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Dr. Yap Wai Meng is a Lecturer in the Malaysia Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Monash University, where he also serves as Head of the Inclusion Lab for the Southeast Asia Centre for Workplace Wellbeing. A Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) registered with the British Psychological Society, he earned his PhD in Applied Psychology and MSc in Management Psychology (with Distinction) from the University of Nottingham, along with a Bachelor of Psychology (First Class Honours) from HELP University. He holds certifications as a Test User for Psychometric Evaluations and Psychological Testing (Levels A and B) from the British Psychological Society and a Prince2 Certificate in Project Management.

Prior to his current role, Dr. Yap was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at HELP University for five years and worked in consulting on change management and recruitment. His research focuses on workplace wellbeing, inclusive employment, positive psychology, and organisational psychology, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. He is a Chief Investigator on the project "Toward Evidence-Based Guidelines: The Role of Psychological Flexibility in Mitigating Moral Injury and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Malaysian Doctors" (2026–2028).

Dr. Yap's key publications include "Workplace affective well-being: gratitude and friendship in helping millennials to thrive at work" (2022, International Journal of Organizational Analysis), "Millennials' affective well-being and the moderating role of transformational leadership" (2021, International Journal of Employment Studies), "Empowering Millennials Working in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)’ Affective Wellbeing: Role of Volition, Justice and Meaning at Work" (2022, Springer), "Taking on the “new normal”: emerging psychologists' reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic" (2023, Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences), and "Building Research Ecosystems and a Culture of Inquiry" (2023, Journal of Emergent Research in Humanities, Business and Technology).