Welcome to Social Resilience Lab at NTU!

We are a group of researchers using interdisciplinary approaches to tackle the question on how people, communities, and institutions respond to shock and disturbance and bounce back from crisis.

Our group aims to study how resilience is constructed through social and cultural processes. We consider resilience as a capacity that lies in the institutional structures and patterns of interaction between groups and individuals. We seek to develop
new concepts and innovative frameworks in examining resilience as a sociotechnical construct. Here, resilience is defined as a two-pronged feature:

On one side, it is the ability of complex sociotechnical systems to recognize emerging crisis at different levels. On the other side, resilience refers to capacity to recover in the aftermath of shock and disruption and to learn the correct lessons from the crisis.

Our projects explore multi-level problems of resilience, from individual to organizational, and to urban scales. We are interested in unpacking the role of groups and communities in building resilient capacity at the collective level, while exploring
how resilient behaviors at the individual level are shaped by social networks and technological platforms. Our research methodology is informed by mixed approaches integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. It includes ethnography, focused-group discussion, survey, and computational modelling.