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Monash Malaysia Arts academics visit Australian campuses

12 October 2005

Academic staff from the School of Arts and Sciences at Monash's Malaysia campus spent a week at Monash's Victorian campuses last month.

From left: Ms Rosalind King, Faculty of Arts; Dr Heinz Kreutz; Associate Professor Gil-Soo Han, Professor Graham Oppy and Arts Faculty dean Professor Homer Le Grand.

Those who visited were the head of Arts - Associate Professor Gill-Soo Han, Dr Yeoh Seng Guan, Dr Sharon Bong, Dr Patricia Goon, Dr Jaganathan Marimuthu, Dr Andrew Ng Hock Soon and Ms Sheila Murugasu.

Professor Graham Oppy, associate dean research, and Dr Heinz Kreutz, associate dean Academic Programs, in the Faculty of Arts, facilitated the visit .

"The visit was an opportunity for our Malaysia colleagues to meet and talk with their counterparts at the Victorian campuses and participate in training," Professor Oppy said.

"It was a highly successful and productive week for all concerned. It was good for them to meet with colleagues with similar research interests."

The group spent time at the university's Clayton and Berwick campuses meeting with senior Arts faculty management and research staff, as well as faculty staff members with allied disciplinary interests. Some also visited the Gippsland campus to meet staff there.

During the week they also attended a series of seminars, information sessions and staff meetings that addressed topics such as the Australian Universities Quality Agency audit, higher degrees by research (HDR), faculty structure, curriculum planning and staff research management.

The group also participated in one of the new master classes for research supervisors, conducted by the Monash Research Graduate School, in preparation for the supervision of HDR students that will begin in Malaysia in 2006.

"Arts is a growing and important area in Malaysia and this can only benefit Monash Malaysia," Professor Oppy said.

He said there were plans for collaborative research projects and academic staff exchanges under the university's mobility scheme. One of the likely projects is a joint conference in communications and media studies.