CHALLENGING THE THEORY OF BEHAVIOUR

Ustaz Shazalie Hirman (seated - second from left) pose with his panel of examiners.

"A noble and brave attempt", as expressed by the external examiner during ISDEV first viva voce for the year 2019. RISDEV (ISDEV Postgraduate by Research) student, Shazalie Hirman bin Ahmad Najib's viva voce took place on 27 February, 2019. The viva started at 9:30am at the Conference Room (C23) of the School of Social Sciences. 

Shazalie listening to the question posed by one of the examiners.

Shazalie had to go through a gruelling 3-hour session to defend his PhD Thesis on Niat Bertingkah Laku Berteraskan Islam dalam Teori Tingkah Laku (Intention in Islamic-based Behaviour in the Theory of Behaviour).

ISDEV Deputy Director, Dr Wan Norhaniza asked Shazalie to state the novelty of his PhD research.

True to ISDEV traditions, a mock viva was held two days prior at ISDEV Resource Room. ISDEV lecturers and students were there to bombard Shazalie with questions on his PhD Thesis, purposely trying to shake his ground, to prepare him mentally and physically for the actual day. Shazalie received a lot of pointers - the do's and don't during a viva from ISDEV lecturers that afternoon.

A group photo session after the solat hajat was done taken outside ISDEV Surau building.

The day of the viva itself, ISDEV male members met at 8:45am to perform the solat hajat together (in jama'ah) at ISDEV Surau building. This is another tradition of ISDEV that is done without fail, a few moments before the viva session starts for any RISDEV student, where invocation is made to Allah SWT to provide the best result for the candidate. 

Prof Syukri posing a question to Shazalie during the mock viva.

Alhamdulillah Syazalie passed his viva with a Scale of 2. His panel of examiners consisted of  the chairperson, Professor Dr Ruslan Rainis from the School of Humanities, External Examiner, Associate Professor Dr Ahmad Azrin Adnan from Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) and two internal examiners, Associate Professor Dr Zakaria Bahari and Dr Azrin Ibrahim. Shazalie is the first PhD student for ISDEV Director, Dr Shahir Akram Hassan in his capacity as the main supervisor while Shazalie's co-supervisor is Dr. Izzal Asnira bt Zolkepli from the School of Communications.

Alhamdulillah and Congratulations Shazalie!