Suraya Hamid

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PhD Candidate

Melbourne School of Engineering

The University of Melbourne

Level 10, Room 10.07, Dough McDonell Building

Victoria, 3010

Phone: +60 3 8344 1540

Fax:  +61 3 9349 4596
Email: s.hamid@student.unimelb.edu.au

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Background

I am attached with the Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at University of Malaya, Malaysia. I am currently under study leave sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and University of Malaya starting 18 December 2008.

I graduated with Bachelor of Information Technology in 1998 and Master of Information Technology in 2000, both from National University of Malaysia. After graduated, I worked for Malaysia's first virtual university (Universiti Tun Abdul Razak or UNITAR). I later joined Malaysia's premier university, University of Malaya (UM) in Kuala Lumpur as an academic since August 2003.

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Research Interests

Online social networking, Web 2.0 in higher education,

The use of Information Systems in higher education/school/organisation/community

 

Current PhD Research (Thesis)

Title: The Use of Online Social Networking (OSN) for Higher Education

My research aim is to provide empirical data through a systematic investigation into why and how academics and students choose to use social technologies in their teaching and learning.

Principal Supervisor: Dr. Shanton Chang, Co-Supervisors: Dr. Sherah Kurnia & Dr. Jenny Waycott

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Publications

 

2012

Hamid, S. Chang, S. Waycott, J. Kurnia, S. (2012). A Systematic Appropriation of Social Technologies for Educational Activities: Empirical Study of Australian Lecturers. 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2012. 9-11 August 2012, Seattle, Washington. (Accepted for publication)

 

2011

Hamid, S., Waycott, J., Chang, S., Kurnia, S. (2011). Appropriating Online Social Networking (OSN) Activities for Higher Education: Two Malaysian Cases. The 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) 2011.  4-7 December 2011, Hobart, Tasmania. (Abstract)

 

Hamid, S., Kurnia, S., Waycott, J., Chang, S. (2011). Exploring Malaysian Students’ Perspectives of Online Social Networking (OSN) Use for Higher Education. 22nd Annual Conference ISANA International Education Association (ISANA) 2011. 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2011, Hobart, Tasmania. (Abstract)

 

Hamid, S., Chang, S., Waycott, J., Kurnia, S. (2011). Making Sense of the Online Social Networking for Higher Education: An Analysis of Empirical Data Using Activity Theory. The 6th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) 2011, 3-5 September 2011, Cyprus. (Abstract)

 

2010

Hamid, S., Waycott, J., Kurnia, S., Chang, S. (2010). The Use of Online Social Networking for Higher Education from an Activity Theory Perspective. The 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2010. Pages 1414-1425. 9-12 July,Taipei, Taiwan. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2010/135/

 

Hamid, S., Chang, S. & Kurnia, S. (2010). Investigation of the Use and Benefits of Online Social Networking (OSN) in higher education. The 8th Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2010, 29 June – 2 July 2010. Orlando, Florida. http://www.iiis.org/CDs2010/CD2010SCI/EISTA_2010/index.asp?id=0&area=3

 

2009

Hamid, S., Chang, S. & Kurnia, S. (2009). Identifying the Use of Online Social Networking in Higher Education. ASCILITE 2009, 6-9 December 2009. Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/procs/hamid-poster.pdf

 

Award

AEI Bursary Award 2011 by the Australian Education International (AEI), The Australian Government

 

For Hamid, S., Kurnia, S., Waycott, J., Chang, S. (2011). Exploring Malaysian Students’ Perspectives of Online Social Networking (OSN) Use for Higher Education. 22nd Annual Conference ISANA International Education Association (ISANA) 2011. 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2011, Hobart, Tasmania.

 

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Selected Research Activities

1. Presentation at Careers Practitioners Seminar with Dr Shanton Chang, topic presented: “The Use of Online Social Networking (OSN) in the Classrooms”, University of Melbourne, Australia, 14 June 2011

2. Pre-PACIS OCIS-Sponsored Paper Development Workshop, Brisbane, 8 July 2011 (special invitation)

3. Cross-Cultural Issues in Fieldwork and Research Workshop, Graduate School, University of Melbourne, 16 June 2011

4. Seventh Melbourne Computing Education Convecticle (MCEC) 2010, Monash University, Clayton, 19 November 2010

5. Analysing Qualitative Research Seminar, 30th September 2010

6. Presentation at PhD Confirmation, 23rd February 2010

7. Presentation at the Doctoral Consortium, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, 4th June 2010

 

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