A creative essay on toilets, gender, and desire in Simplified Chinese, 2015
加影育华国民型中学,华文学会 (Ka... more A creative essay on toilets, gender, and desire in Simplified Chinese, 2015
Master of Research (MRes) Social and Behavioural Science
The University of Nottingham Malaysia ... more Master of Research (MRes) Social and Behavioural Science
The University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2020-2022
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin
Secondary supervisor: Chan Wen Li
External examiner: Dr Dyah Pitaloka (Monash University Malaysia)
Internal examiner: Professor Zaharom Nain
How is 'health governance' sustained within a network society (cf. Manuel Castells)? How does a society, constituted by political, economic, and civil societal stakeholders and areas of expertise, produce 'health governance' and 'mental healthcare'? Situating health governance within the decolonising and digitising contexts of Southeast Asian societies, this dissertation explores and examines the communication practices of several generations and categories of stakeholders for decision-making and policymaking in mental healthcare provisions and mental health governance in Malaysia. This analysis draws from Manuel Castells' key sociological argument that the foundation of every human society is communication, and the foundation of a globalised network society are digital communication networks. The data collected for this study include YouTube videos, digital articles, official websites and documents, social media data, and mobile health (mHealth) applications. An ongoing structural transition, from relatively hierarchical and punitive procedures, to more interactive and participatory activities of health governance and decision-making among stakeholders (e.g. collaborators, partners, publics), has been observed from the materials of the past decade (post-2015). This transition would not be linear, nonetheless, because there are perceived tensions between the (old) hierarchical form and the (new) participatory form in governmental practices in Malaysia. This dissertation opened up the way(s) for continued and long-term implementation research on the use of various new media platforms / tools for designing participatory governmental communications in Malaysian, Southeast Asian, and Asia-Pacific societies.
BA (Hons) International Communication Studies with English Language and Literature
School of Me... more BA (Hons) International Communication Studies with English Language and Literature
School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2019-2020
Researching Cultures, Film, and Media (RCFM) module convenor(s): Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin; Dr Caryn Lim
Final Year Dissertation module convenor(s): Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng
Personal tutor: Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Dissertation supervisor(s): Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat
Drawing from Alain Badiou's psychoanalytic methodology of the 'Event' (post-sublimation), this dissertation studied and explained the persistent presence of Mat Indera in the Malay(sian) memory, from colonial Malaya (British colonialism), until Malaysia's digital age. The data collected for this study include inter-library loans of local publications on Mat Indera, Malay-language blogposts, digital archives and articles, and YouTube videos of public forum discussions and short films on Mat Indera. The study argues that Mat Indera would continue to be unforgettable, insofar as his surprising anti-colonial actions continue to be a historical research question, and continue to be uncategorisable, for several generations of concerned publics. This undergraduate (UG) exercise was awarded the Best Dissertation 2020 by the School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM). It also paved the way for further Social Research education and postgraduate research (PGR) training, and further (ethnographic, mixed-methods) research on various areas / topics in contemporary (networked) Malaysian and Southeast Asian societies.
Chan W L, Ng Y P, Lim J B Y, Panirselvam R R, Pheh K S, Seow H-V, Teoh S F, Eldeen Husaini A H, A... more Chan W L, Ng Y P, Lim J B Y, Panirselvam R R, Pheh K S, Seow H-V, Teoh S F, Eldeen Husaini A H, Armstrong G & Chan L F
International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) APAC Conference 2022
Symposium 7: Media Reporting of Suicide in LMICs in Asia
PRESENTATION @ the 2021 Situations Conference for Graduate Students, held @ Yonsei University (Se... more PRESENTATION @ the 2021 Situations Conference for Graduate Students, held @ Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), on 8 February 2021, on Zoom.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: To thank (1) Lee Seungyeon for her encouragement, reassurance, and patient guidance on conference presentations; and to thank (2) Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng and (3) Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat for their highly helpful technical advice on Malaysian film materials, Malaysian film scholarship, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Post-structural and psychoanalytic frameworks (e.g. Foucault, Badiou, Zupančič) were in considera... more Post-structural and psychoanalytic frameworks (e.g. Foucault, Badiou, Zupančič) were in consideration when discussing diversity, polarity, and new media in contemporary Malaysia (e.g. ethnicity, futures, new technologies, representation). Possible solutions for 'futures' might include (1) having concentration and enjoyment in selected pathways in a diversifying Malaysia, and (2) being open and ready to working with various stakeholders within diplomatic, technological, and knowledge exchange processes. These were brief and experimental ideas put forward in the public forum.
A creative essay on toilets, gender, and desire in Simplified Chinese, 2015
加影育华国民型中学,华文学会 (Ka... more A creative essay on toilets, gender, and desire in Simplified Chinese, 2015
Master of Research (MRes) Social and Behavioural Science
The University of Nottingham Malaysia ... more Master of Research (MRes) Social and Behavioural Science
The University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2020-2022
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin
Secondary supervisor: Chan Wen Li
External examiner: Dr Dyah Pitaloka (Monash University Malaysia)
Internal examiner: Professor Zaharom Nain
How is 'health governance' sustained within a network society (cf. Manuel Castells)? How does a society, constituted by political, economic, and civil societal stakeholders and areas of expertise, produce 'health governance' and 'mental healthcare'? Situating health governance within the decolonising and digitising contexts of Southeast Asian societies, this dissertation explores and examines the communication practices of several generations and categories of stakeholders for decision-making and policymaking in mental healthcare provisions and mental health governance in Malaysia. This analysis draws from Manuel Castells' key sociological argument that the foundation of every human society is communication, and the foundation of a globalised network society are digital communication networks. The data collected for this study include YouTube videos, digital articles, official websites and documents, social media data, and mobile health (mHealth) applications. An ongoing structural transition, from relatively hierarchical and punitive procedures, to more interactive and participatory activities of health governance and decision-making among stakeholders (e.g. collaborators, partners, publics), has been observed from the materials of the past decade (post-2015). This transition would not be linear, nonetheless, because there are perceived tensions between the (old) hierarchical form and the (new) participatory form in governmental practices in Malaysia. This dissertation opened up the way(s) for continued and long-term implementation research on the use of various new media platforms / tools for designing participatory governmental communications in Malaysian, Southeast Asian, and Asia-Pacific societies.
BA (Hons) International Communication Studies with English Language and Literature
School of Me... more BA (Hons) International Communication Studies with English Language and Literature
School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2019-2020
Researching Cultures, Film, and Media (RCFM) module convenor(s): Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin; Dr Caryn Lim
Final Year Dissertation module convenor(s): Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng
Personal tutor: Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Dissertation supervisor(s): Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat
Drawing from Alain Badiou's psychoanalytic methodology of the 'Event' (post-sublimation), this dissertation studied and explained the persistent presence of Mat Indera in the Malay(sian) memory, from colonial Malaya (British colonialism), until Malaysia's digital age. The data collected for this study include inter-library loans of local publications on Mat Indera, Malay-language blogposts, digital archives and articles, and YouTube videos of public forum discussions and short films on Mat Indera. The study argues that Mat Indera would continue to be unforgettable, insofar as his surprising anti-colonial actions continue to be a historical research question, and continue to be uncategorisable, for several generations of concerned publics. This undergraduate (UG) exercise was awarded the Best Dissertation 2020 by the School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM). It also paved the way for further Social Research education and postgraduate research (PGR) training, and further (ethnographic, mixed-methods) research on various areas / topics in contemporary (networked) Malaysian and Southeast Asian societies.
Chan W L, Ng Y P, Lim J B Y, Panirselvam R R, Pheh K S, Seow H-V, Teoh S F, Eldeen Husaini A H, A... more Chan W L, Ng Y P, Lim J B Y, Panirselvam R R, Pheh K S, Seow H-V, Teoh S F, Eldeen Husaini A H, Armstrong G & Chan L F
International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) APAC Conference 2022
Symposium 7: Media Reporting of Suicide in LMICs in Asia
PRESENTATION @ the 2021 Situations Conference for Graduate Students, held @ Yonsei University (Se... more PRESENTATION @ the 2021 Situations Conference for Graduate Students, held @ Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), on 8 February 2021, on Zoom.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: To thank (1) Lee Seungyeon for her encouragement, reassurance, and patient guidance on conference presentations; and to thank (2) Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng and (3) Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat for their highly helpful technical advice on Malaysian film materials, Malaysian film scholarship, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Post-structural and psychoanalytic frameworks (e.g. Foucault, Badiou, Zupančič) were in considera... more Post-structural and psychoanalytic frameworks (e.g. Foucault, Badiou, Zupančič) were in consideration when discussing diversity, polarity, and new media in contemporary Malaysia (e.g. ethnicity, futures, new technologies, representation). Possible solutions for 'futures' might include (1) having concentration and enjoyment in selected pathways in a diversifying Malaysia, and (2) being open and ready to working with various stakeholders within diplomatic, technological, and knowledge exchange processes. These were brief and experimental ideas put forward in the public forum.
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加影育华国民型中学,华文学会 (Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia)
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The University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2020-2022
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin
Secondary supervisor: Chan Wen Li
External examiner: Dr Dyah Pitaloka (Monash University Malaysia)
Internal examiner: Professor Zaharom Nain
How is 'health governance' sustained within a network society (cf. Manuel Castells)? How does a society, constituted by political, economic, and civil societal stakeholders and areas of expertise, produce 'health governance' and 'mental healthcare'? Situating health governance within the decolonising and digitising contexts of Southeast Asian societies, this dissertation explores and examines the communication practices of several generations and categories of stakeholders for decision-making and policymaking in mental healthcare provisions and mental health governance in Malaysia. This analysis draws from Manuel Castells' key sociological argument that the foundation of every human society is communication, and the foundation of a globalised network society are digital communication networks. The data collected for this study include YouTube videos, digital articles, official websites and documents, social media data, and mobile health (mHealth) applications. An ongoing structural transition, from relatively hierarchical and punitive procedures, to more interactive and participatory activities of health governance and decision-making among stakeholders (e.g. collaborators, partners, publics), has been observed from the materials of the past decade (post-2015). This transition would not be linear, nonetheless, because there are perceived tensions between the (old) hierarchical form and the (new) participatory form in governmental practices in Malaysia. This dissertation opened up the way(s) for continued and long-term implementation research on the use of various new media platforms / tools for designing participatory governmental communications in Malaysian, Southeast Asian, and Asia-Pacific societies.
School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2019-2020
Researching Cultures, Film, and Media (RCFM) module convenor(s): Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin; Dr Caryn Lim
Final Year Dissertation module convenor(s): Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng
Personal tutor: Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Dissertation supervisor(s): Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat
Drawing from Alain Badiou's psychoanalytic methodology of the 'Event' (post-sublimation), this dissertation studied and explained the persistent presence of Mat Indera in the Malay(sian) memory, from colonial Malaya (British colonialism), until Malaysia's digital age. The data collected for this study include inter-library loans of local publications on Mat Indera, Malay-language blogposts, digital archives and articles, and YouTube videos of public forum discussions and short films on Mat Indera. The study argues that Mat Indera would continue to be unforgettable, insofar as his surprising anti-colonial actions continue to be a historical research question, and continue to be uncategorisable, for several generations of concerned publics. This undergraduate (UG) exercise was awarded the Best Dissertation 2020 by the School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM). It also paved the way for further Social Research education and postgraduate research (PGR) training, and further (ethnographic, mixed-methods) research on various areas / topics in contemporary (networked) Malaysian and Southeast Asian societies.
Talks
International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) APAC Conference 2022
Symposium 7: Media Reporting of Suicide in LMICs in Asia
Details: (1) http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?tbl=bbs71&mode=VIEW&num=31&category=&findType=&findWord=&sort1=&sort2=&it_id=&shop_flag=&mobile_flag=&page=1 + (2) http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?tbl=bbs51&mode=VIEW&num=76.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: To thank (1) Lee Seungyeon for her encouragement, reassurance, and patient guidance on conference presentations; and to thank (2) Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng and (3) Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat for their highly helpful technical advice on Malaysian film materials, Malaysian film scholarship, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Link to forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug5UzRnXgi4.
加影育华国民型中学,华文学会 (Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia)
The University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2020-2022
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin
Secondary supervisor: Chan Wen Li
External examiner: Dr Dyah Pitaloka (Monash University Malaysia)
Internal examiner: Professor Zaharom Nain
How is 'health governance' sustained within a network society (cf. Manuel Castells)? How does a society, constituted by political, economic, and civil societal stakeholders and areas of expertise, produce 'health governance' and 'mental healthcare'? Situating health governance within the decolonising and digitising contexts of Southeast Asian societies, this dissertation explores and examines the communication practices of several generations and categories of stakeholders for decision-making and policymaking in mental healthcare provisions and mental health governance in Malaysia. This analysis draws from Manuel Castells' key sociological argument that the foundation of every human society is communication, and the foundation of a globalised network society are digital communication networks. The data collected for this study include YouTube videos, digital articles, official websites and documents, social media data, and mobile health (mHealth) applications. An ongoing structural transition, from relatively hierarchical and punitive procedures, to more interactive and participatory activities of health governance and decision-making among stakeholders (e.g. collaborators, partners, publics), has been observed from the materials of the past decade (post-2015). This transition would not be linear, nonetheless, because there are perceived tensions between the (old) hierarchical form and the (new) participatory form in governmental practices in Malaysia. This dissertation opened up the way(s) for continued and long-term implementation research on the use of various new media platforms / tools for designing participatory governmental communications in Malaysian, Southeast Asian, and Asia-Pacific societies.
School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)
2019-2020
Researching Cultures, Film, and Media (RCFM) module convenor(s): Dr Joanne Lim Bee Yin; Dr Caryn Lim
Final Year Dissertation module convenor(s): Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng
Personal tutor: Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Dissertation supervisor(s): Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat
Drawing from Alain Badiou's psychoanalytic methodology of the 'Event' (post-sublimation), this dissertation studied and explained the persistent presence of Mat Indera in the Malay(sian) memory, from colonial Malaya (British colonialism), until Malaysia's digital age. The data collected for this study include inter-library loans of local publications on Mat Indera, Malay-language blogposts, digital archives and articles, and YouTube videos of public forum discussions and short films on Mat Indera. The study argues that Mat Indera would continue to be unforgettable, insofar as his surprising anti-colonial actions continue to be a historical research question, and continue to be uncategorisable, for several generations of concerned publics. This undergraduate (UG) exercise was awarded the Best Dissertation 2020 by the School of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC), University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM). It also paved the way for further Social Research education and postgraduate research (PGR) training, and further (ethnographic, mixed-methods) research on various areas / topics in contemporary (networked) Malaysian and Southeast Asian societies.
International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) APAC Conference 2022
Symposium 7: Media Reporting of Suicide in LMICs in Asia
Details: (1) http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?tbl=bbs71&mode=VIEW&num=31&category=&findType=&findWord=&sort1=&sort2=&it_id=&shop_flag=&mobile_flag=&page=1 + (2) http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?tbl=bbs51&mode=VIEW&num=76.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: To thank (1) Lee Seungyeon for her encouragement, reassurance, and patient guidance on conference presentations; and to thank (2) Dr Khoo Gaik Cheng and (3) Dr Ahmad Fuad Rahmat for their highly helpful technical advice on Malaysian film materials, Malaysian film scholarship, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Link to forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug5UzRnXgi4.