Workshops/ Seminars/ Events
LIST OF TALKS/WORKSHOPS/TRAINING PROGRAMME/MEETINGS FOR
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
ORGANISED BY THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL
DDS PROF H C S RUGHOOPUTH | |
27 Apr 2017 | Meeting with Director (DS) Prof H C S Rughooputh |
04 Aug 2017 | Workshop ‘Introduction to LaTeX’ Resource Person: Dr Vandana Bassoo , Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius |
07 Sep 2017 | Workshop 'Best Practices for Productive Writing’ Resource Person: Dr Taruna Shalini Ramessur - Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Mauritius. |
29 Sep 2017 | Workshop on the Turbulence Model used in CFD Codes organised Under the Royal Society -DFID Africa Capacity Building Initiative in collaboration with the Doctoral School Resource Persons: Associate Professor K Elahee, Mechanical and Production Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius Dr M Z Dauhoo, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius Dr A Khoodoruth, Mechanical and Production Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius |
06 Octr2017 | Workshop- "Introduction to R Programming" Resource Person: Mr Sameerchand Pudaruth – Senior Lecturer at the Department of ICT, Faculty of Information, Communication and Digital Technologies, University of Mauritius |
DDS Prof A H SUBRATTY | |
03 Jul 2018 | Meeting with Director (DS) Prof A H Subratty |
11 Jul 2018 | Talk on “Participatory Research” by the Doctoral School and the Department of Health Sciences, (Faculty of Science), in collaboration with the Global Young Academy Resource Person: Dr Miraj U. Desai, PhD- Yale School of Medicine, USA |
16 Jul 2018 | Workshop- "Publishing in Leading International Journals organized by the International Center for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality in collaboration with the Doctoral School, University of Mauritius Resource Person: Professor Dogan Gursoy, College of Business, Washington State University, USA |
25 Jul 2018 | Workshop- "Philosophical Underpinnings of Research with regards to Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology Resource Person: Dr Mukesh Srivastava, Professor Management Information System, College of Business, University of Mary Washington, USA |
27 Jul 2018 | Workshop- "Pitching Research Organised by The International Center for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality in collaboration with the Doctoral School, University of Mauritius Resource Person : Professor Robert Faff, Professor of Finance & Director of Research, University of Queensland Business School |
06 Aug 2018 | Talk on An Innovation-Driven Future: Intellectual Property Management in Knowledge Economy Resource Person : Dr Mukesh Srivastava - Senior, Director, Center for Business Research, Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Mary Washington |
12 Sep 2018 | Talk on “ Current trends in probiotics and prebiotics” organised by the Doctoral School in collaboration with the Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science Resource Person : Prof Nagendra Shah, Professor of Food Science, University of Hong-Kong |
28 Sep 2018 | Journal Publication: Writing Constructive Reviews and Responding to Reviewer Comments organized by the International Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality in collaboration with the Doctoral School, University of Mauritius Resource Person: Professor of Business Research Methods, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham |
5-6 Nov 2018 | Training Workshop on Principles of Phytomedicine : Ethnomedicine, Science, & Product Formulation organized by Doctoral School in collaboration with FoA & FoS and sponsored by SANBIO Resource person: Prof Namrita Lall, Research Chair, affiliated to the University of Pretoria |
08-10 Jan 2019 | A 10-hour Short Course on “Quantification of Uncertainties in Modelling”, organised by the Doctoral School in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science. Resource person: Professor Laurent Dumas, University of Versailles, France |
03 Oct 2019 | Workshop on “ Scientific & Research Writing and Publishing” Resource person: Sibu Zondi , Emerald Publishing |
04 Oct 2019 | Workshop on “ Best Practices for Productive Writing” Resource person: Assoc Prof (Dr) Taruna Ramessur |
26 Nov 2019 | Workshop on “Successful Doctoral Thesis Writing: Several Principles” Resource person: Professor John H Stanfield II, SSR Chair for African Studies |
Ag DDS: Prof S JHAUMEER-LAULLOO | |
24 Nov 2020 | ‘The Doctoral Journey, Statistical Tools in Research & Research Capacities’ Resource person: Dr Lydia Rhyman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mr R Thoplan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Statistics and Mr Shalan Khalid, Core Research Solutions Consultant,Elsevier. |
DDS: Prof B SEETANAH | |
Wednesday 3 March 2021 | R' workshop Resource person : Mr R Thoplan, Senior Lecturer Department of Economics and Statistics Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities |
Tuesday 30 March 2021 | Webinar ‘Challenges and opportunities in research and innovation for the next generation UoM PhDs and PostDocs’ organised in collaboration with the CBBR. Resource persons : Assoc Prof A Bhaw-Luximon, Head CBBR & Dr N Goonoo, Research Fellow at CBBR |
Friday 9 Apr 2021 | Webinar entitled ‘Conducting Systematic LR using Kitchenham and PRISMA Methods’ Resource person: Assoc Prof K Khedo, Dean, Faculty of Information, Communication and Digital Technologies (FoICDT) |
Thursday 15 Apr 2021 | Webinar entitled ‘Research Article and Publishing with Emerald’ Resource person: Mr Sibu Zonzi,Vice President – Business Development | Africa | Emerald Publishing |
Thursday 29 April 2021 | Tips for Successful Completion of Your Doctoral Thesis Resource person: Professor Chris Brooks, Professor at the University of Reading (UK) & Author of the famous book 'Introductory Econometrics for Finance' (Cambridge University Press) |
Friday 7 May 2021 | AN INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH PROF MANOJ MAHARAJ FROM THE UNIVERSITY of KwaZulu-Natal Resource person: PROF MANOJ MAHARAJ |
Thursday 20 May 2021 | Webinar entitled ‘Qualitative Research Methodology and Design’ Resource persons: Professor Alfred Henrico & Dr Roland Goldberg North-West University South Africa |
Friday 11 June 2021 | “How many is enough? Reporting and Justifying Sample Size in Qualitative Interviews” Resource persons: Professor N K Saunders Professor of Business Research Methods at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and Director of Global Engagement |
Tuesday 22 June 2021 | Research, Approach and Design Resource persons: Dr Upasana Gitanjali SINGH |
Friday 25 June 2021 | Doctoral Supervisors Webinar Resource persons: Prof Jan Botha, Professor, Centre of Excellence for Scientometrics and STI Policy and the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University & Dr V Teeroovengadum, Head of Department, Department of Management, Faculty of Law and Management, UoM |
Friday 9 July 2021 | “Understanding the Research Process and its Implications for Doctoral Research” Resource persons: Assoc Prof (Dr) R Nunkoo Faculty of Law and Management |
21, 23, 28 and 30 July 2021 | Academic Writing Course Series Resource person: Professor Charles Faul School of Chemistry University of Bristol UK |
Thursday 29 July 2021 | Data Analysis for Survey Research _Part 1 Resource person: Dr V Teeroovengadum Faculty of Law and Management |
Wednesday 4 August 2021 | “An Introduction to LaTex Resource person: Dr V Bassoo Senior Lecturer Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering University of Mauritius |
Thursday 19 August 2021 | Equity in International Collaborative Health Research” Resource persons: Assoc Prof Jantina de Vries Department of Medicine University of Cape Town |
23 to 25 August 2021 | Virtual online Southern Africa Science Leadership Programme Workshop (S-ASLP) organised by the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP), the initiating Young Academy in Mauritius, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, Mauritius National Chapter and the Doctoral School of the University of Mauritius. |
Thursday 2 September 2021 | Data Analysis for Survey Research _Part 2 Resource persons: Dr V Teeroovengadum Faculty of Law and Management |
Wednesday 08 September 2021 | Virtual Open Session by the Doctoral School for Prospective Doctoral Students |
Wednesday 15 September 2021 | An Overview of Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling and Its Applications Resource Persons: Prof Dr.C M Ringle Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany;& Dr V Teeroovengadum Senior Lecturer & Head of Department of Management Faculty of Law and Management |
Tuesday 05 October 2021 | How to survive the double blind - peer review system
Resource Person: Ms Mahynour Okda, from Emerald Publishing.
Ms Okda is the Emerald Regional Training Executive for Middle East Africa (MEA) and she is based in Cairo, Egypt. She has been with Emerald for more than 4 years now. She is currently the visiting lecturer for Research Methodology at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Egypt. |
Wednesday 06 October 2021 | Developing effective supervisory support towards mutualistic symbiotic relationships Resource Person: Prof Mark N.K. Saunders |
Wednesday 13 October 2021 | The 7 Elements of Effective Critical Thinking in Doctoral Dissertation Writing: What Are They? Resource Person: Professor John H Stanfield Director, ASARPI: The Institute for Advanced Study of African Renaissance Policies Ideas |
Monday 08 November 2021 | An Introduction to Meta-Analysis Resource Persons: Professor B Seetanah, Director of Doctoral School Ms Zameelah Khan Jaffur |
Thursday 25 November 2021 | A U.S. Business School Approach at Integrating Academia and Industry: The Harvard Case Method Resource Person: Dr Rajeev Sooreea Associate Dean Associate Professor of International Business Barowsky School of Business |
Thursday 02 December 2021 | The Main Elements of Theory for All The Sciences and Humanities: What Are They? ' : Resource Person: Professor John H Stanfield Director; ASARPI:The Institute for Advanced Study of African Renaissance Policies Ideas |
Thursday 27 January 2022 | Pitching Research Matters Resource Person: Professor Robert Faff, FASSA Professorial Fellow at Bond University and Emeritus Professor at University of Queensland. |
Thursday 03 February 2022 | Ethics in Research- what’s the fuss? Resource Person: Professor Emmambux Department of Consumer and Food Sciences, University of Pretoria |
Tuesday 15 February 2022 | Earning the Trust and making Alliances to bringing about Change Resource Professor: Uttam Gaulee Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy Morgan State University U.S.A |
Wednesday 09 and Thursday 10 March | UoM Virtual Doctoral Colloquium 2022 |
Wednesday 30 March 2022 | Webinar on “Literature Review and Writing up of Manuscript: How to be Effective' Resource Persons: Dr Lydia Rhyman - Research cycle and the Research cycle and a guide on how to carry out literature review Mr Khalid M. Shalan (Elsevier Representative) – Building blocks of your Research paper |
Thursday 08 April 2022 | Virtual Research Presentation by UoM PhD Awardees (1) Presentation by Dr Viki-Rao Nalaya Thesis Title: "Elucidation on HLA Antibodies Development in Multiply Transfused Male Patients across the Major Ethnic Groups in Mauritius and Resolution of HLA Alleles and Haplotypes Frequencies in the Donor Population of Mauritius And (2) Presentation by Dr Sajaad Boodoo Thesis Title: "Development of a Novel Algorithm and Study of the Effect of Reflecting Surfaces on Actively Created Quiet Zones". |
Thursday 14 April 2022 | Research Ethics: Conceptual and Practical Considerations Resource Person: Professor Mark Rathbone |
Friday 22 April 2022 | Online workshop with the theme ‘Quality Standards in PhD Supervision’ Resource Persons: Dr Baby A. Gobin-Rahimbux, Dr (Mrs) Maleika Heenaye- Mamode Khan |
Tuesday 31 May 2022 | Panel Session on ‘From Supervisory Dialogues to Successful PhDs- enabling the learning conversation of students and staff’ Panelists: Prof Archana Bhaw-Luximon Dr Virayan Teeroovengadum |
21 to 24 June 2022 | Big Data Mauritius - data science mini-school DARA Big Data, in partnership with the University of Mauritius (UOM), IDIA and the OAD |
30 June 2022 | The art of presenting: make your research count Resource Person: Prof Lida Holtzhausen |
12 July 2022 | Talk on 'Small island developing states: Vulnerability and resilience under climate change' Resource Person: Dr Stefano Moncada |
20 July 2022 | Virtual Research Presentation by UoM PhD Awardees by (1) Dr (Mrs) Bibi Fatema Zahra Mungloo-Dilmohamud Thesis Title : “Computational Methods for Feature Selection in the Context of Gene Expression Profiling and Biomarker Discovery: Robust and Novel Methods” (2) Dr Nandini Savoo Thesis Title: “Theoretical Insights into the Effect of Counteractions, Solvent, Nucleophilicity and Reactive Centres on Bimolecular Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions” |
July 2022 | Exchange programme for Doctoral Students currently registered under the ERASMUS programme |
13 September 2022 | Delving into the multi-level introspection modes of the doctoral journey Resource Person: Professor Fayth Ruffin, Juris Doctor, PhD (Global Affairs) |
20 September 2022 | Virtual Open Session 2022 organised by the Doctoral School |
I October 2022 | Workshop on Meta Analysis Resource Person:Professor B Seetanah,Director Doctoral School Ms Zameelah Khan Jaffur |
21 October 2022 | Workshop for Doctoral students, Postdoctoral Fellows & UoM Supervisors on Researching for Policy/Societal Impact' Resource Persons: Professor Stefan Dercon & Prof Pramila Krishnan University of Oxford |
25 October 2022 | Webinar on ‘How important is it to get publications from your PhD?’ Resource Person: Prof Michael Graham, PhD Stellenbosch Business School |
27 October 2022 | Workshop on Having a Successful Research Career: Insights from Professor Herstatt's Three Decades Experience Resource Person: Professor Cornelius Herstatt's Hamburg University of Technology Germany |
22 November 2022 | Workshop on "Leadership Skills for Postgraduate Studies and Research Resource Person: Associate Professor Dr. Rafał Mrówka SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. |
05 December 2022 | Doctoral Networking Event |
11 to 13 January 2023 | Short course on “Multidisciplinary optimization and industrial applications Resource Persons: Professor Laurent Dumas, Versailles University, France and Professor Zaid Dauhoo, University of Mauritius |
09 February 2023 | Webinar on “Conducting Systematic LR using Kitchenham and PRISMA” Resource Person: Professor (Dr) Kavi Kumar Khedo Dean, FoICDT |
25 February 2023 | Workshop: “Finding the Right 'Home' for Your Research Papers: Understanding Journal Ranking and Citation Index” Resource Person : Assoc Prof (Dr) Robin NUNKOO Department of Management Head, International Center for Sustainable Tourism |
28 February 2023 | Workshop: An interaction with Elsevier's K Shalan (Core Research Solution Consultant) Resource Person: Elsevier's Representative K Shalan ( Core Research Solution Consultant) |
7 March 2023 | UoM/UKZN Doctoral Colloquium 2023 Pre-Event - Workshop on ‘Student Wellness – a Critical Component of a fulfilling Doctoral Journey’ Resource Persons: Prof M Maharaj and Dr U Singh (UKZN) |
8-9 March 2023 | UoM/UKZN Doctoral Colloquium 2023 (2nd edition) |
17 March 2023 | Training-High Performance Server for MPhil/PhD Students |
LIST OF SEMINARS FOR
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
ORGANISED BY THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL
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27 Apr 2017 | Meeting with Director (DS) Prof H C S Rughooputh |