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Bengkel Penulisan Bab 2

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This afternoon I delivered an online talk entitled “5 Self-Critical Enquiries in Doing Literature Review” to undergraduate students who are preparing for their Final Year Project (PSM). During the session, I was assisted by Dr. Noorzana who acted as the session moderator.

During the talk, as budding researchers, I encouraged students keep engaging themselves with the following self-enquiries:

Enquiry #1: What is a literature review (LR) actually?

Enquiry #2: Why are literature reviews necessary in my research?

Enquiry #3: How would LR help me in my research?

Enquiry #4: What are the steps necessary to prepare my LR?

Enquiry #5: How would I present my Chapter 2?

I’d also prepared a Padlet activity to make the session more interactive. All in all, it was a fun session with the undergraduate students, whom I rarely have the chance to interact with (and knowing that one of them was listening to the talk while baking kuih raya…)

Hands-on workshop on Sumitomo Grant application 2020

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The half-day workshop on Sumitomo grant application was held yesterday, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at Seminar Room 1, Language Academy (DO5). The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Kumaraguru Ramayah (fondly referred to as our “Sensei Kumar”) and AP Dr. Abdul Halim Abdul Raof who had the experiences in applying for the grant. In fact, Sensei Kumar is the recipient of the grant in 2019.

Sensei Kumar and Dr Halim were listening to a presentation by the participant

During the workshop, Sensei Kumar and Dr. Halim shared with the participants some analysis done on successful projects. For instance, last year Malaysian HEIs submitted 225 applications, but only 10 proposals were accepted and approved. It was competitive indeed (with only 4.4.% success rate), but according to the facilitators it’s worth trying. Sensei Kumar succeeded in securing the grant after three attempts himself.

Some of the tips given during the workshop

Among the tips shared by Sensei Kumar and Dr. Halim:

  1. Always look into the details.
  2. Make sure there’s no careless mistake, e.g. follow strictly the Japanese way of writing the dates.
  3. The title of the proposal must include “Japan” or “Japanese” i.e. it must be Japanese related research.
  4. Avoid “regular research”.
  5. Budget wise, it it suggested within 0.2-1million Yen.
  6. Group members must be between 3-4 researchers.
  7. The concept of research project must be presented in diagram.
  8. Methodology must be in point-form.
  9. The summary needs to be translated to Japanese.
  10. PI needs to contact his/her Japanese collaborator for consent.
  11. Letter of recommendation must be included; RMC will assist on this.
Since mine was not successful last year, I believe there’s no harm in trying again for this year.

 

MPPU 1024 Research Method in Education: Webex session #3

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The third Webex meeting for MPPU1024 was held yesterday. The topic for this week was “Introduction to Qualitative Research Design”.

The topic discussed during the online meeting

During the online session, students were introduced to the various designs of qualitative research, which include:

  • Narrative research
  • Phenomenological research
  • Grounded theory research
  • Ethnographic research
  • Case study research

The “evolution” of a publication was also discussed

The links to the recordings are provided on the e-learning portal for students who wished to re-visit the meeting https://utm.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/utm/recording/playback/4b5393ec56634d0cba19d53eb2fbb855

Links of the recording is available on e-learning portal

 

MPPU 1024 Research Method in Education: Webex session #2

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The second Webex meeting for MPPU 1204 (Section 02) was conducted yesterday. For this session, I proceed with the topic of “Formulating Research Problems in Qualitative Inquiry”.

Topic of the day

Sub-topics included the definitions of qualitative research and the differences between quantitative and qualitative research. I also demonstrated to students on the stages involved in developing research problem, problem statement, research objectives and research questions.

Students were demonstrated the steps in developing research problem

Similar to last week session, all links to the recordings are shared via e-learning portals, including the one that could be accessed in public domain https://utm.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/utm/recording/playback/d6cfb83561814468b29451b060ffbfac

The links for accessing the recording are available on e-learning portal.