Professor Sender Dovchin

Professor Sender Dovchin is a Senior Principal Research Fellow and an Australian Research Council  Fellow. Her Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) project focuses on empowering vulnerable youth in Australia by combatting linguistic racism. The project investigates how culturally and linguistically diverse young Australians experience discrimination in their daily lives because of how they speak. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the Centre for Language Research, The University of Aizu, Japan, and was awarded Young Scientist (Kakenhi) by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. 

Professor Dovchin is also an Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. She was identified as the “Top Researcher in the field of Language & Linguistics” under The Humanities, Arts & Literature of Australia's 2021 Research Magazine and Top 250 Researchers in Australia in 2021. Her research pragmatically contributes to the second language education of the young generation living in the peripheries, providing a pedagogical view to accommodate the multiple co-existences of linguistic diversity in a globalised world. She has authored articles in top-tier international peer-reviewed journals, such as Applied Linguistics, Journal of Sociolinguistics, System, TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of Multilingualism, World Englishes, Asian Englishes, English Today, International Journal Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, International Journal of Multilingual Research, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, International Journal Bilingualism, Ethnicities, Multilingual, Linguistics, and Education, among others.  She has authored six books with international publishers such as Routledge, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Multilingual Matters. Professor Dovchin has had notable research funding success, including four external international and national research grants as the lead and co-investigator.