ResWORK Call for Proposal 2025

Published on 5 January 2026

Under the recent 2025 Call for Proposals, ResWORK has awarded 9 projects out of the 19 submissions received, amounting to a total of approximately $500,000. The following SMU faculty members are our seed grant awardees:

  • Job insecurity and employee motivation by Nina SIROLA 
  • Adaptive Skill Transfer: Reinforcement-Learned Scaffolding for Cognitive Personalization in Adult Learning by Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM
  • Towards Measurable, Governed Onboarding for Human-AI Teams by LEE Min
  • Building Reflection Competencies for Human-AI Collaboration: A Multi-Agent Training Systemby Fiona NAH Fui-Hoon
  • Measuring the Impact of AI and Large Language Models on Singapore’s Labor Market: Constructing a Task-Level Exposure Index by LI Jia
  • Valuing Flexible Work Arrangements: A Discrete Choice Experiment with Employers and Employees in Singapore by KIM Seonghoon
  • The Effects of AI-Based Cognitive Offloading on Metacognitive Skills and Learning Transfer in Adult Professional Learnersby YANG Hwajin
  • Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Evaluating AI Outputs and Metacognition of Law Students by Gary CHAN Kok Yew 
  • Unfolding Motivation in Adult Learning with Generative AI by NGO Chong Wah