Nursing students educate public on domestic violence against women

In conjunction with the World White Ribbon Day, Sunway University’s School of Health and Natural Science conducted a talk about Domestic Violence against Women. The White Ribbon Day was created to raise awareness in order to hinder violence against women.

The students from the Department of Nursing, School of Health and Natural Science who were undertaking Moral Studies organized a talk at Sunway University (Sunway). Admission to the talk was through the purchase of white ribbon priced at RM 1.

Kimberly Loh explaining how gender inequality is still practiced in some rural areas.

A Forum on Intelligence

Malaysian Mensa and the Department of Psychology of Sunway University (Sunway) collaborated and organized a forum on intelligence recently. The forum was themed board games and puzzles and had a turn out rate of approximately 40 people.

Consisting of Mensa members and Sunway staff and students, Mr. Azrai Skymmar, the Chairman of Malaysian Mensa welcomed the guests with an opening speech followed by a talk by Dr. Lin Mei-Hua, the Head of the Department of Psychology and Organizational Psychologist of Sunway University. She explained how skills applied in board games are intertwined with the decision making process that can be applied to real life settings. “There is a similarity in decision making processes in board games and real life as each are related to a goal an individual is hoping to achieve”, she explained.

Participants carefully strategising their next move during the forum.

Sunway assists in sweeping crime off our streets

A Malaysian Crime Prevention Workshop for Young Adults was recently held in Sunway University College. The workshop was an awareness campaign aimed to educate participants on ways to prevent psychosocial crimes that included personal safety and commercial crimes.

Approximately 200 people from a total of 19 schools, colleges and churches participated in this workshop comprising Form 4, Form 5, and Form 6 students.

Sunway student helper holding up a sign of one of the crime categories for a focus group discussion.

Understanding Minds, Empowering Lives

Research in the field of psychology is growing in hopes of achieving a better understanding of the capabilities and flaws of the human mind. Sunway University College (Sunway) understands how vital research skills are in the field of Psychology and an Academic Symposium, organised by the Department of Psychology of Sunway was implemented to create a learning environment for students, academicians and researchers to share their knowledge and present their study.

Tay Ee Lin, A Psychology student explaining her research to Professor Peter Mitchell,  Head of Psychology (Lancaster University)

A Community Lecture by Dr. Coral J. Dando