MyResearch and UNMC Research in the Media
September 10, 2014
MyResearch was featured in The Star newspaper on the 03 Sep 2014, in a special suppement entitled INNOVATIONS MALAYSIA. The article starts: “The Centre for Islamic Business and Finance Research (CIBFR) is based in the Nottingham University Business School of The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) and brings together experts from a range of …
TheConversation: How are the football fixtures created?
August 19, 2014
“When the English football fixtures were announced in June, many fans would have studied them from their own perspective. Are the fixtures fair to their team? Why do they have to travel the full length of the country on a Wednesday evening in the middle of February when, no doubt, it will be cold and …
TheConversation: Ignore John Humphrys when he rants about grammar, he just wants attention
August 7, 2014
“It’s not often that grammar makes the news, but there’s currently a good natured spat going on between Melvyn Bragg and John Humphrys. Bragg hosts a long running BBC Radio discussion show called In Our Time, which is a fairly high-brow discussion in which he invites academics to discuss the intellectual legacy of certain ideas. …
July Haze’s Fever
July 21, 2014
Andy Chan recently appeared on BFN Radio to talk about (taken from the BFM web site): An annual problem faced mostly by citizens of peninsula Malaysia, although those in Sabah and Sarawak are not immune. The haze. Large-scale biomass burning may be a cost-saving for some industries but a health-hazard to human beings and animals. …
TheConversation: It attracts a lot of readers
June 27, 2014
Over the past few months, we have featured some (all, I hope) of the articles that colleagues at UNMC have written for TheConversation. We have also promoted the idea that you should consider writing for TheConverstion, as it does tend to attract a lot of readers. We are pleased to see that a few of …
TheConversation: Love, peace and the plight of the air hostess: Google opens its brain to armchair linguists
June 23, 2014
“I downloaded a new keyboard onto my phone yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see it suggesting the word “to” after I had typed “going”. It “knew” that the phrase “going to” was a very common pair of words and managed to use this in order to speed up the message I was sending. The …
TheConversation: The natural way to keep fruit fresh and stop the rot
June 13, 2014
“Nearly a third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted, according to the UN’s World Resources Institute. If we convert this mass into calories, it constitutes …” … so begins an article that Prof. Asgar Ali recently has published in TheConversation. Other Conversation articles that we have featured on this …
Taking tissue regeneration beyond state-of-the-art
June 11, 2014
“Researchers in the United Kingdom and Malaysia are developing a new class of injectable material that stimulates stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue and form new blood vessels, heart and bone tissue. Their aim is to ….” … so starts an article that was recently published in Medical Xpress. This project is part of the …
TheConversation: To write English like a professor, don’t rely on Google translate
June 9, 2014
“Thankfully, nobody speaks academic English as a first language. The English of the university is a very particular form that has specific features and conventions. Sometimes, this is just referred to as ‘academic style’. It used to be a matter of instinct – what felt right. But now ….” … so starts a piece written …
Nafis Alam: Professor of the Month
May 26, 2014
“Nafis Alam is the founding director of Centre for Islamic Business and Finance Research (CIBFR). His scholarly research has featured in leading journals such as the Journal of Asset Management, the Journal of Banking Regulation, the Review of Islamic Economics and the Journal of Financial Services Marketing …“, so starts the article that recently appeared …
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