Fatiha Senom, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya. She obtained Bachelor in Education in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), minoring in Science Education for Young Learners from Universiti Malaya and Ph.D in Education (TESL) under the fast-track programme in 2016 from the same university. She has published books and articles dedicated to issues surrounding professional development of novice and pre-service ESL teachers. Her research interests include; second language teacher education (SLTE) and professional development, TESOL, Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), Teaching English for Young Learners, Science Education for Young Learners, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). She is the coordinator for M.Ed ESL programme and involved in several community outreach programmes related to education for primary and secondary school ESL learners. Her current projects include the exploration of ESL novice teachers’ professional identity, internationalization of Second Language Teacher Education curricula, the development of CLIL module for teaching primary Science in English, and alternative assessment through plays for young learners.

Teo is the recipient of the 2007-2012 SLAI scholarship which supported his education in the United States of America. He completed his Master's and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. His areas of interest are in sports testing & measurement, psychometrics, questionnaire development and validation, sport psychology, health & fitness, and wildlife conservation. He is involved in sport studies on sport motivation, self-esteem, task & ego resilience, and sport commitment in Malaysian settings. Teo was the ex-Coordinator for Bachelor of Sport Management programme (2017-2021), and also the Coordinator of Social Engagement (Jalinan Masyarakat) & SULAM from 2016-2023. Currently he is the faculty coordinator for Internship Programme for Bachelor of Sport Management programme.

Loo Fung Ying is Associate Professor of cultural musicology and the Dean of Faculty of Creative Arts, Universiti Malaya. She teaches cultural musicology and research methodology. After obtaining her Fellowship (Trinity College of London) and Bachelor of Music (Hons) in piano performance (Universiti Putra Malaysia), she furthered her music study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she received her Master of Music in Piano Performance with distinction. She studied piano under Michael Schreider, Barno Haknazarov, Larisa Rakhmanova, and Lillian Joseph, and had master classes conducted by Artur Pizzaro, Boris Berman, Irina Osipova, Julian Jacobson, Richard MacMahon, Olga Malissova, and Ng Chong Lim. As a pianist, her performances locally and abroad included the first piano concertos of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky under the baton of Zakhid Khaknazarov, recitals at St. John’s Smith Square and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and a recording for Ceri Richard’s Themes and Variations published by National Museums and Galleries of Wales, UK. Fung Ying continues to pursue research in music and completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield, UK in 2009. Her research interests include cultural musicology, performance practice, popular music, music and movement perception, and Tai Chi in application to the physicality of piano performance.  She joined Universiti Malaya in 2009 and has published over sixty refereed articles and book chapters. Her work has appeared in International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Muzikološki Zbornik, Revista Música Hodie, Asian Theatre Journal, International Journal of Music Education, IEEE Multimedia, Women's History Review, Media Watch, Journal of Popular television, New Ideas in Psychology and The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership. Her research has been supported by grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Universiti Malaya, and Universiti Putra Malaysia, and won her gold and silver awards at local and international research exhibitions. She is a member of the International Editorial Board of eTropic and Media Watch. She has held positions such as Deputy Director (Postgraduate study and Research) of Cultural Centre (now Faculty of Creative Arts), Universiti Malaya (from 2010 to 2018, and April 2024 to March 2025), Chair of Academic Programmes Accreditation Panel for PhD, Master’s, and Bachelor degree level (Malaysian Qualifications Agency), Internal Auditor of MYRA (Malaysia Research Assessment, Ministry of Higher Education), and Associate Editor of Malaysian Journal of Performing and Visual Arts. As an active composer and musician with the multiple award-winning Dama Orchestra (now Dama Asia Productions) from 2001 to 2016, she has over twenty productions to date, five albums and three sold-out musicals: Empress Wu, I Have a Date with Spring and Butterfly Lovers. In addition, her composition titled Freedom won second prize at the 2022 Seoul International Meditation Music Competition.