Mei French
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mei French |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mei |
| FAMILY NAME | French |
| SIGNATURE | FRENCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8883-2407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reasserting care in higher education: Perspectives From Female Early and Mid-Career Researchers
Universities globally face growing pressure to maintain competitiveness in research excellence. This corporatisation of market values often overlooks intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class. This is especially true for a group of female Mid/Early-Career Researchers (M/ECRs) working in a large Australian university who experience significant challenges due to the undervaluing of care within universities. Drawing on Tronto’s ethics of …
Translingual Practices: Playfulness and Precariousness
Southern multilingual moves in education: Agency, citizenship, and reciprocity
This paper contributes to southern theorization of multilingualisms. Noting the predominance of northern-generated academic debates, we discuss perspectives from close engagement with southern socio-historical and political contexts, and through prioritizing community and teacher outlooks on multilingualism. Our account is illustrated with examples of linguistic citizenship that highlight local agency and dialogue in border-crossing across multip…
Reciprocal multilingual awareness for linguistic citizenship
In this paper, we build on southern and decolonial theories of multilingualism and invite a south-north conversation through a concept we propose as 'reciprocal multilingual awareness'. Reciprocity is a core value of southern societies that balance pluralities of episteme, language, and communality. Central features of southern multilingualisms, including transknowledging (reciprocal exchanges and translation of knowledge), and linguistic citizen…
Multilingualism, translanguaging and transknowledging: Translation technology in EMI higher education
Key findings, analysis and recommendations that have emerged from a research project, ‘Using Human Language Technology to enhance academic integrity, inclusivity, knowledge exchange, student diversity and retention’ at the University of South Australia conducted in 2019 are discussed in this article. The primary purpose of the project was to address some of the challenges and opportunities afforded by increasing student and teacher diversity at a…
Reasserting care in higher education: Perspectives From Female Early and Mid-Career Researchers
Universities globally face growing pressure to maintain competitiveness in research excellence. This corporatisation of market values often overlooks intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class. This is especially true for a group of female Mid/Early-Career Researchers (M/ECRs) working in a large Australian university who experience significant challenges due to the undervaluing of care within universities. Drawing on Tronto’s ethics of …
Reciprocal multilingual awareness for linguistic citizenship
In this paper, we build on southern and decolonial theories of multilingualism and invite a south-north conversation through a concept we propose as 'reciprocal multilingual awareness'. Reciprocity is a core value of southern societies that balance pluralities of episteme, language, and communality. Central features of southern multilingualisms, including transknowledging (reciprocal exchanges and translation of knowledge), and linguistic citizen…
Multilingualism, translanguaging and transknowledging: Translation technology in EMI higher education
Key findings, analysis and recommendations that have emerged from a research project, ‘Using Human Language Technology to enhance academic integrity, inclusivity, knowledge exchange, student diversity and retention’ at the University of South Australia conducted in 2019 are discussed in this article. The primary purpose of the project was to address some of the challenges and opportunities afforded by increasing student and teacher diversity at a…
Southern multilingual moves in education: Agency, citizenship, and reciprocity
This paper contributes to southern theorization of multilingualisms. Noting the predominance of northern-generated academic debates, we discuss perspectives from close engagement with southern socio-historical and political contexts, and through prioritizing community and teacher outlooks on multilingualism. Our account is illustrated with examples of linguistic citizenship that highlight local agency and dialogue in border-crossing across multip…
Reciprocal multilingual awareness for linguistic citizenship
In this paper, we build on southern and decolonial theories of multilingualism and invite a south-north conversation through a concept we propose as 'reciprocal multilingual awareness'. Reciprocity is a core value of southern societies that balance pluralities of episteme, language, and communality. Central features of southern multilingualisms, including transknowledging (reciprocal exchanges and translation of knowledge), and linguistic citizen…
Translingual Practices: Playfulness and Precariousness
Reasserting care in higher education: Perspectives From Female Early and Mid-Career Researchers
Universities globally face growing pressure to maintain competitiveness in research excellence. This corporatisation of market values often overlooks intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class. This is especially true for a group of female Mid/Early-Career Researchers (M/ECRs) working in a large Australian university who experience significant challenges due to the undervaluing of care within universities. Drawing on Tronto’s ethics of …
Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Multilingualism (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)