Nagisa Fukui is Associate Professor of Japanese studies, in the School of Humanities & Languages and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She became one of UNSW's inaugural Education Focus (EF) academics in 2017. She has developed and taught a wide range of Japanese courses at UNSW. She also supervises Japanese language teaching practicum students who are interested in teaching Japanese at tertiary institutions. Her research interests are Japanese language education, language learning and teaching, and Japanese discourse analysis by using the systemic functional approach (SFL).  She is the designated representative of the Japanese Proficiency Test (JLPT), Sydney NSW site, a committee member of the Japanese Language Speech Contest NSW, and a member  of the Australian Network for Teaching Advanced Japanese of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia.