Associate Professor Dr Pei Soo Ang is an academic and university leader at Universiti Malaya, currently serving as Director of the Academic Programme Management Centre under the Academic Strategic Planning Department, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International). She previously served as Deputy Dean (Higher Degree) at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics from 2022 to 2024 and as a Visiting Faculty member at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta during the same period. Her research interests encompass disability and health discourses, critical disability studies, critical discourse studies, social semiotics, and visual communication. Her current research examines the representation and construction of disability and health discourses in the media through critical semiotic and multi-perspectival methodological approaches. Beyond academia, she is committed to community engagement and research that supports people with disabilities. She has collaborated with Pusat Latihan Perindustrian dan Pemulihan (PLPP) Bangi, IDEAS Autism Centre Rawang, Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia (ADFM), and Malaysian Parkinson’s Disease Association (MPDA). She was recently appointed as an Advisor to MPDA. Her work integrates academic scholarship, institutional leadership, and community engagement, with a focus on advancing understanding, inclusion, and meaningful representation of people with disabilities.