Collaborators and Fellows

Prof. Jeanette Altarriba

Professor of Psychology and Collins Fellow

Founder and Director, Cognition and Language Laboratory

Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences University at Albany, State University of New York

Prof. Mirosław Pawlak

Professor of English

Head of English Department

Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Kalisz Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Dr. Ahmed Masrai

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics

Department of Languages

King Abdulaziz Military Academy

Dr. Anna Siyanova-Chanturia

Associate Professor

Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington

Dr. Burhan Ozfidan

Associate Professor

Florida Gulf Coast University

Dr. Leona Polyanskaya

Coordinating Researcher

University of Coimbra

Dr. Muhammad Afzaal

Associate Professor

Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University

Prof. Tariq Elyas

Prof. Tariq Elyas is a tenured professor of Applied Linguistics at King Abdulaziz University, and an AHSS Global Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. He holds degrees in English Literature (MA, USA), Applied Linguistics (PhD, Australia), International Law and Human Rights (LLM, UK), and a Post-Doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Newcastle University (UK). His research explores global English, teacher identity, education policy, media, and gender studies in the Middle East. Prof Elyas has published in leading journals such as World Englishes, ELT Journal, Semiotica, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and has guest-edited special issues across multiple international publications.

Dr. Ibrar Bahtt

Ibrar Bhatt is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK). His research interests encompass applied linguistics, higher education, and digitalisation. His recent major works include: ‘Heritage Literacy in the Lives of Chinese Muslims’ (2025, Bloomsbury), ‘Critical Perspectives on Teaching in the Multilingual University (2024, Routledge), ‘A Semiotics of Muslimness in China’ (2023, CUP), ‘The Epistemology of Deceit’ (2021, Springer), ‘Academics Writing: The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation’ (2019, Routledge); as well as many published research articles on similar subjects. He is a founder and convener of the Multilingual University Network of the Society for Research into Higher Education, an Executive Editor for the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives, and on the Editorial Board for the journal Postdigital Science & Education. He was also a Leverhulme Research Fellow 2020-23, and has also won grants from the Society for Research into Higher Education, the British Academy, and a current grant from the Leverhulme Trust for a third study in China.

Dr. Dogan Yuksel

Dr. Dogan Yuksel is a Research Fellow and Project Manager on the UKRI-funded ELEMENTAL project at The Open University, UK. Previously, he worked as an Associate Professor of TEFL at Kocaeli University, Turkey. Areas of interest include Classroom Discourse and English-Medium Instruction. His EMI-related work has been published in such journals as Applied Linguistics, Higher Education, Linguistics and Education, Journal of English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics Review, and System, among others.