Asrif Yusoff
Host, Staying the Course
Co-host of Staying the Course, helping bring academic journeys, personal reflection, and scholarly identity into public conversation.
Strategic Knowledge Partner
Academic journeys preserved as living mentorship.
Staying the Course captures conversations with academics about their journeys in academia and beyond, the uncertainty, resilience, choices, identity shifts, and human stories behind scholarly life.
Hosted by NeuroCampur as The Conversation House.
HostsAsrif Yusoff·Jafni Johari Jiken
Academic JourneysScholarshipResilienceLeadershipResearch IdentityMentorship
Intelligence brief
The archive intelligence brief.
Why this platform matters.
Students often see academic titles but not the human journey behind them. Staying the Course reveals the long road into scholarship: migration, uncertainty, PhD decisions, career pivots, writing identity, teaching innovation, leadership, resilience, and the quiet work of becoming an academic.
Models of possible academic futures
Visible routes into scholarship, not just outcomes.
Honest stories of uncertainty and persistence
The doubts, decisions, and detours behind a career.
Exposure to research, teaching, and leadership pathways
How academic work actually unfolds across roles.
Informal mentorship through story
Lessons from people further along the road.
Malaysian scholarly visibility
Centring Malaysian voices in academic conversation.
The hosts
The hosts of the Conversation House.
Jafni Johari Jiken
Host, Staying the Course
Co-host of Staying the Course, creating space for academics to share the lived realities behind research, teaching, leadership, and career development.
The Conversation Vault
Featured from the Conversation House.
A rotating selection of academic journeys, research identities, and career-defining conversations — staged in our private cinema.
Featured · 01 / 07
Professor Sylvester Arnab — Game Science, Scholarly Identity & Playful Purpose
Professor Sylvester Arnab
Professor Sylvester Arnab joins Staying the Course to share the journey behind his career in Game Science — from his PhD in Engineering at Warwick to leading multi-million-pound research on gameful, playful and game-based learning. A conversation on scholarly identity, designing empathic and empowering experiences, and what it means to stay the course in a discipline you helped shape.
“Designing for play is not the opposite of seriousness — it is one of its most generous forms.”
Full Episode Archive
Every available conversation, organised as a living archive.
Showing 49 of 49 conversations from the official Staying the Course playlist.
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Row I — Recent journeys
Row II — Continuing the conversation
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Watch the full playlist on YouTube, or listen on YouTube Music. NeuroCampur honours the original platform — every link returns you to the host's own home.
Journey map
What the conversations reveal.
Becoming an academic
How scholars find their way into research and teaching, and the early decisions that shape a career.
Reference · Various episodes
PhD and postgraduate identity
Doctoral life, supervision, identity formation, and the long road to the title.
Reference · The Oxford PhD Experience
Research across borders
Working internationally, navigating cultures, and building scholarship across countries.
Reference · Researching Across Borders
Teaching innovation
Bringing new ideas, methods, and design thinking into the classroom.
Reference · Bringing Innovation into the Classroom
Leadership and reinvention
Stepping into academic leadership, reinventing direction, and finding renewed purpose.
Reference · Leadership, Research, and Reinvention
Sustainability, impact, and global work
Research that travels — sustainability, consulting, and work with global reach.
Reference · Sustainability Research and Consulting
Reflection layer
From watching to becoming.
A NeuroCampur learning layer for students.
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What part of this academic journey mirrors your own uncertainty?
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What decision changed the direction of this scholar's career?
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What does this episode reveal about resilience in academic life?
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What would you ask this guest if you met them?
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What kind of academic do you want to become?
Contact & platform access
Contact and platform access.
Hosted by
Asrif Yusoff & Jafni Johari Jiken
Original platform
YouTube playlist
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A conversation archive that makes academic life visible.
NeuroCampur is proud to host Staying the Course as a strategic knowledge partner, preserving the stories, choices, and lessons behind academic life.