Associate Prof. Zainal Madon
Co-Investigator, Parenting within the Preschool System in Malaysia
Professor Zainal Madon is a Co-Investigator on the Parenting within the Preschool System in Malaysia. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Faculty of Human Ecology, University Putra Malaysia. He is a registered counsellor with the Malaysian Board of Counsellors and has served as counsellor, lecturer, and researcher for 23 years. He has led 25 research projects centred on child and adolescent development, parenting, at-risk children, plus impact studies on intervention/training, and at-risk families.
Zainal is actively involved in international partnering research projects with researchers from Leiden University, Netherlands (adolescent aggression), Bournemouth University, UK (childcare), Maestral and UNICEF Malaysia (reviewing Malaysia parenting module) and University of New Mexico, the United State of America (migrant father). Zainal is a lead consultant for training teachers under the PERMATA programme, a national program for childcare and early childhood education. His research and professional experience include child and adolescent development, impact studies on intervention and family studies, psychopathology of children and family.
