OUM PhD Students Monthly Gathering - Oct 23, 2011

Posted by Bee Ching:

Dear All,

We live in a multi-racial, multi cultural and multi-religious society. Last month,our Muslim friends celebrated Hari Raya Aidilfitri , this month we will have our Indian friends celebrate their Deepavali festival on the 26th of October. Hence the normal scheduled last Sunday meeting has been put forward a week early to 23rd as to allow members to enjoy the festival of light without interruption.

October meeting, we are glad to invite our ex-Doctoral Seminar facilitator and now Director of Student Management Center, Assoc Prof Dr Santhi Raghavan to give a Talk on Developing and Administrating of Survey Questionnaires.

We are looking forward to listen to Dr Santhi's timely expert guidance on how ,where, what and which survey questionnaires are to be selected, adapted and adopted for our research proposal.

Besides the Talk, we have invited our first batch of pioneer PhD(BA) graduates Richard Ng, Lum Heap Sum,Wong Siaw Ming and Patrick Wong to come and join us and share their(lonely) research journeys with us.

At the point of writing this message, Dr Richard Ng, has replied he would be working on the day . Dr Lum and Dr Wong Siaw Ming have just replied that they would be happy to join us. As suggested by Zulkifli, during our dialogue session, we hope to listen to some mentoring tips from Dr Lum and Dr Wong. They said they would be happy to answer questions raised from the floor. Please have your questions ready.

By the way, I have forwarded three files on PhD September briefings prepared by Dr Rosmah to members in the loop. I realized the file size is very large and many mails sent to members' company addresses have been returned and have to be resent again twice to limit the files size. Please download the 50 ppf slides, and keep the information for future reference. The one on Estimated to complete PhD time table is most useful .

Below please find the 23rd October Program Agenda

9.00-9.30 - Registration
9,30-10.30 - Developing and administrating survey questionnaire( Part 1)
10.30-11.00 - Morning tea break
11.00-12.00 - Developing and administrating survey questionnaire( Part 2)
12.00-1.00 - Sharing by Dr Lum and Dr Wong .
1.00-2.30 - Lunch

Venue : GA01 Beside Theatrette & Library, OUM

Cost : nil

For those intending to come, please confirm by email to cbeching@yahoo.com or
sms to 0173402968 so that Dr Santhi will know the number of notes to be prepared as well as the lunch to be ordered

Thank you and see you all there to listen, to learn, to meet and to network.

Happy studying and writing

Report on the Gathering of PhD students at OUM Main Campus on Feb 27, 2011

Posted by Richard Ng and Bee Ching. Photos by Meng Tze

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Azahari presenting his talk

The gathering held on Feb 27, 2011 at OUM Main Campus was the second gathering for the year 2011. 40 Phd Students turned up to listen to the lecture presented by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Azahari Ismail from UPM. The title of his presentation was "Philosophy of Research”.





Participants were highly engaged in this talk as Dr. Azahari gave a good account on what constitute a research and the philosophy in carrying a research. Dr. Azahari shares his 30 years of experience in conducting research. He has published more than 100 papers. Participants have definitely benefited from his talk which lasted about 2 hours.



The slides for his presentation can be obtained from FaceBook/Richard Ng.

Dr. Rosmah giving her comments on the QE mock presentation

Earlier, there was a Mock QE presentation by Ms. Meenashi. Participants are encouraged to share their work before going for the actual QE or Viva.



In the afternoon, there was a Postgraduate Lab session with Dr. Rosmah Mohamad (PhD Coordinator) where participants can meet her on a face-to-face basis to discuss on various academic and administrative issues.

Group photo for remembrance


Generally, participants were very happy with the gathering and talk by Dr. Azhari. Thanks to Bee Ching and Dr. Rosmah for making this session a success. Looking forward to next meeting in March to be held on 27 March 2011. The next session will touch on the Developing a Research Framework, Problem Statement & Research Questions.

PhD Students Informal Gathering on Sept 26, 2010

Posted by Bee Ching


Dear all,

After discussing with Dr Rosmah, we have come up with the tentative program for Sept 26 as follows:

9.00am - 9.30am

Presentation by Steven Tan (he passed his QE in year on his Post QE research progress

9.30am - 10.00am

Questions and answers

10.00am - 10.40am

Tea break cum HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI celebration

10.40am - 11.45am

Talk by Dr Rosmah on her PhD journey

12.00pm - 1.00pm

PhD(BA) Discussion Free Flow - where and how we like to go from here, including contents of AMOS and SPSS on 23rd and 24th October.

Regarding the scheduled workshops ,after email replies ,some telephone calls and SMS feedback, we have the following responses , 11 persons chose option 1(2 days) , 2 persons chose option 1 (Amos), 6 chose option 2(SPSS) .5 replies not coming as they are not free or they are doing qualitative research. The others are yet to reply. To help those who need to make travel arrangement, hence, the tentative time and cost for the October workshops are as follows:

23th Oct 9-4pm with 1 hour lunch break AMOS (contents will follow)
24th Oct 9-4pm with l hour lunch break SPSS (contents will follow)

Cost for workshop RM75.00 per day including lunch and two tea breaks

Hence for those who choose to come for l day workshop ,need to pay RM75.00 and for those chose to come for 2 days RM150.00.

In order to reduce the organizing committee workload and ease of account budgeting, we would like the confirmed participants to make payment in advance.

As a suggestion, as many of us are coming for the 26th Sept get together discussion meeting ,they are welcome to make the payments then. Otherwise, please bank into my Public Bank account Chia Bee Ching No: 4706877819 the full amount upon confirmation of attendance of workshops and inform vie mobile 0173402968 or email.

Thank you
beeching chia .

OUM PhD (BA) students Gathering at OUM Main Campus

Tan Sri Dr. Anuwar Ali addressing the students


Here's the video clip of Tan Sri's speech:



About 20 PhD (BA) students attended today's monthly gathering to observe one of the fellow course mates Ms. Meena, to present her preliminary QE proposal. The session was chaired by Associate Prof. Dr. Chung (deputy CGS director) and was also attended by Dr. Rosmah, who is the new Program Coordinator.

Meena presenting her proposal

Dr. Chung (in Jacket) listening attentively to Meena's presentation

Dr. Rosmah has replaced Prof. Ghazali, who has since been promoted as CGS Director. The students were fortunate today because the President/Vice Chancellor of OUM, YBhg Tan Sri Dr. Anuwar Ali was there to provide some positive advice. Also present, Prof. Dr. Rosli, Vice President of OUM, Prof. Ramli Bahroom, Financial Controller of OUM and Associate Prof. Dr. Santhi Ragavan, Director of Center of Students Management.

Part of the students who attended today's gathering

Dr. Santhi was introducing some of the PhD students to the top management of OUM

After the brief talk by President, Dr. Santhi provided a session on how to prepare for Viva.

Gathering of PhD students at OUM Main Campus - 25th July 2010

Posted by Chia Bee Ching:

Dear All

For the 25th July gathering/discussion session at GA01 seminar room, we are having a junior member Meenaskshi to present her progress report and hopefully a senior member to reveal his/her QE success journey.

We have invited Assoc Prof Dr Santhi Ragavan, ex-doctoral seminar facilitator and currently the Director of Centre for Student Management(CSM) to give a short motivation talk on how to pass QE and Viva without fear or tear .

This Sunday there is a OUM Alumni meeting at the Theatrette (Next to room GA01) and Dr Santhi is in the organizing committee. If possible, Dr Santhi is likely to invite OUM President/Vice Chancellor, Tan Sri Dr. Anuwar Ali at around 10.00 -10.30am to come and meet us. Meanwhile, as Prof Ghazali will be away for his daughter Izyan's wedding ceremony in Penang this weekend, Dr Chung, the deputy CGS Director and Dr Rosmah ,our new Coordinator for Phd (BA) will also be joining our discussion session.

Looking forward to meeting you all for the 5th informal gathering/discussion session and to welcome our new Coordinator Dr Rosmah.