Research judgement
Contrasting cases were used to explain how conditions combined, rather than reducing delay to a list of isolated barriers.
Research agenda
Social conditions become clinical consequences.
My work examines how people interpret illness, navigate institutions, and encounter unequal capacities to secure health, care, and social opportunity.
01 / Cancer pathways
Routes to diagnosis
How do symptoms move from private uncertainty to clinical attention—and what changes that route?
I designed and carried out a qualitative study of nasopharyngeal carcinoma diagnostic pathways in Malaysia. The study used purposive sampling for variation, ethics-sensitive recruitment, multilingual interviewing, original-language analysis, reflexive thematic analysis, memoing, and contrasting trajectories.
The analysis connects cultural meaning, gendered expectations, occupational and financial conditions, rural service organisation, and institutional trust to different pathway consequences.
Contribution
Patient accounts are translated into carefully bounded questions about access, escalation, and health-system responsiveness.
02 / Framework development
Intersectionality, made operational
What would it take for intersectional cancer research to move from description toward action?
An integrative review of 77 intersectionality-informed cancer studies examined persistent barriers to actionable research. The work combined systematic searching, screening, design-specific JBI appraisal, tailored extraction, descriptive analysis, structured actionability appraisal, and deductive thematic synthesis.
Building from that review and pathway research, I developed and applied the Intersectional Categorical Influences Framework (ICIF) to connect patient meaning-making, proximal material conditions, institutional arrangements, configurations, pathway consequences, and possible leverage points.
Theoretical grounding
Critical realism, positionality, structuration, and structure–agency scholarship inform the framework.
Boundary
ICIF has been developed and applied in this work; it is not yet validated across sites, diseases, or health systems.
03 / Asian public health
Ageing, family & health
How do family relationships and psychosocial resources shape health management in later life?
My Malaysia–China collaboration examines family function, self-efficacy, income, health self-management, loneliness, and policy questions concerning ageing in Asian settings.
A published study of older adults in mountainous Lishui used a cross-sectional survey, bivariate correlation, multiple regression, mediation, and moderated mediation. It illustrates my collaborative experience with quantitative modelling while keeping authorship claims appropriately bounded.
Read the published study04 / Social change
Industrialisation and work
How do industrial transitions reorganise occupations, skills, values, and everyday social life?
This line of scholarship examines Malaysian industrialisation, IR4.0, occupational change, labour, education and skills, work values, and future social-research directions.
A wider social-inequity lens asks who benefits from industrial and technological change, whose work is devalued, and how opportunity is distributed across place, education, and occupation. The work-values research also provides a setting for quantitative measurement and multivariate analysis.
It also informs my undergraduate teaching, where sociological theory is connected to Malaysian and comparative experiences of industrial and occupational change.
Read the published studyMethods follow the question.
Qualitative inquiry is my primary methodological stance: theory-informed design, multilingual in-depth interviewing, original-language analysis, reflexive thematic analysis, analytic memoing, positionality, and contrasting-case explanation. Mixed-method research is a complementary strength, allowing interpretive accounts of meaning and mechanism to be examined alongside statistical patterns.
My quantitative toolkit spans descriptive statistics and bivariate association; multiple regression; mediation and moderated mediation; structural equation modelling (SEM); latent class and latent profile analysis (LCA/LPA); and dimension-reduction or latent-structure techniques, including principal-factor analysis (PFA) and principal component analysis (PCA). Method choice is guided by the research question, measurement level, assumptions, model fit, and the limits of inference.
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