I am an Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Cultures at UQ (since 2017), having formerly been an assistant professor at the Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), University of Hong Kong (since 2014). I hold an MA TESOL from the University of London and an M.Phil/Ph.D in applied linguistics from the University of Cambridge.
My areas of research and supervisory expertise include corpus linguistics and the use of corpora for language learning (known as 'data-driven learning'), as well as English for General and Specific Academic Purposes. I have published 60+ papers in leading journals including Language Learning, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, and Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ReCALL, System, Journal of Second Language Writing, IRAL and the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. I have featured in Stanford's Top 2% Scientists lists for 2023 and 2024.
I am currently Editor in Chief of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, have served as Associate Editor for the Q1 Journal of English for Academic Purposes, sit on the editorial boards of JSLW, IRAL, System, Applied Corpus Linguistics, Research Syntheses in Applied Linguistics, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, and the book series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
Dr Kayoko Hashimoto is Senior Lecturer at School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her main research area is language policy with particular interest in construction of national and individual identities in fluid multicultural and multilingual contexts. She has been actively involved in national and international research and teaching collaborations in Australia, Japan, Vietnam, UK and Poland – a visiting fellow at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2024-2025 and an Erasmus+ mobility program scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland in 2025. She is an editor/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 (2018, Routledge, with S. A. Houghton & D. J. Rivers).
