Dr. Parvathi Wajindram is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya. She holds a PhD in Social Science from the University of Malaya, a Master’s degree in Corporate Communication from Universiti Putra Malaysia, and a Bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Communication. With a professional background spanning academia, media, and corporate communication, she has served as a Corporate Communication Manager and worked in broadcasting as producer and editor. Her teaching experience includes media studies, design thinking, and courses on sociopolitical and cultural topics, alongside active supervision of master’s and doctoral research. Dr. Parvathi Wajindram research is anchored in Leadership Studies, with a strong focus on how power is structured, negotiated, and enacted in diverse institutional and cultural contexts. She study focuses on how leaders shape experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and empowerment, especially within minority communities and plural societies. By adapting and extending frameworks traditionally applied in corporate settings, she highlight how power and leadership operate in universities, NGOs, cultural and religious organizations, and state-linked institutions. Alongside this primary focus, Dr.Parvathi Wajindram also study authoritarianism as a complementary lens—not only as a political regime type but as a leadership style and cultural practice that appears in workplaces, communities, and digital spaces. This allows her to critically analyze how authoritarian tendencies reinforce structural inequalities, while also exploring strategies of negotiation and resistance among minorities and marginalized groups. Expanding across national and global contexts, her research engages with how power and leadership practices are shaped by pluralism, diversity, and digital transformation. Whether examining minority experiences in Malaysia, diasporic communities, or global information systems, her scholarship highlights the intersections of power, leadership, and cultural identity. Ultimately, Dr.Parvathi Wajindram work contributes to understanding how institutions and individuals navigate authority, build resilience, and foster agency in increasingly complex and plural societies.

Chong Yang CHUAH is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Malaya (UM). He gained BE and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His research is dedicated to the separation process with the use of adsorption and membranes in molecular-based separation process. Dr. CHUAH's professional qualifications include being a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng) since 2023, accredited by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), United Kingdom. He is currently involved in reviewing the Individual Case Procedure (ICP) to access potential C.Eng applications submitted to IChemE. He also obtained his Professional Technologist (Ts.) status in 2022 from the Malaysian Board of Technologist, Malaysia. He has also received several certifications, namely HRD Corp Certified Trainer in July 2024 and Aspen Certified User in Aspen HYSYS in 2023.

Najah Zainal Abidin is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. She specialises in pragmatics and discourse analysis, with a focus on language use in social media. Her research explores online aggressive language and the role of linguistic expression in shaping identity and power structures.