For a period of about three years I had very little to do with teaching, compared to earlier years. While I did continue supervision higher(more…)
Latter-Day Danger Asians
I have never written and published in fiction so this piece in Peril Magazine is a first for me. I am grateful to Peril for(more…)
What they DONT’t tell you before you embark on a PhD
(originally published in Australia Asia Pacific Institute Review Jan-March 2016, p. 9) Well, if you thought that working on a PhD was about spending 3(more…)
Supervising someone else’s dream?!!
This year I find myself taking on more postgraduate supervisions than I’ve ever had, though not as many as some of my colleagues because I’m(more…)
The Craft of Writing for Research
Scholarship is a choice of how to live as well as a choice of career; whether he knows it or not, the intellectual workman forms(more…)
MCCA Symposium 2015
Here’s a record of an event recently held at Curtin University compiled using Storify. You should see some descriptive text when you hover your mouse(more…)
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet
The first copy of my monograph was sitting in my pigeonhole at work this morning. It’s hot off the press and hopefully is going to(more…)
Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology
A new journal specially addressing new media, gender and technology, Ada, according to the Fembot collective who published it is: a feminist, multimodal, peer reviewed(more…)
Teaching Asia to Australia: Face-to-Face and First-Hand
The one measure outlined in the White Paper, Australia in the Asian Century, that seems to have caught the public’s imagination is the access(more…)
Teaching Asia to Australia
Most recent co-authored piece on The Conversation, republished here by Creative Commons: Teaching Asia to Australia: it’s not just about languages By Susan Leong, Queensland(more…)