This year, one Postdoctoral Fellow received The Stephen Evans Best Thesis Award 2025-26:
- Dr BAO Jie. The title of her thesis is “Identity Constructions of Tertiary EFL Teachers Doing Professional Doctorate”.
One PhD student received The Stephen Evans Best Paper Award 2025-26:
- RAHMAN Mohammad Mosiur. The title of his paper is “English medium instruction as a multi-scalar language policy process: Capturing neoliberal motives, English-only implementation and multilingual realities”. It has also been published in Linguistics and Education in June 2026: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2026.101548
Please join us in congratulating them. Their outstanding research has established a remarkable benchmark for academic excellence!
More about The Stephen Evans Awards can be found on our Department’s website (HERE).