Dr Ingrid Piller, FAHA, has been directing the Language on the Move Research Team, including editing the Language on the Move website and its associated New Books Network Podcast and social media channels since 2009.
She is Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor for “Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan” at Hamburg University, Germany, and Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Ingrid Piller is an applied sociolinguist with research expertise in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education. She has published, lectured and consulted widely in these areas.
Publications highlights include Life in a New Language (Oxford University Press, 2024); Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2016), which won the 2017 Prose Award in the Language and Linguistics category and the 2017 BAAL Book Prize; and Intercultural Communication (Edinburgh University Press, 3rd ed., 2025), along with over 400 other publications.
Ingrid Piller served as editor-in-chief of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua (De Gruyter Mouton; 2013-2022), as Executive Director of the Adult Migrant English Program Research Centre (AMEP RC; 2007-2010), as a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts (2021-2024), and in numerous other academic assessment, review, and governance roles.
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