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Issue no. 2 | 2021

Research on medical humanities won Silver for

International Innovation Award 2021

BY ASSOC PROF DR MD AZALANSHAH MD SYED An interfaculty team including 3 members from the

Department of Communication and Media Studies bagged
a silver award at MTE2021. The three team members from
the department were Assoc Professor Dr Md Azalanshah
bin Md Syed (the head of department), Rabiah Adawiah
binti Abu Seman (PhD candidate) and Rashdaleena Athiefa
binti Abdul Rashid (PhD candidate).

Other members of the team were Dr Azmin Azliza binti Aziz
(Faculty of Business and Accountancy), Dr Rasheeda binti
Mohd Zamin (Faculty of Medicine), and Assoc Prof Dr
Ahmad Syadi bin Mohd Zuhdi (University Malaya Medical
Centre).

The team won a silver award for the International
Innovation Award category with their mobile application,
CHD Self-Care, that was designed for coronary heart
disease patients’ prescribed rehabilitation. It is a medical
humanities project that is funded by the Ministry of Higher
Education Malaysia (MOHE) under the Fundamental
Research Grant Scheme (FRGS).

Consortium of Global Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the workshop was

Hakka Studies Young conducted on a hybrid platform with those in Taiwan
meeting at the National Central University at Zhongli, while
Scholars Workshop 2021 the rest of the participants joined the programme online.

BY DR TAN MIAU ING The two-day programme involved lectures and sharing

sessions by renowned scholars in the field of Hakka
The Global Hakka Studies Consortium (GHAS) Young
Studies including Associate Professor Dr Ding Seong Lin
Scholars Workshop 2021 was held on 6-7 March 2021 by
from Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of
the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of
Malaya who shared about Hakka Dialect in Malaysia
Malaya. The theme of the workshop was ‘The Hakka
followed by presentations from workshop participants.
Community in Malaysia and Beyond’.
Participants from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
GHAS was established in December 2019 with the purpose
University of Malaya were Lim Han Cong who talked about
of the promotion of Hakka Studies among its institutional
“The Significance of Dialect Groups’s Funeral Culture:
members and in the world. The Secretariat of GHAS is
Discussion on Hakka Community’s Funeral Culture in Kuala
based at the Graduate School of Hakka Studies at the
Lumpur and Selangor” and Dr Ma Ying who presented a
National Central University, Taiwan and its establishment
paper entitled “Dialect Group Identity of the Seri
of
received the support of the Hakka Affairs Commission
Kembangan Hakka New Village in Malaysia”.
Taiwan.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya is
one of the founding members of GHAS, besides the other
nine members from six countries, namely Taiwan, Japan,
the United States, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. The
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University
of Malaya, Professor Danny Wong Tze Ken is the vice
chairperson of the GHAS Executive Committee.

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