Joe Lo Bianco

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Australia
Interests/Expertise: 
  • Language Policy and Planning
  • Literacy and Literacy Education
  • Script and Semiotics
  • English in Asia and English Spread
  • Multilinguism, socio-linguistics, Social Capital and language in Multicultural societies
  • Globalisation
  • Intercultural Education
  • Language and Nationalism and other kinds of community and social identity
Recent research/consultancy: 

Current academic research and policy activities include

UNICEF Research Director, Language, Education and Social Cohesion, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma and Thailand; and Preparation of Peace Building National Language Policy, Myanmar;

Academic advisor, National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University;

Research advisor for LUCIDE, an EC project on Languages in Urban Communities, completing in 2014 a 4 year research project on multilingualism at the municipal level in 12 European cities;

Immediate Past and Inaugural President of the Tsinghua, Asia Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies;

Other

Royal Thai Council: Language Planning in Thailand

ASEAN: Socio-cultural Community in South- East Asia

Past President, Australian Academy of the Humanities

Recognitions, positions, memberships: 
  • Bachelor of Economics, Monash University, 1976, (Majors in Economics and Political Science)
  • Graduate Diploma in Migration Studies, Monash University, 1979, (Studies in Applied Linguistics, Social Psychology and Sociology)
  • Master of Arts in Language Studies, University of Melbourne, 1986, (Thesis 65, 000 words) on Second Language Acquisition Through Bilingual Education ) Awarded First Class Honours
  • Bachelor of Education, La Trobe University, 1987, (Studies in Anthropology of Education, Curriculum Planning, Linguistics and Language Teaching)
  • Company Directors’ Diploma, Australian Institute of Company Directors and University of  Sydney Graduate School of Business; pass with order of merit; 1996 (Studies in Corporations Law, Finance and Company Management)
  • Doctor of Philosophy , The Australian National University, 2001, Officialising Language: Discourse, English and Public Policy in   the United States. 
Selected publications: 

130 publications on language, policy and planning, language education, literacy, culture and identity.

In press are Aldo and the Meridian Line, a novel in the Mountain of Su Dongpo series, (with T. Hay and Y. Wang) and a volume on Language and Identity in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia (with Fethi Hilal).


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