Reza Pishghadam

Reza Pishghadam is an Iranian professor of language education. He is affiliated with Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Gulf College in Oman. He also serves as an honorary professor at Tashkent University of Economics and Pedagogy in Uzbekistan. His research focuses on the interplay of language, psychology, and sociology. He introduced theoretical frameworks such as emotioncy and cultuling

Early life and education

Reza Pishghadam was born in Mashhad in 1977. He received his BA in English Language and Literature from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2001. He completed both his MA and Ph.D. in English Language Education at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran, in 2007. He joined Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as a faculty member in 2007, where he had previously received a scholarship

Academic career

Reza Pishghadam joined Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2007. He was Vice President for Academic Affairs (2018–2022). Since 2022, he has served as a senior education and research consultant at Gulf College, Oman. He was awarded an honorary professorship at Tashkent University of Economics and Pedagogy in Uzbekistan.

Research and publications

Reza Pishghadam initially focused on the socio-psychology of language education and later on the neurology of language learning. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Frontiers in Psychology, Applied Psycholinguistics, and Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. His publications address topics such as multisensory instruction, sentence comprehension, teacher cognition, assessment, and the role of emotional and sensory intelligence in education. His h-index in SCOPUS is 22.

Editorial roles

Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Society, Culture and Language (IJSCL) (2013-present) Director-in-Charge of the Journal of Language and Translation Studies (LTS) (2022-present) Director-in-Charge of the Journal of Business, Communication and Technology (BCT) (2022-present)

Awards and honors

Recognized as a top 1% scientist in Iran based on the Islamic World Science & Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC) index (2022-2025) Distinguished Researcher of Humanities in Iran (2010) Awarded as Top Educational Professor by Iran's Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (2021) Selected as Top Researcher in Humanities of Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (2022)