Tazin speaks at Talent Day, Bangladesh Forum for Community Engagement Every year, the Bangladesh Forum for Community Engagement in Sydney, Australia hosts an event called ‘Talent Day’ to acknowledge the…
Tazin AbdullahFebruary 20, 2025
Congratulations to Tazin Abdullah, whose entry into the 3-minute-thesis competition won the 3-minute-thesis competition of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia last week! That success came after taking out the Macquarie…
Language on the MoveOctober 4, 2024
Editor's note: The Australian linguistics community mourns the recent passing of pioneering sociolinguist Barbara Horvath. To honor her memory, we are here publishing the lightly edited transcript of an oral…
Language on the MoveSeptember 10, 2024
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is the 6th and final episode of our series devoted to our new book Life in a New Language, which…
Language on the MoveJuly 18, 2024
NSW Police (Image credit: Edwina Pickles, SMH) Editor's note: The Language on the Move team closely collaborates with the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network (LLIRN). To raise awareness of…
Language on the MoveJuly 1, 2024
In early 2023, I was preparing to start my Master of Research programme at Macquarie University. I knew I wanted to investigate how language barriers are bridged in hospitals, but…
Brynn QuickJune 24, 2024
In this latest episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Yixi (Isabella) Qiu speaks with Professor Yongyan Zheng about the Shanghai Multilingualism Alliance. The interview explores the Alliance’s origins, research…
Yixi (Isabella) QiuMay 2, 2024
Ana Bruzon presenting her PhD research at ECREA conference in Rotterdam As a third-year PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, I recently had the awe-inspiring…
Ana Sofia BruzonFebruary 13, 2024
Dr Pia Tenedero, Prof Ingrid Gogolin, and Ana Bruzon (ltr.) during the NGL network conference "Do not ask for free drinking water in Germany!" This was a travel tip I…
Pia TenederoJanuary 18, 2024
Congratulations to Brynn Quick, whose entry into the 3-minute-thesis competition won the Macquarie University Department of Linguistics People's Choice Award yesterday! Brynn's research examines what happens when people go to…
Language on the MoveAugust 9, 2023
Dr Agnes Bodis with her supervisors on graduation day Congratulations to Dr Agnes Bodis and Dr Liesa Rühlmann, who both recently graduated from their PhDs! The PhD research by both…
Language on the MoveApril 4, 2023
Editor’s note: Regular readers of Language on the Move will have noticed that we have been very quiet for the past two months. This is because some core team members…
Language on the MoveMarch 7, 2023
Editor’s note: In this reflective post, Dr. Loy Lising shares how she balances the multiple demands placed on academics. As academic workloads have intensified, many feel that the balancing act…
Loy LisingDecember 19, 2022
Congratulations to Language-on-the-Move team member Dr Laura Smith-Khan, who is the winner of the 2022 Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Max Crawford Medal! The medal is considered Australia’s most prestigious…
Ingrid PillerNovember 28, 2022
The Next Generation Literacies Network will host its 2022 annual workshop on Zoom over 3 days from Nov 30 to Dec 02 - devoted to translanguaging, data sharing in qualitative…
Language on the MoveNovember 9, 2022
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