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Masahiro is a visiting scholar at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at University of Cambridge and also a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He is a professor at College of Science and Engineering at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan. Masahiro’s research so far has been the application of cognitive linguistics in foreign language teaching. The primary way of the application is associated with spatial concept projection, through which learners understand the target concepts in terms of the embodied cognition utilizing spatial concepts. His current research interests are focused on analyzing the spatial concept-oriented metaphor approach from the perspectives of brain neural basis to confirm whether it is a neuroscientifically proven approach to improving learners’ L2 language proficiency. Masahiro completed his Ed.M.at Harvard University, his Ed.D. at Temple University in the USA, his first Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and his second Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Dr. Shikha Bhardwaj holds a Ph.D. in Management, M.Sc. in Industrial Psychology, and PGDM in HR. She has more than 15 years of experience in research, teaching, training, and consultancy in the area of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources. She is a certified Psychometric Trainer, Train the Trainer Expert, and Entrepreneur Educator. She has contributed significantly in several publications in national and international journals of repute. She was awarded the prestigious ‘Chief of Army Staff Commendation Card (COAS)’ by GOC-in-C Western Command and recognized as ‘Accredited Management Teacher (AMT)’ by AIMA in the field of Human Resources. Her interests majorly include interdisciplinary research in cross-cultural sensitivities, work dynamics issues, entrepreneurial behaviours, entrepreneurial attitude, EI, contemporary HR practices, etc. She handled several trainings on early career, mid-career, capacity building, and Leadership programmes for Public Sector Undertakings (PSU). She has been on the panel of QCFI, Women Entrepreneurship Council Member, and Women Innovation Entrepreneur Foundation.