Faculty

Dr. Akemi MINAMIDA is a lecturer at SUAC who has done extensive research on cultural policy in Singapore and Japan, especially community arts and outreach programmes with marginalized communities.

She studied classical trumpeting and orchestra at Osaka College of Music and magicology at Kobe University (BA). Since enrolling as a master’s student at Kobe University Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, she has been researching cultural policy, in particular, outreach and community arts programs, in Singapore and Japan. She obtained her Ph.D. from Kobe University in March 2020.

Dr. MINAMIDA was a visiting student at National University of Singapore in 2013; visiting fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2016 to 2017; a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Kobe University from 2016 to 2018; a educational assistant at Osaka College of Music from 2018 to 2020; Post-Doctoral Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Kyushu University, Faculty of Design and a professional trumpeter.

Dr MINAMIDA has currently gained JSPS grants (KAKENHI): “Building Cultural Commons through Music Activities: Focusing on Sedentarization and Aging of Foreigners (individual research, Wakate) and  “Cultural Policies toward an Inclusive Society for Resident Foreigners: A Comparative Study between Japan, Korea and Singapore”(collaboration research). 

Some of the main publications by Dr.MINAMIDA are “The Dilemma between Cultural Policy and Arts Management in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra: National Prestige, Nation Building, Creative Economy,” Cultural Economics (Japan), 12(1), 1-13, 2015 and “Cultural Policy in Singapore from 1959 to 1965: A Case Study in Building ‘Malayan Culture’,” Cultural Policy Research, 11, 2018 etc.