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International students sweep awards at NZ student research conference
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
International students took the limelight at the Graduate Student Conference, held last week at University of Waikato Management School.
(via University of Waikato) The annual event gives graduate and postgraduate students an opportunity to showcase their research and hone their presentation skills for academic conferences. Judges heard presentations from 57 students from 13 institutions across New Zealand and Australia in the course of the one-day event.
The Best Paper award went to Judy Li of Lincoln University for what the judges described as an excellent paper on the welfare impact of micro-credit on rural households in China.
The Best Presentation award was shared between Diana Sharma of Unitec and Fariza Rusly of Waikato Management School. A student in the Department of Management Systems at Waikato, Rusly arrived in New Zealand earlier this year to begin her doctoral studies funded by a Malaysian government scholarship. Her paper analysed the psychological and structural aspects of change readiness and the ways these influence effective process of managing organisational knowledge.
Back home, Rusly is a lecturer in the College of Business at the University Utara Malaysia in Kedah State. She said presenting a research paper was quite different to the lecturing she’s done. “I had to deliver my paper in English, and also I was presenting in front of experts in the field.”
But she said it was an excellent opportunity to practise her presentation skills and to share thoughts with other researchers. “And I’ve had invaluable support from my supervisors and from Waikato Management School.”
A Certificate of Commendation for a paper highly rated by the judges went to Tinh Doan, a PhD student in Waikato Management School’s Economics Department. Doan presented a paper analysing returns to schooling in Vietnam during economic transition.
His paper showed that market opening in Vietnam and the consequent increase in investment from 1998 onwards, generating many technical and skilled jobs, had increased the rate of return on education substantially compared to the period before 1998.
Dr Simpson said Doan was a confident and enthusiastic presenter who displayed excellent control of his material.
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