Weekly Seminar Series

The International and Comparative Education Working Group hosts a weekly seminar series. Please visit the News & Events page for information about the latest, and upcoming, seminars. And please see below for information about past seminars.

Special Series on Covid-19, Society & Education

Covid-19 and Responses from University Teachers and Students in Brunei: An Initial Overview and Implications for Research and Pedagogy

Seminar on International Students & Covid-19 at UBD

Muhammad Adil Iqbal, Graduate Student, Sultan Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies (SOASCIS), UBD

Effects of COVID-19 on Educational Policy and Stakeholders in Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia

Prof. Phan Le Ha (ICE/SHIBIE), Varissa Mae Dr Yabit (ICE), Dr Yabit Alas (Language Centre & ICE)

Zoom In: Perceptions and Perspectives of Pandemic Pedagogy

Dr. Chester Keasberry (FASS & ICE)

Youth-Led Virtual Pedagogy for Covid-19 Prevention

Dr. Meredian Alam (FASS & ICE)

The Developments and Findings of Online Learning in UBD during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Dr. Masitah Shahrill (SHIBIE & ICE)

Student Panel Discussion on Covid-19, Society & Education

Aaidha Hammad, Cavell Sim Kah Seng, Dk Nur Diyana Safwanah Pg Mohd Daud, Farhana Haque, Harris Abdul Aziz Bin Azmain, Hjh Fathiin Najihah bte Hj Mohd Rozaini, Ibrahim Kabir, Muhammad Adil Iqbal, Sinil Lee, and Yasmin Nasitah Binti Abdullah Md Firdaus

2019 Seminars

20 August 2019

Examining the Politics, Hierarchy, Specificity and Fluidity of ‘Homes’ and ‘Hosts’ in Transnational Diaspora Knowledge Production and International Higher Education

This was the inaugural presentation to the weekly seminar series. Thank you to all who attended. With your support we got off to a great start!!

27 August 2019

Research Proposal Development: A Focus on Student Mobilities Projects

The ICE seminar this week was a workshop on research proposal development. It drew on two projects on student mobilities that several ICE members have initiated and are working on.

Project 1’s tentative title: “Brunei as Destination for Student Mobilities: International Students’ Perceptions and Experiences”, led by Senior Professor Phan Le Ha, Associate Professor Noor Azam Hj Othman, and Dr. Yabit bin Alas

Project 2’s tentative title: “Bruneian Students doing their Community Outreach Program Overseas and in Brunei: Impacts on Identity Formation and Educational and Professional Trajectories”, led by Dr. Yabit bin Alas and Senior Professor Phan Le Ha

3 September 2019

The Concepts and Theories of Student Mobilities

In this seminar/workshop, Senior Professor Phan Le Ha introduced some literature on student mobilities and highlighted key concepts and theoretical discussions. She also drew on her own research in varied contexts (including Australia, the Gulf region, and Southeast Asia) as examples and showed how she has engaged with the existing literature as well as has contributed to it.

10 September 2019

Longitudinal and Case Study Research on Student Mobilities

In this seminar/workshop, Dr. Sarah Catherine Boye and Senior Professor Phan Le Ha together engaged the participants in discussion on longitudinal and case study research in the area of international education, with a focus on student mobilities.

17 September 2019

Working on Research Proposals

By this stage,  the ICE team members had formed one or more groups for working together to develop research proposals related to the following three major projects on student mobilities.:

Project 1: “Brunei as Destination for Student Mobilities: International Students’ Perceptions and Experiences”, led by Senior Professor Phan Le Ha, Associate Professor Noor Azam Hj Othman, and Dr Yabit bin Alas

Project 2: “Bruneian Students doing their Community Outreach Program Overseas and in Brunei: Impacts on Identity Formation and Educational and Professional Trajectories”, led by Dr Yabit bin Alas and Senior Professor Phan Le Ha

Project 3: “Internationalisation of/in Higher Education through Student Mobilities: UBD’s Discovery Year as a Case Study”, led by Senior Professor Phan Le Ha and Dr Sarah Catherine Boye

The seminar/workshop this week was  for these groups to write up their proposals under the guidance of the research project leaders.

Hard at Work. . .

. . . Drafting Research Proposals

8 October 2019

Student Mobility and Internationalisation: Analysing Educational Experiences and Foreign Languge Anxiety among International Studies in UBD

This was a work-in-progress research proposal sharing session. For details about this research proposal, please visit the ICE Research Projects page.

15 October 2019

Bruneian Students on Discovery Year: Mobilities Aspirations, Mobilities Decision-Making and Life Course Planning

This was a work-in-progress research proposal sharing session. For details about this research proposal, please visit the ICE Research Projects page.