
Dr. Muhammad Habib Qazi
Associate Professor, English & Director, English Language Centre
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Currently working as Associate Professor, English and Director, English Language Centre, University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan, I have over 10 years of English language teaching/supervision experience at the Higher Education Institutions of the UK, KSA, UAE. I am a certified peer-reviewer (Sage Open) and the former Editor of the USKT Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities https://jssh.uskt.edu.pk/index.php/jssh/about with 9 publications in peer-reviewed impact-factor (ISI) journals and 2 in HEC approved journals. Also, I am an approved PhD supervisor by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
Research and Teaching Interests: Linguistics, ELT, EAP, TEFL, TESOL, IELTS, discourse analysis, Foucauldian discourse analysis, postcolonial theory, identity construction, critical social justice, faith, culture, and gender, writing for peer-reviewed journals, research methodology, critical theory, semantics and pragmatics, phonetics and phonology.
Research ID: ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-1862
Ph.D | Applied Linguistics Research Topic: National Identity in a Postcolonial Society: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Pakistan’s National Curriculum Textbooks and their Social Practices in Schools for Shaping Students’ National Belonging | University of Leicester, UK | 2020 |
M. Phil | English Linguistics Research Topic: Ideologies in Pakistani English Newspapers’ Discourse: Identity Construction of Malala Yousafzai | Lead University | 2014 |
Cambridge CELTA | CELTA | University of Cambridge | 2011 |
Associate Professor (English Director) English Language Centre | University of Central Punjab, Lahore | October 2022 to date |
Assistant Professor (Head English Department Director) English Language Centre | University of Sialkot, Pakistan | July 2021 to October 2022 |
Tutor International M.A Programmes | University of Leicester, UK | March 2020 to July 2021 |
Lecturer in English | Taif University, Saudi Arabia | October 2010 to August 2018 |
1 | Qazi, M.H, Choudhary, Z. J. and Inayat. U. Khattak (2022) ‘Representation of indigenous languages employing a religious screen for the discursive construction of students’ postcolonial national identities – a curious case of ‘internal colonisation’ and ‘cultural invasion’ in Pakistani schools’, British Educational Research Journal, Online |
2 | Qazi, M. H (2021) ‘Construction of students’ religious postcolonial national identities in Pakistani state schools and its implications for religious minorities,’ Compare - Journal of Comparative and International Education, Online |
3 | Qazi, M. H and Alison, T. (2021) 'Exploring the role of India's secondary school compulsory curriculum textbooks in students' postcolonial identity constructions in an overseas school,’ British Educational Research Journal, Online |
4 | Qazi, M. H. (2020) ‘Exploring links between national Education and students’ postcolonial militaristic national identity construction in Schools’, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Volume 52, No. 4. July 2020, pp. 516-532. DOI:10.1080/00220272.2020.1755997 |
5 | Qazi, M. H. and Shah, S. (2019) ‘A study of Bangladesh’s secondary school curriculum textbooks in students’ postcolonial national identity construction in an overseas context’, Asia Pacific Journal of Education. Volume 39, No. 4, October 2019, pp. 501-516. DOI: 10.1080/02188791.2019.1671806 |
6 | Qazi, M.H and Shah, S. (2018) ‘Discursive construction of Pakistan’s postcolonial national identity through curriculum textbook discourses in a Pakistani school in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates’, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, April 2019, pp. 275–297. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3496 |
7 | Qazi, M.H and Shah, S. (2018) ‘Discursive construction of Pakistan’s postcolonial national identity through curriculum textbook discourses in a Pakistani school in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates’, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, April 2019, pp. 275–297. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3496 |
8 | Qazi, M. H. and Shah, S. (2017) ‘Identity constructions through media discourses: Malala Yousafzai in Pakistani English newspapers’, Journalism Studies, Volume 19, No. 11, Feb. 2017, pp.1597-1612. DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1284574. |
9 | Qasim Jan1, Yi Xie, M. Habib Qazi, Choudhary Zahid Javid, Baha Ul Haq (2022) ‘Examining the Role of Pakistan’s National Curriculum Textbook Discourses on Normalising the Taliban’s violence in the USA’s Post 9/11 War on Terror in South Waziristan, Pakistan’, British Journal of Religious Education, Vol ….., No. …, Feb. 2022, DOI: 10.1080/01416200.2022.2036102 |
10 | InayatUllah, K. Ahmad, S. Qazi, M.H & Rehman, H.J. ‘Essentialist Borderlands, Monolithic Othering and Migrated Locales: Analysis of H.M Naqvi’s Home Boy’, Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), Vol 7 (2) July 2021: ISSN 2521-8123 (Print) 2523-1227 (Online) |
11 | Qazi, M. H., and Farooq, M. U (2020) 'Identity Construction of Malala Yousafzai in the Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Editorials in Two Pakistani English Newspapers', NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Volume 18, No. 1, December 2020, pp. 32-46. ISSN 2222-5706. Online |