Dr Malai Zeiti Sheikh Abdul Hamid is Assistant Professor with the Centre for Communication, Teaching and Learning as well as Head of the Wellness Research Thrust at the University of Technology Brunei. She graduated with a PhD in English Language and Literacy Education (Bath), a Master’s of Education in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Leicester) and a Bachelors in Education in TESL (UBD).

Dr Zeiti also graduated with a Teaching Certificate in Higher Education (Harvard) and the Women’s Leadership Development Programme (Oxford). Dr Zeiti was awarded the Royal Charter Qualification of Chartered Teacher of English by the UK English Association and is also a Chartered Linguist of Education from the UK Chartered Institute of Linguists. Additionally, she is also a Fellow member of the UK Chartered College of Teaching as and also a Fellow member of the UK Society of Education and Training. She was an award recipient of the US-ASEAN Fulbright Scholarship and also received the UTB Teaching Excellence Award Special Mention. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is also currently purusing her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Education at Harvard University.

Dr Zeiti is also President of the Brunei Reading and Literacy Association and Country Ambassador to the UK Literacy Association. She is also the Founder and Curator of TEDxBandarSeriBegawan. Her current research interests are Cultural Literacy and Digital Literacy. Her recent publications in 2021 included a chapter on ‘A Case Study of language use and literacy practices of Brunei students: New perspectives on cultural literacy’ in Charting an Asian Trajectory for Literacy Education: Charting Past, Present and Future Literacies, published by Routledge. Her second book chapter is `Overview of Preventive Measures and Good Governance Policies to Mitigate the COVID-19 Outbreak Curve in Brunei’ in COVID-19: Systematic Risk and Resilience, published by Springer Nature.