University of Nottingham Malaysia
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
     
  

CIBFR Lecture: Doing Research and Publishing in Islamic Banking and Finance

Date(s)
27th November 2015
Contact

For more information on the event, you can contact Professor Nafis Alam or call +6038924 8279.

Description

The Centre for Islamic Business and Finance Research (CIBFR), UNMC is pleased to invite you to a lecture titled 'Doing Research and Publishing in Islamic Banking and Finance'. 

Professor Kabir will be discussing about how to write good quality thesis and publish in good journals. He will share with the audience his experience about there viewers’ expectation of in this area. Among the topic that he will cover includes: 

1.    The Role of Graduate Students

2.    Writing a Doctoral/Master Thesis 

1.    Choosing a thesis topic 

2.    Choosing a Chairperson

3.    Writing a Proposal

4.    Myths and realities in thesis writing

3.    Pitching a Research template

1.    Basic Research Question 

2.    Key Papers

3.    Motivation/Puzzles

4.    Idea

5.    Data

6.    Tools

7.    What’s new

8.    So what?

9.    Contribution

10.  Other Consideration

4.    The Role of a Thesis Chair

5.    Doing Empirical Islamic Finance Research

6.    Publishing your Paper

1.    Preparing your Manuscript

2.    Submission

3.    Review Process

4.    Beware of Predatory Journals 

Details: 
Date:
 27 November 2015, Thursday
Time: 15:30 to 17:00
Venue: BA1
8
             The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
             Jalan Broga 
             43500 Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan   

About the speaker: 
Professor Dr M. Kabir Hassan is Professor of Finance and Hibernia Professor of Economics and Finance in the Department of Economics and Finance. Prof. Kabir received his BA in Economics and Mathematics from Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA, and M.A. in Economics and PhD in Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA respectively. 

Prof. Kabir is a financial economist with consulting, research and teaching experiences in development finance, money and capital markets, Islamic finance,corporate finance, investments, monetary economics, macroeconomics and international trade and finance. He has done consulting work for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, African Development Bank, Transparency International-Bangladesh (TIB), Islamic Development Bank, Government of Turkey and many private organisations. 

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

University of Nottingham Malaysia
Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia

telephone: +6 (03) 8924 8000
fax: +6 (03) 8924 8001

Make an enquiry