• Personal Information

Name: Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi

Date of Birth: Nov 4, 1982

Nationality: Iranian

Linguistic skills: Azerbaijani (native), Persian/Farsi (native), English (C2), Turkish (low)

• Education

# PhD in Applied linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (July 2010 - May 2014)

(Thesis title: Language policy, language practice, and language shift in Tabriz); 

Supervisors: Prof Janet Holmes, Prof Meredith Marra; Examiners: Prof Bernard Spolsky, Prof Stephen May, Prof Rachel Mckee

# MA in English language teaching, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz (September 2006 - February 2009)

# BA in translation studies, Tabriz Payame Noor University (October 2001 - July 2006)

• Appointments

# Assistant Professor (August 2023 - present)

Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands 

# Postdoctoral fellow (August 2020 - July 2023)

Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), University of Oslo, Norway 

# Visiting Scholar (August   2019 - February 2020)  

Babylon: Center for the Study of Superdiversity, Tilburg University, the Netherlands 

# Postdoctoral fellow (July 2017 - July 2019)

Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

# Casual lecturer of Applied Linguistics (Sep 2014 - Apr 2015)

Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

# Invited lecturer (Sep 2014 - Apr 2015)

 Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

# Career break (April 2015 - Feb 2017)

National service (In Iran, all male conscripts are required to do national service, which deprived me of any academic activities. Yet, I managed to function as a co-editor to a prominent book in the field over this period.)

# Tutor of Applied Linguistics & research assistant (May 2011 - Dec 2013)

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

# English language teacher (Jan 2005 - May 2010)

Iran Language Institute, Tabriz, Iran