Dr Kayoko Hashimoto’s main research areas are language policy and language education in multilingual and multicultural contexts in Australia and Asia. She is the editor and/or author of five books, including Rethinking the Asian Language Learning Paradigm in Australia (2024, Palgrave Macmillan), Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), and Beyond Native-speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (2018, Routledge, with S. A. Houghton & D. J. Rivers).