Deputy Dean (Research & Innovation) Faculty of Education, UKM

Dr Melor Md Yunus is an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She is best known for establishing the integration of ICT in teaching and learning English as a Second Language research. She contributed to developing the PERMATApintar National Gifted Centre in Malaysia in 2009 and was appointed as the first Deputy Director of the centre.  She is the first recipient of the National Higher Education e-Learning award (2014) for her contributions in Creativity (Blended Learning, Flipped Learning, and Problem-Based Learning). She is also in the Top 3 Cited Malaysian Researcher List in 2014 MRUN Report and she won UKM Best Teaching Award (Bitara Pendidik) in 2016. She was conferred upon the award of Distinguished Woman in Social Science 2017 for her contribution and achievement in the field of Teaching and Learning Innovation by Venus International Foundation. She is active in scholarly journal writing and publishing and has currently published more than 100 papers in SCOPUS. Her publications have been cited almost 600 times and she has an author SCOPUS h-index of 11. The recipient of 183 innovation awards, she is highly regarded among her peers in her field.