JCU Singapore
Yuto Yasuda
- Lecturer Psychology
- yuto.yasuda@jcu.edu.au
Hina Munir
- Lecturer Business
- hina.munir@jcu.edu.au
Lijuan Shen
- Senior Lecturer Information Technology
- lijuan.shen@jcu.edu.au
Cindy Liu
- Senior Lecturer (Business)
- cindy.liu@jcu.edu.au
Jonathan Chia
- Lecturer Psychology
- jonathan.chia@jcu.edu.au
Erik Hormann
- Lecturer Mathematics
- erik.hormann@jcu.edu.au
Jennifer Chong
- Lecturer Business (Accounting)
- jennifer.chong@jcu.edu.au
Barry Tse
- Sessional Lecturer
- barry.tse@jcu.edu.au
Kaiqin Chan
- Associate Professor
- kaiqin.chan@jcu.edu.au
Caroline Wong
- Associate Dean Learning & Teaching / Associate Professor
- caroline.wong@jcu.edu.au
International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism (ICSIMAT) conference - Greece
This is a popular yearly conference hosted by the ICSIMAT community ( a group of academics in tourism and marketing who network and meet annually for possible research collaboration and present our research). I am also a member of the ICSIMAT community and would be chairing a session at the conference, besides presenting a Paper titled 'Community Based Tourism and Social Sustainability: A Scoping Review of Planning Approaches for Equity, Inclusion, and Empowerment'. Τhe ICSIMAT community includes worldwide well known scholars, faculty members, doctorate students, researchers and business practitioners who network and exchange research work and inter-institutional co-operations. The conference provides opportunities to be selected to be published in journals such as Tourism Review (Q1) as well as proceedings book chapter published by Springer (open access). Open access springer proceedings book allows early citations. This conference is hosted by our MOU partner university in Greece i.e. the University of West Attica, Greece. Our MOU with the University of West Attica had resulted in ERASMUS grants benefiting three JCUS academics in the past. The conference is a great way keeping this relations active and may bring more such opportunities, provides a timely and interactive international platform for academics, government and industry practitioners in order to discuss and develop new perspectives in the field of communication, marketing, innovative technologies and tourism. Details of the conference , academic highlights such as 'meet the editors session', 'academics and industry networking' and social highlights can be found at their website https://icsimat.com/ . Please find attached the acceptance letter, abstract and budget details.
Project Smiling Gecko CAMBODIA - What Gaps can we impact?
JCU's mission is to create a brighter future for life in the Tropics, and this project aims to increase JCU's impact on livelihoods in remote communities in SE Asia.
By working with NGO Smiling Gecko Cambodia (SGC) which supports the needy population in Cambodia, the team can contribute to their self sustaining, ecologically and economically vibrant activities that aligns with UN SDG goals 4(quality education), 12 (responsible consumption & production), 14 (life below water) and 17 (partnerships for the goals).
SGC runs a school for 500 students, a farm house resort that employs several hundred employees, grows food crops, and runs tilapia ponds at their 105-hectare site that benefits 30,000 Cambodians in surrounding villages. SGC is committed to continuing growth and seeking partnerships with universities to develop programs for the continuing education of its young community.
The team seeks to identify how we can partner with SGC to identify gaps where we can make a difference to the local population, and where we can make an impact on their operation by building capacity. We propose a 3 days/ 2 nights site study and stakeholder engagement in October 2025. The immediate output will be a blue print for our future work with SGC and other remote communities, how we participate in their continual growth and showcase as a working model for other remote communities in SE Asia. We will seek suitable future funding opportunities from international financial institutions such as the World Bank or the Asian Development Bank.
Supporting expanded and new research opportunities between JCUS IT and JCU’s Australia campuses
Proposal to visit JCU campuses to create new cross-discipline research opportunities as well as further exploit existing research that has been conducted solely in JCUS so far.
Addressing Bedtime Procrastination with Behavioural Technology: Introducing SleepSync
With rising concerns about sleep-related health issues, researchers have di-rected their focus to understanding how bedtime procrastination contributes to sleep-related problems and the ways to tackle it how to tackle it. This is due to evidence linking bedtime procrastination to poor sleep quality and quantity, increased daytime fatigue, and poor sleep cycle. Technological ad-vancements have emerged as promising tools, with numerous sleep-tracking and sleep- behaviour apps developed to address sleep-related issues. How-ever, the existing apps exhibit critical gaps in targeting bedtime procrastina-tion behaviours. The present paper reviews the current landscape of sleep apps by analyzing how the apps monitor and mitigate sleep-related behaviour and highlights existing gaps in this domain. Next, we introduce SleepSync, an innovative app specifically designed to address bedtime procrastination be-haviour. SleepSync's design integrates Carver and Scheier’s self-regulation theory and Zajonc’s social facilitation effect to enhance users’ self-regulation and behavioural activation through behavioural interventions, sleep tracking, and gamification. The validation and future iterations of the SleepSync prototype will shape it into a fully functional, user-friendly mo-bile app suitable for everyday use and broader commercialization.
Addressing Bedtime Procrastination with Behavioural Technology: Introducing SleepSync
With rising concerns about sleep-related health issues, researchers have di-rected their focus to understanding how bedtime procrastination contributes to sleep-related problems and the ways to tackle it how to tackle it. This is due to evidence linking bedtime procrastination to poor sleep quality and quantity, increased daytime fatigue, and poor sleep cycle. Technological ad-vancements have emerged as promising tools, with numerous sleep-tracking and sleep- behaviour apps developed to address sleep-related issues. How-ever, the existing apps exhibit critical gaps in targeting bedtime procrastina-tion behaviours. The present paper reviews the current landscape of sleep apps by analyzing how the apps monitor and mitigate sleep-related behaviour and highlights existing gaps in this domain. Next, we introduce SleepSync, an innovative app specifically designed to address bedtime procrastination be-haviour. SleepSync's design integrates Carver and Scheier’s self-regulation theory and Zajonc’s social facilitation effect to enhance users’ self-regulation and behavioural activation through behavioural interventions, sleep tracking, and gamification. The validation and future iterations of the SleepSync prototype will shape it into a fully functional, user-friendly mo-bile app suitable for everyday use and broader commercialization.
Conference Attendance - Diseases in Asian Aquaculture 22-27 Sept 2025
Present at 12th Diseases in Asian Aquaculture Symposium and bid for 13th DAA to be held in Singapore in 2028
24th International Conference on Modelling and Applied Simulation - MAS 2025
The MAS Conference concentrates on Modeling & Applied Simulation and computer technologies. Proceeding will be published by Elsevier in the Procedia Computer Sciene sderies.
24th International Conference on Modelling and Applied Simulation - MAS 2025
The MAS Conference concentrates on Modeling & Applied Simulation and computer technologies. Proceeding will be published by Elsevier in the Procedia Computer Sciene sderies.
PROVISION OF TRAINING SERVICES FOR AQUACULTURE FARMS FOR TWO YEARS
The Singapore Food Agency (or “SFA”) is inviting suppliers for proposals on the provision of training services to aquaculture (i.e. food fish) farms in Singapore to enhance farmers’ capability and skills on farm management and good aquaculture practices. To contribute to Singapore’s Aquaculture Plan, farms will need guidance to mitigate the increased risk of diseases as they intensify production on limited space. The services shall be provided over a period of 2 years.
PROVISION OF TRAINING SERVICES FOR AQUACULTURE FARMS FOR TWO YEARS
The Singapore Food Agency (or “SFA”) is inviting suppliers for proposals on the provision of training services to aquaculture (i.e. food fish) farms in Singapore to enhance farmers’ capability and skills on farm management and good aquaculture practices. To contribute to Singapore’s Aquaculture Plan, farms will need guidance to mitigate the increased risk of diseases as they intensify production on limited space. The services shall be provided over a period of 2 years.
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01 Jan 2015
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01 Jan 2018
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01 Jan 2008
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01 Jan 2003
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01 Jan 2004
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01 Jan 1999
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01 Jan 2001
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01 Jan 2004
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01 Jan 2024
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04 Aug 2025
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05 Aug 2025
Title:
English
Reseracher:
Denise Dillon
(Acting Dean Research/Associate Dean Research Education / Associate Professor Psychology)