Muhammad Zaiamri Zainal Abidin is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media & Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. His expertise includes Strategic Communication, New Media & Elderly, Media Law & Ethics, and Public Relations. He has over 10 years of research experience in a variety of projects.

Dr. Lai is a haematopathologist with area of interest in both adult and childhood haemato-oncology. After earning her Master’s in Pathology (Haematology) in 2022, she gained experience as a specialist in Sarawak General Hospital (SGH), Kuching. She helped in establishing new services such as Flow Cytometry for Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma as well as BCR-ABL1 quantification for Chronic Myeloid Luekaeia in SGH. In December 2024, she joined the Department of Pathology, University Malaya.  

Jariah Mohd Jan is Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She has held several leadership roles at the university as the Deputy Dean of the Institute of Graduate Studies, Deputy Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute, Deputy Dean of Research and Development, Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. She specialises in sociolinguistics, in particular, gender and power in relation to language. Her recent work focuses on pragmatics, leadership discourse and the relevance of gender and ethnicity in the workplace, and academic concerns and needs of children in foster care. She is Programme Leader of the Impact-Oriented Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IIRG) Programme on documenting the language and culture of the Kerinchi community in Kuala Lumpur. She has also published numerous articles in international journals on topics ranging from gendered discourse, through socio-pragmatic aspects of interaction, to discourse and linguistic features of the Mah Meri, Javanese and Kerinchi communities in Malaysia. Her recent books include Discourse Research in the Malaysian Context (with Zalina Mohd Kasim and Sharon Sharmini Danarajan) (2020, Universiti Putra Malaysia Press), Pragmatics Research in the Malaysian Context (with Siti Nurbaya Mohd Nor, Mohd Ridwan Abdul Wahid, Veronica Lowe) (2021; Universiti Malaya Press), Voices in Texts and Contexts (with Yamaguchi, T. and Sheena Kaur) (2021; Sunway University Press), and Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South (with Jalalian Daghigh and Sheena Kaur) (2022; Springer).