Hong Ching GohHong Ching Goh is an Associate Professor at the Department Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya. Currently, she also serves as the Chair of the Social Advancement and Happiness Research Cluster in the universit. Hong Ching is a corporate town planner registered with the Malaysia Board of Town Planners, an alumna of DAAD and Global Young Academy, a past recipient of the MIT-UTM Malaysian Sustainable Cities program Fellowship, and a fellow of the ASEAN Science Leadership Program. Her research spans across a wide spectrum of disciplines for the past 25 years, evolving from urban development control to tourism planning in natural areas and later, macro scale urban planning focusing on resource governance and sustainable cities development with a great extent associated with community well-beings and the socio (economic)-ecological nexus in coastal regions. She also continues to explore the dynamics of working with a wide range of collaborators for impactful research. While her research has a broad application in urbanized settings and where natural resources are found, her passion has always been with Sabah in Borneo Island. Her recent research projects include the UKRI GCRF Blue Communities program and Student Empowerment in Climate Actions (SECA), both take place in the northern coastal regions of Sabah (Malaysia). Read More Read Less