Associate Professor Dr Catherine Lee Cheng Ean

Associate Professor Dr Catherine Lee Cheng Ean

  • Deputy Dean (Education)
  • Associate Professor
  • School of Communication and Media Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Biography

Dr Catherine Lee is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Media Studies and Deputy Dean (Education) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University, Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Educational Research from Lancaster University, UK; an MA in Communication Studies from Sheffield Hallam University, UK; and a BA (Hons) majoring in Media Studies from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. With over 24 years of experience in higher education, her expertise covers public relations, social media, internal communication, curriculum design, and technology-enhanced learning. She also serves in various professional roles regionally and internationally, contributing to the advancement of media, communication, and education scholarship. Dr Lee is also a Certified Officer in Quality Assurance of Higher Education and a panel assessor with the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA).

 

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD in Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK (2019)
  • MA in Communication Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, UK (2002)
  • BA (Hons) in Media Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia (2000)

Research Interests

  • Employee communication
  • Mobile technologies
  • Public relations
  • Social media
  • Technology-enhanced learning
  • Digital Public Relations
  • Internal Communication
  • Sustainable Communication
  • Technology enhanced learning
  • Curriculum design

Notable Publications

  1. Lee C.E. (2019). Facebook use in Malaysian higher education classroom. In: Tatnall A. (Eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0
  2. Raina, R., Roebuck, D. B. & Lee, C.E. (2014). An exploratory study of listening skills of managers and non-managers within India, Malaysia and United States. In Jitendra K. Das and Hitesh Arora (Eds) Malaysia: Challenges and Perspectives, Bloomsbury India, 252–280.
  3. Lee, C.E., Wong, M.Y. & Lai, G.W. (2011). Social networking and the youth. In Media and Culture: Global Homogeneity and Local Identity, Philippines: ANVIL Publishing Inc., 174–187.