What are the top qualities of an outstanding teacher of multilingual learners? Read my blog to see if you agree with what my students considered to be the most important. tesol.org/blog/posts/top…

note when they use 'international' (signaling some ranking-worthy quality or prestige, 'percentage of international students/staff') and when they use 'foreign' (when it constitutes a problem that needs to be 'curbed')

‘To remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony. Let us remain there: it is the more honest place from which to speak’ -Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger (p. 60, photo quote from p. 70)

To hold a conference A children’s gathering On camera Pleading Speaking a foreign tongue Pleading Looking at you in the eye Pleading Asking to be rescued In hope Not anticipating betrayal While looking everywhere Everywhere kills

I look forward to attending this event! #LESJ

The pain, the pedagogy, and the Politics of IELTS: A critical autobiographical inquiry CRITICAL INQUIRY IN LANGUAGE STUDIES doi.org/10.1080/154275…

ANNOUNCEMENT: Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ and I are grateful to SÍDHE PRESS for publishing our poetic cries ‘Keep Telling of Gaza’ to bear witness to the Gaza Genocide. A stunned and stunning call.. Spread the word Keep Telling of Gaza

Working with words is what we do in linguistics and education. Values and scholarship go hand in hand. And in genocidal times we need new forms of education and capacity building. Our cries is an attempt to do this and much much more. As with all of our work, this is a call..

An introduction written with tears and cries as we push ourselves and dig our words. We are workers with words. Words that stunned us to the core as we amplify the screams of horrors and the haunting scenes of death. We don’t settle with ‘there are no words’

Opportunity for all? Which pupils are studying languages in England and why? | UCL IOE Blog blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2024/11/07…

Join us if you can as Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ and I present our work on heartbreaking applied linguistics and intercultural education. We comment on stunned languaging, stunned silence and stunning truth-telling in genocidal times. Alongside amazing colleagues. #KeepTellingofGaza

The special issue on AI for Intercultural Communication I edited with Zhu Hua is now published in Applied Linguistics Review with volume and issue numbers! Do check it out if the topic is of interest to you degruyter.com/journal/key/al…

I am happy to share that I have started a new position as Lecturer (Teaching) in Intercultural Communication (Dissertation Supervisor) IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL. I am very proud to join this world-leading university and work with a fantastic team.

I am excited to share my latest publication with #LondonReviewofEducation UCL Press

A 200-year story in the making: New publications to launch for UCL’s Bicentenary | UCL News - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/…

📢 Upcoming Talk at SSESW at Queen's Social Sciences & Humanities in Muslim Societies: Exploring Ecologies of Knowledge Production 🗓Tue May 20 🕥10:30am – 12pm 📍Room 03/004 Main Site Tower QUB 🎙Dr Yusuf Oldaç Education Uni of Hong Kong Faculty of Education and Human Development, EdUHK Visiting Research Fellow Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

I am looking forward to delivering my seminar at the Applied Linguistics Research Weekly Talk Uni of Reading The seminar is hybrid. Below are details about my talk.

IOE Professor elected to the Academia Europaea | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society ⁦IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society⁩ ⁦UCL⁩ ⁦Zhu Hua⁩ ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2025/…

Thoroughly enjoyed the May 'Away Day' with new IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society colleagues at October Gallery, Bloomsbury. Perfect 'Transvangarde' exhibition for us as intercultural communication scholars, delicious lunch, beautiful setting, and great company! Happy to have joined this team!

New article for our special issue on 'Getting critical about critique'. This one is titled 'Gaza: an indictment of critical philosophy', by Alison MacKenzie tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…