Nandi, Anik
Also known as: Dr. Anik Nandi
Woxsen School of Business, Universidad del País Vasco Facultad de Letras, Higher Education Academy, Heriot-Watt University, Alliance University, University of Santiago de Compostela
About
Dr. Anik Nandi earned his PhD in 2017 as a prestigious James Watt Fellow from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Dr. Nandi is currently working as an Associate Professor of Multicultural Communication in the School of Business at Woxsen University, Telangana, India. He is also the Founding Director of the Centre for Languages and Multicultural Communication, the Founding Director of the first ever Galician Studies Centre in Asia (funded by the Govt. of Galicia, Spain) and Chair for Language Policy Studies in his current institution. Prior to this, Anik worked as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Basque Country, Spain where he conducted research on the intergenerational transmission of Basque and Galician (in Spain) languages. The aforementioned project secured an individual funding of 97,800 Euros for 3 years from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union’s Covid Recovery Fund. Between 2017-19, Nandi worked as an Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Postdoc at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom.
In addition to his current roles at Woxsen, Anik is also a Senior Research Associate (Hon.) at the Sociolinguistic Seminar of the Royal Galician Language Academy (Spain), a Visiting Researcher at the Leiden Centre for Linguistics (The Netherlands), and a Collaborator at the research centre attached to the UNESCO Chair on World Language Heritage in the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Dr. Nandi specialises in language policy and literacy practices in multilingual settings and his research papers appeared in many prestigious international journals linked to Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics. He also works as a co-editor of a Diamond Open Access book series entitled Current Issues in Bilingualism published by Language Science Press, Berlin, Germany. In 2025, Nandi joined as the youngest editorial board member of the prestigious Language Policy book series published by SpringerNature Link, The Netherlands. Between 2021-24, he also worked as the Book Reviews editor for Sociolinguistic Studies Journal (ISSN: 1750-8649 / 1750-8657).
Employment
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Woxsen School of Business Associate Professor2024 - Present
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Universidad del País Vasco Facultad de Letras Teaching and Research Staff2022 - 2024
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Alliance University Assistant Professor2022 - 2022
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Leiden University2021 - 2022
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Queen's University Belfast Postdoctoral Research Fellow2017 - 2019
Education
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Higher Education Academy Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (Ref. PR10151),2015 - 2016
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Heriot-Watt University PhD (Languages)2012 - 2016
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University of Santiago de Compostela Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (MPhil equivalent)2008 - 2010
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University of Delhi Advanced Diploma in Spanish2007 - 2008
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University of Vigo Superior Diploma (Level C1) in Spanish as a Foreign Language2007 - 2007
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University of Burdwan Master of Arts2003 - 2005
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University of Burdwan Bachelor of Arts (English honours)2000 - 2003
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (14)
- Herritartasun soziolinguistikoa gaztelania nagusi den eremu eleaniztuneko familietan Save
- Countering government’s low-intensity language policies on the ground: family language policies in Castilian-Spanish dominated Galicia and Navarre Save
- Agencia humana y civismo sociolingüístico en la Galicia contemporánea Save
- Micropolíticas lingüísticas familiares de resistencia Save
- Agency in Language Policy and Planning: Critical Inquiries Jeremie Bouchard and Gregory Paul Glasgow (eds) (2019) Save
- Prácticas lingüísticas na infancia: A xestión lingüística nos primeiros contextos de socialización Save
- Review of Sonia Wilson. 2020. Family Language Policy: Children’s Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-52437-1 (eBook) Save
- Supporting speakers of community languages: Save
- New speaker parents as grassroots policy makers in contemporary Galicia: Save
- Family language policy: the role of pro-Galician parents in intergenerational transmission Save