Dr. Narina A. Samah is an associate professor at School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru. She obtained her Bachelor of Human Sciences in Psychology (Hons) from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 1997, and Master of Human Sciences in Psychology from the same university in 2001. Dr. Narina received her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom in 2011 and was later awarded Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Education Management, from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2015. Currently she teaches educational foundation courses for undergraduate programmes, and cognitive psychology and qualitative research methodology for post-graduate programmes. Her research projects focused on the cognitive aspect of learning and teaching, which include critical reflective thinking, metacognition and complex problem solving in learning, as well as brain functional connectivity during learning process.