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Dr Goh Yi Sheng

Head of the Department of Creative Design and Head of the School of Architecture and Design, Sunway University, Malaysia

Associate Professor Dr Goh Yi Sheng is the Head of the Department of Creative Design and Head of the School of Architecture and Design at Sunway University, Malaysia. She received her PhD in Consumer and Design Sciences from Auburn University, USA.

She is a design researcher who has a broad interest in creating solutions for a better society; among which include design for longevity, resilience, and well-being, consumer and aesthetics research, community sustainability and place making, and cultural and creative research.

Her works are published in the “International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction”, “Journal of Product and Brand Management”, “Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse”, “Advances in Southeast Asian Studies”, and “International Journal of Cultural and Creative Industries.”

Dr Goh Yi Sheng

Organisation Description

Sunway University is one of Malaysia’s leading private universities dedicated to providing quality holistic education for all regardless of race, creed or financial standing. By upholding our core values of Integrity, Humility and Excellence, we support the discovery, advancement, transmission and application of knowledge that meets the needs of our society and the global community.

Our values-based education guides our actions and behaviour. We strive to ensure our campus community develops a sustainable mindset by embracing an ecological worldview, by understanding systems perspective and by developing emotional intelligence.

Sunway University is part of the Sunway Education Group which is owned and governed by the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation (JCF), Malaysia’s largest education-focused social enterprise. Through this unique not-for-profit structure, operating surpluses are channelled back into the institutions or disbursed as scholarships, research grants and expansion funds for faculty and facilities to ensure quality education in perpetuity.

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