Prof. Ida Fatimawati bt. Adi Badiozaman Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research). An award-winning multidisciplinary researcher driven by equity and access issues, she has been involved in transformative and impactful research projects with government, industry, and higher education partners. Dr Ida is part of the team for the “Building Connections for Enterprising Women” project, a project that received ‘Highly Commended’ for the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award 2018, ranked First Place for the Swinburne Research Impact Award 2019 and ‘Highly Commended’ for Emerald Interdisciplinary Impact Grant in 2019. In 2020 she won the United Nation’s WEP Award for the Community and Industry Engagement Category. In 2021, she received the Special Recognition Award for her contribution to education at the state-level celebration of International Women’s Day 2021 by the Chief Minister of Sarawak. In 2022 Dr. Ida was featured in the book, Sarawak Women in Scholarly writing.