(University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Herdiana Hakim is a published author and a Ph.D. candidate in Children’s Literature and Literacies at the University of Glasgow, where she also achieved her M.Ed. in the same programme. Both her master’s and doctoral studies are fully-funded by the Indonesian government. Previously, she studied English Literature and Developmental Psychology at Universitas Indonesia. Her research focuses on contemporary Indonesian children’s literature, reader’s response, and discourses of tolerance and diversity in children’s stories.