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R E S E A R C H @ F A S S Issue no. 4 | 2022

Awards and Recognitions

Dato’ Professor Dr Azizan bin Hj Abu Samah, Honorary
Professor at the Department of Geography FASS and
Director of the National Antarctic Research Centre,
received the Pingat Tokoh Antartika Kebangsaan from
Sultan Terengganu Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin during
the Yayasan Penyelidikan Antartika Sultan Mizan’s 10th
Anniversary Dinner.

Professor Azizan is one of the most prominent Malaysian
scholars on Antarctica and climate change in Malaysia
and internationally. The Faculty congratulates Professor
Azizan on this well-deserved award!

Research Focus:

Fundamental Research

Grant Scheme

Three Faculty members were successful in their
applications for the Ministry of Higher Education’s
Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS): Professor
Dr Siti Hajar binti Abu Bakar Ah, Professor Dr Haris bin
Abd Wahab, and Mr Looi Siew Teip. The FRGS Grant
Award Ceremony was held on 7 October 2022 at the
Auditorium, Research Management and Innovation
Complex, Universiti Malaya. Here is an overview of some of
the successful projects.

Left: AP Dr Helena receiving the grant letters on behalf of successful
grant winners from FSSS

Construction of a Flexible Local Social Security Network Model to Deal
with Unforeseen Disasters
Researchers : Professor Dr Siti Hajar binti Abu
Bakar Ah (PI), Dr Noralina Omar, Dr Siti Nur
Edlyn Nadia binti Zuraiju, Dr Nur Annizah binti
Ishak (Faculty of Business and Economics), Dr
Mahazril ‘Aini Yaacob (UiTM)

The pandemic revealed how every member of
society needs to rely on the social security
programme. This is especially so for The exploration of a social security system that is
Malaysians from low-income groups. Unfortunately, the adaptable and disaster-proof is so actively carried out by
social security system in our country is not resilient to supranational organisations to respond to climate change
social disasters. As a result, the existing social security that puts the well-being of individuals at risk. A social
system failed to help guarantee the survival of individuals security model that is adaptable and disaster-proof needs
and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The everyday to be sought and developed to ensure that the well-being
challenges in life during the pandemic is central to this of the community is preserved when future disasters occur.
study and a review of the literature showed that studies on This prompted us to develop this FRGS research proposal.
an adaptable and disaster-proof disaster safety system are We were also reminded by the research granting
indeed very limited at the international level, and limited at committee to design a clear, parallel and feasible research
all at the local level. methodology plan that fits the scope of the study.
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