slides on conducting and presenting research. They were especially helpful, as we were completely new to the process and learnt a great deal from them. We also appreciate your patience with us, especially when we were still rather quiet at the beginning as we did not know what to say and were still trying to familiarise ourselves with the research. Thank you for all your support and encouragement; we really enjoyed the research journey and couldn’t have completed our paper successfully without your help. Wishing you all the best!

Best,

Zoelle and Natalie

Thank you for your consistent support and guidance throughout our journey in HSSRP. Despite your busy schedule, you took time from work to help us by clarifying doubts, giving us ideas to improve our project and much more. We sincerely appreciate everything that you have done. Even when we could not meet certain deadlines due to unforeseen circumstances, you were very polite and understood our situation. Be it data analysis, survey construction or the literature review, your help in the various segments of our research journey has helped us gain new valuable skills that can make us more knowledgeable and skilled to create research papers in the future. The past couple of months working with you was an unforgettable and rewarding experience. We express oour sincere gratitude for your mentorship and guidance. Once again thank you Prof Tupas!

Best Regards,

Sathiya, Josh and Balaji

Thank you for your insightful feedback and guidance throughout the entire course of my research. Your detailed comments and the articles you shared were invaluable in helping me refine my research topic and deepen my understanding of memes. I also appreciate the opportunity to listen to professional discussions, which greatly enriched my learning experience.

Thank you for making an initially daunting task approachable and engaging. Your patience and encouragement made the research process not only more manageable but also truly enjoyable. I am deeply grateful for all your time and support over the past year, and for making this research programme such a memorable and rewarding experience for me. I truly appreciate your mentorship and the opportunity to learn from you.

Warm regards,

Clare

Thank you for the eventful year working together on this project! It has truly been an honour to work with you and to receive your guidance in our first attempt of writing a research paper.

Thank you for being so accommodating, as well as prompt in your replies, especially when we suddenly ran into issues in the week leading up to our first draft submission. We really appreciate you being ever so patient in guiding us through the research process. Your explanations on the different steps of survey crafting, data coding and analysis were extremely useful and insightful. Thank you for always giving us insightful feedback and comments on our work, which allowed us to complete the project successfully without ever feeling too intimidated or daunted.

Wishing you success in your future endeavours!

Best regards,

Amelyn and Le Xin

We would like to express our deepest gratitude for your invaluable guidance and support throughout the entire course of our research project. From the very beginning, you have been incredibly generous with your time and expertise, helping us refine our ideas and develop a clearer understanding of our topic, which definitely started off very abstract! Your feedback always pushed us to think more critically and to approach our work with greater depth and purpose, not just from the consolidation of the literature review, but also in analysing our findings and presenting them adequately.

We have learnt so much from your mentorship, and thank you yet again for your patience, encouragement, and the genuine care you showed for our progress, like checking in on us every few weeks and giving us tips to refine our research questions and other segments. This experience has been truly meaningful because of your guidance.

Thank you yet again!

Best regards,

Elyse Chan and Caleb Ng

Thank you so much for your patience and expertise in guiding me through the HSSRP programme! I have really enjoyed learning from your experience in phenomenology as well as in getting to know more about the academic field as a whole. I am grateful for your kindness and support, and have enjoyed chatting about various things as well, whether related or not directly related to the project. Though I don't think I will pursue a career in academia in the future, I am now able to better appreciate the sheer amount of thought and work that goes into researching, writing and publishing a research paper. Thank you for your mentorship!

Thank you for your guidance throughout the year for our research project. Your valuable insights and feedback has allowed us to research sharper and think clearer to be able to make the most out of our HSSRP journey. We thank you for taking time off of your busy schedule to teach us and guide us, and we are extremely grateful for all the knowledge learnt. Thank you once again! ❤️

Signing off,

Wong Yu Ki and Angela Tan

DHSP1

Thank you so much for your help throughout this journey! I really couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you for always being prompt in your advice and also making suggestions for my research paper that were always very apt and really went a long way in helping me improve overall! Thank you for guiding me every step of the way and also for connecting me with an intern who was kind enough to help me with interviews with participants, which really helped the data overall. Your guidance allowed me to grow as a researcher, and I will never forget your teachings. I’ve been lucky to have you as an Expert-Mentor! Again, thank you so much and wishing you all the best.

Yours sincerely,

Fong Rei Yi

We are immensely grateful for your invaluable support and guidance throughout the past year! It has truly been a wonderful journey getting to know you and learning under your mentorship as we worked on our research paper alongside each other. From the very beginning, you have been incredibly patient and generous with your time, always making the effort to reply our emails promptly, check in with us, and arrange calls to clarify our questions about the research process and methodology. Your feedback and advice were extremely vital to our project, helping us refine our ideas and deepen our understanding of what makes a meaningful social science paper. We also truly appreciate how approachable and encouraging you have been, especially when we faced challenges or uncertainties. Your positivity and reassurance kept us motivated and confident throughout the process even when we faced obstacles!

This mentorship has been an inspiring and enriching experience for us. Thank you once again for your dedication and kindness, it has made this journey very memorable and fulfilling, and we hope you had an enjoyable time working with us!

Best Regards,

Boyan, Claire and Cheng Yang

Thank you so much for providing your invaluable guidance along my research journey! I'm very grateful for all the time and efforts you have taken amidst your busy schedule to support me consistently throughout this programme and giving me such helpful feedback and extremely useful articles all the time. Your expertise in this field has truly strengthened my research skills which allowed me to deepen my understanding towards a topic that I care deeply about. Thank you so much for making this entire experience so rewarding and I am extremely grateful for your encouragement and patience throughout it. Even though the experience was definitely a challenging one, your guidance throughout made it an enjoyable one and I truly value the experience I have had working under your mentorship. It's really been so amazing having you as my Expert-Mentor and I truly appreciate you being there for me all the time, even when my papers weren't really the best, or when you were extremely busy with your various commitments as well as being overseas.

Thank you so much once again, and I wish you all the best! 💗🐻

Best regards,

Valery

Thank you for continuously being there for us and providing us with your expert insights on the topic that we were researching in. We are ever grateful for the detailed and informative feedbacks that were always given to us. We still remember the time when you have lead us through a step by step process on how to perform analysis on our corpus. From categorising our corpus, to grouping our elements into baskets and lastly grouping those baskets into thematic baskets, your guidance and patience had warmed our hearts. We also remember another time when you have explained to use the areas for improvement in our paper. We did not have much experience with writing academic papers and it was a challenge to write succinctly, yet you kept pointing us in the right direction and even suggested ways to help us cut down parts of our paper that were unnecessary. This year’s HSSRP journey could not have been a more fulfilling and enjoyable one without your presence. If we were to choose once more, without hesitation, we would pick to submit a proposal for your research topic once more. We hope you enjoyed working with us as much as we did!

Thank you Dr Poh!

Best,

Jing Xuan and Clara

Thank you so much for patiently guiding us throughout our HSSRP journey! As it was our first time embarking on a research study, there were multiple areas that we needed to clarify, from the literature review, data collection, to the structuring of our hypotheses. We have all learnt so much from you throughout the online sessions, and we really appreciate how you took the time to look through the various drafts of our report and gave us comments on how to improve it.

This experience has definitely allowed to us to gain a deeper understanding into the process of research, where you also taught us data coding and cross tabulation; methods that were unfamiliar to us just a year before. We are really grateful for your guidance the past year, and are honoured to have experienced our first research journey with you!

Best wishes,

Le Xuan, Alicia, Charlotte

thank you so much for your guidance! Truly, from the formation of our topic, to the research method, and finally our conclusion, you have always been an indispensable source of aid and advice. Your responsiveness and ability to leave out so much time to help us is deeply appreciated and played a major role in shaping our understanding of social science research and corpus analysis. Thank you for this experience, and congratulations on your second baby!

Warmest regards,

Zehe, Leon and Zhuoyan

Thank you very much for your mentorship throughout this research project. Your guidance and expertise at each stage made a real difference, and I am especially grateful for your clear, detailed feedback. As this was my first humanities research study, I was often unsure about best practices and the preferred direction. Your advice helped me clarify the sampling strategy, frame and refine the research questions, and decide how to approach the thematic coding in a systematic way.

I also appreciated the way you pressed me to connect the dots in the literature, and present the discussion in an interesting way. Most of all, our regular meetings were very helpful to iterate and improve on the work. Thank you again for the time, patience, and care you invested in this project. I have learnt a great deal from the process, and I am grateful for your support.

Sincerely,
Jiang Muzhen

We would like to thank you for supporting us in our research project in every step of the way, and sharing to us your valuable insights. This project would not have been possible without your guidance, from teaching us how to do basic descriptive data analysis, to more in depth correlation and ANOVA analysis. We’re extremely grateful that you have taken the time to teach us these skills, as we believe that these would be the skills that follow us for a lifetime, as well as providing us a head start with performing data analysis. We’re also thankful to you for sacrificing your time to mentor us, even making last-minute arrangements in order to meet us and teach us how to perform data analysis (pretty much from scratch).

Best wishes,

Mingsi and Chloe

We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude for your guidance, support and patience throughout our hssrp journey. It was a privilege to have your assistance since the start of the project and we were glad to be able to work with you on such interesting research! Thank you for always going out of your way to check in and guide us, given your busy schedule, as well as providing us with extensive feedback which was essential to improve our paper.

We sincerely appreciate your encouragements and supports whenever we face setbacks and even when we decided to change our topic halfway through the journey.

Thank you for deepening our knowledge and interest in the social sciences, especially in health communications. To be able to see perspectives from new angles using a new method of research is truly engaging, and we enjoyed every moment of participating in this programme. It has been a pleasure working with you for the past year and thank you!

Best,

Wen Hsuan & Cheryl

Thank you so much for your constant guidance and unwavering support throughout the year. We truly appreciate your patience and generosity — especially when we sent countless emails asking for advice on even the smallest of things.

You’ve taught us so much, not only about research etiquette and how to strengthen our paper, but also about how to think critically and creatively. Your encouragement pushed us to be curious, to explore deeply, and to think big about our work on novel food.

We’re so grateful for the time, effort, and care you’ve invested in helping us grow as researchers. Our HSSRP experience would not have been nearly as enriching or meaningful, or even fun, without your mentorship.

Thank you once again for everything, Dr Keri.

Warmest regards,

Rongfang, Anisah, Dharmini

Thank you for your guidance and patience throughout the process of our HSSRP jourey! The feedback provided throughout writing the numerous drafts of the paper paper — especially during the massive amendments — was extremely valuable and insightful, and we both truly appreciate the time and guidance you provided us, that allowed us to improve our writing greatly. Whenever we faced any problems, we could rely on your expertise and knowledge to uplift us and provide us the backing to continue learning and growing. Your constant motivation and the generosity of your time — arranging meetings to clarify our research, engaging us in discussions with other professors, and always responding to our emails quickly — will be something that we will forever cherish as part of our first research journey. Furthermore, without your encouragement and constructive criticism, our research paper would not have been what it is today. We both have learnt a lot from you, and your mentorship has made this experience truly both meaningful and memorable for both of us. Wishing you all the best and thank you for everything that you have done for us!

Warm regards,

Krishay & Neel

Thank you for the past 1 year of expert guidance with your insightful advice and support. We recall a time where we were like little lost sheep, and you swept into our paper, guiding us through the complicated world of political science and research. Thank you for being so patient with us and being such an active replier to our emails and calls for help, always being there for us. Thank you for the multiple times you have saved our paper through concise and clear feedback. You have inspired our interests in research and satiated our undying curiosity.

Thank you so much!

Thankful Regards,

Di Dongtianhui, Gao Luodanchen, Zeng Jia Ying Ekateresa

Thank you so much for your endless patience and support throughout our HSSRP journey, from vetting our proposal to answering our queries regarding data collection and analysis. Despite your busy schedule, you took the time to read through our many (and lengthy) questions. We are so grateful for your valuable and professional feedback and suggestions which made our research process much smoother and better . Thank you for making our first social science research project experience so fulfilling!!

Best regards,

Ainsley, Jasmine and Yaojia

Dear Mr Seth Seet, thank you so much for always coordinating and arranging all our meetings with the professor, so that we are able to meet and consult him on our research paper. We are also really appreciative of you giving us helpful feedback when our professor was not available. Although you are not our expert-mentor, we are still very grateful for what you have done for us. You have definitely helped make our HSSRP journey more complete. Thank you so much.

We would like to extend our greatest appreciation for your guidance and advice during our research journey, without which our project would not have been possible. Moreover, we would also like to thank you for your speedy replies as well as taking time out of your hectic schedule to answer of queries via zoom. We are beyond grateful for your feedback and valuable insights. Thank you.

Regards,

Yuchen and Matthias.

Thank you for your constant and insightful guidance along every step of the way.

At the start of the research journey, you recognised my inexperience and rather than give up on me, you aided me in understanding the depth and scope of the topic, to allow me to write on a novel and interest-piquing topic.

Along every step of the way, your knowledge on psycholinguistics and its multiple aspects allowed you to give me priceless advice on how to better my proposal. Especially concerning the methodology, your insight into the various types of ways that research is conducted in the psychology sphere allowed me to effectively conduct a questionnaire with specific targets.

Finally, your enthusiasm and constant motivation encouraged me to face challenges with resilience and a dauntless mentality. Thank you for your help over the last 7 months, and I hope to see you again soon!

Best,

Anirudh Rao

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your invaluable support and guidance throughout this whole HSSRP journey!

In the beginning, we honestly had no clue of what we were doing and how to start. The whole idea of writing a research paper by ourselves was definitely intimidating but your insights, patience and constant encouragement played an instrumental role in shaping our project from the beginning to its final form. We would like to thank you for taking precious time out of your busy schedule to provide detailed feedback and to meet up with us online. We would like to thank you for being so approachable and patient with us, conveying your feedback in a way that was always constructive, clear, and encouraging.

This journey has truly been an enriching experience. All of us have learnt and gained so much under your mentorship — from developing stronger analytical skills to understanding the value of perseverance and curiosity in research. We are genuinely grateful for your support and for making this challenging yet fulfilling journey such a memorable one.

Thank you!

Best,

Zachary, Tai Le and Caleb

Thank you so much for helping us in the journey of writing our research paper, from clarifying our doubts to guiding us in the format of our paper.

From sending us the research papers we were unable to access to introducing us to new forms of data representation and their uses, you have played an invaluable role in our research journey.

We appreciate your dedication to supporting us in our research, despite your busy periods, like when scheduling conflicts came from Reservist.

It has been wonderful to receive your guidance and receiving your long and detailed comments for our research that makes the process much clearer and easier to understand.

Thank you for your kindness and patience in every step of the way, especially during last-minute meetings and consultations. This has made our journey very memorable and we deeply cherish this opportunity to learn from you and grow.

Best wishes,

Anmi and Phyllis

Thank you so much for your constant support and guidance along the way. We sincerely appreciate your generosity and time in helping us, not only in guiding us in planning our research, but also for being there for us and helping us through all the problems we have had with our paper. We greatly valued the meetings we had as they clarified a lot of our doubts and queries when we were confused and lost. When problems cropped up with our paper, we would not have been able to get through the writing process if not for your guidance that cleared up a lot of doubts that we had, giving us the ability to proceed with the paper to completion. This opportunity to have been mentored by you is one that we will cherish forever, and we will take the skills and knowledge we have learnt from you into our future as well. Thank you once again for always patiently guiding us along, even when we were a mess. Your wealth of knowledge along with your smiles and calm presence is something we look up to and are incredibly grateful for. Thank you so much for all that you have done and we also apologise for all the inconveniences we have caused you along the way. This HSSRP experience is something we are incredibly grateful for, thank you once again Mr Jason.

Yours sincerely,

Alicia Lim and Chen Haoran

We greatly appreciate the invaluable guidance and help that you have given us through this one year programme. Without your encouragement and constructive criticisms of our paper, we would not have been able to come up with the paper we currently have.

You were very patient and supportive of all of us during this period, and we knew we could turn to you for support when we really needed it.

Once again, thank you for everything!

Warm regards,

Harkman, Bohui, and Yu Zhe

Thank you so much for guiding me throughout my HSSRP journey. I really appreciate all the resources you have provided throughout the year to help me write this research paper. With your help, I have been able to better understand the demands of such research projects. I am extremely grateful for all your prompt responses and thank you for spending your invaluable time guiding me in this project. Thank you so much for this experience!

Best,

Paakhi

With much thanks,

Ryan, Joshua, Lancelot

The HSSRP 2025 will soon draw to a close. However, we would not have made it this far without you.

Thank you for your support and guidance during our research process. We understand you aid our (admittedly difficult) project whilst balancing your professional duties at RSIS, and your assistance is really very impactful. Your knowledge betrayed itself in the comments you gave us, every step of the way, from the research proposal to the final paper. This invaluable guidance is what allowed our paper to be where it is today. You were much fun to have on Zoom meetings, and displayed enthusiasm for our research that gave us a huge morale boost to press on.

This priceless combination of qualities makes you a wonderful educator and mentor in our eyes, and we are deeply thankful for your mentorship and guidance that made this year one of the most memorable. This achievement belongs to all of us.

Thank you and best of luck in future endeavours.

- Michael and Reynold

Thank you for your continued guidance and unwavering support of our group during the year. The times when we were totally lost during data collection and analysis, the emails you sent us after midnight. Despite your extremely busy schedule, you took the time and effort to go through research steps with us clearly and patiently, helping us to check through our messy drafts and slides to improve our project. We will never forget the many long calls with you guiding us. Thank you for imparting your valuable knowledge and research experience on an extremely inexperienced group of boys and making us appreciate the arduous but rewarding research process. We are extremely grateful for all that you have done!

Best regards,

Damien, Irvin and Zong Ze

Thank you so much for guiding us through this whole research journey. When we first started, we didn’t know how to carry out a research formally. Through your feedback, we began to see the products of our research clearly — like when you helped us narrow our scope of research when it was too broad or when you guided us to connect our findings to theory. You were patient but also straightforward, and that helped us improve a lot faster. We really appreciate how you always took the time to read our drafts and point out what we could do better, even when you had a busy schedule.

Through your mentorship, we learned not just about research, but also how to think critically and writing with clarity. You reminded us that research isn’t just about getting results, but about understanding the process — asking the right questions, being open to change, and learning from our mistakes. We also really valued how approachable and kind you were throughout this journey, which made the whole process less intimidating.

Thank you once again for your unwavering patience, honesty, and encouragement. We've genuinely learned a lot from you, and we’re grateful to have had the chance to work under your mentorship.

Best regards,

Calista Lim Shuen Yin and Eileen Lim Yi Ling

Thank you so much for all your guidance throughout HSSRP. I’m especially grateful for how you consistently challenged me to think more critically and pushed me to strengthen my arguments without ever discouraging me. Your feedback was always incisive yet encouraging, and it genuinely helped me grow as a researcher.

I also want to thank you for introducing me to perspectives and areas (particularly global learning!) that I would have otherwise overlooked. Your insights made the topic not just academically meaningful, but deeply interesting, and they shaped the direction of my project in ways I hadn’t expected at the start.

Thank you once again for your patience, your high standards, and the faith you had in my ability to improve. It made all the difference.

Best,

Krithika

Thank you so much for your consistent support and guidance throughout our journey. Your experience and passion for the field have greatly benefited us, offering insightful feedback and advice that played a pivotal part in shaping our research and writing process. Your previous papers, such as the changing role of Hong Kong to the Mainland, have provided us with alternative perspectives on our topic that we had not considered before, and we sincerely enjoyed reading them. We truly appreciate you taking the time off your busy schedule to meet with us, answering our many questions and resolving our doubts. We are especially thankful to have had the opportunity to meet with you at SUSS. Your approachable and open attitude made our journey not only a productive one, but also a genuinely enjoyable learning experience. Last of all, we would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for accompanying us on this journey to explore a topic of our interest. It has been a real pleasure to have you as our mentor. Wishing you all the best, and thank you once again!

Best regards,

Wayne Sim, Li Xiao Chang

We are very grateful for the encouragement and guidance that you have provided during this research journey. Thanks to your support, we were able to accomplish much in the given timeline, despite this being our first time doing in-depth research.

We hope this journey has been as enjoyable for you as it was for us, and we just wanted to say we greatly appreciate your insights and meetings, which were very valuable to our research process.

Thank you very much!

Sincerely,

Maya, Yashi, and Megan

Thank you very much for your understanding and support throughout our 2025 HSSRP journey! From meeting with us on weekly schedules to teaching us about theoretical frameworks alongside how to make our presentation captivating, you provided us a medium to gain invaluable insight on the future of research, especially of psychology.

Whenever adversity hit us in the face, we thank you for prompting us toward discussion rather than solution as we transcended to becoming better researchers ourselves. Thank you for the countless emails, the countless hours and the countless tweaks you put up with when it came to both our paper and presentation.

Apart from solely what went on paper, thank you for giving us a voice for our concerns on the mental well-being of youth on WhatsApp. Furthermore, thank you for the endless clarifications and skills you have imparted in us.

As we come to the end of our HSSRP journey, we want to say that we really appreciate your guidance over the last year and will never forget this enriching yet exciting road to inquiry.

We wish you all the best in the future.

Thank you.

Warmest regards,

Shravy Jindal and Fan Enyi

We would like to express our deepest appreciation for the guidance you have offered us on this HSSRP journey, without which our paper would not have come to fruition.

Even with your exceptionally hectic schedule, you managed to find the time to call on Zoom and answer our queries over email, offering invaluable feedback. We would like to express our gratitude for your insightful feedback and perspective, suggesting related fields of study and relevant books, that helped us to take our research in ways we had not considered.

With your encouragement and support, writing this research paper was an incredibly rewarding and meaningful learning experience, and it was a privilege to be your mentees. Thank you once again for your guidance over the course of this paper.

Yours sincerely,

Joanna and Yi Jing

Thank you for your support and guidance throughout our HSSRP research project. Your knowledge and experience in the field has given us the opportunity to discover more about it. We especially appreciated the many papers from previous projects that you sent us, and we found them extremely useful for our research.

Regards,

Charmaine Chan and Chai Xin Ya

Thank you for your consistent support throughout this journey! We really appreciate how you have always responded to our emails with such enthusiasm, arranged meetings with us so accommodatingly, and been so patient in answering our questions. Your advice has never felt strained, but has come across as truly genuine from day one. With your guidance, we have learnt so much about structuring research, designing effective methodologies, and executing experiments. We are so grateful to have had you as our mentor. All the best in your future endeavours and God bless you!

Best,

Aerin, Emelyn and Caitlyn

The Humanities and Social Sciences Research Paper journey has been one filled with meaning and insight, and was one we could not have completed without your constant and unwavering guidance along the way. We are indebtedly grateful for all the support you have provided us throughout our research. From looking through our initial research proposals to giving us pointers in refining our final paper, you have helped us develop our research and analysis skills. We would like to thank you for all your patience and encouragement in guiding us, and your prompt replies to any queries we've had. Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience with us. It was truly an invaluable and fulfilling experience both of us will never forget and will cherish forever. Thank you, Dr Lim ❤️

Best,

Zijia & Ryan

The first time we met at the start of this HSSRP journey, I left the meeting buzzing with excitement because I, and I quote from my texts to my friends, "love my mentor because she is so fun and amazing and energetic" (and this view of mine has not changed). Throughout this whole process you have been the kindest, most warm and inviting mentor you could possibly have been, and through that you really made this process truly memorable. Thank you for supporting me through your ups and downs, and for making this whole process much less scary than it would have been without you. I truly valued this experience of learning from you, and have taken away more than just research knowledge: your warmth and energy has taught me how a mentorship can feel like beyond just an giving of all that sage advice.

I entered each of our meetings mildly anxious and afraid that something would go horribly wrong, and left each of them filled with excitement for what was to come. Your presence throughout this whole process truly did make it that much more enjoyable. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for the mentorship, the occasional laughs, and the encouragement.

Cheers,

Seah Xin Ying Ashlyn

DHSP3

Thank you for your patient guidance and many insights. Your specific and detailed suggestions helped us greatly, allowing us to transform our at first messy collection of data into a coherent piece that we could be happy with. Even though we may not have always given you enough time to vet our work before our meetings, or gave you enough time to read through our writing, you always did whatever you could to help us in any way possible, going to great lengths to understand the direction of our research and accordingly give advice, which reminded us of the reason why we took up this journey in the first place. Your passion and dedication as a mentor was truly inspiring, and it was clear that you genuinely cared about our project and what you could do to make this experience as good as possible for us. Your help and presence made the experience all the more so special for all three of us, and we learnt so much from you through our meetings and interactions. We really hope you enjoyed HSSRP as much as we did. Thank you so much!

Best,

Ayden, Daniel and Hanwen

Thank you so much for your hours of guidance, patience and support throughout this project. Your insight has been priceless to our progress and we've learnt so much from you. Without you, we don't know what we would've done! We're really grateful of your hours spent into looking into our paper, meeting with us, helping us find reference recommendations and much more that you have done for us.

We couldn't thank you enough, Dr Mark Seilhamer, wishing you all the best! We hope to see you around someday.

Best regards,

Chung Sunho

Julian Tan

Thank you for your invaluable guidance throughout our research project. Your insights and suggestions helped us shape a clear research direction and gave us the confidence to refine our ideas with purpose.

Your expertise and thoughtful feedback challenged us to think more critically and approach our topic with greater depth. Each discussion with you inspired us to explore new perspectives and improve the quality of our work.

Thank you for your time, patience, and encouragement — this experience has taught us immensely and deepened our understanding of research.

Best,

Elise Goh and Dingrun

Thank you for all the support and guidance you have given us throughout this mentorship journey. We truly appreciate your help in not only guiding our research process, as well as refining our research paper, but also for showing us the true spirit of research. For instance, you allowed us to understand that what is important is evaluating our methodology and fine tuning it, rather than getting our desired results the first time. Our time in HSSRP has been incredibly meaningful, and we couldn't thank you enough for making this experience an enriching and fulfilling one. Once again, thank you for your invaluable support!

Sincerely,

Eryn and Shervelle

It has been a wonderful year being able to experience such research under your guidance. Thank you so much for always being supportive of our ideas and taking the time to offer thoughtful feedback and encouragement. Your guidance has made the process very enriching and we have learnt so much from you.

I’ ve also grown to appreciate how research is not just about finding answers, but about asking meaningful questions and exploring different perspectives, something I’ve learnt through your mentorship. Thank you for creating such a positive and inspiring environment for us to learn and grow as young researchers.

Yours sincerely,

Weng Lehan

Throughout our research process, you remained patient and extremely kind, helping us with every little concern we had even amidst your busy schedule. Your large expertise in the field of psychology/communication has inspired us greatly, and this definitely gave us the motivation to keep going even when we faced challenges — in fact, we may even continue researching in these fields in the future.

You have been invaluable to our research journey, and we sincerely thank you for all the time and effort you have spent to help us.

Best regards,

Chloe