Department of Management, Senior Lecturer; Online Master of Management Programme Lead

Dr. Ester Bolt is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Department of Management, Sunway Business School. She's also a visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds, where she's a member of the Center for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change. Before joining Sunway University in 2025, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at Leeds, where she was awarded the prestigious Michael Beverly Innovation Fellowship Grant for her research on the well-being of nurses in the UK’s National Health Service. Her research interests span Malaysia, the Netherlands, and the UK, and she collaborates widely across international institutions, including with those in Malaysia and in Europe.

With a PhD and Master's in Management and a Bachelor's in Business Administration, Dr. Bolt has taught and developed courses across key areas such as strategic human resource management, corporate social responsibility, and leadership skills, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She actively contributes to academic publishing as an associate editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Business Administration, as a reviewer for leading journals, and as a member of the editorial review board for Employee Relations. Her research on employee mobility and workforce transitions – particularly in healthcare – has been recognised with multiple awards and published in top-tier international journals.