Professor Robert Phillipson, PhD

Robert Phillipson studied at Cambridge and Leeds Universities, UK, and has a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He worked for the British Council in Algeria, Yugoslavia, and London, before emigrating to Denmark in 1973. He is an emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School. His books have been published in 14 countries, among them: Learner language and language learning (with Claus Færch, and Kirsten Haastrup, Gyldendal & Multilingual Matters), Linguistic imperialism (Oxford UP), English-only Europe? Challenging language policy (Routledge), Linguistic imperialism continued (Orient Blackswan and Routledge), Why English? Confronting the Hydra (edited with Pauline Bunce, Vaughan Rapatahana, and Ruanni Tupas, Multilingual Matters), and Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights (edited with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Wiley Blackwell). He has lectured in over 40 countries, and given postgraduate courses in language policy and language rights in Denmark, Hyderabad/India, and Shanghai. He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize in 2010, and the TESOL International President’s Award in 2024.

Talk on Counteracting linguicism in education systems