Senior Language Tutor, University Language Centre, University of Manchester
My PhD in sociolinguistics, from Lancaster University, investigated narratives of second-generation South Asian Britons, and will be published as a monograph with Lexington Press in 2019.
I teach in the University Language Centre, part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. I teach mainly Academic Writing and English for Academic Purposes, but I also lead a module, Language and Identity in Mulitcultural Spaces, on the MA in Intercultural Communication.
I have a Master's in Education from the Open University, and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales.
My novel The Bureau of Second Chances (Polygon Birlinn) won the Writers' Guild Award for Best First Novel (2017), and my novel The Inheritance (Polygon Birlinn) was published in 2018.
You may call me a BAME author, but this misleading term hides more than it reveals
Aug 14, 2018 13:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Apparently, I am BAME. This places me as a contender for The Guardians BAME awards or the Jhalak prize, both aimed at BAME writers like myself. Ah, BAME this acronym, which means black, asian and minority ethnic, joins...
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