Setinggi-tinggi syukur jua dirafa'kan kepada Ilahi kerana setelah sekian lama baharulah sempat perjumpaan berkumpulan antara pelajar-pelajar di bawah seliaan saya berjaya dilakukan. Sesungguhnya masa sering mengheret banyak perkara sehingga tertangguh-tangguh. 

Perjumpaan pada kali ini melihat beberapa pembentangan dilakukan oleh para pelajar saya yang berkongsi hasil penyelidikan yang telah lengkap mahupun yang masih dalam proses dan pengembangan. 

Tahniah buat semua - Farhana, Syamimi dan Maryam yang telah memberikan penerangan yang menarik lagi komprehensif tentang penyelidikan masing-masing. Semoga sedikit sebanyak perkongsian ini membuka minda dan idea kepada yang lain-lain untuk terus fokus terhadap penyelidikan masing-masing. 

Ayuh semua, tetapkan azam dan kuatkan semangat serta lipatgandakan usaha untuk terus menyiapkan penyelidikan. Jika tidak dipecahkan ruyung manakan dapat sagunya. Kejayaan tidak datang bergolek, tanpa usaha tentulah kita tidak akan ke mana-mana! 

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It's been a while since our last meeting was held. Time flies soo fast that I couldn't get hold to many things. InshaAllah the next progress meeting will be held as follows: 

I will also be sharing some tips on publications. See you there guys! 


​XOXO

InshaAllah we will follow the routine .. another progress meeting with all my postgraduate students will be held on 28th December 2016. Three of my students - Ila, Syaida and Lee will be presenting their Porject Paper 2, while Shah will be sharing his overall research findings as his mock viva. 

I am looking forward to seeing everybody in this meeting. InshaAllah I will also be talking on tips to write a problem statement and how to do a comprehensive LR. 

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For a postgraduate students, writing a proposal might be the first task they need to produce prior to conducting their research. How do you know that your proposal is good enough to be approved by your supervisor, or the committee members? How do find a title for your proposal? What makes your proposal complies to a PhD level? How depth and breath should your LR be? Is it important to claim your epistimological considerations? What kind of instrument should you use for collecting your data? Is there any basis for that? 

Those are among critical questions that need to be considered when you are writing a researh proposal. Alhamdulillah, I had a chance to conduct a sharing session with some of the IIUM postgraduate students few days ago. Thanks to my fellow friend - Dr Faizah from The Kuliyyah of Educatoin - who invited me to see her supervisees. It was a fruitful session I must say, that everybody was taking part in the conversation. Thanks to all of you and I wish everybody the best of luck in your research journey. 

Remember, PhD is not about a competition wiith others, but it is a competition with YOURSELF! 

You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say (Fitzgerald, F. S) 

InsyaAllah sebagai sokongan berterusan kepada para pelajar pascasiswazah di bawah penyeliaan saya, satu bengkel penulisan akan diadakan minggu hadapan. Objektif bengkel pada kali ini adalah untuk membantu setiap pelajar untuk menyiapkan satu artikel secara sistematik serta menepati ciri-ciri artikel yang boleh diterbitkan dalam jurnal berindeks. Kemahiran penulisan akademik akan ditekankan di samping format umum  yang perlu ada pada sesebuah artikel. 

Semoga usaha kecil ini memberi makna dan pengalaman yang berkesan kepada semua pelajar di bawah seliaan saya. Mudah2an kita dikurniakan ilham mencurah-curah kelak ..ameen.. 

Masa yang mengekang menyebabkan niat ini lama tersimpan. Hanya hari ini berkesempatan membuat sedikit 'housekeeping' pada laman ini lalu teringat akan janji untuk berkongsi video Story Telling tempohari. Semoga ada manfaat :) 

Ramadhan Kareem. 
With this holy month's blessings, I hope everybody is developing their strengths and spirit to speed up their research progress and be more proactive! Insha-Allah I will be conducting another progress meeting on 21st June 2016. There will be presentations from all my master students who are taking Project Paper 1 and 2. See you there! 

A meaningful learning does not necessarily take place in formal conditions. In fact, we informally learn from others surrounding our world. In a community of practice, among the substances that help members in the community to grow emotionally and professionally is through story-telling. On that basis, I purposefully invited one of my master students who graduated in 2014 to come to our faculty and shared her story with my other post graduate students. The spirit was to share thoughts on what doing research is all about, what it takes to make it through and the utmost interesting part was what is the feeling like to have finished the research and graduated with flying colours. 

Ummu was an example of thousands of students who passed their masters study. But her story was unique and was described by some of my current students as inspirational indeed - especially when she had to check in to hotels to finish up the writing and left her newly born baby with her parents. Money was not an issue that time. Her determination and perseverance really made her to move on.

It was feeling good every time I see my students getting together and exchange stories and ideas. As a researcher, we cannot think and work alone. Ideas has to be shared, solution has to be discussed, achievement has to be celebrated together. Well, my vision is to make them feel the sense of belonging to this community. 

My heartful thanks to everybody who attended this session, including our invited guest - Ummu. Fly high everyone! ^__^