Scott's empirical research interests center on the regional politics of Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on collective efforts combatting novel security issues. This has primarily been applied to Southeast Asia’s maritime security governance, but has since broadened out to consider the Indo-Pacific. His theoretical basis is on the role of trust in international relations, where he also engages with ideas regarding Communities of Practice. Scott has previously held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Bristol and Leeds, and teaching positions at the Universities of Birmingham, Reading, and Bath.

  NOR ANIZA ABDULLAH is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya, Malaysia. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Malaya (UM), obtained a Master’s degree in Interactive Multimedia from Westminster University, London, and earned her PhD in Computer Science from Southampton University, United Kingdom, in 2006. She served as Deputy Dean of the Equitable Society Research Cluster, UM (2016-2018), Deputy Dean of Undergraduate at the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology (FCSIT), UM (2011-2013), and Head of the Multimedia Unit at FCSIT (1999-2003, 2007-2011). In 2002, she was Lead Internal Auditor for the Faculty of Engineering during UM’s first MS ISO 9001:2000 internal audit. She was Quality Manager for FCSIT (2012-2013) and chaired the UM Student Council Selection Audit Committee in 2012. Between 2012 and 2013, she led a committee to study and enhance the quality of programming courses at the faculty. She received the UM Excellence Service Awards in 2001 and 2013. Her research interests include personalized e-learning, recommender systems, medical image processing, intelligent multimedia, deep learning, sentiment analysis, mobile crowdsourcing, and augmented reality. She has authored or co-authored 80 publications in the Web of Science (WOS - h index 15) and Scopus (h index 21).  Kindly visit the following links for further details on her publications: Orcid: 0000-0001-6218-8772, ResearcherID: B-2768-2010; Scopus Author ID: 26659416000    

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).