Dr Sabri Sulaiman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya. His early research examined socioeconomic disadvantage, social deprivation, and the well-being of children from low-income families. His doctoral research extended this work by investigating how poverty, homelessness, and adverse living conditions shape the welfare, needs, and behavioural outcomes of vulnerable and homeless children. Through this, his research centres on the sociology of children, families, and vulnerability, with particular attention to vulnerable and hard-to-reach children, young people, and families. His work examines how social stratification, family relationships, socioeconomic conditions, socio-ecological environments, institutions, and systems of care and welfare influence childhood and family experiences. He further investigates how these structural and relational conditions contribute to inequalities in health, well-being, social inclusion, children’s rights, resilience, development, and life chances among children and vulnerable families. His research also explores how family policies, parenting practices, employment and labour conditions, welfare provision, and governance systems mediate access to opportunities, resources, and social outcomes across the life course. His research is organised around four interconnected sociological domains: (1) Sociology of Children, Families and Vulnerability; (2) Sociology of Health, Well-being and Social Deprivation; (3) Sociology of Global, Economic and Welfare; (4) Sociology of Violence, Risk and Vulnerability. Through these interconnected areas, Dr Sabri welcomes research collaboration, postgraduate supervision, visiting scholar engagement, joint publications, research projects, and consultancy in the following areas of sociology:

• Examining how family relationships, socioeconomic conditions, and institutional contexts shape childhood experiences, family well-being, developmental trajectories, subjective well-being, social mobility, and life chances across the life course.
• Investigating how social stratification, poverty, deprivation, social exclusion, and unequal access to resources reproduce inequalities in opportunities, well-being, health and developmental outcomes of children and families
• Analysing the social, structural, and ecological determinants of violence, vulnerability, risk, and resilience, including child maltreatment, adverse childhood experiences, antisocial and prosocial behaviour, and other forms of social disadvantage.
• Examining how welfare institutions, policy, legal frameworks, governance systems, and social protection shape children's rights, family support, health, well-being, social inclusion, and access to essential resources. 
• Conducting comparative and transnational research on children, families, welfare regimes, social inequality, and vulnerability, examining how global structures, institutions, and diverse societal contexts shape well-being and life chances across the Global South and Global North.
• Developing and applying sociological approaches, methods and social indicators to examine well-being, deprivation, vulnerability, and quality of life of children and families as well as to produce evidence-based interventions to improve the well-being of children and families. 

Beyond academia, Dr Sabri is actively engaged in applied research, consultancy, and collaboration with government agencies, international organisations, and civil society. His work reflects a sustained commitment to translating sociological research into policy, practice, and measurable social impact. He currently serves as a Consultant to the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN), Malaysia. He is currently a project leader and consultant for the following projects:

• A national study on risk behaviours among at-risk adolescents in Malaysia, focusing on life-course vulnerabilities, violence exposure, and prevention-oriented interventions.
• A project on inclusive digital education for students with disabilities in higher education, addressing accessibility, equity, and rights-based digital inclusion.
• The development of the Malaysia Family Wellbeing Index (FWI-5).

Dr Sabri is the author of the forthcoming book Community-Based Social Care Models for Protecting the Rights and Well-being of Street-Connected Children in Malaysia, which advances rights-based and evidence-informed approaches to child protection and social care. He has also published Deprivasi Sosial Kanak-kanak Malaysia, a study examining social deprivation and child well-being from children’s perspectives, alongside policy and intervention strategies to address inequality. His work is internationally recognised, and he is affiliated with several professional bodies, including the British Sociological Association, the British Society for Population Studies,  the International Sociological Association, the Social Policy Association, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse, the Association of Child Protection Professionals and Neglect, and the Malaysian Association of Social Workers. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to edited volumes, and presented at international conferences. He welcomes collaboration with scholars, practitioners, and institutions that advance social justice, equity, and inclusive systems of care.