Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition

Our projects seek to make cognitive neuroscience findings accessible to educators and facilitate collaborative work between educators and researchers. As technology and globalisation are changing the nature of labour markets and increasing the demand for high levels of skill, the need for individuals to be able to develop new skills during their working careers is becoming increasingly pressing. While there is an increased recognition of the need for flexible behavioural and transferable skills, there is currently a gap in evidence-based training programmes that can effectively support and promote cognitive flexibility across the life course.

The Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC) programme aims to address this gap by developing innovative research in the science of learning and translating it to educational and real-life applications across the life course. We will adopt an integrated interdisciplinary approach that marries cross-disciplinary expertise and methodologies across Cambridge and NTU to target three life periods (early years, adolescence, middle age) when flexible behaviour is critical for coping with highly changing circumstances. Working together, we aspire to provide Singapore with a competitive leading edge in the Science of Learning through its transformative theory, methodological innovation, and high-impact practical outcomes.

Ongoing Project:

• Understanding and promoting individual cognitive flexibility – funded by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.

For more information on the CLIC programme, please visit CLIC at CARES at this link: CLIC

Alumni:

Research Fellows:

• Cheng Xiao qin, PhD
• Elias Ebrahimzadeh, PhD
• Chia-Lun Liu, PhD
• Eleanor Koo Wei Shi, PhD

Research Associate:

• Hong Min

Research Assistants:

• Janet Tan Jia Yuan
• Marisha Barth Ubrani

PhD Student:

• Teo Jia Li