Welcome
Welcome to the Postgraduate Research Centre
The office of the Vice President of Research warmly welcomes you all to a new and exciting year of research and higher degree learning across the University in 2023!
We acknowledge and thank the efforts of former Vice President Higher Degrees and Research Associate Professor Josh Kurian who we said farewell to at the end of 2022.
What is our direction for 2023?
As we set our direction for 2023, it is first important to reflect on the key principles and strategic research themes set under the DWU Strategic Plan 2016-2026. This will guide us towards achieving the goal of becoming a leading university in research excellence in the provision of high quality education in Papua New Guinea. It provides us with accountabilities and directions for actions as envisioned in overarching Strategic Objective 3 of the DWU Strategic Plan 2016-2026 on intensified research and knowledge exchange.
Let us not forget that the vision and mission of DWU requires the application of knowledge as a public service, thus, both teaching and research will often involve a component of community engagement. In research this may take the form of commissioned to serve public need, and collaborative research with partners external to DWU. Which is really strongly emphasised in the University theme of this year which is a quote taken from Cesar Chevez
“The end of all knowledge, should be service to others”
Giving prominence to community orientated and policy research that can serve our people and our country.
In a reflection on the Strategic Research Themes of the University, we find a call for us to find a balance of academic and scholarly culture with research.
The strategic research themes:
- Balance of fundamental research as an academic pursuit for the sake of generating new knowledge for its own sake and applied research to serve public need
- Develop a scholarly culture that sees a natural relationship between research and teaching, research and learning, research and leadership and tmanagement. All staff with postgraduate qualifications will be motivated to develop a research mindset such that the practices of scholarship and research become an engrained culture.
So how do we achieve all this?
In brief the research plan for 2023 to achieve the strategic research themes are:
- 1. Student Transformation
- Focus on promoting Ethical Principles in Research to ensure the credibility of our research and accountability to the generation of knowledge provided through research.
- 2. Innovation in learning and teaching
- Research Conversations: Monthly Conversation Topics
- “Talk with a Pro” Professorial Feature-Live Stream-Higher Degrees and Research
- Marketing our capacity in academia and research through: Academic research profiles that can be found on DWU website/Twitter and Linked to showcase our academic and research capacity
- Increase in Action research by academics through a simple guide
- on “How to do action research?” and Action research workshops
- Writing retreats and informative sessions on writing will be important to enhance our capacity to publish our research.
- 3. Intensified research and knowledge exchange
- Establishment of a new and exciting Research Centre/Station for the Faculty of Business Informatics and Tourism. The aim is to establish a Research Centre or Station that combines tourism, research, and promotes business for DWU, Example the Motupore Research Station/Centre UPNG.
- Marketing Strategy to encourage also research consultancies both nationally and internationally.
- Research Supervision training to encourage effective research supervision.
- Academic Research Mentoring Program-pair up and learn from a senior academic to help you throughout the year talk through your publications.
- ‘Presentation to Publication program’ -incentivise Publications
- 4. Productive Partnerships
- Do a tracer study on staff -on Australia Awards Programs as Alumni and fostered relationships to establish or strengthen existing partnerships that can increase collaborative opportunities if mapped out and strategically approached.
- Make better use of existing network memberships, such as the Association of Commonwealth Universities and PIURN, and consider joining others;
- Stakeholder mapping study of strategic partner institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to approach for partnerships.
- 5. Enhanced staff capabilities
- Establish baseline in 2016-current and analyse trends to determine:
- Increase the proportion of academic staff with doctoral qualifications to 20%;
- Increase the proportion of all staff with postgraduate qualifications to 95%;
- 6. Optimum organizational effectiveness
- Revised Governance Arrangements
- Ensure policy updates and development to support research initiatives
- 7. Financial sustainability
- Research Income generation model
- Fundraising for research by running short research related workshops targeting external private sector participants.
So what can we look forward to this year?
Research:
For Research, we look forward to capacity being built to increase research excellence across the University!
We want to have increases dialogues and conversations around research:
Watch Broadcast to join monthly conversation on research:
Let’s Talk!
“Thinking about it? let’s talk about!!”
| Month |
Topic |
| February |
It's the love month:
What do you love about your work?
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| March |
March Madness:
What frustrates you about research?
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| April |
Is the Easter Bunny Real?
Ask the right questions?
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| May |
May Mayhem:
Still stuck?
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| June |
Stay tune:
Know how to tune into your literature?
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| July |
Remember:
What things do I need to think about to prepare me for research? Ethical Considerations?
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| August |
Reflect:
What have I done so far what else needs to be done?
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| September |
PNG Considerations:
Why does your work matter to PNG?
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| October |
What's still Spooky?
What is still scary about research?
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| November |
No matter what, remember we should never stop learning?
Learning from each other? Reflection on 2023!
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Higher Degrees
Under the Higher Degrees, this year we will launch and open the Masters in Philosophy program, to be launched in April 2023!
In closing this welcome address
I leave my contact and location within the University where you can reach me to get involved and a fun year of research, learning, and community service.
Dr Pamela Kamya, PhD
Vice President Research and Higher Degrees
Postgraduate and Research Centre
Room 13 - Level 02
P O Box 483, Madang
Papua New Guinea
Ph: 422 2937 Ext: 781
Fax: 422 2812;
Email: عنوان البريد الإلكتروني هذا محمي من روبوتات السبام. يجب عليك تفعيل الجافاسكربت لرؤيته.
WISHING YOU ALL THE VERY BEST FOR 2023!
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible
~St Francis of Assisi~
Research Outcomes
Research Outputs 2017
DIVINE WORD UNIVERSITY
Criteria used to determine eligible research outputs
The Australia Department of Education and Industry’s annual ‘Higher Education Research Data Collection’ has not required Higher Education Providers to provide a ‘Research Publications Return’ since the 2014 reporting year. In that year research publications were defined as ‘books, book chapters, journal articles and/or conference publications’. In the subsequent reporting years, only research income has been reported.
In recent years the Australian Research Council (ARC) has assumed sole responsibility for collecting research outputs, in the form of the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) research evaluation framework.
The current criteria are given in in the Australian Research Council ‘Excellence in Research for Australia 2018 Submission Guidelines’ http://www.arc.gov.au/era-2018
The eligible research output types are:
(a) books—authored research
(b) chapters in research books—authored research
(c) journal articles—scholarly, peer reviewed journal
(d) conference publications—full paper refereed
DWU has followed the criteria of the 2018 ERA round. Accordingly:
• The year of publication for research outputs is the 2017 calendar year
• Conference presentations are not included unless published
• Peer review is required for books and conference publications (and a statement of proof is required if the publisher is not a commercial publisher – ‘A statement from an author that a publication was peer reviewed is not acceptable’)
• Books and journals must have ISBNs and ISSNs
• Publication in journals must be in internationally recognised journal lists*
• Creative works such as novels, manuals and handbooks, textbooks or chapters in textbooks, translations and theses do not count as research publications
• Each research publication is only counted once across the institution
* The 2018 ERA Submission Guidelines use Clarivate Analytics’s master journal list http://mjl.clarivate.com.
The DWU Research Journal and Catalyst are not in the Clarivate list, but are in the Informit Indigenous Collection https://www.informit.org/informit-indigenous-collection and publications in these journals are therefore deemed eligible.
12.3 List of research outputs for most recent year
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Aime, A. (2017). The institution of the men’s house and making of men. Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal, 27, 1-7.
Anderson, P., & Kolodziejczyk, I. (2017). Academic Writing: Good writers wanting to be better. Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal, 26, 67-79.
Burton, J.E. & J. Onguglo (2017). ‘Disconnected Development Worlds: Responsibility towards Local Communities in Papua New Guinea.’ In Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (eds) Large-Scale Mines and Local-Level Politics. Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea (pp. 261-289). Canberra: ANU Press.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/LMLP.10.2017
Burton, J. with Y. Haihuie (2017). Corruption Risks in Mining Awards: Papua New Guinea.
Port Moresby: Transparency International Papua New Guinea
Gesch, P. (2017). Thinking along the same lines: Varieties of initiation and varieties of fieldwork in Sepik and Madang. In A.T. von Poser & A. von Poser, Facets of fieldwork: Essays in honor of Jurg Wassmann (pp. 41-56). Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter.
Gesch,P. (2017). Varieties of local leadership in three peri-urban communities of Madang.
Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal, 26, 109-120.
Gibbs, P., & Kale, E. (2017). Completion rates in flexible learning. PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal, 26, 56-66.
Sullivan, M., J. Burton, D. Ellis, J. Golson & P. Hughes (2017). ‘Stone Sources and Petrology of Kuk Swamp Artefacts’ In J. Golson, T. Denham, P. Hughes, P. Swadling & J. Muke (eds) Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (pp. 403-416). Canberra: ANU Press, Terra Australis 46
doi: dx.doi.org/10.22459/TA46.07.2017
Faculty of Education
Paraide, P., Evans, T., & Casey, G. (2017). Using action research for sustainable community development in a remote a district in PNG. Contemporary PNG Studies DWU Research Journal, 26, 44-55
Faculty of Business and Informatics
Airi, P., & Anderson, P.K. (2017). Cisco Packet Tracer as a teaching and learning tool for computer networks in DWU. Contemporary PNG Studies, DWU Research Journal, 26, 88-108.
Anderson, P.K. (2017). Population modelling with exponential functions: Logistic Equation.
DWU E-Journal of Informatics, 1, 1-20.
Daniel, M. (2017). Electronic government: Evaluating status of service usage in Papua New Guinea. Contemporary PNG Studies DWU Research Journal, 26, 30-43.
Daniel, M. (2017). Electronic government: Factors that influence adoption by agencies in Papua New Guinea. Contemporary PNG Studies DWU Research Journal, 27, 17-27.
Daniel, M. (2017). Factors that could influence adoption of e-learning in developing countries. DWU E-Journal of Informatics, 1, 21-28.
Gunik, R., (2017). Facilitating Software Development using UML Model. Contemporary PNG Studies DWU Research Journal, 27, 28-41.
Misra, R.B., Anderson, P.K., & Ameen, J.R. (2017), Some Unique Characteristics of Exponential functions. Contemporary PNG Studies, DWU Research Journal, 27, 8-16.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Begani, R.K. & Begani, A.Z. (2017) Alluvial gold mining sites as exposure pathways for methyl mercury toxicity in children: A systematic review. Health, 9, 930-941. https://doi.org/10.4236/health.2017.96066
Clarke, G. M., Rockett, K., Kivinen, K., Hubbart, C., Jeffreys, A. E., … Michon, P., et al (2017). Characterisation of the opposing effects of G6PD deficiency on cerebral malaria and severe malarial anaemia. ELife, 6: e15085 doi: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.15085
Karthikeyan, P., & Ramalingam, K. P. (2017). e-learning initiatives in delivering the undergraduate physiotherapy education program in Papua New Guinea. Asia Pacific Journal of Contemporary Education and Communication Technology, 3(1), 31-40.
Manineng, C.M., MacLaren D., Baigry, M., Trowalle, E., Muller, R., Vallely, A. et al. (2017). Re-establishing safer medical-circumcision-integrated initiation ceremonies for HIV prevention in a rural setting in Papua New Guinea. A multi-method acceptability study. PLoS One, 12(11): e0187577. doi: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187577
Marme, G. (2017). TB infection control: Barriers and facilitating factors. Contemporary PNG Studies, DWU Research Journal. 26, 80-87
Marme, G.D. (2017). Patients’ perspectives of TB DOTS treatment in Madang Province.
Contemporary PNG Studies, DWU Research Journal. 27, 51-64
Namun,K., Irumai, A., Chakumai, K., Papapu, S., Sion, P. & Semos, I. (2016). Where are they now? A tracer study of former Health Management students of Divine Word University. Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal, 25, 77-93
Papapu, S. (2017). Factors affecting waiting time at Modilon General Hospital.
Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal, 27, 65-76
Vallely, A., MacLaren D., Toliman P., Kelly-Hanku A., Toto B,… Manineng, C.M., et al (2017).
Dorsal longitudinal foreskin cut is associated with reduced risk of HIV, syphilis and genital herpes in men: a cross-sectional study in Papua New Guinea. Journal of the International AIDS Society 20(1): 21358. doi: doi.org/10.7448/IAS.20.01/21358.
