Dr. Chester Keasberry

Chester Keasberry is a lecturer and Programme Coordinator in the Design and Creative Industries programme at FASS. He graduated with a PhD in Learning Design and Technology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii. Alongside his doctoral pursuit, he worked as a liaison officer under the Brunei-US English Language Enrichment Programme for ASEAN, a five-year project supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MoFAT) of Brunei Darussalam and the United States Department of State that involved many countries of ASEAN. He has also spent time in Melbourne, Australia, where he pursued an MA in Communication and Media Studies at Monash University. In addition, he is an alumnus of UBD, having graduated with a BA in Education, majoring in the Teaching of English as a Second Language. During his undergraduate studies, he was fortunate enough to study at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom as part of a Study Abroad Programme. His research interests include the usage of social media in education, the design of technology and learning, English linguistics, and communication studies.

EDUCATION

PhD in Learning Design and Technology (University of Hawai`i at Manoa)
MA in Communication and Media Studies (Monash University)
BA in Education (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Media in Education, Learning Design and Technology, Communication and Media Studies

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Keasberry, C., Phan, L. H., & Alas, Y. (2022). Tales of Filipinos in Brunei Darussalam: Identities, cultural flows, histories, and personal narratives. In J. W. Lee (Ed.), The sociolinguistics of global Asias. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003125846

Keasberry, C. (2021). Local social media responses to sharia law in Brunei. In H. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 255-267). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_15

Keasberry, C., Phan, L. H., Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, & Muhammad Adil Iqbal. (2021). Student experiences during COVID-19: Towards humanistic internationalisation. In L. H. Phan, A. Kumpoh, K. Wood, R. Jawawi, & H. Said (Eds.), Globalization, education, and reform in Brunei Darussalam. Palgrave MacMillan.

Shahrill, M., Noorashid, N., & Keasberry, C. (2021). COVID-19 and educational practices and responses in Brunei Darussalam. In L. H. Phan, A. Kumpoh, K. Wood, R. Jawawi, & H. Said (Eds.), Globalization, education, and reform in Brunei Darussalam. Palgrave MacMillan.

Lopes, R. O., Owais Ahmed Malik, Asiyah Az-Zahra Ahmad Kumpoh, Keasberry, C., Ong, W. H., Chin, W. L., Liu, Y. (2019). Exploring digital architectural heritage in Brunei Darussalam: Towards heritage safeguarding, smart tourism, and interactive education. Paper presented at 2019 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), Singapore.