Grants
- 2024. Spencer Large Grant [semi-finalist/under review for final round]. Transformation from within: Indigenous teacher agency for creating space for Indigenous languages in Nepal’s Public schools.
- 2023 General Research Fund (GRF). Family Multilingualism and Language Policy of Nepali Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: A Thirdspace Perspective (Ref. No. 14616123). Funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong.
- 2022 The making of Chinese space in Nepal: Multilingualism, geopolitics and globalization. Funded by the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2021-2022. Direct Grant [Faculty of Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong]: Heritage language learning of Nepali children in Hong Kong.
- 2020-2021 Direct Grant [Faculty of Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong]: Translingual engagement: Multilingual Knowledging and Creativity of South Asian Ethnic Minority Students.
- 2018-2020 Faculty Grants (PI) Teacher Identity in Higher Education. The University Grants Commission, Nepal.
- 2018-2020 Research Fellow for the project “State of Social Inclusion in Nepal” (SOSIN), Central Department of Anthropology, TU.
- 2017-2020 (PI) Enhancing Access Quality and Sustainability of Teacher Training/Education through the Use of ICTs and Distance Delivery Modes (collaborative project between KU, TU and OsloMet University, Norway, funded by NORAD)
- 2019 British Council South Asia to attend and present a paper Multilingual Education conference in Bangkok, Thailand (Travel Grants)
- 2019 British Council and Hornby Trust, UK, for attending and presenting a paper at the IATEFL conference, Liverpool (April 2-5, 2019) (Travel Grant)
- 2010 Gill Sturtridge First-Time Speaker Award, International Association of Teachers of English as Foreign Language (IATEFL)
- 2008 Centenary Scholarship (MA TESOL), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.