People / Place / Belonging
Ahmad Farhan
Year 3 · Sociology · Singapore I study how people share space: void decks, hawker centres, and the corridor outside your neighbour's door.
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Can I Sit Here?
Strangers share tables at hawker centres every day. What are the unwritten rules, and who gets to break them?
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Slide 1 of 3: Can I Sit Here?
Experience
Research Assistant
Department of Sociology
- Transcribe and code interviews for a study on young caregivers.
- Co-wrote the project's anonymisation guidelines.
Volunteer Befriender
Neighbourhood eldercare centre
- Weekly visits to two older residents; we play a lot of dam.
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Field notes
Saturday, 12:40 pm, table 6.
Slide 1 of 3: Field notes
About
I grew up in a kampung-style corner of a new town, where the corridor was everyone's living room. Sociology gave me words for things I'd watched all my life.
I like fieldwork: sitting still, noticing, and writing it all down. I care a lot about consent and about representing people fairly.
I play futsal, help at my family's nasi lemak stall on Sundays, and collect the wrappers of every kueh I've ever eaten (only in photos).
Education & community
Bachelor of Social Sciences in Sociology, Year 3, Singapore.
Modules: Research Methods, Urban Sociology, Ethnography, Sociology of the Family, Social Statistics.
Sociology society welfare lead. Volunteer befriender since 2024.
Skills
- Research
- Ethnography
- Interviews
- Field notes
- Consent & ethics
- Analysis
- NVivo
- Thematic coding
- SPSS basics
- Mapping
- Languages
- English
- Malay
- Conversational Hokkien (hawker-level)
Recent updates
14 Sep 2026
26 Aug 2026
3 Jul 2026
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