Biography
Sadia Shad is a PhD (TESL) candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. With over ten years of experience, she has worked as a lecturer and teacher educator in both Pakistan and Canada. Her research and teaching interests include second language/teacher education, teacher identity, decolonial and antiracist pedagogies, critical intercultural education, language ideologies, and discourse analytic approaches. Driven by her deep commitment to equity and social justice in language education and beyond, Sadia has co-facilitated LLED Antiracist Caucuses and is a core team member of the Global Research Collective for Anti-Oppressive Practices in Language Education at UBC.
Research
TESL, teacher identity, decolonial and antiracist pedagogies, critical intercultural education, language ideologies, discourse analysis