This is a current list of funded research I am involved with around the world.

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Consultant CLMV PROGRAMME: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: A MODEL FOR MALAYSIAN- CAMBODIAN COLLABORATION, Coordinator, 2012-2015, (International)

Public understanding of expert views on health risks in Sweden and Malaysia, Co Investigator 2013-2016, Swedish Research Links, International

Research Publications

Scopus

SCOPUS PUBLICATIONS (Q1)
Irfan, H., Alfares, N., Tahir, S.R. & David, M.K. (2025). An Investigation of Development of Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia: Qualitative and Reflective Study. World Journal of English Language. (Accepted)

OK CHAPTER (ACCEPTED IN SPRINGER NATURE)
Irfan, H., Yusuf, Y.Q., Tamim, T. & David, M.K. Assessment of Language Aptitudes of
Pakistani Universities’ Students Towards Learning the Chinese and Turkish Languages.
In Testing, Assessment & Evaluation Research: Perspectives from South Asia. 2025 Springer(accepted)

1.  David, M.K and A Ali 2024 Spousal Loss- Older Adults’ Gender-specific Experiences With Resilience in Pakistan’s Sindh Province in OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying

2. Irfan, H., Alfares, N., Tahir, S.R. & David, M.K. (2025). An Investigation of Development of Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia: Qualitative and Reflective Study. World Journal of English Language, 15 (5).

3. David, M.K and A. Ali (2024 )
Using Novels as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Cross- Cultural Competence to English Language Students: Focus on Speech Act International Research Journal 14

4. Abasi, H. a.F. Soomro and David , M.K. (2024) Explicit vs. unconscious management of the language policy: conflicting ideologies and practices of Sindhi families in Karachi, Pakistan Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

5. ABBASI, M. H. ; DAVID , M. K. and ALI A (2023)
Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth
Russian Journal of Linguistics

Book Chapters

6. A. Ali and David, M.K. Language Shift from Balochi to a Regional Language: Language Ideologies and the Symbolic Power of the Sindhi Language in Sindh, Pakistan in Chapter 4, Handbook on Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages
Niladri Sekhar Dash, S Arulmozi, N Ramesh (editors)
Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025

7. Irfan, H., Yusuf, Y.Q., Tamim, T. & David, M.K. Assessment of Language Aptitudes of
Pakistani Universities’ Students Towards Learning the Chinese and Turkish Languages. In Testing, Assessment & Evaluation Research: Perspectives from South Asia. Springer
Nature 2025

8. Ali, A and David, M.K
Translanguaging or English Monolanguaging?: Exploring Postsecondary Students’ Perceptions of Linguistic Human Rights in Pakistan’s Sindh Province (p. 290-305), In “Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms” (eds. xiangying huo and clayton smith) (IGI GLOBAL PUBLISHER; 2024).

9. David, M. K. (2023). “Sindhi Hindus, A Diasporic Community: Reasons for Shift and Revitalization Strategies.” In Endangered Languages in the 21st Century (eds. Eda Derhemi & Christopher Moseley) 1st ed. London: Routledge.

Coedited Scopus Journal
10. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL Volume 13 Number 1
Edited by Andrzej Cirocki and Maya Khemlani David

Book
11 Dealwis, C., & David, M. K. (2023). A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Some Ethnic Minorities in Sarawak. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.

2. ⁠Research Projects
Research Project
“Wellness across ages: An intergenerational community program “-
The Gerontological Association of Malaysia (GEM), with funding support from Yayasan Hasanah.

3. ⁠Article/Publication Peer Reviews

Peer reviewed Refereed Journal

Muhammad Hassan Abbasi, Abdul Fattah Soomro & Maya Khemlani David (2025) Explicit vs. unconscious management of the language policy: conflicting ideologies and practices of Sindhi families in Karachi, Pakistan

Aimen, A., Irfan, H. & David, M.K. (2024). Investigating Politeness Strategies and Socio-
Cultural Implications in Tom Hooper’s Movie “The King’s Speech” (2010). International
Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2 (1), 220-230

David, M. K. and Ali, A. (2024) “Using Novels as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Cross-Cultural Competence to English Language Students: Focus on Speech Acts”, IARS’ International Research Journal, 14(01), pp. 31–38

MH Abbasi, MK David, H Naz, Shift or Maintenance: The Effects of Gender on Language Use among transplanted Khowar Speakers in Karachi, Pakistan (2023)  – Journal of Communication and Cultural Trends

Ameer Ali, Maya Khemlani David (2023) Reconceptualizing Non-Assertive Speech Acts as Manifestations of Wisdom and Patience: Focus on Sindh, Pakistan

M Hussain, A Ali, M.K. David, Conceptual Metaphors in the Hazaragi Community’s Institution of Marriage in Balochistan, Pakistan – LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research, 2022

David, M. K., Ali, A. (2024). Spousal loss- Older adults’ gender-specific experiences with resilience in Pakistan’s Sindh province. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying.https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228241305487

M Hussain, A Ali, MK David, (2022) Conceptual Metaphors in the Hazaragi Community’s Institution of Marriage in Balochistan, Pakistan – LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research,

David, M. K., Ali, A., Shah, S. A. (2022). Investigating older persons’ perceptions of ageist language and its use: Focus on Sindh, Pakistan. International Journal of Language Studies, 16(4)

David, M. K., Ali, A. (2021). Discourse of folk literature on healthy aging: A case study in Sindh, Pakistan, during the pandemic crisis. Social Sciences, 10(9), 350.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10090350

Abbasi, M. H., Soomro, A. F., & David, M. K. (2025). Explicit vs. unconscious management of the language policy: conflicting ideologies and practices of Sindhi families in Karachi, Pakistan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,

Abbasi, M.H., David, M.K. & Naz, H. (2023). Shift or Maintenance: The Effects of Gender on Language Use among transplanted Khowar Speakers in Karachi, Pakistan. Journal of Communication and Cultural Trends, 5 (1), 177-196.

Abbasi, M.H., David, M.K.& Ali, A. (2023). Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth. Russian Journal of Linguistics. 27(4). 865-885.

Ali, A., David, M. K. & Manan, S. A. (2021). Translanguaging – A tool for igniting ethnic sensitivities in multi-ethnic Sindh, Pakistan. Indonesian EFL Journal, 7(2), pp. 105-120

4. ⁠Speaker invitations for conferences/symposiums/workshops/ others

Re: Symposium Speaker-
1. INVITATION by MALAYSIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON AGEING
AS SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER AT THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGEING,
23-24 OCTOBER 2024, MERCURE LIVING PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA

2. Resource Speaker on “Language Revitalisation Strategies: Importance of Investigating Reasons for Language Shift”, 2nd ILMU International Lecture Series on
Applied Linguistics , November 08, 2024, by University of Southern Philippines, Davao

3. Hassan A and David, M.K “Indigenous Communities in Karachi, Pakistan”
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Migration Linguistics
December 14-15, 2024 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

4. International Distinguished Speaker- International Conference on Literature, themed “Narratives of Resilience: Exploring Resurgence in Global Literature” [April 22, 2025 to April 24 2025) organised by Department of English, Lahore College for Women University

5. Irfan, H. & Maya, K. David. “Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability of Endangered
Languages.” International Conference on Unity in Diversity 2025, May 07 to 08, 2025, Air University Islamabad.

6. David, M.K. & Irfan, H. “ Reliving history, culture and resilience of my community
through texts in English.” International Conference on Sindhi Language 2025, May 17 to 18, 2025.

7. International Conference invitation as international speaker by the Riphah Institute of Language and Literature, RIU, Lahore , May 2025 . Presentation on “Publishing from a dissertation- journal articles and books”

8. Summer School-“Dissertation Writing in Social Sciences and Humanities” June 2025 for Riphah University, Islamabad

9. November 12, 2025
Use of a Range of Discourse Markers in Argumentative Writing as Guest Lecturer for UCSI, Malaysia

Others

Postdoctoral Fellowship Supervisor of Associate Professor Dr Humaira Irfan -Sustainability of Dying Languages in Pakistan and Malaysia.

University of Karachi Panel of Experts for Appointment of Associate Professor and Professor in their University. (2025)

Adjunct Professor UCSI, Malaysia 2023-2025

Honorary member of the Migration Linguistics Initiative, Japan

Member of International Advisory Body in Centre for Languages
and Multicultural Communication (CLMC) at Woxsen University, India.

Member of independent panel for two milestone evaluation sessions (six-month review and confirmation of candidature review) for Komalpreet Kaur, a PhD student
in the Department of Psychology at Monash University, Malaysia.

Advisory Board Member, Open University Malaya (OUM’s )
Bachelor of English Studies (BEST)

Academic Invitee to MAHSA University Research, Innovation and
Enterprise Partnership.

QUAID-I-AZAM UNIVERSITY
Expert/Referee for the National Institute of Pakistan Studies

5. ⁠Non peer reviewed publications (eg. Op-Eds, creative writing) -nil

6. ⁠Editorial Board memberships

1. Invitation to review Ultralingualism by Andrey Rosowsky to be published by Bloomsbury Academic, London

2. Editorial Board
European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL

3. Editorial Board Member & Reviewer
Horizon Journals

4. Associate Section Editor
Journal of English and Applied Linguistics

5. Editorial Board
ASEAN Journal of Applied Linguistics

6. Editorial Board
Journal of Language Culture, and Translation.

7. Advisory Board
Journal of English Language, Literature and Linguistics (JELLL) of Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad

8. Reviewer – Panel of the Sindhi Language Authority (SLA) interdisciplinary research journal focusing on languages and culture.

9. Editorial and Advisory Board
Journal of Studies in the English Language

10. Reviewer
Journal of Media and Communication Studies

11.  Editorial Board
The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL Volume 5 Number 1
by Andrzej  (Andy) Cirocki

12. Advisory Board
The Journal of English Language, Literature and Linguistics (JELLL) of Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan