UK Research Collaborations

It was really heartening to hear some very good news from Prof Dr Rashidah, ARI Deputy Director, who is now in Conpenhagen attending a training on Financial Criminology - i.e. learning new methodologies to analyse data on financial crime and learning new tools or mechanisms for fraud prevention. On her way to Conpenhagen, Prof Rashidah visited four universities in the United Kingdom. The aim of the visit was basically to find opportunities for the Accounting Research Institute (ARI)and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)to develop academic and research network with some renowned universities there. Her first stop was University of Dundee on 29th March, 2011. There she met up with Dr Rania Kamla, an expert in Islamic Accounting, so there is a possibility of joint research with her and her colleague. On 31st March, Prof Rashidah met up with Dr Mehmet from Durham University. Dr Mehmet is from the Durham Islamic Finance Program, which is run under the auspicious of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Durham University. Again, there's a great potential for research collaboration between ARI and Durham. Later that afternoon, Prof Shidah had a discussion with Dr Amneya Abdelsalam, Director of the Islamic Finance and Business School Centre, Aston Business School. Her last stop was at the Oxford University where she met up with Dr Farhan Ahmad Nizami, the Director of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Again, there's a great interest for the Centre to work closely with ARI on Waqf research. Congratulations and well done Prof Shidah