Vilashini Somiah is an anthropologist who is a senior lecturer at the Gender Studies Programme at Universiti Malaya. She received her PhD from the National University of Singapore, an MA from Ohio University, an MRes from Universiti Malaya and a BA from the Universiti Malaya. She maintains a keen interest for underrepresented narratives of women, migrants and Borneans living in the interiors. She is the co-editor of “Sabah From the Ground: The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival (SIRD/ISEAS, 2021), and her first book, “Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance'' with Palgrave Macmillan (TBC 2022). Outside of academia, she writes ethnographic articles on the local socio-political landscape.

Siti Zaidah Zainuddin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language. Her primary research interests lie in discourse studies, particularly genre analysis in both written and spoken academic discourse and corpus linguistics. In the field of language learning, she works on and teacher-learner interaction. Her publications address various topics on academic discourse practices including language and rhetorical strategies in oral defense and thesis writing by postgraduate students and teacher agency. Zaidah holds several research grants focusing on genre studies in academic and legal discourses and teacher’s agency in language classrooms. She teaches both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In addition to teaching and research, Zaidah has served as a UG pram coordinator, Industrial Training coordinator for the English Language Department and the coordinator and consultant for evaluator various language programs with private organisations. 

Shahiran Nazmi bin Shahrul Anuar dilahirkan di Pulau Pinang pada 24 April 2000. Mendapat pendidikan awal di SK Permatang Pasir (2007-2012), kemudian melanjutkan pelajaran ke SMK Permatang Pasir (2013-2017). Seterusnya, meneruskan pengajian di SMA Daeratul Ma'arifl Wataniah 1 pada tahun 2018 sebelum memperoleh Ijazah Sarjana Muda dalam bidang Bahasa Arab dari Universiti al-Azhar, Mesir(2019-2023). Pernah berkhidmat sebagai Guru MySTEP peringkat sekolah rendah dan menengah, sebelum bertugas sebagai Pegawai Penyelidik di Jabatan Mufti Negeri Pulau Pinang dan terlibat dalam penyelidikan fatwa serta analisis isu semasa. Kini, beliau dilantik sebagai Pensyarah Bahasa di Akademi Pengajian Islam, Universiti Malaya dan bertugas di Universiti Malaya Education Centre (UMEC), Bachok, Kelantan(2025-kini).