Date: 12 Jan 2017 (Thursday) - 8.15am to 5pm
Venue: PG006

Among the objectives and talking points centered within the seminar were to providie a channel for CAP members to present research findings, especially projects funded by UTARRF; Sharing research areas and knowledge among CAP members and FAS staff and to discover collaboration opportunities; Inviting feedback from attendees to improve research quality; Stimulating new research ideas and Training postgraduate students to organize academic seminar.

20 CAP members participated in the seminar. Research findings were presented and exchange of research ideas took place during the seminar.

Date: 3 July 2017 (Monday)
Time: 9.50 - 10.45am
Venue: FAS meeting room

A few of the objectives of this visit is to understand current psychological research trend of Japan; to initiate Interaction/networking with Japanese scholars and to initiate potential collaborations with researchers from Japan.

Members of CAP had a fruitful conversation with Japanese scholars during the visitation. Everyone shared their research interests in the meeting and invitation for research collaboration was extended. Besides sharing research interests, the visiting scholars also mentioned their research activities in Japan, their international collaborators and also their background of discipline.

The scholars inquired the method to validate questionnaires in Malaysia since Malaysian samples are mostly bilingual and trilingual. Besides that, the scholars also shared the way they cross-validate questionnaire with their collaborators from foreign countries.
In terms of research journal publication, the scholars were eager to share the culture of article publishing with CAP members. According to them, one of the most established and a prestigious scientific journal in Japan is Japanese Psychology Research and the impact factor is 0.5. It is available in Willey online library.

Date: 3 July 2017 (Monday)
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm
Venue: IDK1
Speaker:  Prof. Dr. Yasuyuki Fukukawa, Associate Prof. Ko Kaida,
 and Associate Prof. Naoko Kaida

Prof. Dr. Yasuyuki Fukukawa presented his research (a research in collaboration with CAP member – Mr. Tan Soon Aun) to psychology students and CAP members during the public lecture. The research title was “Ageism in Asia: Examining Attitudes towards Older Adults”.

Associate Prof. Ko Kaida presented his paper entitled “Wake Up for the Environment: An Association between Sleepiness and Pro-Environmental Behavior”. The research focuses on how Sleep behavior affects human behavior towards the environment.

Associate Prof. Naoko Kaida presented her paper entitled “Waste Perceptions and Behaviors in Malaysia and Japan: Cross-Cultural Implications from Questionnaire Surveys”. Comparisons on waste disposal method were done in Japanese and Malaysian context.
The public lecture was inspiring and giving a glimpse of what research could be done in solving issues in quotidian situation. Students, speakers and CAP members had a group photo and wound up the public lecture on the day.

Date: 11 November 2017
Venue: LDK 5

The conference started at 9am and ended at 5pm. The conference contained 3 plenary sessions. The titles for plenary sessions were: “A strength-based approach for school and family counselling”, “Neurofeedback”, “Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model: The Bigger Picture” , “Anxiety-Sensitivity”, “Dark Triad” , “Developing a Success Mindset and the Psychological Attributes necessary for improving Student Competency”, “Identity and the Formation of Reminiscence Bump: New Findings from Malaysia”, “The effects of Multilingual context on Executive function task” and “Does your organisational culture condone sexual harassment?”. Participants and presenters came from various higher learning institutions including Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sunway University, Monash University Malaysia, Taylor’s University and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman.