hi, hope all are doing well. my conference paper presented in late dec 2011 is now offered for journal publication. such a joy =)

yes I also tried to contact some notable scholars in my field, I'm really encouraged to see their email replies.

I actually do more than asking for full-length paper. I was asking him questions! hhaa

Hi how's everyone doing here? I passed my first proposal defense. Now in data collection stage =)

you're so good in your progress. My data collection is now nearly 600 surveys, still need at least 300 samples. Oh...

@joeblows
I have a colleague (who now left for PhD study oversea) who did a research in the things you're saying: specifically, he uses some sort of neuron structure in mapping equity market behavior. Has the wording of 'artificial intelligence', sounds too high tech for me, both of us were in business faculty.

Academic research i.e. PhD requires the candidate to

be critical in examination of the issue concerned (problem statement, justify why current problem is worthy to be solved),
apply analytical skill (discussion),
having taking into consideration of previous works (literature review), and
able to set up a feasible strategy in solving the problem (research design).

If you think that's what you want, we welcome you, arms open wide, into the world of academia =)

@Ivangile

I know SPSS and SAS (limited). In essence, both are statistical software, with GUI

SAS is much better than SPSS in terms of coverage, though SPSS is good enough for social science research.
SAS enables more rigorous test, I would say some functions are only applicable in business setting (e.g. predicting the lifecycle of product stuff like that).

Hope it helps.

Just to update guys: I've finished collecting data, and is now in the stage of data analysis. Submitted one journal paper last month, hope for the best. If it's accepted, it would be a major milestone for me.

As a MPhil candidate, I'm moving toward work completion. I'm glad that people are interacting with this thread =) all the best!

Hi guys, updating my status. MPhil (Social Science) part time

Area: Accounting Education, Communication Avoidance

I finished the majority part of my data analysis, and handed the draft thesis to both my supervisor and co-supervisor. Hope that they will give me the green light so I can proceed to work completion seminar.

One paper written in late Dec 2012 was gracefully returned with comment that my paper might be too lengthy (i wrote 8.5k words oh). And that gave me an idea to separate it to 2 papers.

I also thought of doing 2 conference papers on top of sending 2 of them for journal review. Will only go for typical international journal this round. Been rejected 4 times

My scholarship will end this July 2013 (started July 2011), where the institution supports my minimum 2 years of study. Failing which to submit thesis for examination within the period, I'll need to fork out extra RM1000 per year for extension of study.

Hope that I can save up the 1k. =)


Hi Starbucki, you may consider negotiating with the institution in incorporating a statistician lecturer of another department as your (additional) co-supervisor, if you want to save the cost =) So long you can justify the need for the expertise.

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Hope all goes well with everybody's research. Once I completed my master, I intend to go for an internal grant

God bless Malaysia.

Hi blueicecube, for point 1, you may ask around your friends who are currently holding tenure positions in major higher education institutions in Malaysia. I'm not so sure about you mentioning the 'industrial' part, but PhD in almost every field requires academic research skill.

If you intend to go for PhD, I would suggest you to read around the subject, specifically, those involving 'what academic research is all about'. Judging from your interest, I suppose you graduated in field of engineering. Each field has its dominant research philosophies and methods. As of now, I suggest you to download and read few 'journal articles', with the hope that you know of the expectation in producing an academic paper/ thesis.

For your research interest (point 2), I'm afraid that it's beyond my means to comment specifically about your research topic. But I have this general guideline for research student, based on a book I read recently named 'How to get a PhD: A handbook for students and their supervisors' (Phillips & Pugh, 2010).

It mentions that there are, in general, 3 types of research: exploratory, testing-out, and problem-solving research. The authors are in favor of the second type of research as a PhD thesis. Main reason conveyed is that PhD is served as the training ground for candidate to be equipped with adequate research skill, and be able to exercise it. Hence, testing-out research enables the PhD candidates to operate their thesis in a relatively 'safer' environment, as compared to the other two types.

Thus, I recommend that you go and read around the subject, by reading published journal articles related to your research interest, and start a thesis from there.

P/s: my research interest is also emerged from readings =)

Hope it helps

This post has been edited by alexkos: Jan 26 2013, 10:04 PM

@Yodatan

Hi Yodatan, i think PhD holder in accounting (especially the pure one) is very marketable in academia, at least for the Malaysian market.

For post doc, i can't comment about it.

for PhD, candidate must be able to demonstrate original contribution to literature.

For social science research, today's trend to demonstrate such contribution can be done via:

1) mixed method research (quite popular nowadays, it can be either quanti and quali sequential or concurrent research method).

I recommend this book

How to get a PhD: A handbook for students and their supervisors. By Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh.

It is beneficial to prospective research students as well as those who are on-going.

My status: pre work-completion seminar. Hope can finish in 2014. Post a photo of my graduation if it happens ya =)

you can try inderscience publisher..... some journals published by them are Scopus ranked =)

yup....ISI and Scopus have standard.... for newbie try slowly, try those Cabell directory journal, then slowly advance to scopus, then lastly ISI....that's social science exp for me.

added. enjoy =)

friends, update your info here

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Vg...dit?usp=sharing

Hi everybody, I've been missing for x years from this forum...
Good to be back. I passed everything =D

yes will add you. In the form?

signing up for phd....wanting to do 'system of systems', it's a ICT topic. I would like to bridge it in business context.

Well, erm...nvm....play anno 2070 first, then come back =)

Sounds like you've breached research ethics related to human
experiment.

Perhaps u can discuss this with your supervisor, and get a letter or some form of consent from the headmaster.

All the best. Malaysia has recently enforced personal data protection act. It means that all research participant must give consent by signing an acknowledgment letter.

mind to clarify? Can an organization represent each employee in disclosing their personal data?

This post has been edited by alexkos: Jul 7 2015, 10:17 AM

i see. You're correct then.

Let's say if the unit of analysis is the employee, which require response from the employee themselves, then we should let the employee participant to fill in the personal data collection act consentment letter.

Agree?

im finding IT coder to help me with a learning software. Will get grant from my uni. Pm me if you got recommendation ya.

got $$ of course =D

in the meantime, I just received graduation scroll =D

This post has been edited by alexkos: Aug 22 2015, 08:45 PM