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I am a Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM), and currently the Dean of the Social Advancement and Happiness Research Cluster at UM. My areas of research interests include Acoustic Phonetics, Language Documentation, Language Revitalisation and English Language Education, and I have published in these areas. I have co-developed resources, including a mobile application, to encourage the use of Melaka Portuguese, an endangered language. I have also co-produced a series of videos of a Malaysian folktale (Sang Kancil dan Buaya) voiced in several Malaysian indigenous languages. I strongly believe that there needs to be a move away from a Grab-and-Go type of research to one that engages communities throughout the research process. Thus, I have been working with Melaka Portuguese community representatives on language documentation and revitalisation efforts. My initial work on MP is archived at the Endangered Languages Archive. More recently, I developed a mobile application, BibePortMal, a mobile dictionary in collaboration with several MP speakers. Apart from this, I am involved in the task force for the national higher institutions centres of excellence (HICoE) programme. I am also a member of the training team for the Malaysian Chapter of the International Deans' Course, which is organised in collaboration with the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT).