Associate Professor Dr Gan Joo Ee

Associate Professor Dr Gan Joo Ee

  • Deputy Dean (Education)
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Biography

Joo-Ee examines the impact of legal measures through socio-legal studies. Her area of research includes employees’ rights, minimum wage, and occupational health and safety in the hospitality sector. She also explores tourism governance as a vehicle for environmental protection and the socio-economic advancement of local communities, particularly the indigenous people. Joo-Ee is a member of IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP). Prior to joining academia, she was a solicitor specializing in corporate matters and a legal editor of the Hong Kong Law Report & Digests. She is an accredited mediator of Bar Council Malaysia and is on the Panel of the Malaysian Mediation Centre.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Taylor’s University (2017)
  • Master of Laws (LL.M), University of Cambridge (1996)
  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B (Hons)), Queen Mary University of London (1995)
  • Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (1998)

Research Interests

  • Tourism governance
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Hospitality and tourism law
  • Human resource management in the hospitality industry

Notable Publications

2024 -

Gan, J. E., Lim, J. P. S., Trupp, A., & Poon, W. C. (2024). State intervention and tourism business resilience: Exploring firm-level crisis response. Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 5(2), 100142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100142 

2024 -

Trupp, A., Salman, A., Stephenson, M. L., Chan, L F., & Gan, J. E. (2024). A systematic review of challenges faced by micro and small enterprises in tourism destinations: Producing solutions through resilience building and sustainable development. Tourism Planning & Development https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2024.2307970

2024 -

Gan, J. E., Lim, J. P. S., Poon, W. C., & Thuraiselvam, S. (2024). Rights awareness and Covid-19 tourism job losses: Perspectives from Malaysia. Current Issues in Tourism, 27(2), 171-177. DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2203851

2023 -

Durai Rajah, K. & Gan, J. E. (2023). Workplace surveillance and the legal vacuum in Malaysia. [2023] 2 Malayan Law Journal xxix - xlii. 

2022 -

Gan, J. E. (2022). Ecotourism and Malaysia’s Orang Asli: The social construction of indigeneity in community boundary-drawing. Journal of Ecotourism, 21(1), 54-70, https://doi.org/10.1080/14724049.2021.1918131

2020 -

Gan, J. E. (2020). Uncovering the environmental and social conflicts behind residents’ perception of CBT: A Case of Perak, Malaysia. Tourism Planning & Development, 17(6), 674-692, DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2020/1749121 

2020 -

Gan, J. E. (2020). Vendors as environmental stakeholders: Lessons from a regional sports event. ASEAN Journal on Hospitality and Tourism, 18(2), 95-110. 

2019 -

Gan, J. E., Nair, V. & Hamzah, A. (2019). The critical role of a lead institution in ecotourism management: A case of dual governance in Belum-Temengor, Malaysia. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 11(2), 257-275, DOI: 10.1080/19407963.2018.1516076

2018 -

Gan, J. E. & Wong, B. T. Z. (2018). Comparing the self-reported data and observed behaviour of food waste separation: A study of the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality & Tourism, 7 (Special issue), 107-130.

2016 -

Gan, J. E. (2016). Minimum wage and the hospitality industry in Malaysia: An analysis of employee perceptions. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism, 15(1), 29-44, DOI: 10.1080/15332845.2015.1008396

Achievements & Accolades

  1. Ministry of Higher Education’s Long Term Research Grant Scheme 2011 [LRGS grant no: JPT.S (BPKI)2000/09/01/015Jld.4(67)]. Role: Co-researcher.
  2. International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Natural Resource Governance Framework (NRGF) Asia Scoping Work 2016. Role: Co-researcher.
  3. Monash University Malaysia Business School Research Seed Grant no. B-5-19 (1 March 2019 – 29 November 2019) entitled: The social sustainability of indigenous tourism villages: A comparative study between Belum-Temengor, Perak and Padawan, Sarawak. Role: Principal researcher.
  4. Monash Malaysia Education Award Grant 2020 for project (ID: 25052): ‘Transition as a rite of passage’. Role: Co-researcher.
  5. Monash University Malaysia Learning and Teaching Research Grant 2021 for project (ID: 2101-0000000051): The Impact of Authentic Assessment on University Identification. Role: Co-researcher.
  6. Monash University Malaysia School of Business Outstanding Educator Award 2021.
  7. Sunway University Research Accelerator Grant Scheme 2024 for project (Grant code: GRTIN-RAG-SHSM-09-2024): The Institutional Quality of Malaysia’s Ecotourism Governance: Belum-Temengor as the Litmus Test. Value: RM29,130. Status: Principal investigator.