Ting Mee Ling

Dr. Ting Mee Ling is a Lecturer and Discipline Leader for Early Childhood Education at the Faculty of Business, Design and Arts, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak. With over 7 years of academic experience prior to joining Swinburne Sarawak, she brings significant expertise to her field. Before transitioning to academia, she worked as a manufacturing and process engineer in the semiconductor industry for 5 years.

Dr. Ting Mee Ling's research focuses on:

• Educators' identity
• Educators' emotional well-being
• Children's resilience

She is particularly fascinated by how understanding the earliest stage of human development can help individuals understand themselves and their relationships with the world. Her teaching philosophy centers on the belief that teaching-and-learning is a co-constructive process involving the sharing of wisdom and new ideas between people from all walks of life.

Dr. Ting Mee Ling holds a Master of Education with First Class Honours from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, where her thesis focused on discourses of quality Early Childhood Care and Education in Malaysia using critical analysis. She also possesses a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education from AUT and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical and Materials from AU, New Zealand.

• Member of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Council Malaysia since 2018

Her interdisciplinary background enables her to approach early childhood education from multiple perspectives, integrating technical knowledge with educational theory and practice to nurture the well-being of educators in the field.