Office of Research

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Paragon.U is proud of its faculty’s commitment to advancing knowledge across the wide range of disciplines represented by both its full-time and part-time professors and lecturers. From civil engineering to international relations to computer science, Paragon.U’s faculty are active in the national, regional, and global research communities in their respective fields.

Affiliation, Scholars in Residence, and Research Colloquium

Research at Paragon.U is overseen by the Office of Research in tandem with the Research Committee. As part of its mission, the university seeks to expand its linkages with both individual scholars as well as institutions in areas of common research interest. Paragon.U also maintains an “Research Affiliate” program that works to support foreign scholars planning or expecting to be resident in Cambodia for the conduct of field research. For scholars interested in affiliating with Paragon.U during their time in Cambodia, please see our policies(↪) and application form(↪). Pargon.U has hosted scholars from across the globe and maintains Memorandums of Understanding supporting collaborative research with universities in Southeast Asia and beyond(↪).

Paragon.U in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung(↪) collaborate in the organization of a monthly research colloquium where scholars (both junior and senior) are invited to present their research for discussion among the broader academic and think tank communities in Phnom Penh.

Finally, Paragon.U is part of the Comparative Education Society of Cambodia(↪), organized by the Cambodia Development Research Institute (CDRI) working with other institutions in the kingdom to better understand the needs, challenges, and future of education across all tiers and their development.

Faculty Research

Set out below are some of the most recent articles and book chapters published by Paragon.U faculty from our faculties of Economics and Administrative Sciences; Engineering; and Information and Communications Technology.

Mengleang LAY

Key factors affecting construction safety performance in developing countries: Evidence from Cambodia. Construction Economics and Building, 17(4), 48.

Nurmurat KANDYMOV

Structural Equation Model of the Factors Affecting Construction Labor Productivity. Journal of Construction Engineering Management 144 (4).

Samnang OU

Assessment of rooftop solar photovoltaic potential in Thailand: a case study of an industrial estate. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM2019), 27-30 March 2019, Nara City, Japan, pp. 81-91.

Meirambek ZHAPAROV

Improving Digital Electronics Education with FPGA technology, PBL and Micro Learning methods.

Daniiar SATYBALDIEV

Daniiar Satybaldiev, Alexander MILNIKOV, “A new method of piecewise linear approximation of non-stationary time series”, Journal of Technical Science and Technologies,Vol-4, №-2, 2015, Georgia.

Bradley Jensen MURG

Bradley J. Murg. 2018. “The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism: Confronting New Realities in Cambodia and the Greater Mekong Subregion,” in CSCAP Regional Outlook 2019.

Raimund WEISS

Raimund Weiss. 2020. “Peacebuilding, Democratization, and Political Reconciliation in Cambodia”, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 8, No. 1: 113-131.

Robert FLINN

“Dark Clouds Gathering Over the Mekong River”, “Beneath an Umbrella”, “White Water Lilies” The Asian Signature Literary Review 2016.

Cheb HOEURN

Hoeurn Cheb. 2019. Public Health Spending and Child Mortality: New Evidence from Developing Countries in Asia and the Pacific. Forum of International Development Studies. 9-2: 1-17.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research

Paragon.U is working to build the next generation of Cambodian researchers, and places significant emphasis on research and research methods training in both its undergraduate and graduate curricula. Below are several of the top scoring theses written by Paragon.U students over the last two years.

Research Ethics

Paragon.U is fully committed to ensuring that all research conducted by its faculty and students are consistent with global best practices in terms of research ethics. While Cambodia does not yet have a full human subject/Institutional Review Board (IRB) system, when research is conducted that falls within the area of human subjects, review and approval must be received by the University Research Committee. Visiting scholars are expected to have received IRB or equivalent approval from their home institutions.

The list of available Courses for CPE

Course Title	Credits	Program / Specialization
Writing for Graduate Studies	3	MBA
Strategic Leadership	3	MBA
Economic Policy	3	MBA
Business Accounting	3	MBA
Human Capital Management	3	MBA
Professional Communication	3	MBA
Evidence-based Management	3	MBA
Financial Statement Analysis	3	MBA
Marketing and Brand Management	3	MBA
Operations and Supply Chain Management	3	MBA
Entrepreneurship	3	MBA / Departmental Electives
Customer and Marketing Analytics	3	MBA / Departmental Electives
Creativity in Business	3	MBA / Departmental Electives
International Economics	3	MBA / Departmental Electives
Leading in a Digital World	3	MBA / Departmental Electives
Organizational Behavior and Leadership	3	MBA / General Management
Management Simulation	3	MBA / General Management
Leadership and Management in Education	3	MBA / Education
Critical Perspectives in Education	3	MBA / Education
Developing E-Business Model	3	MBA / E-Business
Digital Marketing	3	MBA / E-Business
Corporate Finance	3	MBA / Finance
International Finance	3	MBA / Finance
Theories of International Relations	3	MA in International Relations
Research Methods	3	MA in International Relations
A History of the Modern world	3	MA in International Relations
International Conflict Analysis and Resolution	3	MA in International Relations
Foreign Policy Analysis	3	MA in International Relations
ASEAN in a Changing World	3	MA in International Relations
International Relations in East Asia	3	MA in International Relations
International Law and Organizations	3	MA in International Relations
Non-State Actors in World Politics	3	MA in International Relations
Issues in Global Development Practices	3	MA in International Relations
Global Governance and Security Order	3	MA in International Relations
China’s Foreign Policy	3	MA in International Relations
Media and Global Affairs	3	MA in International Relations
Directed Readings in Int. Relations	3	MA in International Relations
Seminar on Transnational Issue	3	MA in International Relations
Social Science Research Methods (Res. subject)	3	MA in International Relations
Data Science & Data-Driven Decision-Making	3	MSc in MIS
Data Science with Open-Source Tools	3	MSc in MIS
Data Design and Visualization	3	MSc in MIS
Machine Learning for Data Analysis	3	MSc in MIS