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Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar

Graduate Research Academic - Graduate Research School

Biography

Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar is a Senior Lecturer and Graduate Research Academic based at the University of New England. Originally from the jewel of the South Pacific—Fiji, he moved to UNE in 2022 to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics through the Research and Training Program International PhD scholarship funded by the Australian Government. For a decade, he was a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at Fiji National University specialising in teaching Academic English and Applied Linguistics courses. His latest book English Language Mediated Settings and Educational Inequalities - Language Education Policy Agendas in the South Pacific with Routledge Publications (UK) was published in March 2025. Dr Goundar is the author of Pursuing Divinity in Paradise (2020), In Simple Words (2017) and Writing and Publishing in Fiji; Narratives from Fijian Writers (2018) an edited volume. Prash’s research interests are of interdisciplinary nature that sits across the three, distinct yet interrelated, fields of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Educational Linguistics. In 2025, the Australian Linguistic Society certified his status as an Accredited Linguist. He serves on the Editorial Board of Language Teaching Research, English Language Teaching, and the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education.

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