Adrian Holliday

Adrian Holliday is a Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, affiliated with the School of Humanities & Educational Studies and the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education. He serves as programme director for PhD programs in both Education and Applied Linguistics, with a career spanning decades in critical qualitative research related to English language education's global politics.

• Key research areas: Intercultural communication, cultural politics of English, critical cosmopolitanism, and small cultures theory
• Methodological focus: Critical ethnography, reflexivity, and postpositivist approaches
• Geographic expertise: Middle East (Iran, Algeria, Mexico), East Asia (Japan, China), and global English language education

His publications reveal trends in:

• Decentring Western cultural dominance
• Translanguaging and identity negotiation
• Native-speakerism critique
• Third-space methodology development
• Poststructuralist intercultural analysis
• Autobiographical and narrative research approaches

Scientific contributions include:

• Foundational work on 'small cultures' (1999)
• Development of a 'grammar of culture' (2011, 2018)
• Methodological innovations in intercultural research
• Decolonizing approaches to English language teaching

As a research supervisor, he has guided students across 12+ countries in topics covering:

• Cultural identity construction in neoliberal universities
• Translanguaging identities
• Intercultural competence in professional contexts
• Native-speakerism in Japanese higher education
• Resilience among international PhD students
• Discourse analysis of English curricula