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Members of our Executive Committee are elected by our members according to section 6 of our constitution. Currently elected members are below, followed by past members further down. Members are elected for two years, and their tenure is noted below. Some positions are elected in different years as post-holders may opt to step down during their tenure.
Co-convenor 2025-27: Leanne Henderson
Co-convenor 2025-27: Dave Sayers
Lecturer in Education Studies, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Dept. Language & Communication Studies; Docent in Language Policy, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
As passionate language policy scholars, Leanne and Dave are committed to running a vibrant and inclusive forum for all those engaged in language policy matters. Please reach out to us with any general queries related to this group.
Treasurer 2024-26: Hao Zhang
Membership secretary 2025-27: Vasilica Mocanu
Assistant Recognition Manager,
Oxford University Press, UK
PhD (Edinburgh)
The Treasurer is responsible for the budget and financial health of the SIG, preparing the annual budget, setting individual event budgets, and processing payments and receipts.
Profesora Permanente Laboral (Associate Professor) in English Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain
https://english.usal.es/vasilica-mocanu-florea/
The Membership Secretary is the members' first point of contact for questions regarding membership and other forms of involvement.
Conference Secretary 2025-27: Tetyana Lunyova
Events secretary 2023-27 (re-elected 2025): Aziz Moummou
Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of York, UK
www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/tetyana-lunyova/
The Conference Secretary leads on our annual conference the Language Policy Forum (LPF), and our stream at the BAAL conference. This role complements the Events Secretary, who focuses more on our online events including the reading group.
PhD student, Université Hassan II de Casablanca, Morocco
The Events Secretary oversees the co-ordination of the SIG’s online events throughout the year, including our popular international reading group.
Communications secretary 2020-27 (re-elected 2023, 2025): Abhi Sharma
External Liaison Secretary 2025-27: Michele Gazzola
Teaching Associate in German Linguistics, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
The Communications Secretary looks after the website, manages the email list, and generally keeps the electronic gears ticking over in the background.
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Administration, School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, University of Ulster, UK
michele [at] michelegazzola.com
The External Liaison Secretary manages relationships with non-academic organisations with a view to securing sponsorship, delivering specialist training, etc.
BAAL SIGs typically have ‘Ordinary Members’ whose roles do not have a specific thematic focus (as in the positions above) but who have equal standing and may respond to various EC needs and responsibilities. This is a standard BAAL SIG position and is widely recognised.
Ordinary Member 2025-27: Rozitah Abu Samah
Ordinary Member 2025-27: Oluwafisayo Atanda
Associate Faculty, Centre for Professional Communication, Singapore Institute of Technology
Researcher in Applied Linguistics & Children Residential Service Worker, Northumberland County Council, UK
CO-OPTED members of the committee
CO-OPTED members of the committee
Within BAAL SIGs, when an event is hosted at the institution of someone outside the Executive Committee, the local chair of the host's coordinating committee is 'co-opted' into EC for the year prior. This is time-limited and task-specific, and therefore not subject to normal election procedures. Our current co-opted member is listed here. Past post-holders are listed further down.
2025-26: Javier Moreno-Rivero (local chair for Language Policy Forum 2026)
Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Professor in Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Studies
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Former ELECTED members of the committee
Former ELECTED members of the committee
Co-founders
Co-founders
Florence Bonacina-Pugh and Elisabeth Barakos co-founded the SIG in 2017 with the aim to give language policy research, practice and outreach work more representation within BAAL and to nurture a community of practitioners and scholars around the world. They were the founding co-convenors, and built the SIG into an international network of scholars and practitioners.
Elisabeth Barakos, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria & Lecturer (Teaching) in Applied Linguistics/TESOL, UCL
2017-2024
Florence Bonacina-Pugh, Senior Lecturer in Language Education, University of Edinburgh, UK
2017-2024
Former Treasurers
Former Treasurers
Yongcan Liu, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Languages Education, University of Cambridge, UK
2017-2019
Iker Erdocia, Dublin City University, Ireland
2020-2024
Former Membership Secretaries
Former Membership Secretaries
Taehee Choi, Associate Professor of Educational Change, University of Southampton
2017-2019
Diana Camps, Lecturer in Education, University of Glasgow, UK
2019-2025
Former Communications Secretaries
Former Communications Secretaries
Dave Sayers, Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and Docent in Language Policy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2017-2020
Former Events Secretaries
Former Events Secretaries
Rachel O'Neill, Deaf education pathway co-ordinator, University of Edinburgh, UK
2017-2020
Stephen Joseph McNulty, PhD Researcher in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
2021-2023
Former co-opted members
Former co-opted members
Yongcan Liu, local chair of LPF 2020 (Cambridge)
Abigail Parrish, local chair of LPF 2021 (Bishop Grosseteste)
Professor of Applied Linguistics and Languages Education, University of Cambridge, UK
Lecturer in Languages Education, University of Sheffield, UK
Tawny Holmes Hlibok, Local Chair of LPF 2022 (Gallaudet University)
Associate Professor of Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University, USA
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