She did her PhD in the field of second language education at Universiti Sains Malaysia and her Masters in teaching English as second language at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her current research interests are in organizational communication, corporate communication, and stakeholder communication. Her publications often link these communication studies to second language education, making her an advocate of crossdisciplinary studies. She is actively involved as a project leader, principal investigator, or a member to various research projects funded by the federal government, local government, private organizations, and an international company. She is attached to the Management and Humanities Department of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia and is currently on a secondment to the Transformation Office, UTP, holding an administrative position.