Earlier this month (February 2026) I had the pleasure of going to Amman, Jordan, to spend time at the Applied Sciences University (ASU) as part of the ‘Arab Scholars Research Acceleration Programme’ (ASRAP). It was a rich few days of discussion, mentoring, and scholarly exchange. A Lecture on […]
I am excited to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue in the Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, which I will co-edit with Othman Barnawi and Rizwan Ahmad. The special issue theme is ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’ and […]
I am excited to announce a new podcast series for our journal, Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The series is called ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Conversations’ and features authors who have contributed to the journal, offering deeper insights into their work, and engaging in broader conversations […]
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new article, co-authored with Zhen Li [李蓁], titled “Towards Understanding Heritage Literacy” (see link). This research provides a fresh perspective on the intersection of heritage and linguistics, introducing and defining the concept of heritage literacy through an ethnographic study […]
I am pleased to be co-editing another special issue for the journal ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives’. Below is Call for Papers which is taken from a post from journal blog. Why get critical about critique? In the 21st century, we believe we are living through an epochal […]
I am pleased to announce that Lesley Gourlay and I have decided to work with Petar Jandrić (Chief Editor of PDSE) to compile a special issue of the journal on ‘Postdigital / More-Than-Digital Meaning-Making’. The study of how meaning is made is distributed across various subfields, including applied […]
The following are slides from my online talk today (11th August 2022) for the Graduate School of Universitas Negeri Jakarta (Indonesia):
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