S.H. (Seyed Hadi ) Mirvahedi

Dr Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts (Minorities & Multilingualism), University of Groningen. Since his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2014, he has researched in the interdisciplinary field of critical sociolinguistics in multilingual settings, exploring attitudinal, emotional, ideological, political and pedagogical aspects of multilingualism with a focus on how human action, including use or non-use of language in different spaces, is informed by several processes, synchronically and diachronically, at various scales and levels. Working within the intersections of multilingualism, globalization, transnationalism, and policy and practice both at national, institutional and grassroots levels, he has integrated multiple sources of evidence as well as theoretical frameworks in his research to demonstrate how such phenomena are informed by discursive practices operating at various levels of social organization (e.g., the family, school, media, and government policy).

From 2017-2019, Hadi was a Post-doctoral Researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he examined language ideologies and practices among Tamil and Malay families. In his second postdoctoral project from 2020 to 2023 at Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), University of Oslo, he examined Afghan refugee families' lived raciolinguistic experiences and identity (trans)formation across generations.