10 Years Long Service Award 2019, by Professor Subra Suresh, President of NTU, in the appreciation of the service rendered to the university.
J-WAFS Visiting Scholar Award 2018, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ministry of Education (MOE) Certificate and Token of Appreciation 2017, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Programme (HSSRP) Symposium 2017, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University, 4 November 2017.
The award was given for being an expert mentor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Programme in 2017, jointly organized by the Gifted Education Branch, Ministry of Education Singapore.
UN Day Award 2017, United Nations Association of Singapore (UNAS) Commemoration of UN Day, 24 October 2017, Mandarin Orchard Hotel, Singapore.
The award was given in appreciation of my contribution to the UNAS Seminars (23 September 2017).
Early Investigator Award/Prix Jeune Chercheur 2015, the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA); presented at the CSA Banquet in Ottawa on June 3, 2015.
This Award honors sociologists who have made significant research contributions within the first ten years since the completion of their PhDs. The award recognizes research demonstrating high quality, theoretical rigor and/or methodological innovation, and future potential. Furthermore, the research should make a significant contribution to the candidate’s field [http://www.csa-scs.ca/early-investigator-award].
Outstanding Scientist Award (for Publication Excellence) 2017, i-Proclaim Annual Research Award, Malaysia.
The i-Proclaim Annual Research Awards (ARA), a prestigious Research Awards program organized by ABC Malaysia, seeks to recognize and reward the outstanding performance, talent and effort of the best research contributors, PhD holders and agencies dealt with research and publication in the Asia and global context.
Awards to Scholarly Publication Program (ASPP) 2013, for my book Confronting the Blue Revolution: Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), awarded by the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada (HSSFC).
The Program is designed to assist the publication of works of advanced scholarship which make an important contribution to knowledge, but which are unlikely to be self-supporting [http://www.ideas-idees.ca/asp].