Trained in Cultural Studies, I am a researcher engaging in interdisciplinary research on culture. My research is primarily concerned with the cultural history of modern and contemporary China through the lens of ‘folk’ or minjian. In particular, I am interested in how ‘folk’ has been discursively constructed by the state and intellectuals throughout the 20th century, and how it continues to be represented at heritage sites, folk art museums, folk art fairs, as well as contemporary art exhibitions in the 21st century. My interdisciplinary PhD training in Cultural Studies in Asia at the National University of Singapore has taught me to be a questioner, committed to promoting critical and creative thinking as a mode of living beyond academia. Being a practitioner of critical pedagogy, I always problematize preconceived ideas that have shaped our understandings of the world. As a lecturer, I believe that classroom is where knowledge is produced and challenged through productive dialogues between teachers and students. Besides teaching in the classroom, I am also an active listener keen on translating students’ personal experience and knowledge into discussion materials. Critical discussion could help students reflect upon how our perception of the world is sociologically constructed. Students are not passive learners but knowledge producers. My role as a teacher is to acknowledge students’ opinions as knowledge and situate their knowledge within a larger socio-political, economic, and cultural contexts so as to allow them to scrutinize their common sense. I am currently not available for Master's and PhD supervisions. 

Dr. Sujaya Singh received her undergraduate medical training at Calicut University, Kerala, India. Subsequently she moved to Malaysia and worked in various hospitals under Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM) as House Officer and Medical Officer. After working for 5 years in KKM, she underwent Ophthalmology Specialist training at the University of Malaya. Subsequently she pursued sub specialization in Cornea and Anterior Segment at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India and also the Malaysian cornea fellowship programme withexit Certification in December 2015. She worked as a Cornea specialist at Hospital Sungai Buloh and currently practising at University of Malaya. Her particular interests are in management of cornea and anterior segment diseases.  

Md. Ershadul Karim, LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M. (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), PhD in Nanotechnology Law and Policy (University of Malaya, Malaysia) is an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of Universiti Malaya (UM). He joined UM as Senior Lecturer after completion of his PhD with the very prestigious Bright Spark Scholarship.    Being a passionate researcher and academic, Dr. Karim has widely published in peer-reviewed Journals and presented papers at many national and international Conferences in his areas of interest i.e. ‘information and communication technology’, ‘artificial intelligence’, ‘legal and regulatory aspects of nanotechnology’, ‘emerging technologies and law’, ‘privacy and data protection law’, ‘health and medical law’, ‘legal research’, and ‘Asian and comparative law’, etc. Ershadul authored six books and is the author of Cyber Law in Bangladesh, Kluwer Law International, 2022 (2nd Edition), Environmental Law in Bangladesh, Kluwer Law International, 2024 (2nd Edition), Privacy and Personal Data Protection Law in Bangladesh, Kluwer Law International, 2024, and co-author of Personal Data Protection Law in Asia (second edition), Thomson and Reuters, 2018. Dr. Karim has been managing the National Chapter on Bangladesh for the Yearbook of International Environmental Law published by Oxford University, the United Kingdom since 2013. Dr. Ershadul has written Chapters on the Legal System of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Iran, Nepal, Maldives, and Myanmar in GlobaLex, New York University, USA. He has also developed the Research Guide on Nanotechnology Law and Policy, and SAARC for the same database. Ershadul has published more than fifty peer-reviewed academic papers and contributed chapters in books published by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier Inc., SpringerNature and BRILL analysing, inter alia, the relationship between nanomaterials and international environmental law, various legal and regulatory issues in polymer nanocomposite, functionalised nanomaterials, biosensors, consumer nanoproducts, international renewable energy law, and nuclear energy law. Dr. Ershadul is the Managing Editor of one of the oldest law journals in Malaysia and the flagship journal of the Faculty of Law, UM — the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law. He has reviewed more than a hundred articles and book proposals for all major and renowned academic publishers worldwide. As an enlisted lawyer with the Bangladesh Bar Council and Bangladesh Supreme Court, Dr. Karim was instrumental in developing the Bangladesh Code, a collection of 38 volumes containing all existing Acts of Parliament, Ordinances and President’s Orders in force in Bangladesh between 1836-2006. He was also the Web Administrator and Editor of the first ever online case law database of Bangladesh, Chancery Law Chronicles [www.clcbd.org] for six years.   Dr. Karim served as Senior Research Officer at the Technical Support Secretariat of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Women and Children for three years. So far Dr. Karim and his team have received grants of more than USD 2,00,000 to research different legal and policy issues. He was a member of the research team in the “INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COLLABORATIVE BLOCKCHAIN-BASED REGULATORY FRAMEWORK RESEARCH PROJECT”. Dr. Karim has been consulted by different national and international organisations including Japan Government's Patent Office through Kyoto Comparative Law Center, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UN Women, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), World Bank Group, European Union, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA), Consumer International, Prime Minister’s Office of the Government of Malaysia and Ministry of Justice, United Arab Emirates, Transparency International, Bangladesh, ARTICLE 19, and Qatar Foundation. Ershadul has been interviewed by Prothom Alo, the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh several times, the Daily Star (Bangladesh) [largest circulating English-language newspaper in Bangladesh], the Star (Malaysia) [largest paid English newspaper in terms of circulation in Malaysia], and has also been quoted in the several news media including the Prothom Alo and BBC Bangla. Ershadul is a member of the International Network Initiative on Safe and Sustainable Nanotechnology, and covers the Asian legal systems. He is also a member of the Global AI Ethics Consortium (Technical University of Munich, Germany). Ershadul is a supervisor and examiner of PhD theses and Master's dissertations in his areas of interest and expertise. Ershadul has recently developed interests in exploring the history and philosophy of technologies, technology regulation theories, sociology of technologies, science and technology studies, and is available to supervise research students willing to explore the legal aspects in these areas.