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 The Centre for Graduate Studies of Open University Malaysia extends a warm welcome to all Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students to the Third Annual PHD Colloquium. The purpose of the event is to consolidate the research efforts of the doctoral research of PhD students as well as to provide a forum for discussion and sharing of ideas and information in relation to doctoral-level research at OUM.
Over the past six years, OUM’s Centre for Graduate Studies (CGS) has successfully conducted doctoral level courses for students of all backgrounds. It was in July 2008 that CGS held its first PhD colloquium. That event witnessed the presence of 70 students from all over Malaysia as well as a number of doctoral research supervisors and facilitators. On 18 – 19 July the following year, CGS again successfully organized its second colloquium with the participation of more than 80 students and some supervisors and facilitators.
We hope all PhD students registered with CGS will make a special effort to attend the colloquium, with the theme “Innovation and Excellence in Research”, on 7 – 8 August this year. A key-note address, a number of talks, workshops and oral presentations will be held during this much-anticipated event. Experts in the field will share ideas on topics such as how to conceptualise and operationalise research problems. There will also be workshops on how to develop and validate instruments for questionnaire surveys using SPSS. Additionally, a number of PhD students who have completed their theses or dissertations will present their studies during the oral presentations.
We hope all of you will attend the colloquium so that you can take part in this opportunity to share ideas on research with other PhD students and with experts in the field.
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