Zulfa Sakhiyya

Dr. Zulfa Sakhiyya is an Assistant Professor at the English Department and Head of the Literacy Research Centre at the Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES). She also serves as Deputy Coordinator of the Science and Education Working Group at the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences.

Her research is grounded in discourse analysis, with a focus on how knowledge is produced, circulated, and represented across different institutional and socio-political contexts. Her work contributes to critical debates on education, policy, and knowledge production, and has been published in leading journals such as Gender and Education, Critical Policy Studies, Globalisation, Societies and Education, International Journal of Multilingualism, and Pedagogy, Culture and Society.

She has also been actively involved in international research collaborations. She was a research fellow at the Center for Innovation, Policy and Governance (2019–2021), where she examined the relationship between research and policy in Indonesia. Prior to that, she was part of the Universities in Knowledge Economy (UNIKE) project (2017–2018), funded by the Marie Curie programme of the European Commission.