Heartiest congratulations to our colleague at SMLC, Ms Gayathry Venkiteswaran, for being awarded a grant (amounting to RM60k) under the Democracy Discourse Series to conduct a study on ‘Promoting digital media literacy and political awareness for youths in Selangor, Malaysia’.

This 18-month project commenced on 2 September 2019.

This award meaned a great achievement for the School and the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@, especially in terms of research and knowledge exchange (RKE) achievements.

Gaya has also advised that a portion of the funds will go towards recruiting UNM/SMLC students as 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Assistants, which will further strengthen our school’s research culture/portfolio.

The project will be supported by the Centre for the Study of Communications and Culture (under the School of Media, Languages and Cultures).