Resilient Relationships Through Relational Neuroscience.
How do people remain resilient individually, and how do relationships remain resilient collectively?
Relational Resilience
Relational resilience refers to the dynamic capacity of a relationship to maintain, adapt, and restore effective functioning in response to stress, disruption, or changing demands. Rather than locating resilience solely within individuals, relational resilience conceptualises adaptation as an interpersonal process emerging through the reciprocal regulation, coordination, and repair of interacting partners over time.
My research programme spans three interconnected areas.
Research Programme
Resilient Individuals
How do people adapt to stress and how can individual coping be strengthened?
Resilient Families
How do close relationships support one another, navigate stress and adapt together over time?
How do people coordinate, collaborate and perform effectively in professional and learning environments?
Resilient Teams
Meet Atiqah
I am Associate Professor Atiqah Azhari, an award-winning relational neuroscientist at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), where I lead The Relational Brain Lab.
I study how relationships shape relational resilience. Through relational neuroscience, I investigate how resilience emerges not only within individuals, but through the relationships and interactions between them
Over the past decade, my research has attracted more than S$5 million in competitive funding and been featured in documentaries, keynote speeches and national media.
My research bridges rigorous academia with real-world impact, integrating neuroscience, behavioural science and technology to understand not only how people adapt, but also how adaptation can be strengthened.
Vision
I believe the future of resilience, learning and collaboration will not be understood by studying individuals in isolation.
It will be understood by understanding relationships.
My long-term vision is to establish Human Adaptation through Relational Neuroscience as a scientific framework that transforms how we understand resilience, learning and collaboration—and to translate that knowledge into evidence-based technologies that improve lives at scale.