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Language on the Move Podcast wins Talkley Award 2025

The team behind the Language-on-the-Move Podcast (Image credit: Language on the Move) Final piece of good news for the year before we head into a publishing break over January: we've…

Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2025

Research reflections

Lifelong learning from academic mentorship

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

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Research reflections

Seven reasons why we love hosting podcasts

Tazin and Brynn, two of our enthusiastic podcast hosts Editor's note: Time flies: the Language-on-the-Move Podcast in collaboration with the New Books Network just turned one! Time to celebrate and…

Language on the MoveFebruary 17, 2025

Next Gen Literacies

Are language technologies counterproductive to learning?

"Giant Head" installation at the Gentle Monster store at Sydney Airport One of the goals of graduate education is to empower students to reach their academic and professional goals by…

Ingrid PillerAugust 25, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Research reflections

History of Modern Linguistics

In Episode 12 of the Language on the Move Podcast, I speak with James McElvenny about his new book History of Modern Linguistics. This book offers a highly readable, concise…

Ingrid PillerApril 10, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual histories

Lies we tell ourselves about multilingualism

Just before the holidays, Professor Aneta Pavlenko and I chatted about Aneta’s new book Multilingualism and History. We talked about amnesia and ignorance pacts in contemporary sociolinguistics, ghost signs that point to dark…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 3, 2024

Language and migration Research reflections

Scholarly sisterhood: Collaboration is our academic superpower

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

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023

Time flies and it’s time for another Reading Challenge. The annual Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading at the intersection of linguistic diversity and…

Ingrid PillerDecember 26, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Researching multilingually as a political act

Editor's note: Multilingualism researchers and the products of their research can be surprisingly monolingual. It is therefore good to see the black box of multilingual research processes under the microscope…

Language on the MoveJuly 3, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

Top-10 countries producing linguistics research (Source: Scimago Journal & Country Rank) US- and UK-based scholars dominate linguistics Global academic knowledge production is dominated by the Anglosphere. In Linguistics, for example,…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Publishing is an insiders game

At the beginning of this year, Dr Pia Tenedero shared 10 tips to survive your PhD. As the year comes to a close, we hear from her again with reflections…

Ingrid PillerDecember 10, 2021

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

The Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading in the discipline and beyond, and to make linguistics reading fun. Anyone with an interest in the…

Language on the MoveNovember 30, 2021

News

How to get published?

Let's demystify academic publishing! (Image credit: Green Chameleon via Unsplash) The Next Generation Literacies international research network hosts a free 2-day workshop for PhD candidates and early career researchers devoted…

Language on the MoveNovember 12, 2021

Research reflections

10 secrets to surviving your PhD

After 3 years of hard work, today I hit the "submit" button on my PhD thesis Today, I’ve submitted my PhD for examination – a major milestone on my PhD…

Pia TenederoJanuary 31, 2021

Research reflections

Coming to terms with ourselves in our research

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…

Johanna Ennser-KananenJuly 8, 2020

News

2017 Australian PhD Prize for Innovations in Linguistics and Michael Clyne Prize

The Language-on-the-Move team is conducting award-winning research The Language on the Move team is delighted to share news of our multiple-award-winning research! 2017 Australian PhD Prize for Innovations in Linguistics The…