Zulfa Sakhiyya adalah dosen Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris sekaligus kepala Pusat Kajian Literasi di Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES). Pada tahun 2018, Zulfa memperoleh gelar doktor dalam bidang Pendidikan dari School of Critical Studies in Education, the University of Auckland, New Zealand dengan beasiswa dari New Zealand ASEAN Scholars Award. Sebelumnya, Zulfa menyelesaikan studi Master of TESOL di La Trobe University, Melbourne dan juga aktif di Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia di Australia sebagai ketua departemen Pendidikan dan Budaya. Risetnya fokus pada analisis wacana, studi gender dan literasi atau pendidikan bahasa yang mengeksplorasi bagaimana ilmu pengetahuan diproduksi dan direpresentasi.

• (2020). Sakhiyya, Z. & Martin-Anatias, N. Reviving the Language at Risk: A social semiotic analysis of the linguistic landscape of three cities in Indonesia. International Journal of Multilingualism.
• (2020). Mulya, T. & Sakhiyya, Z. 'Leadership is a sacred matter': Women leaders contesting and contextualising neoliberal meritocracy in the Indonesian academia. Gender and Education.
• (2019). Sakhiyya, Z. & Locke, K. Empowerment vs. meritocracy discourses in Indonesian public universities: The case of female leaders. Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 25, (2), 198-216. DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2019.1610210.
• (2019). Sakhiyya, Z. & Rata, E. From Priceless to Priced: The Value of Knowledge in Higher Education. Globalisation, Societies and Education.
• (2011). Sakhiyya, Z. Interrogating Identity: The policy of international standard school in Indonesia. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. 19, (3), 345-365.

• (2019 – 2020). Global Development Network, meneliti tentang ekosistem riset Indonesia dan keterkaitan antara riset dan kebijakan (PI: Inaya Rakhmani).
• (2017). FINE Award granted by the Dean of Education Faculty, the University of Auckland to present a paper in AARE Conference, Canberra.
• (2016). Travel grant awarded by Universities in Knowledge Economy (UNIKE) - Marie Curie to present a paper in UNIKE Conference, Copenhagen.
• (2015 – 2018). New Zealand ASEAN Scholars Awards, PhD program, Critical Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, the University of Auckland.
• (2011). Research fellowship by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization – Regional Centre for Quality Improvement of Teachers and Education Personnel (SEAMEO QITEP in Language).