Research and development

As Chair of Research and Development, my focus is to strengthen FoHHS as a hub for high-quality, interdisciplinary research with demonstrable impact. We support academics and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates through strategic mentoring, internal peer review, targeted partnership development, and a clear pathway from research design to dissemination and implementation.

Our faculty’s strength lies in connecting evidence to action whether advancing media literacy and communication practices, supporting inclusive wellbeing across diverse communities, or improving the sustainability and performance of the built environment. I invite researchers, industry, government, and community partners to collaborate with us through our research clusters and our GlobeSync Community Research and Sustainability Hub (GloBeCoReS), where solutions are co-designed with stakeholders and scaled through knowledge exchange.

FoHHS research is guided by three principles: relevance, rigour, and reach. Relevance means grounding projects in real needs and shared priorities. Rigour means robust study design, research integrity, and transparent methods. Reach means building partnerships so that findings inform policy, practice, and capability development.

To support this, the R&D Committee prioritises competitive grant development, publication pipelines, ethical and responsible research, and strong HDR supervision ecosystems. We also emphasise research translation moving beyond publications to generate tangible outcomes such as toolkits, guidelines, capacity-building programmes, and stakeholder-led pilots.

To promote common knowledge for resilience through research knowledge sharing.

The R&D Committee supports the Faculty’s research strategy, quality, and impact through:

• Strategic planning and annual research priority setting for Faculty of Humanities and Health Sciences
• Funding readiness support (internal peer review, bid coordination, partner matching)
• Promotion of inter-department and inter-faculty collaborations and co-authorship
• Monitoring of research performance indicators, ethics and integrity awareness, and impact translation
• Support for HDR quality, supervisory capability, and research culture development.

Committed to a sustainable future and to improve health awareness of community, environment with fostering partnership with industry partners and keep a clean and safe place to live and work.

Devoted to excellent evidence-based research on community tourism, sustainable destination images, consumer behaviour and green marketing.

To foster Curtin Malaysia as a main finance research hub in Sarawak and Malaysia with international visibility.

To focus on real-world issues in governance and corporate social responsibilities which results in outcomes that benefit the community locally, nationally and globally.

To focus on real-world problems or issues in higher education which results in outcomes that benefit the community locally, nationally and globally.

To promote staff and students experience on the issue of taxation, auditing, and corporate governance through partnership with industry players and immediate communities.