COVID-19, Education, and Literacy in Malaysia (PDF)

Ambigapathy Pandian (The chief editor of literacy and education book) is the Dean, Faculty of Language and Communication, University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). As a scholar, Professor Ambigapathy Pandian's field of research interests include, language, literacy education and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Ambigapathy has delivered webinars related to COVID-19, such as "Research in the Arts, Humanities and Management: Normal, New Normal, Abnormal?". He is the author and editor of more than 60 books published with Scholar's Press, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Oxford Fajar Press, Lang Publishers (New York) and Common Ground Publications (Australia), and many articles featured in prestigious international journals.

Surinderpal Kaur (The editor of COVID-19 in Malaysia multidisciplinary series) is an Associate Professor and Dean at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She attained her PhD from Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include Media Discourses and Multimodality, focusing specifically upon public discourses in mainstream and social media that relate to public health, migration, terrorism issues. She has been actively involved with Universiti Malaya's social outreach initiatives to offer solutions to the mental health challenges faced by Malaysian during the COVID-19 pandemic (Caring Together/UMPrihatin), focusing specifically on the social media platforms of Telegram and Facebook. She is currently compiling a database of research and data from all over the world to help Malaysian scholars in their research on COVID-19.