Contributed a short blog piece to AAAL Grads’s Blog. As a winner of AAAL Graduate Student Award 2022, I am discussing in full detail how I typically approach conference abstract/proposal writing. Hope it’s helpful for grad students in AAAL and others! 😊 Applied Linguistics LLED

If you are going to #AAAL2024 and you are an Early Career Scholar, come and join the Early Career Scholars Networking Event on Saturday March 16th from 8:00pm to 9:00pm, Regency Room.

#AAAL2024 Organizing Team from LLED!! 👏👏👏

I’ll be facilitating this Affinity Group Networking Event for Student-Parent Scholars at 12:30 PM in Arboretum 1 (2nd Floor) today. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #AAAL2024

Yes, you did it amazing! 🙌🏽Congratulations, the talented team UBC!! 😊

What a stellar conference experience it was! Loved attending all the inspiring plenary talks, sharing my work, and (re)connecting with friends and colleagues. Thankful to our team UBC for creating such an incredible and inclusive community!! #AAAL2024

Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics crumbs: a duoethnography of antiracism in TESOL with Sadia Shad, chairing a session on teacher education, attending a great presentation by Masaru Yamamoto and Patricia Duff with my academic mama Dr. Bridget Goodman ☮️, going to “ACLA in solidarity” symposia organized at Concordia U.

Amidst all the uncertainty, connecting and collaborating with some wonderful scholars/colleagues Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics made the conference experience worthwhile. Grateful to have contributed to the CMLA symposium with Meike, & co-presenting our duoethnographic work with Serikbolsyn Tastanbek.

📢Applied linguists, can you help us choose a logo for AILA2027? The International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) conference will be in Vancouver 🇨🇦 in 2027. Vote for your favourite logo! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I wrote to the Govt of #Pakistan to express serious concern about proposed constitutional amendments that directly impact judicial independence and the right to a fair trial. An independent, impartial judiciary is essential to the preservation of democracy. The letter can be

Please join us for LLED's first Arts-Based Educational Research gathering of the year! Please see our event page for more info: lled.educ.ubc.ca/lled-arts-base…

Proud moment! Our lab at #ShaukatKhanum Hospital Lahore has achieved College of American Pathologists accreditation, culminating over two decades of working with CAP CAPathologists and demonstrating our commitment to providing high-quality diagnostic services to the people of 🇵🇰

📢📢📢 have you registered for our upcoming webinar yet ? 🔜Register now and share to help us spread the word : psu.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #aaal #aaalwebinar #webinar

Using my Pugh Professorship endowment to start an annual mentoring institute for novice and minoritized scholars. Hopefully, this will help represent more diverse voices in academic publishing and lead to democratizing scholarly conversations. Please circulate widely.

Pakistan's government has deployed the military with shoot-at-sight orders against tens of thousands of protestors marching against election rigging & the dismantling of the judiciary. The regime has shut down all networks & social media, turned off the lights and is now priming

You were Right! Pakistan Army did a violent crackdown on unarmed civilian pro democracy protesters in Islamabad, using snipers, on the pattern of Gen. Sissi’s regime in Egypt! Scores are dead, Hospitals are full of injured. Difficult to believe that such a horrible thing was

Unbelievable level of fascism! #Islamabad_Massacre #PakistanUnderFascism

“All records of dead and injured have been confiscated by authorities. We are not allowed to talk. Senior government officials are visiting the hospital to hide the records,” he said. Read this story of The Guardian to find out what's been happening at PIMS theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Please sign below and ask your Member of Congress to support visa bans and asset freezing of those in Pakistan's civilian and military leadership who have perpetrated gross human rights violations. Also, no security assistance while they are in power. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-t…

A wonderful opportunity for #ProfessionalDevelopment and #mentoring for scholars in #SouthAsia. On #TransEpistemologies. Please circulate widely!