Due to a change in the department responsible for operations of the Graduate Student Career
Path Support Center (from the Office of Graduate Studies, Division of Academic Affairs to the
RARA Office, the Division of Research), the Graduate Student Career Path Support Center will be
moved from the 4^th floor of the SHITOKUKAN Hall on Kinugasa Campus to the NAKAGAWA Hall
on Suzaku Campus.
The schedule and contact information for the new office are as follows:

●Relocation date： Monday, June 19, 2023

●Contact information after relocation： 075-813-8560

Due to the relocation work on Friday, June 16,
inquiries and other responses will not be available throughout this day.
Please note that we will respond to inquiries by email and other means after Monday, June 19.
Thank you.

                                                                                                                 June 12, 2023　

                                                                      RARA OfficeDivision of Research

                                                                                   Ritsumeikan University

　  ※The Office of Graduate Studies will continue to be in charge of
  graduate school entrance examinations, TA, graduate student
  facilities such as KYURONKAN HALL, and KENKYU- SHOREI
  Scholarship (Prize Fellowship for the Doctoral Degree Students).

     ※The Office of Graduate Studies will move from the 4^th floor of
  the SHITOKUKAN HALL to the 1^st floor of the YOYOKAN HALL
  on June 19, 2023. (The Office of Graduate Studies plans to
  move back to the SHITOKUKAN in October-November, 2023).

※There is no change on the phone number of the Office of
   Graduate Studies.

Ri-SEARCH system will be suspended on the below date and time due to system maintenance.
Please note that you are unable to log in/register information in Ri-SEARCH, retrieve/view information etc.

<Ri-SEARCH system website>
https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ru_gr/g-career/research/

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■Ri-SEARCH will be suspended on 　
AM10:00 – AM 11:00 on Thursday, April 27
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We apologize for any inconvenience, but we appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

RARA Office (KIC)
TEL:075-465-8190
Email:d-cp＠st.ritsumei.ac.jp

Our office will be closed from August 11 to 17 for summer vacation.

We will respond to inquiries received during the above period on or after August 18.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

We post the submitted posters of research reports conducted with the support of research grant programs in the below sites. Please have a look.

The number of each recipient in 2021 is as below.

   KOKUSAITEKI Research Grant: 5

   KENKYUKAI-KATSUDO Grant: 13 groups

   KOKUNAI Research Grant: 0 

We post the submitted posters of research reports conducted with the support of research fund programs below. Please have a look.
(Only the posters written in English are posted in this page)

The number of each recipient in 2020 is as below.
   KOKUSAITEKI Research Fund: 1
   KOKUNAI Research Fund: 1
   KENKYUKAI-KATSUDO Grant: 13 groups
 

To those who are using Ri-SEARCH,

This is a very important notification regarding Ri-SEARCH.
Ri-SEARCH will be changed from April, 2021.
-To prepare an application form for GAKKAI-Scholarship and register your Research Achievements data can be done by the end of February, 2021. Please be sure to complete registration and entering the data in February.
(Research Achievements data which you enter by the end of February, 2021 will be reflected to the new Ri-SEARCH)
-Please note that you CANNOT log in the current Ri-SEARCH nor refer to the data entered in the current Ri-SEARCH after March 2021.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but we would greatly appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

Subject:
　Ri-SEARCH（Ritsumeikan University Search Engine of Academic Record and Career History of Young Researchers 立命館大学若手研究者学術・キャリア情報検索システム）
【URL:https://ri-search-web.ritsumei.ac.jp/】

Deadline for entering data in the current Ri-SEARCH:
　By 23:59 on Sunday, February 28, 2021
　※The data entered after March 1, 2021 will NOT be reflected to the new Ri-SEARCH.
 
Date of starting new Ri-SEARCH operation:
　From 13:00 on Thursday, April 1, 2021
　※Entering new Ri-SEARCH can be allowed from the time above.
　　You can continue registering and disclosing your research achievements, and using the function of preparing application forms for each scholarships and grants.
   The details will be informed later.

Attention:
　You cannot log in the current Ri-SEARCH after March, 2021. The data entered in the current Ri-SEARCH will be discarded after data transfer. In addition, the URL of the website which introduces each research achievements will be changed. Those who use this URL need to check the new URL and replace it from the current one to the new one after new Ri-SEARCH operates.

The Poster Session, which was scheduled on Sunday, June 21, was cancelled
due to the spread of COVID-19.
We post the submitted posters instead of this Poster Session.
Only the posters written in English are posted in this page.
Please take a look at each research report.

Posters written in Japanese can be checked in the below site.
 https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ru_gr/g-career/news/article.html/?id=268

The number of each recipient in 2019 is as below.
   KOKUSAITEKI Research Fund: 38
   KOKUNAI Research Fund: 1
   KENKYUKAI-KATSUDO Grant: 27 groups
   Internship Scholarship: 2

・Medical Profession and the Politics of Health in Contemporary Indonesia

・Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries.Case Study:Indonesia, Sukabumi Regency

・Factors Determine the Lack of Complance of Ready-Made Garments(RMG) Sector of Bangladesh

・Empirical Study of Purchase Intention and Decision of E-Commerce Consumers in Indonesia　Based on Island of Rresidence and Monthly Household Income

・Housing Relocation in Tangerang City : Why people move and were thet satisfied afterward? 

・An Investigation of the Morphology and Effect of American Community Gardens

・Dynamic Facial Features Associated with Positive Emotional Voice Stimuli for Detection of 
Depressive Symptoms

・International Student Support Organizations in Australia: Approaches and Issues of Concern

We held “Academic Writing Seminar” at KIC and BKC on Tuesday, October 15
and Friday, October 18.

This seminar focused on the important points of writing thesis in English, and it was

a good chance for graduate students to learn the basic knowledge and skills for writing

high quality theses. This seminar was held in English as an incentive short course for 90 minutes.

The instructor is a native English speaker and his explanation was very clear and specific.

All attendees sent the instructor what they aren’t sure and what they want to learn in advance.

Therefore, the instructor gave a class based on their questions and the class was fruitful for all.

There are many words and expression in English. It’s very difficult to choose the appropriate words

and expressions for what the writer wants to tell. All attendees realized again that it is very important

for all to use grammars properly to keep the consistency in their papers. We hope all attendees utilize

what they learned and listened during this seminar effectively hereafter.

＜Voices from attendees＞

Website of Office of Graduate Studies

https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ru_gr/g-career/eng/

We are now carrying out a questionnaire survey to improve and provide quality support for studies,

researches and careers of graduate students of Ritsumeikan University.

This is a survey conducted once every two academic years with the object of improving the quality of learning, research and career support services provided to graduate students. It is designed to give us ideas of your awareness of the availability of these services, your opinions of their quality, and your future expectations for them.

During the survey we conducted in AY2017, we received many opinions about increasing the amount of grants, simplifying application procedure, loosening terms and conditions for payments, etc., and there was a change in payment of Academic Scholarship and the targeted period of other subsidy systems.

To improve our operations to better match the graduate students’ needs, we would appreciate your cooperation in answering this survey. We will give 500 yen Book Card to the first 500 students who answered this survey. After the survey period, the detail of receiving will be informed to the RAINBOW ID which is entered in this survey. Those who receive the notice, please go to the designated offices in each campus to receive the book card between Wednesday, November 27 and Wednesday, December 4. Please note that we will NOT send book cards by mail.

*The number of respondents had reached 500.

Thank you very much for answering.

We're still collecting survey responses.

We appreciate your cooperation.

Thank you.

This survey is to collect the following information;

・your research activitieshttps://entryweb.ritsumei.ac.jp/smart/eqr.asp?U=8003003067034232682

・opinion for Career Path Support Services

・future career

We appreciate your support in completing this questionnaire to assist us in providing

quality support services to you.

To answer the questionnaire, please log in to the following website with your RAINBOW ID:

https://entryweb.ritsumei.ac.jp/smart/eqr.asp?U=8003003067034232682

It will only take about 10 minutes to complete.

This questionnaire is available during the following period:

　From Thursday, October 24 to Sunday, November 24, 2019 until 23:59 noon.

Graduate Student Career Path Support Center

Ritsumeikan University

Email: l-hba@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

In addition, half day short Japanese program was held on Saturday, June 9 on Osaka Ibaraki Campus.

Participants on KIC and BKC attended the lectures once a week for 8 weeks from May to June.

Students learned daily Japanese conversations and basic Japanese characters such as Hiragana
and Katakana with the support of volunteer Japanese students participated in this program to help
international students acquire and be familiar with Japanese.

The Japanese level of students was various. Each time they attended the class, their Japanese
skills improved by little. Many of them did a great job on the skit performance being conducted
on the last day of the course.

They also played Japanese games and held a small party with volunteer students on the same
day. It was very fun and they really enjoyed them! Most of the participants seemed very satisfied
with this program, and some said, “This program is very useful for international students,” and
others said “Please make this program longer and offer more classes.”

Course Schedule (Spring 2019)

第1回　じこしょうかいができる、かぞくのしょうかいができる

第2回　すきなことがいえる、りゆうがいえる

第3回　じょうきょうをびょうしゃできる①

第4回　じょうきょうをびょうしゃできる②

第5回　いらいができる　　　　　　

第6回　せつめいができる

第7回　きょかをえられる               

第8回　スキットでふくしゅう

We held “English Presentation Seminar” at KIC, BKC and OIC through June, 16(Tue) to June, 18(Thu).

There are many graduate students who are not good at speaking English, not get used to presentation

even they have more chances of having English presentations compared to undergraduate days.

The purposes of this English Presentation Seminar were to support graduate students to learn key points

for good presentation and to present in an effective way.

This seminar was held as an incentive short course. 2 classes were taught in English by a native instructor,

 and his explanation was very clear and specific. All attendees gave their own presentation and could realize

 the effectiveness of what they learned in the lecture. This was also a good chance for some attendees to listen to the research content of different research theme and area. The instructor told that the best way to improve their presentation is to record his/her presentation, and look and check it objectively.

We hope all attendees utilize what they learned and listened during this seminar effectively.

＜Voices from attendees＞

・Learned new things.

・Gestures and eye contact are really helpful.

・Friendly presenter and clear explanations. I enjoyed.

・Learned how to reduce the nervousness, use gestures to emphasize.

・Maintaining body languages are very useful.

・Learned delivery points such as eye contact, speed and how to deal with anxiety etc.

・Very interactive and lessons were well delivered.

・Very supportive and cooperative sensei.

・Can remember what's our needs/deficiencies of preparing for presentations.

Website of Office of Graduate Studies

https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ru_gr/g-career/eng/