Sarbari Bordia is an Associate Professor of Management and Deputy Director-Research of the Research School of Management, Australian National University. With multi-disciplinary expertise, Sarbari’s research spans management, applied linguistics, international education and qualitative research methodology in the social sciences.

Her research interest is at the intersection of linguistics and corporate communication, where she studies the role of linguistic identity in international business and migrant workplace contexts. She also conducts research on employee and student psychological contracts, internationalization of management education and gender equity in the workplace. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Sarbari has published edited and text books on qualitative research methodology in the workplace context and business communication. Sarbari was the founding Co-Editor of Journal of International Education in Business (2009-2021).

Sarbari has significant experience in academic leadership. She has been the Interim Director for the Research School of Management, ANU (2019); Chair, Gender Equity Committee, College of Business and Economics, ANU (2016-18); Deputy Director for Higher Degree by Research (2018, 2020-21) and Honours Convenor (2012-18).