Associate Professor Obaid Hamid

Associate Professor

School of Education
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Associate Professor

School of Education
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Affiliate Associate Professor of Sc

School of Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
m.hamid@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 56263

Overview

I received education in English literature, applied linguistics and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). I consider TESOL my home. My research has focused on the policy and practice of TESOL education in Asia. I am particularly interested in the role of English in individual mobility and social development. This interest has led me to examine English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy and practice and its academic and social outcomes. I use qualitative, quantitative and textual data. My work is underpinned by critical perspectives, my multidisciplinary backgrounds and my life experiences as a confused transnational.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Publications

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Ali, Md Maksud, Hardy, Ian, Hamid, M. Obaidul and Lingard, Bob (2024). Researching global policy trends through English-Language Education in a Global South context using Bourdieu's 'thinking tools'. The Bloomsbury handbook of Bourdieu and educational research. (pp. 305-317) edited by Garth Stahl, Guanglun Michael Mu, Pere Ayling and Elliot B. Weininger. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Sultana, Shaila (2024). English-medium instruction in higher education in Bangladesh. The Routledge handbook of English-medium instruction in higher education. (pp. 352-364) edited by Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha and Benedict Lin. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003011644-30

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul (2024). Fieldwork for language education research in rural Bangladesh: Ethical issues and dilemmas. Educational research practice in Southern contexts: Recentring, reframing and reimagining methodological canons. (pp. 172-186) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Sultana, Shaila, Roshid, Mohammod Moninoor, Haider, Md. Zulfeqar and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2023). Sociolinguistics research in Bangladesh: Prologue and progress. Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond: Voices of the Unheard in the Global South. (pp. 1-20) New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003304937-1

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Islam, Md. Wahidul (2023). Southern ways of English: Examining school websites in Bangladesh. Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond: Voices of the Unheard in the Global South. (pp. 254-270) New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003304937-19

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul (2023). Fieldwork for language education research in rural Bangladesh: Ethical issues and dilemmas. Educational Research Practice in Southern Contexts: Recentring, Reframing and Reimagining Methodological Canons. (pp. 172-186) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003355397-12

  • Amin, Md. Al and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2023). English as a medium of instruction and inequality: exploring private sector higher education in Bangladesh. Policies, politics, and ideologies of English-medium instruction in Asian universities: unsettling critical edges. (pp. 167-183) edited by Pramod K. Sah and Fan Fang. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003173120-15

  • Ali, Md Maksud and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2023). Economisation of the secondary English curriculum in Bangladesh. Local research and glocal perspectives in English language teaching . (pp. 81-94) edited by Rubina Khan, Ahmed Bashir, Bijoy Lal Basu and Md. Elias Uddin. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-6458-9_6

  • Ali, Md. Maksud and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2023). Economisation of the Secondary English Curriculum in Bangladesh. Local research and glocal perspectives in English language teaching: teaching in changing times. (pp. 81-94) edited by Rubina Khan, Ahmed Bashir, Bijoy Lal Basu and Md. Elias Uddin. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-6458-9_6

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Mahmud, Rafsan (2023). The Dynamics of Private Tutoring and the English Language in Bangladesh. International Perspectives on English Private Tutoring. (pp. 95-112) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-26817-5_6

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Ali, Md Maksud (2022). Language planning and education in Asia. Oxford research encyclopedia of education. (pp. 1-23) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1804

  • Wang, Lanting and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2022). Character education in higher education in the new era: from character to citizenship. Character education, meet the future. (pp. 191-213) edited by The Catholic University of Korea Anthropology Research Center. North Korea: Chankyu Lee.

  • Ali, Md. Maksud and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2022). Neoliberalism Shaping English Language Teaching in Bangladesh: A Critical Examination. Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South. (pp. 35-50) edited by Ali Jalalian Daghigh, Jariah Mohd Jan and Sheena Kaur. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92353-2_3

  • Hamid, Obaidul M. and Amin, Md Al (2022). English-medium instruction in Bangladeshi higher education: a policy perspective. English-medium instruction practices in higher education: international perspectives. (pp. 13-24) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.

  • Jahan, Iffat and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2022). Medium discourses and the construction of self and other in social media in postcolonial Bangladesh. Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia. (pp. 44-70) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Wijesekera, Harsha Dulari and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2022). The dynamics of bilingual education in post-conflict Sri Lanka. Multilingual education in South Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice. (pp. 4-25) edited by Lina Adinolfi, Usree Bhattacharya and Prem Phyak. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003158660-2

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul (2021). An autoethnography of a ‘Musafir’ life exploring English language education. The Routledge handbook of English language education in Bangladesh. (pp. 327-338) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429356803-21

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Ali, Md. Maksud (2021). Arabic as an early language learning provision in Bangladesh: policy perspectives. Early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective. (pp. 131-149) edited by Subhan Zein and Maria R. Coady. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-76251-3_6

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Jahan, Iffat (2021). English in education in Bangladesh. The Routledge handbook of world Englishes. (pp. 194-215) edited by Andy Kirkpatrick. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003128755-14

  • Kirkpatrick, Robert and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2021). English languge education policy. Research Questions in Language Education and Applied Linguistics. (pp. 701-704) edited by Hassan Mohebbi and Christine Coombe. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-79143-8_122

  • Ali, Md. Maksud and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2020). English for human capital development. The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh. (pp. 369-381) edited by Shaila Sultana, M. Moninoor Roshid, Md. Zulfeqar Haider, Mian Md. Naushaad Kabir and Mahmud Hasan Khan. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429356803-24

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Hasan, Md Mahmudul (2020). Bangladeshi English. The handbook of Asian Englishes. (pp. 297-315) edited by Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha and Andy Kirkpatrick. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118791882.ch12

  • Hamid, Obaidul, Nguyen, Huong Thu, Vannguyen, Huy and Phan, T. T. Huyen (2019). Agency and language in-education policy in Vietnamese higher education. Researching agency in language policy and planning. (pp. 102-124) edited by Gregory Paul Glasgow and Jeremie Bouchard. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429455841-6

  • Obaidul Hamid, M. and Rahman, Arifa (2019). Language in education policy in Bangladesh: a neoliberal turn?. The Routledge international handbook of language education policy in Asia. (pp. 382-398) edited by Andy Kirkpatrick and Anthony J. Liddicoat. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315666235-27

  • Ali, Nor Liza and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2018). English-medium instruction and teacher agency in higher education: a case study. Un(intended) language planning in a globalising world: multiple levels of players at work. (pp. 234-250) edited by Phyllis Chew Chim Lian, Catherine Chua, Kerry Taylor-Leech and Colin Williams. Berlin: De Gruyter Open. doi: 10.1515/9783110518269-013

  • Baldauf, Richard B. Jr. and Hamid, M. Obaidul (2017). Language planning 'schools' and their approaches and methodologies. The language management approach: a focus on research methodology. (pp. 43-66) edited by Fairbrother, Lisa, Nekvapil, Jiri and Sloboda, Marian. Bern, Germany: Peter Lang.

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul and Erling, Elizabeth J. (2016). English-in-Education policy and planning in Bangladesh: a critical examination. English Language Education Policy in Asia. (pp. 25-48) edited by Robert Kirkpatrick. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22464-0_2

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul (2016). The Politics of Language in Education in a Global Polity. The Handbook of Global Education Policy. (pp. 259-274) edited by Karen Mundy, Andy Green, Bob Lingard and Antoni Verger. Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118468005.ch14

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul, Nguyen, Hoa Thi Mai and Baldauf Jr., Richard B. (2014). Medium of instruction in Asia: context, processes and outcomes. Language planning for medium of instruction in Asia. (pp. 1-15) edited by M. Obaidul Hamid, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen and Richard B. Baldauf Jr.. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul, Jahan, Iffat and Islam, M. Monjural (2014). Medium of instruction policies and language practices, ideologies and institutional divides: voices of teachers and students in a private university in Bangladesh. Language planning for medium of instruction in Asia. (pp. 144-163) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul (2013). Fieldwork for language education research in rural Bangladesh: ethical issues and dilemmas. Ethics and academic freedom in educational research. (pp. 55-67) London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315872711-5

  • Erling, E. J., Hamid, M. O. and Seargeant, P. (2013). Grassroots attitudes to English as a language for international development in Bangladesh. English and development: policy, pedagogy and globalization. (pp. 88-110) edited by Elizabeth J. Erling and Phillip Seargeant. Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters.

  • Ali, Nor Liza, Hamid, M. Obaidul and Moni, Karen (2012). English in primary education in Malaysia: policies, outcomes and stakeholders' lived experiences. Language planning in primary schools in Asia. (pp. 43-62) edited by Richard B. Baldauf, Robert B. Kaplan, Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu and Pauline Bryant. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Hamid, M. Obaidul (2011). Planning for failure: English and language policy and planning in Bangladesh. Handbook of language and ethnic identity. Volume 2, The success-failure continuum in language and ethnic identity efforts. (pp. 192-203) edited by Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia Garcia. New York, USA: Oxford University Press.

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Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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