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This event is jointly organised by the Multilingual University Network and the International Research and Researchers Network.
Overview
As English-Medium Instruction (EMI) becomes increasingly dominant in many universities worldwide, it significantly shapes the academic experiences, professional trajectories, and identity formations of students and researchers from non-English-speaking backgrounds. While EMI is frequently positioned as a vehicle for internationalisation and global competitiveness, particularly within non-Anglophone universities, it may also reproduce and entrench structural inequalities by privileging certain linguistic repertoires, communicative norms, and epistemic traditions over others. This event invites critical reflection on how EMI contexts influence participation, belonging, and knowledge production in higher education. Particular attention will be paid to the less visible dimensions of inequality and vulnerability, including linguistic insecurity, epistemic marginalisation, unequal labour expectations, and constrained forms of agency that may shape the everyday experiences of multilingual scholars and students.
Schedule
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10.30 – 10.35
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SRHE welcome and housekeeping Introduction and overview of the session by Dr Zhen Li |
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10.35 – 10.50 |
Dr Sara Ganassin: Researching multilingually as decolonial praxis: Rethinking doctoral education in English-medium universities |
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10.50 – 11.05 |
Prof. Hans J. Ladegaard: The myth of Asian students’ silence in the classroom — or is it a myth? |
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11.05 – 11.20 |
Dr Cora Lingling Xu: English as time wealth? Rethinking inequality, mobility, and identity in multilingual universities |
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11.20 – 11.30 |
Comfort break |
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11.30 – 11.50 |
Panel discussion with Dr Miguel Lim, Dr Sazana Jayedeva, Dr Sal Consoli |
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11.50 – 12.30 |
Q&A chaired by Dr Ibrar Bhatt, Dr Dylan Williams, Dr Sal Consoli, Dr Sazana Jayedeva, Dr Miguel Lim |
Speaker bios
Dr Sara Ganassin (Newcastle University) is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Applied Linguistics and Communication at the School of Education Communication and Language Sciences where she is Director of Postgraduate Research. Her research interests include migrant and multilingual communities and ethics, and reflexivity in research with vulnerable groups. She has co-edited 'The Politics of Researching Mulitlingually' (Multilingual Matters 2022)
Prof. Hans J. Ladegaard is Professor and Head of the Department of English Language Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include language attitudes and stereotypes, intercultural communication, language and gender, narratives of migration, and discourse analysis. He has worked with migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong as a researcher, educator, and social activist since 2008.
Dr Cora Lingling Xu is Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at Durham University, UK. Her book 'The Time Inheritors' is winner of the 2026 Best Book Award presented by the Comparative and International Education Society's Higher Education Special Interest Group. Cora is executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Her research has been featured in the BBC Radio 4 documentary 'Chinese on campus', BBC News, South China Morning Post, The Conversation, Sixth Tone, among other media outlets.
London
United Kingdom
| Event Fee(s) | |
| Member Price | £0.00 |
| Guest Price | £45.00 |
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