Prashneel Goundar

Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar is a Senior Lecturer and Graduate Research Academic based at the University of New England. Originally from the jewel of the South Pacific—Fiji, he moved to UNE in 2022 to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics funded by the Australian Government. For a decade, he was a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at Fiji National University specialising in teaching Academic English and Applied Linguistics courses. He has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles and five books: Rite of Passage: Essays to Provoke Thought (2026), English Language Mediated Settings and Educational Inequalities (Routledge, 2025), Pursuing Divinity in Paradise (2020), Writing and Publishing in Fiji: Narratives from Fijian Writers (2018, editor), and In Simple Words (2017). In 2025, he was recognised as an accredited linguist by the Australian Linguistic Society and was awarded Fellowship of Advance HE (FHEA, UK) in recognition of his contributions to teaching and learning in higher education. Prash’s research interests are of interdisciplinary nature that sits across the three, distinct yet interrelated, fields of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Educational Linguistics. He serves on the Editorial Board of Current Issues in Language Planning, International Journal of Multilingualism, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Language Teaching Research, English Language Teaching, and the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education.