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Her recent publications include Exploring informality in a global south city: issues of power and urban development in Kuala Lumpur in Journal of Design and Built Environment, the role of history in informality in the global south city of Kuala Lumpur: the case of Kampong Bharu development in Journal of Surveying, Construction and Property and Analytic network process (ANP)-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) for sustainbale tourism planning in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia in Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Besides publications, she is also involved in research related to public health, elderly and flood resilient cities. She also works closely with Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat and offers knowledge transfer services by organizing workshops.
Dr. Rosilawati Zainol is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Head of Sustainable Planning and Development, Centre for Sustainable Urban Planning and Real Estate, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya (UM). Currently, she has been appointed as the Deputy Director at the Centre for Civilizational Dialogue, University of Malaya for a year starting 1 November 2016 until 31 October 2017. Since joining UM in 2004, she has published quite a number of articles, chapters in book and books related to sustainable urban development and tourism development. Her research interest is in urban analytics (the use of information technology in urban and regional planning and urban studies especially in GIS), spatial analysis, spatial statistics and healthy city.
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DR ROSILAWATI ZAINOL is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Head of Sustainable Planning and Development, Centre for Sustainable Urban Planning and Real Estate, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya (UM). Currently, she has been appointed as the Deputy Director of the Centre for Civilizational Dialogue, the University of Malaya. Since joining UM in 2004, she has published quite a number of articles, chapters in book and books related to sustainable urban development and tourism development. Her research interest is in urban analytics (the use of information technology in urban and regional planning and urban studies especially in GIS), spatial analysis, spatial statistics and healthy city.
Her recent publications include, “Analytic network process (ANP)-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) for sustainable tourism planning in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia” Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2017). Besides publications, she is also involved in research related to public health, elderly and flood resilient cities. She also works closely with Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat and offers knowledge transfer services by organising workshops.
PROFESSOR DR SHAKILA YACOB is the Director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya and is also a lecturer at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Malaya. She is also an associate of the International Institute of Public Policy and Management (INPUMA). She was recently awarded the FY2015-2016 Fulbright Malaysian Scholar Program and was based at the University of Maryland, USA from October 2015 until July 2017.
After receiving her Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Southeast Asian Studies) from University of Malaya, she pursued a Master of Arts in Political Science at Western Michigan University, United States. She received her doctorate (PhD) in Management at the University of Reading Business School, United Kingdom. Her research interests
are in the areas of business history, international business as well as in comparative politics. She began her work on the US foreign direct investment in colonial Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia and presently, on the history of international business in Malaysia. Her secondary interests are in the areas of history and new media, which includes critical thinking skills in the teaching and learning of history.
Professor Dr Shakila’s most recent book is Sejarah dan Media Baharu (History and the New Media) published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2015. She also published her book on The United States and the Malaysian Economy (2008) by Routledge, under the Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia series. In addition to various publications on business history in local journals, some of her selected international publications include Shakila Yacob and Khadijah Md. Khalid, ‘Adapt or Divest? The New Economic Policy and Foreign Businesses in Malaysia (1970-2000)’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40:3, 459-482 (2012), Shakila Yacob and Nicholas White, ‘The unfinished business of Malaysia’s decolonisation: the origins of the Guthrie Dawn Raid’, Modern Asian Studies 44.5 (September 2010).
Professor Dr Shakila has appeared on national and international radio and television programmes to give interviews about current issues in the US and also US-Malaysia relations. She writes regularly for Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, and other newspapers and magazines on a wide range of issues concerning politics and government in the USA.