DR. VANDANA SAXENA

Dr. Vandana Saxena recieved her PhD from IIT Delhi, India and has taught in India, Vietnam and Malaysia. She has keen interest in memories and narratives of the developing regions of postcolonial South and Southeast Asia, especially their historical and cultural connections. Her monograph, Memory and Nation-Building explores literary representation of the processes of remembering and forgetting and thier role in nation-building. In 2023, she was invited for a short-term fellowship to Ghent University, Belgium to share her work on the memories of rubber plantation workers of Malaysia. She is also intersted in Children's and Young Adult literature and has published extensively in the field

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DR. TONG WEN TING

Wen Ting Tong is a trained implementation researcher who obtained her PhD from the University of Malaya. Her doctoral research focused on developing an effective implementation strategy to integrate patient decision aids into primary care practice, with the aim of facilitating shared decision making. Following her PhD, she joined the National University of Singapore as a research fellow in the Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI). Currently, she holds the position of senior lecturer at the Department of Primary Care Medicine, Universiti Malaya. Wen Ting's research vision revolves around achieving high-quality healthcare by applying implementation and behavioUral sciences to improve the adoption of evidence-based interventions in healthcare practices. Her research is situated within the multidisciplinary realm of implementation science, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care. In addition to implementation science, her work encompasses other areas such as epidemiology, e-health, and medical education. Wen Ting also has a keen interest in topics such as sexual and reproductive health, mental health, and health ethics. Apart from her research contributions, Wen Ting has valuable experience in designing and developing online courses on massive open online course (MOOC) platforms, including OpenLearning and FutureLearn. Her courses, "Introduction to Research for Healthcare Professionals" (OpenLearning) and "Manuscript Writing Made Easy" (OpenLearning), have garnered significant enrolment numbers and continue to be highly sought after by clinicians and healthcare researchers. Wen Ting's research has been published in prestigious journals such as Implementation Science. She has also co-written book chapters published by renowned publishers such as Routledge London, and Springer. Moreover, she has received several research awards at international conferences in recognition of her work.

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SR DR. NURSHUHADA BINTI ZAINON

Sr Dr Nurshuhada Zainon is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Quantity Surveying. She holds the Bachelor of Quantity Surveying from UM in 2005 and was awarded the prestigious Anugerah Pelajaran Diraja. She earned her MSc in Construction Economics and Management from The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London in 2009 and her Doctoral in Construction IT Management from UM in 2013. Her career began with CIDB E-Construct Pvt Ltd (a subsidiary of the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), Malaysia) as a Junior Analyst and later as an IT Project Manager. Her involvement in developing the National e-Tendering Initiative (NeTI), which was an emerging discipline, sparked her research interest in digital construction transformation. Since joining UM in 2013, she has pursued her digital construction research, focusing on utilising Building Information Modelling (BIM) to achieve sustainable construction design and economy. In 2019, she was awarded the Young Excellent Researcher Award  (Humanity and Social Science) by the university. Her community engagement project, #MsiaEndsDengue won UM Best Community Engagement Project 2015. She was also the coordinator for the national-level DIY Made Simple Competition 2017-2020, one of UM's flagship community-based projects.  She was one of the advisors for UMCares (2018-2019) and a reviewer for multiple international journals and conference proceedings. She had spearheaded several BIM research and development MOUs between UM and industry key players such as CIDB and Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) Malaysia and international university partners such as Manchester Metropolitan University. She is also actively involved with the Board of Quantity Surveyors of Malaysia (BQSM) and the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) as an organising committee for various conferences. In addition, she contributes her expertise through consultation with industry partners and industry-based workshops for BIM-related development in Malaysia. Sr Dr Nurshuhada is a Professional Quantity Surveyor of BQSM, a RISM member, and a Student Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), UK. She is always a passionate academician in producing the best out of her students and for the progress of UM, the Faculty of Built Environment, particularly the Department of Quantity Surveying.        

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