After many years been awarded grant for 'CONDUCTING RESEARCH' and time fly with no excuse, you need to FINISH what you start. Looking back to 2019 when first time awarded a grant from KPT to investigate our subject under fundamental research grant. What is fundamental? its about to engaged with the matter of knowledge (theory, concept), new or redefined existing one.
wHAT IS RESEARCH?
let's find the meaning from the word itself. RE and SEARCH . It's literally a process of SEACRCHING and when we keep doing it, IT become RE SEARCH. This process will continues especially about theory and concept. That's why we are provide with other grant to continue the SEARCHING PROCESS as our main business besides teaching and learning to do research for the better of life.
The challenge start, when the grant are not successfully spend based on the proposal as proposed for the sponsorship and the KPT start to QNA on every single ringgit. Beside that, they also ask for the OUTPUT especially the number of PUBLICATION and don't forget the NUMBER OF TALENT produce.
Ideally, all this are easy to achieve, supposedly based on the normal process. When you get the grant, you already can start the research follow you activity and 'gantt chart'. First, you need to recruited RA or GRA, so they can learn and help to complete the research and off course they are registered as a graduate student and will graduate 2 years later. During that time, you supposed to closed this research and continue to the next grant based on you finding. that's the ideal but in reality...they need to answer and we are sharing the experience with taklimat pemantauan.
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but after many years, taklimat dan pemantauan, the ideally research process are behind and far from reality, many researcher are struggle especially the money given are not been spend. Here the amount more than a million and can't do anything. Something must be done...
Let's learn from other:
Start looking in Oxford University and found this:
Research objectives
The University’s overarching research objectives are to lead internationally and make significant contributions to society. Oxford aims to maximise the benefits of research by advancing fundamental knowledge, thus contributing to better public policy, and improved health outcomes, economic prosperity, social cohesion, international development, community identity, the arts, culture and quality of life.
Oxford has long adopted a global perspective in the extent of its research, and today its researchers are confronting some of the major challenges that face the 21st-century world, including the prevention and treatment of major killers around the world such as COVID-19, bacterial resistance, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, cancer and heart disease. They also consider the causes and consequences of poverty, globalisation, climate change, migration, and problems posed by factors such as ageing populations and increasing pressures on natural resources and biodiversity. (p.35)
(source: Oxford Guide, 2022: https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_document/The%20Oxford%20Guide%202022.pdf)
and second try to find research area in KPT and found this:
Higher Education Center of Excellence (HICoE)
The Higher Institution Centers of Excellence (HICoE) is a program under the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) implemented by the Department of Higher Education to drive research excellence of HEIs in the field of niche research. Through this program, JPT award a HICoE rating to a high -performing Center of Excellence (CoE) in the field of niche research.
The awarded HICoE had an impact on the production of new research talent, the publication of high - impact journals as well as the production of innovations that can benefit academia, industry, government, the community and the environment. Periodic performance monitoring will be implemented to ensure implementation in line with the objectives of the HICoE program as well as as a basis for the subsequent disbursement of HICoE research funds
Beside that, the KPT also provided another 3 platform for research:
1. Mygrant https://www.mohe.gov.my/en/services/research/mygrants
2. Malaysian Research & Education Network (MYREN) https://www.mohe.gov.my/en/services/research/myren
3. Jaringan Penyelidikan Awam-Swasta (PPRN) https://www.mohe.gov.my/en/services/research/pprn
All this, consume a lot of expenses and need to be monitoring and the bureaucracy start to taken place especially when involve many stake holder. so, during 2 to 3 years, besides need to handle the research, you need to handle this process.
Finally, some of the researcher are facing the reality to be 'blacklist' as they are not perform even all the proposal are ready to be run.
Good Luck !
here an EXAMPLE OF RESEARCH CENTRE IN OXFORD
Beside that, the scientist itself need to be groomed
