Dr Toh received her Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) from the University of Leicester. Her research interests include school reforms, innovation diffusion, complex systems as well as ICT-mediated pedagogical practices. Adopting an ecological perspective in her research studies, she explores the multi-faceted influences that impinge on organisations’ capacity to adapt and learn.

As Vice President and Head of Research and Development at the Stewardship Asia Centre (SAC)—a non-profit thought leadership and capability building centre established under the Temasek Trust—Dr Toh led a team of researchers to conduct applied research on how organisations can create value by integrating the needs of stakeholders, society, future generations and the environment for a more sustainable future.

Prior to joining SAC, Dr Toh was a Research Scientist with the Office of Education Research at the National Institute of Education. She had led and participated in projects funded by the National Research Foundation and Ministry of Education (MOE). Featured as one of the promising researchers in NIE’s Research Excellence Report, Dr Toh has more than 50 publications in scholarly book chapters, reputable peer-reviewed journals and working paper series with the OECD and UNESCO. She was also a member of MOE’s Translational Research, Innovation and Scaling (TRIS) committee. The committee looked into the governance of funding programme and made funding recommendations of project proposals submitted by schools and Institutes of Higher Learning. Additionally, Dr Toh had provided consultancy inputs pertaining to MOE’s systemic efforts in building schools’ capacity for ICT integration.

With course facilitation experiences spanning across junior college, polytechnic, universities and the corporate environment, Dr Toh has embodied a wide repertoire of teaching and faculty development approaches. This allows her to be attuned to the multi-faceted challenges of change reforms, not only at the policy but practitioner level too. She had also worked in the e-learning industry where she oversaw several key projects: the revamp of the Learning Management System and co-development of courseware with subject domain experts for the K12 educational market. As a curriculum developer, she had collaborated with the Singapore University of Social Sciences to design curriculum for preschool educators.

With immersion in academia, school and industry, Dr Toh strives to marry policy, theory and practice, translating evidence-informed insights into meaningful and germane outcomes for stakeholders.