This Sub-committee on Research Projects succeeds the former Working Group on Research Projects, with its responsiblities and membership structure carried over following the reorganization approved by the IEB meeting on October 2025.
The reorganization was made in consideration of the nature of groups’s membership structure, as its members are selected exclusivly from the Academic Affairs Commitee (AAC) and it was therefore deemded appropriate to position the group as a Sub-committee under the AAC to ensure consistancy within its organizational framework.

This Sub-committee is responsible for coordinating the IAMU research project system.

The main tasks of the Sub-committee include:

• selecting winning resarch proposals, taking into account referees’ evaluation among other considerations, and making recommdndations on the selection results through the AAC to the International Exective Board (IEB)
• endorsing the evaluation results of referees on the final reports of the completed resaerch projects and making reccommendation on the endorsed results through the AAC to the IEB.
• recmmendating annual theme for IAMU research projects by taking into account the contents of the annual report prepared by the Liaison Commitee (LC); and
• organizing meetings twice a year, in February and September.

The members of the Sub-commitee are nominated from the Academic Affairs Commitee. For FY2025, the member universities are Liverpool John Moores University, Australian Maritime College, and AMET University.
Notably, all members for FY2025 are female faculty members, reflecting the strength and contribution of women in IAMU’s academic network.

Members