Welcome to Research and Development Center (RDC) at the National University of Battambang.
RDC was established along with the management structuring mechanism in the National University of Battambang (NUBB) in 2007. With the aims of improving and enhancing the quality of educational research and strategic plans in NUBB, RDC takes three main roles project monitor and evaluator, project implementor, and facilitator for other related tasks to research and development with other faculties and institutions for the university.
Visions
Motivated by the university visions, RDC has a vision to develop educational quality by enhancing the ability of students, lectures, and managers to work more effectively in research studies and other development projects with local and international partners.
Mission
RDC follow the following missions to reach the vision above:
- Managing each project development from each implementor,
- Training and sharpening students’ abilities in doing studies and research with other faculties,
- Publishing research studies resulting from each faculty and other related stakeholders,
- Calling for proposals and publishing research studies at the university level,
- Disseminating development projects, calling for proposals from each faculty, and Evaluating project actions for university improvement.
Management Structure
Research and Development Center is currently led by a chief, Dr. Hum Chan and a deputy chief, Mrs. Vong Sokhavy, who are directly supervised by a vice-rector and report to rector.
E-mails and phone numbers
➡️[email protected]| Tel: +855 96 606 4009
About our works Publications
Bridge Magazine
Bridge Magazine is established to communicate knowledge and research ideas in order to obtain a positive impact on Cambodia’s sustainable development and poverty reduction. The magazine publishes articles, short interviews, article reviews, and research papers on specific topics in the following fields:
- Rural Studies,
- Business,
- Law,
- Agriculture,
- Economics,
- Accounting and Finance,
- Agro-industry,
- Science and Technology,
- Language arts and culture.
RDC has been facilitating and coordinating lecturers, professors, and other writers for around 4 volumes already in Bridge Magazine of NUBB.
Research Articles
In a mean of following NUBB vision, RDC has been taken a task in collecting research articles from each faculties in different fields to form a annual journals nationally and seek for chances to publish those internationally. So far, RDC has been gathering some published research papers from some field such as educations, agricultures, and business.
Outstanding students’ thesis research papers
To encourage the practice of young research publication, NUBB has conducted a rule. This rule was established in a purposes of showing off the outstanding students’ achievement in their research graduation and sharing their footsteps to the next generation. RDC has been publishing the thesis which ranged from 1st to 3rd places in the library to honorably show the students’ good performance and keep them for next generations reading resources.
Project monitoring and evaluation
RDC has been working as the project monitor and evaluator on the 27-development projects including one main project funded by world bank, Higher Education Improvement Project (HEIP), and Erasmus+ from European Union. The main duty of RDC is to assess and monitor each project process with each main implementor and their assistants to NUBB rector and other related stakeholders in order to establish effective reports for a better project implementation performance and in the aim of improving university qualification.
Research Thesis to fill-in students’ degree
Working with other faculties, RDC coordinates technically toward the process of writing and submitting research thesis from students who are willing to finish their bachelor or post-graduated degree by conducting thesis research. Following the manual, other faculties and RDC working closely assist students’ thesis writing from scratch to the final defending graduation thesis. Until 2023 RDC has facilitated bachelor graduates in thesis research around 16 generations already.
