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Wen Li is a Law and MBA graduate of the University of Nottingham. She was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2001, and was in legal practice in the areas of corporate, banking, finance, property and IT law, prior to joining Nottingham University Business School Malaysia.
An advocate of mental health awareness, Wen Li is involved in interdisciplinary research involving the social-science lens of mental health awareness and suicide prevention, with a focus on qualitative analysis techniques. She leads a research project funded by the Ministry of Education on safe media reporting for suicide prevention in Malaysia. She has been interviewed on national press, radio and TV, on topics related to community mental health awareness and the decriminalisation of suicide in Malaysia. Wen Li is a member of the research group SUPREMA (Suicide Prevention Research Malaysia) based at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Malaysia (UKM). As a parallel line of research, Wen Li also investigates legal issues in credit scoring and data mining, including issues related to AI ethics, anti-discrimination, data privacy and data protection.
Wen Li is a recipient of the Lord Dearing Award from the University of Nottingham in 2022-23 for outstanding contribution to the development of teaching and student learning, recognising her work in contributing to student experience through supporting students' mental health in her teaching practice.
Wen Li received the Vice-Chancellor's Medal from the University of Nottingham in 2017 for outstanding contributions in advancing equality and diversity in her work with inter-university student awareness platform GEI (Gender Equality Initiative), a collaboration between the Bar Council of Malaysia, the Association of Women Lawyers and several private education institutions in Malaysia. Her involvement in women's rights outreach included the conceptualising and illustrating of the character 'TINA' for the Women's Aid Organisation's outreach book project 'Tina's Journey: A Collection of Words & Poetry by Survivors of Domestic Violence' co-authored with Bernice Chauly and Kelvin Ang, which sponsors included the University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Outside the classroom, Wen Li has been a member of the University of Nottingham Malaysia's Performing Arts Council; she is a classically-trained mezzo-soprano and holds a Licentiate Diploma of the Trinity College London in Piano Performance. She also has a penchant for drawing, and has exhibited her work at mental health awareness forums as a lived-experience artist. Wen Li is a Certified Mental Health First Aider (MHFA Malaysia).
Teaching Summary
Wen Li's teaching interests are in business law, strategic management, and business ethics. Given her academic background in law and business administration, she has taught MBA Business and… read more
Research Summary
Wen Li is involved in interdisciplinary research projects involving the social-science lens of mental health awareness and suicide prevention, with a focus on qualitative analysis methods. She… read more
Wen Li's teaching interests are in business law, strategic management, and business ethics. Given her academic background in law and business administration, she has taught MBA Business and Commercial Law, and co-taught Undergraduate modules within the Business School on New Venture Creation, Economics of Innovation, Database Design and Implementation, Computers In Business and Accounting Information Systems.
She is currently the course convenor for:
- BUSI1104/1120: Business Law
- BUSI2065: Management Strategy
- BUSI2154: International Business
And co-teaches for:
- BUSI3157: Business Ethics and Sustainability
Wen Li is also involved in the Business School's executive education programmes, and is a HRDF* Certified Trainer.
*Human Resources Development Fund, Ministry of Human Resources Malaysia
Current Research
Wen Li is involved in interdisciplinary research projects involving the social-science lens of mental health awareness and suicide prevention, with a focus on qualitative analysis methods. She currently leads a research project funded by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education's Fundamental Research Grant Scheme on stakeholder perspectives on safe media reporting on suicide in Malaysia. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary outreach efforts in Malaysia in safe media reporting and suicide prevention, which also aim to disseminate key aspects of research in the area to stakeholders. Wen Li has been interviewed on national press, radio and TV on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, the decriminalisation of suicide in Malaysia, and how being a Mental Health First Aider can benefit organisations and communities.
Wen Li is a member of the research group SUPREMA (Suicide Prevention Research Malaysia) based at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Malaysia (UKM), where her presence as a social science researcher in a research group representing an area that is largely the domain of medical/science researchers presents opportunities to further promote the importance of interdisciplinary research.
As a parallel line of research, Wen Li also investigates legal issues in credit scoring and data mining, including issues related to anti-discrimination, and data protection, privacy and ethics.
Past Research
Wen Li has investigated the roles and implications of information on shareholder wealth, particularly in the area of corporate litigation, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance. She is familiar with the use of event study methodology (information content study / residual analysis) in analysing the movement of stock prices as a result of specific events. Wen Li has published in the Journal of Business Ethics on the links between CSR and pharmaceutical product recall announcements and the strategic challenges posed by the associated shareholder wealth effects on firms in the US and UK.