The Centre for Academic Research and Engaged Scholarship (CARES) was instituted in July 2018 and has since been active.
The Centre houses three units: Research and Innovation Office, the Language and Writing Unit, and Engaged Scholarship, which is directly involved in coordinating external activities of the first two units through engagement with relevant stakeholders, both within and outside the university community.

CARES is responsible for providing strategic leadership in further developing the university’s strategic goal on research, language and writing and engaged scholarship. For this purpose, CARES seeks to develop effective and sustainable strategies to facilitate faculty and students’ research and to ensure that research activities of the university meet the requirements of relevant regulations and guidelines of both national and international standards.