Associate Professor Obaid Hamid

I am an Associate Professor of TESOL Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. I teach and research policy and practice of TESOL education in developing societies. Specifically, I have researched world Englishes in pedagogy and assessment, English language and development, and English-medium instruction in relation to identity and social division. I have worked with half a dozen PhD scholars from Vietnam who have examined projects related to English in primary education, and learner autonomy, English-medium instruction and CEFR in Vietnamese higher education, and test-taker perspectives on the TOEFL and the IELTS tests.

I am currently exploring English as a Southern language. I am also involved as a co-editor in two volumes: Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond: Voices from the Global South (Routledge, in press) and Language and Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions in Bangladesh (Routledge, in progress). I am Special Issue Editor of Current Issues in Language Planning and a member of the editorial boards of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, and Asiatic. I am a Bangladeshi immigrant in Australia where I live with my wife and three children. I speak Bangla as my first language, and I am a beginner learner of Arabic.

My research profile and publications can be found in the following sites: http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/ 1604, https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=MZpRIwQAAAAJ&hl=en