Throughout April and May this year, I undertook an extended research visit to Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, and Mainland China, where I conducted lectures at the following institutions: My visit to Hong Kong was funded by the British Academy and focused on fieldwork for my project on heritage […]
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 […]
Below is the link to the full recording of our presentation at the Manchester China Institute. Just before the event, we formally donated Sino-Muslim artwork to the Institute and arranged for two pieces to be exhibited on loan at the Manchester Museum nearby. These artworks, paper cuts by […]
I am looking forward to two in-person events in February 2024, both of which disseminate and reflect on the recent Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacy project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust). The posters for the events are below. The first event (5th February) is part of the Chinese New Year […]
I recently gave the plenary lecture at the annual symposium of the ‘Professional, Academic, and Work-Based Literacies’ (PAWBL) special interest group, which sits under the aegis of BAAL. The lecture, titled “Eat. Pray. Live. How Literacies of Food Heritage, Faith and Commerce Merge in Sino-Muslim China“, was based […]
I am thrilled to announce my new book emerging from my work in the Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacy project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, see here). This book, a Cambridge Element, brings together some important strands in the data collection from the project and I hope that it will […]
Earlier this year, I gave the closing plenary at the annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL). My lecture was on ‘Postdigital possibilities in Applied Linguistics’. It presented a valuable opportunity for me to bring together various ideas speculatively, and the response was quite positive. […]
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