Haris Abd Wahab (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Administration and Justice, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He graduated in the field of human development and community development. He has conducted studies on community work, community development, volunteerism, and disability. He has extensive experience working as a medical social worker at the Ministry of Health.
Jahid Siraz Chowdhuy is a Fellow Ph.D. program at the Department of Social Administration and Justice, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Ex-faculty of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Former Research Associate, Victoria University and the University of South Pacific, and former anthropology faculty at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He is a creative writer, published 13 books in Bengali. One book is 'Purbo-Prantic' Eastern Corner’¬¬ a historical novel traced back from 600 to 1304 AD in the eastern part of Bangladesh. He initiated Covid-19 Trilogy: BOOK -1: The 2020 Pandemic and Social Science: Some Insights from the South Edited by- Jahid Siraz, Haris Abd Wahab, Rashid Bin Mohd Saad, Siti Hajar ABH. Publisher: In progress with University Malaya Press;Book 2: Handbook of Research on COVID-19 Impact on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future, Edited by- Jahid Siraz, Haris Abd Wahab, Rashid Bin Mohd Saad, Siti Hajar ABH, Expected to come in June 2021, with IGI Global); Book 3: UBUNTU Philopshy for the New Normalcy (Authors: Jahid Siraz, Haris Abd Wahab, Rashid Bin Mohd Saad, Joseph Wronka (Springfield, USA), Mahitah Hamidi (UM) Palgrave MacMillan. We are working with the Philosophy of Reciprocity separately: 1. Reciprocity and its Practices to Social Sciences (IGI Global) 2. Philosophy to Practices of Reciprocity in Social Research. Email: ava180043@siswa.um.edu.my
Siti Hajar Binti Abu Bakar Ah is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Administration and Justice, University of Malaya. Her core area of expertise is Social Policy. Over the 20 years, she has been involved in developing and promoting the teaching, learning and research opportunities in the field of social policy and social work. She teaches social policy, social welfare system, social planning, social evaluation and monitoring, research methodology and social theories. Her research interests focus on social care programs for the at-risk children in Malaysia, children well-being and social development for vulnerable social groups.
Mohd Rashid bin Mohd Saad is an educationist and serving as an Assistant professor at the Department of Education at Universiti Malaya. At present, he is working in the Drug Discoveries of Indigenous communities in Bangladesh. He is editor of The 2020 Pandemic and Social Science: Some Insights from the South, University Malaya Press, Malaysia and Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future, IGI Global, USA(Eds). He is co-author of 'Reciprocity and Its Practice in Social Science', In progress with IGI Global, USA.2nd Book: 'Philosophy to Practice of Reciprocity' In progress, and 'A Reciprocal Ethnography of the Bangladeshi Rakhain: Seeing with Ubuntu in the New Normal', Under the Australia Pacific Publisher (2021 Upcoming). Also, Decolonizing and Indigenous Social Work (Eds, Forthcoming). Email: msaadmr@um.edu.my