Dr. Aliya Sikandar

Dr. Aliya Sikandar holds a Ph.D. in Education (Applied Linguistics) from the Institute of Business Management, an MA TESOL from the Institute of Education, University of London (UK), and a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Karachi. Dr. Sikandar is currently the Head of the Communication & Languages Department at IoBM. Her Ph.D. focuses on critical discourse analysis of research consultations in higher education. She is working at IoBM as an Associate Professor and also holds an RSA Certificate in Teaching of English (COTE) from the University of Cambridge. Before joining IoBM full-time in September 2013, she worked for the Aga Khan University for 24 years. She has received Aga Khan University’s prestigious “Outstanding Teacher Award” and the British Council South Asian ELTeCS Innovation Award as an editor of the AKU-OUP Publication. Dr. Sikandar is also an HEC-approved supervisor. Currently, she teaches Business Communication courses, and her areas of interest include Business Writing and Speech, Critical Discourse Analysis, Scholarly Writing, and Spoken Discourse.