Daniel Goh

Daniel Goh Pei Siong is a sociologist from Singapore who is also a politician from the Workers' Party. He is currently a Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) of the 13th Parliament of Singapore and an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology in the National University of Singapore.

Education

Goh studied in St Joseph's Institution, completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Sociology in the National University of Singapore. He was then awarded the International Institute Fellowship, Department of Sociology Teaching Fellowship and the Rackham Graduate Fellowship to pursue his doctoral study in sociology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 2000 to 2005.^[1]

On his return to the National University of Singapore in 2005, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology. In 2012, he was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. He is currently the Deputy Head of the Department of Sociology and the Convener of the Cultural Studies Minor and Cultural Studies in Asia PhD Programme. His research interests have focused on political sociology, urban sociology, cultural studies, sociology of religion, and sociology of ethnic and multicultural relations.^[2]

Political career

Goh has been a supporter of the Workers' Party since 1988 when he attended his first political rally at Eunos.^[3] However, he only started volunteering with the Workers' Party only in the 2011 General Election and joined as a member in 2013.^[4] He began his formal political career when he contested in the 2015 General Election under the banner of the Workers' Party in the East Coast Group Representation Constituency (East Coast GRC). He contested as part of a four-man team consisting of himself, Gerald Giam, Mohamed Fairoz Bin Shariff, and Leon Perera. Although his team lost with 39.27% of the votes,^[5] he filled the NCMP seat that was offered to but turned down by former Punggol East Member of Parliament Lee Li Lian.^[6]

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