Drew Gardner has recently completed a Provost Research Fellowship

In a brief interview, Drew talks about the field research he carried out, his passion for regional conservation, and his publication output as a result of the Fellowship. Read the article HERE.

Provost Research Fellowships are offered each semester.  Further information on this website.

Working Groups: Migrant Labor in the Gulf

Jane Bristol-Rhys has been invited to participate in the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) Georgetown/Doha major research initiative on migrant labor in the Gulf.  Jane will attend discussion/roundtable meetings there in January and May 2010 and will have a chapter in the book to be published next summer. The title is planned to be: Kept in Place: An analysis of the socio-spatial boundaries that separate migrants and nationals in the UAE.  Further info athttp://cirs.georgetown.edu/research/

The CIRS research initiative on migrant labor is designed to last for approximately two years, at the end of which CIRS will publish its findings in a comprehensive study of the subject. 

Wikipedia article on Islamic Marketing
Dr. Bakr Ahmad Alserhan from EmeraldInsight has started a Wikipedia page on Islamic Marketing, and encourages other authors and researchers in the field to contribute.
This is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_marketing 

13 September 2009

Ninth International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR)
Call for Contributions  will take place July 7-10, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. The theme is "Facing Crises:  Challenges and Opportunities Confronting the Third Sector and Civil Society."   
The call has been issued in Arabic: http://www.istr.org/conferences/istanbul/pdf/Call%20for%20contributions-arabic.pdf and English http://www.istr.org/conferences/istanbul/pdf/Call%20for%20Contributions%20(2).pdf

The deadline for submissions is October 19, 2009.

Margery Daniels is happy to answer any questions you may have about the Society (www.istr.org) or the conference.

13 September 2009

IBM Faculty Award Winner
Zakaria Maamar, College of Information Technology, has just been awarded a 2009 IBM Faculty Award - CONGRATULATIONS! Full details via the IBM website, or the 2009 IBM Faculty Award list.  The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to:

• Foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and
• Promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.

31 August 2009

Conference Presentation 
Christopher K. Brown and Jane Bristol-Rhys are at the British Society for Middle East Studies Conference at The University of Manchester, July 4 through 7. They are heading a panel on Borders, Beliefs and Identities in the Southern Arabian Gulf.

30 June 2009

Research Grants Currently Offered 
AWO (Arab Women's Organization) is offering 5 research grants annually to Arab graduate students willing to write their theses on Arab women and society.  Each grant is valued at US$5,000. Applications close 30 April. 
Contact and details at Arab Women's Organization website.

19 April 2009

Transformational Leadership Practices of Deans and the Perceived Organizational Culture of United Arab Emirates Public Universities; Regression Analysis Study
Dr. Mouwafac Sidaoui, from the University of San Francisco, presented and discussed his recent research on organizational culture within the public universities of the U.A.E. The presentation was held at the Dubai campus of Zayed University.
For further information, please contact Dr. Sidaoui at sidaoui@usfca.edu

2 April 2009

UAE Center for Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Zayed University is currently in the process of establishing an NRF-funded Research Excellence Center devoted to Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. The UAE Center for Bilingualism and Bilingual Education will be engaged in multilingualism research with the express aim to generate knowledge about and to promote academic and professional proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and English among Arabic-speaking peoples of the UAE, the Gulf, and the wider Arab world. For further information contact Dr Piller on ingrid.piller@zu.ac.ae

25 March 2009

Research Activity at Zayed University: Results of the faculty survey 
December 2008
A high response rate of 115 completed surveys were an indication in December last year of the strong interest that faculty express in research at Zayed University.Faculty were not shy to express their perceptions of positive and negative factors influencing their potential to engage in a research agenda. A copy of the brief findings together with recommendations made as a result of this survey are linked here.  
We look forward to a repeat survey in December of this year, to compare our perceived accomplishments in supporting and encouraging research over the 12 month period.

12 March 2009

Call for Participation: The 2nd UAE Symposium on Web Services
The second UAE Symposium on Web Services will be hosted at Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E from 15-16 April, 2009.  Current speakers include Dr.Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Dr.Michael P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and Hamid Khafagy, IBM Middle East, UAE.  For full information, check www.zu.ac.ae/wss

4 March 2009

Research Incentive Fund (RIF) - Seeking Applications
The Research Incentive Fund offers all faculty an opportunity to apply for a competitive grant to be able to undertake research within the next 1-2 years.  Grants range from up to 40,000 AED for an individual grant to up to 75,000 AED for a small group or interdisciplinary grant.  Applications should be received by the Office of Research research@zu.ac.ae by 26 April, 2009.  Full information including all relevant forms are available on the Research website: http://www.zu.ac.ae/research/aspx/rif.aspx

3 March 2009

Research Community Workshop Program:  Spring Semester
For all faculty and staff interestedor involved in researching, attached is a Spring Workshop Program, with sessions planned over the common break most weeks in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai.Join us, and begin to solve the research blues!

Once a month we are organizing an informal "Research Community" session on each campus, in which faculty could share with others their experiences in getting published, in applying and achieving research grants, in undertaking unusual or collaborative research, or a range of other topics of interest to a multi-disciplinary group. If you would be interested in leading any of these "brown bag lunches", please contact janet.martin@zu.ac.ae We look forward to hearing from you, and to sharing ideas, skills, software and collaborations this semester

19 February 2009

Provost's Research Fellowship Awards
Dr. Daniel Johnson, Provost of Zayed University, has just announced the winners of the prestigious "Provost's Research Fellowship Awards" for Spring semester, 2009. The inaugural winners will be supported in their research endeavors by the funding of substantial time release from the normal teaching load of faculty, to enable them to concentrate on completion of their research projects. 

As Dr. Johnson has pointed out, "The Research Fellowship Awards have been newly established to encourage both a high quality of research output from Zayed University, and the development of world-standard research capacity and collaborations." Zayed University is proud to be successful with recent UAE National Research Foundation grants, as well as encouraging innovation in new research support and developments, such as this Research Fellowship Award.

The winning researchers for this semester are:

Dr. Caroline Haddad "A national study on the health of the UAE population: Geographical differences in exposures and outcomes." This research is supported by the Ministry of Education, builds on a very creditable research record of Dr. Haddad, and directly supports UAE strategic goals to understand and improve the health of the UAE population. 

Dr. Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein: "Civilizing Yunnan: Islam on the margins of the Chinese Empire". Dr. Armijo-Hussein is developing this research in the important topic of the literature of Islam, and is making a valuable contribution to this field by working with a variety of primary resource materials not hitherto documented or analyzed.

Dr. Drew Gardner: "Handbook and atlas of the reptiles and amphibians of the United Arab Emirates and Oman." Dr. Gardner is a world authority on desert fauna, and is now working to publish a book on this topic which will document and preserve part of the vital UAE ecosystem for future generations.

This inaugural Award at Zayed University will now be offered each semester, to foster an ongoing development of high quality of research output from Zayed University. All current winners should be warmly congratulated, and encouraged in their ongoing research programs.

16 February 2009 

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives
The new issue of our online journal Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives (LTHE) is now available at http://www.zu.ac.ae/lthe/current.html  We welcome submissions for the journal. If you are interested in submitting an abstract or full paper for future issues of LTHE, please see the deadlines and guidelines at http://www.zu.ac.ae/lthe/call.html  David Palfreyman.

8 February 2009