Wendy Siew Wei Gan

Contact

• workRoom ELG20 Block E
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+60 3 8924 8271
• fax+60 3 8924 8019
• Wendy.Gan@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Wendy holds a law degree, an MSc in Management and Information Systems and a PhD in Business and Management. She practised law in the areas of banking and intellectual property before moving on to further her studies at the University of Manchester. Her experience at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center from 2000 to 2001 has provided valuable insights into the issues surrounding international organisations and their work in developing countries. Her research focuses on development informatics, sustainable tourism entrepreneurship and training and development.

Wendy led the Business & Management Foundation since she joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus in 2005 and until 2016, was also the Head of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Foundation, providing strategic leadership and working with various external partners to deliver high quality pre-university education to over 200 foundation students in the Faculty. She currently serves as the Director for RKE in the Centre for English Language and Foundation Education.

As a certified facilitator of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) Method and Lead Researcher of a Teaching Innovation Grant, Wendy is currently investigating the use of LSP in various educational and training environments, introducing LSP to colleagues and students in the classroom as a novel approach for facilitating creative thinking, problem solving and idea development.

Expertise Summary

Wendy is a certified facilitator of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method.

Teaching Summary

Wendy is currently involved in teaching the following courses:

Introduction to Law

Computer Networks and Operations Decisions

Research Summary

Wendy's current research is in the area of development informatics. Her PhD work investigated the information needs for community based tourism destinations. She is interested to see how… read more

Recent Publications

• LAM, D. Y. P., KOH, K. S., GAN, S. W. and SOW, J. T. Y., 2023. Religiosity and the Perception of Interreligious Threats: The Suppressing Effect of Negative Emotions towards God Religions. 14(3), 366
• SIM, S. C., GAN, S. W., TANG, Y. H. and SARMA, V. J., 2023. Learning experience during the pandemic: perspectives of foundation students Journal of Further and Higher Education. 47(10), 1316-1336
• INVERSINI, ALESSANDRO, REGA, ISABELLA and GAN, SIEW WEI, 2022. The transformative learning nature of malaysian homestay experiences JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT. 51, 312-320
• GAN, SIEW WEI, SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, TANG, YU HOE and SIM, SIEW CHEN, 2022. Entrepreneurship Training and Online Marketplace Participation among Female Persons with Disabilities

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Current Research

Wendy's current research is in the area of development informatics. Her PhD work investigated the information needs for community based tourism destinations. She is interested to see how interventions via ICT can positively impact lower-income communities and enhance the sustainability of economic and social initiatives among these communities and making tourism more sustainable and responsible. Other areas of interest include entrepreneurship and inclusive development. Ongoing work include evaluation of training and mentoring programmes for persons with disabilities, summarised in this brief:

Inclusive growth: how to encourage persons with disabilities into the labour market

• LAM, D. Y. P., KOH, K. S., GAN, S. W. and SOW, J. T. Y., 2023. Religiosity and the Perception of Interreligious Threats: The Suppressing Effect of Negative Emotions towards God Religions. 14(3), 366
• SIM, S. C., GAN, S. W., TANG, Y. H. and SARMA, V. J., 2023. Learning experience during the pandemic: perspectives of foundation students Journal of Further and Higher Education. 47(10), 1316-1336
• INVERSINI, ALESSANDRO, REGA, ISABELLA and GAN, SIEW WEI, 2022. The transformative learning nature of malaysian homestay experiences JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT. 51, 312-320
• GAN, SIEW WEI, SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, TANG, YU HOE and SIM, SIEW CHEN, 2022. Entrepreneurship Training and Online Marketplace Participation among Female Persons with Disabilities
• INVERSINI, A, REGA, I and GAN, S W, 2020. E-Tourism as a Tool for Socio-economic Development. In: XIANG, Z, FUCHS, M, GRETZEL, U and HOPKEN, W, eds., Handbook of e-Tourism Springer.
• GAN, S W, INVERSINI, A and REGA, I, 2018. Tourism, Development and Digital Technologies: Insights from Malaysian Homestays In: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2018. 52-63
• GAN, S W, INVERSINI, A and REGA, I, 2016. Community Based Tourism and ICT: Insights from Malaysia In: e-Review of Tourism Research: ENTER 2016 Short Papers. Volume 7.
• TANG, Y., LIM, P. and GAN, S., 2012. Forecasting Capability of a Construction Organisation Model: 10 Years Later. In: 28th Annual ARCOM (Association of Researchers in Construction Management) Conference.
• GAN, S, 2011. E-Commerce Security: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in The UK And Malaysia Journal of Information Assurance and Security: Information Assurance and Security Letters. 6(5), 407
• S. GAN, 2010. E-Commerce Security: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in the UK and Malaysia In: IADIS International Conference - e-Commerce 2010.