UTAR-MMU R&D Collaboration Workshop

Photography session among UTAR and MMU staff

UTAR-MMU R&D Collaboration Workshop was held at Sungai Long Campus on 15 February 2023. The workshop, which was attended by more than 20 participants, aimed to engage UTAR and Multimedia University (MMU) academics to share their research findings from multidisciplinary fields to establish research collaborations.

Organised by the Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPSR), the colloquium was attended by UTAR Vice President for R&D and Commercialisation Prof Ts Dr Faidz bin Abd Rahman, MMU Vice President, Special Task Ir Prof Dr Hairul Azhar bin Abdul Rashid, IPSR Director Assoc Prof Dr Yong Thian Khok, and academics from UTAR and MMU.

Prof Faidz (left) welcoming the MMU delegates and Prof Hairul (right) delivering his speech

Prof Faidz welcomed the participants and said, “It is important for researchers from multidisciplinary fields to meet, discuss, debate and explore new avenues to establish research collaboration and implement sustainable research projects that address local and global issues. Today’s workshop serves as a platform for researchers to come out with research proposals which will bring impact to society.”

Prof Hairul said, “Important topics have huge impacts on society. This is a good exposure for the academics to get in-depth and share inputs for research projects which will lead to humanising innovation. We will see how we can move forward to produce research proposals and work with related agencies.”

A parallel session, which addressed five different research areas, namely entrepreneurship projects involving the community, public awareness related to scam activities, STEM education, ageing-related studies and English education, was conducted at the workshop. Representing UTAR for the research areas were Dr Wong Whee Yen, Dr A. W. Sharon Jacqueline, Dr Ong Kiah Ju, Prof Dr Yap Sook Fan, Dr Thaw Zin and Dr Nadya Supian.

The outcome of the discussion will lead to research projects in the future and these research projects will revolve around the areas of entrepreneurship in communities, raising public awareness related to scam activities, building interest of school kids in STEM education, health and well-being of ageing society in relation to technology, and English education using technology.

Ongoing discussion