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I am a Professor, and currently Dean at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya (UM). My main areas of research interest are the segmental and prosodic features of spoken Malaysian English and Malacca Portuguese. I have also been working with community members on the revitalisation of Malacca Portuguese. My initial work on the Malacca Portuguese was funded by, and has been archived in the Endangered Languages Archive (http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0123). You can hear more about this language at http://www.bfm.my/lingo-episode-10-kristang-part-1.html and http://www.bfm.my/lingo-episode-11-kristang-part-2.html. I have also been working on capacity building for language documentation with Professor Peter K. Austin of SOAS, UK under a Newton Ungku-Omar Fellowship funded by the British Academy and Academy of Sciences Malaysia. I strongly believe that there needs to be a move away from a Grab-and-Go type of research to one that engages communities.