Monitors of Malaysian election report widespread media bias
November 6, 2013
This post was contributed by Tessa Houghton and L:indsay Brooke During the 2013 Malaysian election campaign and in the days immediately afterwards, a team of communications experts at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) kept a close eye on the performance of the country’s press. Their aim was to encourage fair coverage of this …
Australian Business Deans Council (ABCD): Revised Journal List Announced
September 30, 2013
The Australian Business Deans Council (ABCD) has just announced its revsied journal list (in draft form at the time of writing). From their web site (About Us), the ABDC was: “Established in 2002 to represent Australia’s higher education business faculties and schools, the ABDC is particularly concerned to improve Business education through curriculum development, and …
Thomas Barker wins the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2013 Reading Committee Accolade
September 24, 2013
SMLC Assistant Professor Thomas Barker has won the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2013 Reading Committee Accolade for “Most Captivating and Accessible Thesis“. The prizes were awarded at the IBP 2013 Award Ceremony in Macao on 25 June 2013 as part of the ICAS8 conference. Over a hundred scholars from around the world submitted …
Language’s Role in Culture and Identity: BFM Podcast
September 23, 2013
UNMC has a good track record of appearing on BFM Radio. The latest person to appear was Dr Derek Irwin, who spoke on Language’s Role in Culture and Identity. The podcast is available from the BFM’s web page. Derek is the Head of School of English at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Header image: …
UNMC IAPS PhD Scholarships and Visiting Fellowships Now Open, and an update
September 18, 2013
This post was contributed by Micheal Connors. The Institute of Asia Pacific Studies is now somewhat quietly established at UNMC (we will make some noise during semester). One aspect of IAPS’ work is to attract people working on Asia to UNMC and to make ourselves known in the region. In line with that objective may I draw …
RDC Stakeholder Engagement: Update
September 13, 2013
Over the past few months a team from a number of public and private universities have been engaged in collecting data from around the world (including Australia, UK, Korea and Taiwan) in order to form a policy document for the government which could change the way that Malaysia undertakes Research, Development and Commercilisation (RDC). The …
Nottingham School of Economics Malaysia celebrates first PhD Graduate
August 19, 2013
Congratulations to Kong Yoke Fong on successfully defending her PhD dissertation on 12th August. Yoke Fong is the first PhD student to graduate from Nottingham School of Economics Malaysia. She has been a stalwart member of the school since the school’s establishment in Malaysia in 2010. Yoke Fong will take up a lecturer position in …
FASS vs FoE vs FoS
June 19, 2013
Each post on this blog is assigned to at least one category. This enables you to look at all the posts for a particular category. Take a look, for example, at the EU category. You can see the categories at the bottom of each post. We should also mention that there are also tags, but …
Night School: Mass Civilisation, Minority Culture
June 9, 2013
Sean Matthews from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures recently appeared on Sharaad Kuttan’s new BFM Radio show ‘Night School’, discussing F.R. Leavis’s seminal work, ‘Mass Civilization and Minority Culture’. In a lively discussion, Sean explored, and defended, Leavis’s position, explaining that Leavis’s argument was not about excluding people from knowledge and culture, and …
Research Priorities Workshop: Overwhelming Questions
May 8, 2013
This post is authored by Dr Sean Matthews, Head of School or the School of Modern Languages and Culture. It is in response to the two research prioritiy workshops that we have recently held (see here and here). Overwhelming Questions: UNMC Research Priorities Workshop, April 30 2013 Our UNMC Research Priorities Workshop brought into focus …
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