Dr Raqib Chowdhury is an education researcher in the Faculty of Education at Monash University whose work critically examines the politics of language, education and knowledge production in postcolonial and transnational contexts. He taught English Literature at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1997 to 2004 as Lecturer and Assistant Professor, before joining the Monash Faculty of Education in 2008. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English, a Master’s degree in English Literature, and a Master’s degree in Education (TESOL), and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy, UK).

His doctoral research investigated how vested interest groups, including universities and governments, construct and mobilise the category of the ‘international student’ in Australia, revealing the commercial and hegemonic logics underpinning international education. This critical orientation continues to shape his research across TESOL, English language policy, higher education, teacher education, and multilingualism, with a sustained focus on decolonial critique, equity, identity, race, and social justice. Raqib is the author of Desiring TESOL and International Education: Market Abuse and Exploitation (Multilingual Matters, 2014) and The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control (Routledge, 2021), and has published extensively in leading international journals. His most recent edited volume is Engaging with Australasia: Comparative Research on ELT and English Teacher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Raqib has been invited as a keynote speaker and visiting scholar at numerous international conferences and universities, and has taught, delivered seminars, professional development programs, and graduate research workshops in China, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Thailand. In 2025, he was invited to deliver a specialist doctoral and early career researcher course at Ghent University, Belgium, and a guest lecture at the University of Luxembourg.

His contributions to teaching, research, and equity have been recognised through multiple awards, including Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Social Inclusion Awards in 2010 (Winner) and 2011 (Commendation), the Dean’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning in 2012, and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Publication at the University of Dhaka in 2003. In 2023, he received the Monash Education Dean’s Excellence Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, the President’s Commemorative Medal from Vietnam National University, the Rector’s Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam.

Raqib has supervised 20 PhD students to completion at Monash University and is currently supervising five doctoral candidates. He has been nominated for the Monash Graduate Association Supervisor of the Year three times. He is actively involved in international collaborative research projects across Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, and China, focusing on equity and race, higher education reform, teacher education, professional development, and research capacity building. He is also recognised as an Indonesian Expert with the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre.

• Critical Ethnography
• TESOL
• Languages Education
• Sociolinguistics and Identity Studies
• Decolonial Studies in Education
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Education and Social Justice
• International Education and International Students
• Culture and Pedagogy

• EDF 5610 Interacting with Research in Education Contexts
• EDF 5613 Research Approaches in Education
• EDF 5614 Research Project in Education
• EDF 5631 Bi/multilingual Education
• EDF 5639 Integrating Language and Content in Content-based Programs