Research Interests
- Psychology
- Individual differences
- Sensory-processing Sensitivity
- Psychological well-being
- Education
- Educational psychology
- Gifted education and the psychology of gifted children
- Internationalisation of higher education
Academic Background
PhD in Educational Psychology
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2023
Master of Education specialising in Gifted Education
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia.
2013
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and International Studies)
Monash University
Bandar Sunway, Malaysia & Melbourne, Australia.
2011
Current Academic Appointments
Senior Lecturer
Department of Educational Development and Innovation, School of Education, Sunway University, Malaysia.
September 2025 – current
Programme Leader for Master of Education (by research) and PhD in Education programmes
Department of Educational Development and Innovation, School of Education, Sunway University, Malaysia.
January 2026 – current
Past Academic Appointments
Lecturer
Department of Psychology, School of Liberal Arts and Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management,
Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, Malaysia.
November 2024 – August 2025
Independent Researcher
January 2022 – August 2025
Research Assistant
Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education,
University of Malaya, Malaysia.
June 2019 – June 2020
Research Assistant
Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education,
University of Malaya, Malaysia.
October 2016 – March 2017
Lecturer
Department of Education, Faculty of Education and Languages,
HELP University, Malaysia.
September 2014 – September 2015
Other Professional & Public Contributions
On-going
- Council Member | Malaysian Psychological Association | 2025-current
- Responsible for leading the Bureau for Human Interaction and Artifical Intelligence (Biro Interaksi Manusia dan Kecerdasan Buatan).
- Served as a member of the Organising Committee for the International Psychology Conference (IPC) | HELP University, Malaysia |17-18 August 2026.
- Vice-President | Malaysia Educational Psychology Society | 2025-current
- Member of the Executive Committee | Advancing Big-team Reproducible Science through Increased Representation | 2023-current
- Manuscript Reviewer |Frontiers in Psychology; The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher; The Malaysian Journal of Psychology (JPM)
Past
- Member of the Organising Committee | International Psychology Conference (IPC) | HELP University, Malaysia |17-18 August 2026.
- Emcee and Member of the Working Committee | 2025 International Conference on Inclusive Education| Sunway University, Malaysia | 24 October 2025
- Member of the Organising Committee | 2025 Big Team Science Conference| Virtual conference | 06-08 October 2025
- Member of the Working Committee | ARNEC Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development 2024 | Penang, Malaysia | 27-30 May 2024
- Vice-Secretary | Malaysia Educational Psychology Society | 2024-2025
- Emcee | Early Childhood and Parenting Symposium 2023 | SEGi University, Malaysia | 11 March 2023
- Emcee | International ECCE Conference 2023 | SEGi University & HELP University, Malaysia | 07-08 Jan 2023
- Research Group Leader | International and Comparative Education Research Group (affiliated with the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei) | 2022 – 2023
- Emcee | International Conference on Early Childhood Care & Education 2021 (MAPECE ICECCE 2021) | SEGi University, Malaysia | 19-20 June 2021
- Translator from Bahasa Malaysia to English | “Abeer Children Dental Anxiety Scale (ACDAS)” Questionnaire | University of Malaya’s Impact Oriented Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IIRG) Programme Project: IIRG026A-2019 | Dec 2019
- Member of the Executive Committee | National Seminar: Development of Higher Order Thinking (HOT) | University of Malaya & HELP University, Malaysia | 29-30 Sept 2015
