Humairah Zainal
Biographic Data
| ID | 99876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Humairah Zainal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Humairah |
| FAMILY NAME | Zainal |
| SIGNATURE | ZAINAL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4323-3221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From principle to practice: Developing a digital‐age clinical artificial intelligence ethics competence framework through early‐career doctors' experiences
INTRODUCTION: As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in clinical workflows, clinicians encounter ethical challenges that traditional, principle-based medical ethics education may not adequately address. Empirical evidence on clinicians' experiences with AI-related ethics is limited, constraining curricular improvement. This qualitative study explores how early-career doctors in Singapore perceive and negotiate ethical dilem…
Experiences of environmental services workers in a tertiary hospital in Asia during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on all walks of life, in particular, environmental services workers in healthcare settings had higher workload, increased stress and greater susceptibility to COVID-19 infections during the pandemic. Despite extensive literature describing the impact of the pandemic on healthcare workers such as doctors and nurses, studies on the lived experiences of environ…
Digital competencies for Singapore’s national medical school curriculum: A qualitative study
Studies have shown that national-level initiatives to equip medical students with relevant digital competencies carry many benefits. Yet, few countries have outlined such competencies for clinical practice in the core medical school curriculum. This paper identifies current training gaps at the national level in digital competencies needed by students in the formal curricula of all three medical schools in Singapore from the perspectives of clini…
Ethnic minority professionals' experiences in Singapore's multicultural workplaces
Studies on inter-ethnic relations at the workplace have largely focused on racism, discrimination and microaggressions against ethnic minority groups. Drawing on findings from semi-structured interviews with 25 ethnic minority citizen professionals in Singapore’s workplaces, this article extends the current literature on inter-ethnic dynamics at workplaces in two main ways. First, by examining the day-to-day experiences of minorities, it lends em…
The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality: Contemporary Identity in Malaysia and Singapore
Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ‘primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective. How do Malays in Singapore and Malaysia conceptualise and negotiate their ethnic identity vis-à-vis the state’s construction of Malay national identity? Humairah and Kamaludeen employ discourse analyses of both elite and mass texts that include newspaper edito…
Singaporean Malay-Muslim Women's Lifestyle Habits and Attitudes towards Health
Experiences of doctors working in Singapore’s public primary healthcare clinics
Despite providing 20 percent of primary healthcare and a larger proportion of care for patients with chronic conditions, little is documented about working in public primary healthcare clinics in Singapore. While previous studies of primary care physicians' occupational stress focused on burnout, this study explores broader personal, professional and organisational factors affecting their experiences. It examines factors influencing doctors worki…
Chinese privilege in politics: A case study of Singapore’s ruling elites
This article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of privilege as a conceptual category through the case study of Chinese privilege in Singapore politics. It does so through two main ways. First, at the theoretical level, we emphasise the importance of foregrounding the salience of political hegemony in the analysis of privilege. Second, at the empirical level, we interrogate the concept in an Asian context, with specific reference to Sing…
Intersectional cosmopolitanism: Muslim women’s engagement with polygamy on Malaysian and Indonesian screens
This article interrogates how the diverse realities of Muslim women fray the concept of ‘Muslim cosmopolitanism’ in Southeast Asia. By comparing how Malaysian Muslim women interpret polygamy in Malaysian and Indonesian screens, this article problematises the idea of a unified cosmopolitanism experienced by Muslims from the Malay world. Based on findings from interviews with 25 educated women, this article shows that media representations of polyg…
The irony of Islamization: Sexuality, piety and power on Malaysian screens
This article examines the wider social and political contexts for film reception in Malaysia, focusing on the ways that religious themes interact with social hierarchies around gender, class and ethnicity. Despite the prevailing phenomenon of state-sponsored Islamization in Malaysia, didactic Islamic-themed films produced in Malaysia are relatively unpopular among local audiences. At the same time, Malay-language television drama series and comme…
Intersectional Identities: Influences of Religion, Race, and Gender on the Intimate Relationships of Single Singaporean Malay-Muslim Women
Studies on rising singlehood in Asia have largely focused on the economic dimension. This article widens that lens by examining how religious beliefs influence single Singaporean women’s views toward marriage. Applying the intersectional paradigm expands our understanding of how religion maintains or challenges cultural norms as well as gendered and racial meanings. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 27 unmarried Malay-Muslim Singaporean women, …
Inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia: An Intersectional Analysis of Youth's Engagement With Ethnicised Themes in Local Films
Traditional Malay medicine in Singapore: A Gramscian perspective
Studies of Singapore’s brand of technocratic authoritarianism have generally focused on the political sphere. This article examines the social aspect of authoritarian hegemony by focusing on Singapore’s traditional Malay medicine (TMM) sector, which comprises a range of practitioners from shops offering herbal remedies to individuals specialising in Malay massage to spiritual healers. The transition in TMM’s position from the centre of the Malay …
Voices behind the veil: Unravelling the hijab debate in Singapore through the lived experiences of hijab-wearing Malay-Muslim women
This article critically examines the hijab debate in Singapore by drawing upon the lived experiences of Singaporean Malay-Muslim women whose daily lives are fraught with a constant negotiation between their identities as veiled women and the institutionalized constraints that impede their social mobility and voices in the public arena. Drawing upon publicly accessible data and findings from in-depth interviews with Malay-Muslim nurses, the articl…
Chinese privilege in politics: A case study of Singapore’s ruling elites
This article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of privilege as a conceptual category through the case study of Chinese privilege in Singapore politics. It does so through two main ways. First, at the theoretical level, we emphasise the importance of foregrounding the salience of political hegemony in the analysis of privilege. Second, at the empirical level, we interrogate the concept in an Asian context, with specific reference to Sing…
Voices behind the veil: Unravelling the hijab debate in Singapore through the lived experiences of hijab-wearing Malay-Muslim women
This article critically examines the hijab debate in Singapore by drawing upon the lived experiences of Singaporean Malay-Muslim women whose daily lives are fraught with a constant negotiation between their identities as veiled women and the institutionalized constraints that impede their social mobility and voices in the public arena. Drawing upon publicly accessible data and findings from in-depth interviews with Malay-Muslim nurses, the articl…
Ethnic minority professionals' experiences in Singapore's multicultural workplaces
Studies on inter-ethnic relations at the workplace have largely focused on racism, discrimination and microaggressions against ethnic minority groups. Drawing on findings from semi-structured interviews with 25 ethnic minority citizen professionals in Singapore’s workplaces, this article extends the current literature on inter-ethnic dynamics at workplaces in two main ways. First, by examining the day-to-day experiences of minorities, it lends em…
Intersectional cosmopolitanism: Muslim women’s engagement with polygamy on Malaysian and Indonesian screens
This article interrogates how the diverse realities of Muslim women fray the concept of ‘Muslim cosmopolitanism’ in Southeast Asia. By comparing how Malaysian Muslim women interpret polygamy in Malaysian and Indonesian screens, this article problematises the idea of a unified cosmopolitanism experienced by Muslims from the Malay world. Based on findings from interviews with 25 educated women, this article shows that media representations of polyg…
Intersectional Identities: Influences of Religion, Race, and Gender on the Intimate Relationships of Single Singaporean Malay-Muslim Women
Studies on rising singlehood in Asia have largely focused on the economic dimension. This article widens that lens by examining how religious beliefs influence single Singaporean women’s views toward marriage. Applying the intersectional paradigm expands our understanding of how religion maintains or challenges cultural norms as well as gendered and racial meanings. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 27 unmarried Malay-Muslim Singaporean women, …
Singaporean Malay-Muslim Women's Lifestyle Habits and Attitudes towards Health
The irony of Islamization: Sexuality, piety and power on Malaysian screens
This article examines the wider social and political contexts for film reception in Malaysia, focusing on the ways that religious themes interact with social hierarchies around gender, class and ethnicity. Despite the prevailing phenomenon of state-sponsored Islamization in Malaysia, didactic Islamic-themed films produced in Malaysia are relatively unpopular among local audiences. At the same time, Malay-language television drama series and comme…
Traditional Malay medicine in Singapore: A Gramscian perspective
Studies of Singapore’s brand of technocratic authoritarianism have generally focused on the political sphere. This article examines the social aspect of authoritarian hegemony by focusing on Singapore’s traditional Malay medicine (TMM) sector, which comprises a range of practitioners from shops offering herbal remedies to individuals specialising in Malay massage to spiritual healers. The transition in TMM’s position from the centre of the Malay …
Voices behind the veil: Unravelling the hijab debate in Singapore through the lived experiences of hijab-wearing Malay-Muslim women
This article critically examines the hijab debate in Singapore by drawing upon the lived experiences of Singaporean Malay-Muslim women whose daily lives are fraught with a constant negotiation between their identities as veiled women and the institutionalized constraints that impede their social mobility and voices in the public arena. Drawing upon publicly accessible data and findings from in-depth interviews with Malay-Muslim nurses, the articl…
The irony of Islamization: Sexuality, piety and power on Malaysian screens
This article examines the wider social and political contexts for film reception in Malaysia, focusing on the ways that religious themes interact with social hierarchies around gender, class and ethnicity. Despite the prevailing phenomenon of state-sponsored Islamization in Malaysia, didactic Islamic-themed films produced in Malaysia are relatively unpopular among local audiences. At the same time, Malay-language television drama series and comme…
Intersectional Identities: Influences of Religion, Race, and Gender on the Intimate Relationships of Single Singaporean Malay-Muslim Women
Studies on rising singlehood in Asia have largely focused on the economic dimension. This article widens that lens by examining how religious beliefs influence single Singaporean women’s views toward marriage. Applying the intersectional paradigm expands our understanding of how religion maintains or challenges cultural norms as well as gendered and racial meanings. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 27 unmarried Malay-Muslim Singaporean women, …
Inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia: An Intersectional Analysis of Youth's Engagement With Ethnicised Themes in Local Films
Intersectional cosmopolitanism: Muslim women’s engagement with polygamy on Malaysian and Indonesian screens
This article interrogates how the diverse realities of Muslim women fray the concept of ‘Muslim cosmopolitanism’ in Southeast Asia. By comparing how Malaysian Muslim women interpret polygamy in Malaysian and Indonesian screens, this article problematises the idea of a unified cosmopolitanism experienced by Muslims from the Malay world. Based on findings from interviews with 25 educated women, this article shows that media representations of polyg…
The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality: Contemporary Identity in Malaysia and Singapore
Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ‘primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective. How do Malays in Singapore and Malaysia conceptualise and negotiate their ethnic identity vis-à-vis the state’s construction of Malay national identity? Humairah and Kamaludeen employ discourse analyses of both elite and mass texts that include newspaper edito…
Singaporean Malay-Muslim Women's Lifestyle Habits and Attitudes towards Health
Experiences of doctors working in Singapore’s public primary healthcare clinics
Despite providing 20 percent of primary healthcare and a larger proportion of care for patients with chronic conditions, little is documented about working in public primary healthcare clinics in Singapore. While previous studies of primary care physicians' occupational stress focused on burnout, this study explores broader personal, professional and organisational factors affecting their experiences. It examines factors influencing doctors worki…
Chinese privilege in politics: A case study of Singapore’s ruling elites
This article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of privilege as a conceptual category through the case study of Chinese privilege in Singapore politics. It does so through two main ways. First, at the theoretical level, we emphasise the importance of foregrounding the salience of political hegemony in the analysis of privilege. Second, at the empirical level, we interrogate the concept in an Asian context, with specific reference to Sing…
Ethnic minority professionals' experiences in Singapore's multicultural workplaces
Studies on inter-ethnic relations at the workplace have largely focused on racism, discrimination and microaggressions against ethnic minority groups. Drawing on findings from semi-structured interviews with 25 ethnic minority citizen professionals in Singapore’s workplaces, this article extends the current literature on inter-ethnic dynamics at workplaces in two main ways. First, by examining the day-to-day experiences of minorities, it lends em…
Experiences of environmental services workers in a tertiary hospital in Asia during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on all walks of life, in particular, environmental services workers in healthcare settings had higher workload, increased stress and greater susceptibility to COVID-19 infections during the pandemic. Despite extensive literature describing the impact of the pandemic on healthcare workers such as doctors and nurses, studies on the lived experiences of environ…
Digital competencies for Singapore’s national medical school curriculum: A qualitative study
Studies have shown that national-level initiatives to equip medical students with relevant digital competencies carry many benefits. Yet, few countries have outlined such competencies for clinical practice in the core medical school curriculum. This paper identifies current training gaps at the national level in digital competencies needed by students in the formal curricula of all three medical schools in Singapore from the perspectives of clini…
From principle to practice: Developing a digital‐age clinical artificial intelligence ethics competence framework through early‐career doctors' experiences
INTRODUCTION: As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in clinical workflows, clinicians encounter ethical challenges that traditional, principle-based medical ethics education may not adequately address. Empirical evidence on clinicians' experiences with AI-related ethics is limited, constraining curricular improvement. This qualitative study explores how early-career doctors in Singapore perceive and negotiate ethical dilem…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Malay (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)