SPORTS CENTRE
RESEARCH AT SPORTS CENTRE Introduction/Background UM isthe first tertiary institution in Malaysia to offer the Bachelor of Sport Science degree program; - Bachelor of Sports Science in Sports Management - Bachelor of Sports Science in Exercise Science In addition, Sports Centre also offer - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Master of Sports Science (by research)
Research in Sports Management and Exercise Science as well as Health and Well-being at SportsCentre are dedicated to advancing knowledge in the following areas. Adapted Physical Fitness Sport Law Biochemistry of Exercise Sport Management Coaching Sport Philosophy Exercise Physiology Sport Management Studies Physical Conditioning Sport Marketing Recreation Management Sport Media Management Sport and Exercise Psychology Sport Nutrition Sport Facilities Management Sport Policy & Governance Sport Industry Financial Management Management Sport Sport Technology Sociology Management Sport Tourism Management
RESEARCHERS PROFILE
DR MOHD SALLEH AMAN Associate Professor Telephone: +601668219121 / +603 79673210 Email: amanms@um.edu.my Associate Professor Dr. Mohd Salleh Aman is a PhD holder in Leisure Studies focuses in the area of sport and physical recreation, graduated from Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. Dr. Mohd Salleh Aman completed a BA (Hons) degree in Geography and a Master of Education degree in Health, Physical Education and Sport, University of Malaya. He is the Associate Professor in Sport and Recreation Management. Dr. Mohd Salleh Aman is currently helms the directorship of University of Malaya Sport Centre. He has been entrusted as a leader for the research group for Institute for Youth Research Malaysia (IYRES). He is also being designated as the principal investigator in his latest project under Research Centre for Malay Excellence. Dr. Mohd Salleh Aman was appointed as a consultant for the establishment of Sport Industry Division, Ministry of Youth and Sport Malaysia. He was also a visiting professor at the State University of Jakarta, Indonesia in 2009. Currently he involves in the sport policy, program and facility development for institution of higher learning in Malaysia, especially University of Malaya. Dr Mohd Salleh Aman s research interest includes sport and recreation event management, sport, tourism and leisure policy, sport industry and facilities, and sport technology and innovation. He had consistently involved in research activities at university level between faculties, national level with Ministry of Youth and Sport Malaysia as well as international level with Victoria University (Australia), Juntendo University (Japan) and Hanyang University (Korea).
DR LIM BOON HOOI Lecturer Telephone: +03-7967 6987 HP: +017-280 2632 E-mail: lboonhooi@um.edu.my, lboonhooi62@gmail.com Dr. Lim BH received his first degree in Sport Science (Majoring in Sport Psychology & Coaching) at University of Malaya (1999) and an MSc. in Sport Science (Sport Psychology) at University Putra Malaysia. Following this, he completed his PhD in Sport Psyhology at University of Malaya in 2011, investigating the effects of psychological intervention on pre-competition multidimensional state anxiety in volleyball players. Dr Lim primary research interests lie in sport psycholgy intervention and sport anxeity to help athletes performing at the optimal level. He was appointed as a panel of the National Coaching Academy of Malaysia since 2009, the major roles of the appointment was to provide lectures and training to Malaysian coaches in Sport Psychology and Sport Coaching topics. Dr Lim s personal interest is in the topic related to Resistance Training, he published a few articles related to resistance training. In addition, he has conducted a variety of invited workshops, lectures related to resistance training in Malaysia, Indonesia & Thailand.
DR SAREENA HANIM HAMZAH Senior Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673327 Email: sareena@um.edu.my Dr. Sareena completed a BSc (Hons)(Biochemistry) degree at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Then she studied at University of Glasgow, Scotland where she obtained her Master of Medical Sciences (Human Nutrition) and PhD (Sports Nutrition) degrees. Dr. Sareena has worked as a lecturer in the Sports Centre at University of Malaya from 1999 till present. Dr.Sareena s current position is senior lecturer and she also serves in an administrative role as Deputy Director (Research & Development). She is also the coordinator for Sports Nutrition/Exercise Physiology Laboratory. Dr Sareena has attended Sports Nutrition Course organised by Sports Dietitians Australia conducted at National Institute of Sports in 2012. Dr. Sareena teaches and researches within the area of sports nutrition and biochemistry of exercise. Her primary interest concerns the relationship between nutrition and exercise performance. Dr. Sareena s research is focused in the influence of different type and amount of carbohydrate diets on exercise energy metabolism and performance as well as on appetite regulation and body weight management. Her research interest also includes the influence of natural products and physical activity on health and sports performance.
DR ASHRIL YUSOF Senior Lecturer Telephone: +603 79674624 Email: ashril@um.edu.my Dr. Ashril graduated in Bachelor of Science and Medical from St Andrews University, Scotland (1992), and Masters in Sports and Exercise Science (Health Science) from Essex University, England (1997). He then pursued a PhD in Sports Science (Biochemistry and Physiology) at Universty of Essex in 2006. His PhD research was on exercise-induced oxidative stress in erythrocytes. Ashril was a member of National Sports Medicine Institute (UK) from 1996-2006. He is currently a senior member of academic staff at the Sports Centre (Exercise Science Unit), University of Malaya. Dr. Ashril s research interests primarily focus on metabolic changes and biochemical events under severe endurance exercise. Regulation of circulatory oxidative enzymes and senescence or erythrocytes during prolonged exercise are of special interest, with scope to manipulate protective effects through provision of natural suplements and blood concentrates. Other research areas involved includes association of nutrition, appetite regulation and neuromuscular fatigue, skeletal muscle damage and healing, natural products and performance, and soccer or football training. Dr Ashril is also currently engaged in clinical studies involving diabetes and metabolomic changes during exercise, and obesity amongst school children.
DR SELINA K HOO Senior Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673225 Email: selina@um.edu.my Dr. Selina Khoo is currently a senior lecturer at the Sports Centre, University of Malaya. Her area of specialisation is sports sociology and her research interests include sports for women and persons with disabilities. She has served on the Women and Sports Committee of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, Development Committee of the FESPIC Federation as well as secretariat for the ASEAN Para Sports Federation the Asian Paralympic Committee. She is the current Vice President of the Asian Society for Adapted Physical Education and Exercise (ASAPE) and has recently been appointed to the Commonwealth Advisory Body on Sport (CABOS). Dr. Khoo is also a National Course Director for the Olympic Council of Malaysia and facilitates Olympic Solidarity Sport Administrators courses. She was the regional editor of the International Journal of Eastern Sports and Physical Education and currently reviews for international journals. Her current research projects are related to participation in physical activity funded by High Impact Research grants from the University of Malaya and Ministry of Higher Education.
DR WIRDATI MOHD RADZI Senior Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673567 Email: wirdati@um.edu.my Wirdati read law at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM 1999). She went on to do her MSA (Master of Sport Administration) at Ohio University, Athens OHIO the following year (1998). She came back to teach at UM s Sport Center in subjects such as Legal Aspects of Sport, Sport Industry and Sport Management Seminar. She went on to do her MPhil at Loughborough University UK in 2002. At Loughborough University, she was involved in an international research commissioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) undertaken jointly by the IOC and Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy, Loughborough University. The findings of the research was published and adopted by the 254 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) across the Globe. She came back to finish her PhD thesis in Muslim Women Sport Managers at UM. Wirdati was the 2008 recipient of the WSFFM Women and Sport Scholarship for her research in Muslim women sport managers. Wirdati's primary research interests lie in women and sport, with special interest in how sport policy affects the governance and engagement of the society in sport. This interest stemmed from her background of legal studies and her secondary training as a sport manager. In addition, she is interested in the development of sport management as an area of discipline as well as a professional endeavor in developing countries compared to more established economies. She currently serves as a researcher in an international research collaboration with the National Taiwan Sport University in developing the Olympic Athletes Welfare models. In her spare time, she continues to engage in the development of sport management regionally, having recently being appointed as the treasurer of the Asian Association for Sport Management (AASM), the continental association for sport managers in affiliation to the World Association of Sport Management (WASM).
DR SOLHA HUSIN Senior Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673560 Email: solha@um.edu.my Solha is a senior lecturer who has received her bachelor s degree in Education (English as a Second Language) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (1996) and master s degree in Sports Administration/Facility Management from Ohio University, USA (1998). Her PhD study was on the subject of Human Resource Management in Sports. She investigated the relationship between employees citizenship behaviour and customer satisfactions with regards to service quality as provided by the Malaysian golf clubs. The PhD was completed and awarded by the Faculty of Business and Accountancy in University of Malaya in 2009. Since her appointment as the teaching staff in the sports science program (1998), she taught various sports management courses namely Introduction to Sports Management, Human Resource Management (HRM) in Sport, Sports Sociology, Organizational Behavior in Sport, Sport Tourism and etc. Her academic experience also includes several administrative positions such as the Master of one of the university s residential colleges, Coordinator of the sports management program and Deputy Director of Sports Center, University of Malaya. In addition, she contributes her expertise as a board member of Malaysia Sport Tourism Council (MSTC) and the treasurer of Malaysian Association for Sport Management (MASMA). Her research interests revolve around the development of sportrelated research instruments (i.e., service quality scale), sport employee behavioral attributes (i.e., OCB, motivation) and sport tourism issues (i.e., tourists market segmentation). 18
DR. MOHAMAD FAITHAL HAJI HASSAN Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673327 Email: faithal@um.edu.my Dr. Faithal obtained his Bachelor of Sport Science (Hons) degree with a major in Sport Psychology & Coaching from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He also has a Diploma in Physical Education (PE) from Malaysian Ministry of Education. He was a high school PE teacher between 1989 and 2000. In 2001 he joined the University of Malaya, Malaysia as a tutor and pursuing his Master of Applied Science in Sport Coaching at The University of Queensland, Australia. Upon his return, he was appointed as a lecturer in Science of Coaching. His interest in motivational climate has motivated him to pursue his research in this area for his PhD thesis. He gained his Doctor of Philosophy in Coaching Science from UWIC (now known as Cardiff Metropolitan University) in 2011. Now, Faithal is lecturing in the Sport Centre, University of Malaya and work very closely with the high performance athletes and coaches. Dr. Faithal s primary research interests lie in understanding the role of coaches, motivational climate and about coaching high performance athletes.
DR VICTOR SELVARAJAH SELVANAYAGAM Senior Lecturer E-mail: victors@um.edu.my Victor S Selvanayagam completed his first degree in Sports Science and Master s degree in Medical Science at the University of Malaya (UM). He received his PhD from The University of Queensland in the area of Neuroscience where he focused on identifying early neural responses to strength training. Victor, who is also a certified Strength and Conditioning specialist (CSCS), is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Sports Centre, University of Malaya. His main research focuses on the contribution of the nervous system to strength gains by incorporating well-explored motor learning paradigms to strength training. Most of this research work utilises a wrist clamping experimental apparatus to assess force data and manipulate motor learning protocols. He also incorporates electrophysiological techniques such as peripheral nerve stimulation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and electromyography (EMG) into his experiment. In addition, Victor plays a supervisorial role in research areas such as fatigue, muscle damage and familiarisation, all focusing on the role of the central nervous system.
DR RIZAL MOHD RAZMAN Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673221 Email: rizal@um.edu.my Rizal was part of the very first batch of Sport Science students that graduated from University of Malaya in 1999. It was the first such programme offered in Malaysia. In year 2000, he went on to pursue an MSc (Human Movement) at the University of Western Australia, graduated the following year and started to teach in UM in 2001. He formally completed his Phd from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya in 2012 investigating the critical parameters of the ten-pin bowling delivery. Rizal s primary focus is in on how movement variability affect motor tasks and sports performance. Current research include studying the role of imagery in error detection and movement variability in laboratory and field based tasks. He has also done some work related to anthropometry and talent identification. Moreover, he has a particularly keen interest in investigating and finding solutions for applied problems in an array of different fields. On the sporting side, Rizal is an accomplished hockey player that played at all age group levels for KL up to national junior s team. Now he is an active coach, recently winning the 2014 SUKMA gold with the KL ladies hockey team. The highlight of his coaching career thus far is being the assistant coach for the national hockey team in 2008/09. He is also currently the coach cum player for the Malaysian Floorball Team and will be heading to the 2015 SEA Games with them.
DR HAMDAN MOHD ALI Senior Lecturer Telephone: 019 654 6536 Email: hamdanrunner@hotmail.com Dr. Hamdan studied for his first degree in Physical Education at California State University, Fresno (1986), and an MA in Administration of P.E & Sport and with a minor in Exercise Physiology at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley (1987), USA. He conferred his Doctor of Philosophy in sport through his thesis entitled The British Colonial Legacy: Sport and Politics in Multi-ethnic Malaysia from 1800 to 2000 from the School of Politics and International Studies, The University of Warwick, England in 2003. With twenty-six seven years of working experience behind him, primarily in sport, PE & education, makes him a very knowledgeable coach, educator, trainer and administrator. He taught at Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Kuantan in the late 1980s prior to being employed as lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (1990-2006). He later continued his teaching career as an expatriate at the Faculty of Education, University Brunei Darussalam (2006-2009). Currently Dr. Hamdan is with the Sport Centre, University of Malaya. His area of research is in sport sociopolitics and history, in addition to his keen interest in sport administration and coaching.
PICTURE DR. JADEERA CHEONG ABDULLAH Senior Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673221 Email: jadeera@um.edu.my In 2012, Dr Jadeera was employed by the University of Malaya as Senior Lecturer attached to the Sports Centre. Prior to that, she was enrolled at The University of Western Australia, where she examined contextual interference on the acquisition and learning of motor skills, and was awarded a PhD in 2011. Dr Jadeera had also obtained her MSc degree from the same university previously. This was after she had completed her Bachelor of Sports Science studies at the University of Malaya in 1999. Dr Jadeera s area of specialisation is in motor learning and control. Her research efforts in this field primarily involve manipulating the variables of practice that could aid skill aquisition, learning and performance. These variables include practice schedules, amount and distribution of practice and feedback. Dr Jadeera s other research area is in the field of sport psychology. More specifically, her research interest in this field is centered around the investigation of psychological skills training for performance enhancement. In the near future, Dr Jadeera is looking to expand her research focus and is keen to embark on finding ways to promote physical activity and improve the health of the general population.
DR TEO ENG WAH (VINCENT) Senior Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673221 Email: vteo2@um.edu.my Vincent completed his first degree in Sports Science (Sports Management) at the University of Malaya, Malaysia (1999) and a M.Ed. in Physical Education (2006) at the same university. He completed his Master (2010) and PhD (2013) in Kinesiology (Kinesmetrics) degree simultaneously in the field of Testing and Measurement at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America. Vincent was the recipient of the 2007-2012 SLAI Malaysian government scholarship which supported his education in USA. Vincent s primary research areas are in sports testing and measurement, psychometrics and sports statistics, sports motivation, childhood obesity and fitness. He is passionate at questionnaires development and validating psychometrics properties of questionnaires based on Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Modeling. Currently, he is engaged in smoking withdrawal studies among Malaysian population, and several other self-esteem, ego resilience and sports motivation studies in local school settings.
YUHANIS ADNAN Lecturer Telephone: +603 79673221 Email: yuhanis@um.edu.my Currently, Yuhanis is a PhD candidate at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Victoria University, Melbourne. Yuhanis has developed a research interest that focuses on the effect of participation in sports and physical activity on the psychological aspects and quality of life of people with disability, specifically individuals with SCI, as well as in applied sport psychology for elite athletes.
RESEARCH FACILITIES pictures pictures Laboratories 1. Sports Nutrition / Exercise Physiology 2. Bioanalytical 3. Biomechanic 4. Motor Learning 5. Therapy 6. Basic Sports Sciene 7. Sports Management
INTERNATIONALISATION Dual PhD Program - University of Sydney - Loughborough University - Liverpool John Moore University Research Collaboration - Victoria University - University of Queensland Student Exchange Program - Korea - Thailand - Taiwan - Indonesia Internship - Taiwan - Thailand 28