From 1995 to 2006, he was an Assistant and then an Associate Professor of History at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), in Singapore, teaching a range of Southeast Asian history [REF].
In 2006, he moved to The Open University, where he helped to chair the production of a new module, , which has been delivered by blended online and traditional methods to several hundred students yearly since 2009 [REF].