Dr. Uma Malar M Maniam

Dr. Uma Malar M Maniam has focused her career on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP). During her doctoral studies (2015-2018) at the University of Leeds, she worked as an academic personal tutor and postgraduate dissertation supervisor. She is a Teaching Fellow in TESOL at the School of Education, University of Leeds. Her research interests include teacher education, multilingualism, second language learning, and educational leadership in higher education. She has been teaching a diverse cohort of students from Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, across both undergraduate and postgraduate modules. Presently, she is engaged in research involving educators from vernacular schools in Malaysia.