Professor Farzana Shain

Staff details

Professor Farzana Shain

Position

Head of Department

Department

Educational Studies

Email

F.Shain (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Farzana is a sociologist of education. She specialises in educational inequalities and education policy and politics.

Farzana joined Goldsmiths in 2020 as George Wood Professor in Education. Previously, she was Professor of Sociology of Education at Keele University, where she directed the Research Centre for Social Policy from 2015 to 2019 and led the ‘Tackling Inequalities’ research theme in Keele’s Institute for Social Inclusion until December 2019.

Farzana researches and teaches in the field of sociology of education, focusing particularly on racialised, classed and gendered inequalities. She serves as a steering group member of the International Association for Human Rights Education and on the boards of the following journals:

• British Journal of Sociology of Education - Executive Board (2015-2023; Editorial Board
2003-present)
• Human Rights Education Review - International Editorial Advisory Board (2017- present)
• Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Diversity-Advisory Board (2013-present)
• Journal of Global Faultlines -Editorial Team (2012-present)

Research interests

Current/recent projects include:
• Generation Delta: Nurturing the next generation of Black female professors - UKRI-Research England funded 2022-2026
• Change the Narrative - A Film collaboration exploring British Muslim girls’ accounts of their educational lives with Parvez Qadir and Kirstie Henderson with part funding from the Leverhulme Trust 2019-20
• In the shadow of 9/11: Muslim girls’ narrative accounts of past, present and future lives. Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 2017-19
• Raising Attainment at KS1. Stoke City Council funded (PI, with Dr Ruth Dann and Dr Laura Watt) 2013-2016.
• Children’s understanding of peak oil. British Academy small grants (PI, with Prof Bulent Gokay) 2012-2013, with follow-on funding from Keele University to research Children’s understanding of Fracking (PI with Bulent Gokay and Sian Edwards both of Keele, in 2016-7

Previous research includes, 'Changing Teaching and Managerial Cultures in Further Education'. ESRC (Denis Gleeson PI)

Doctoral Supervision
Farzana has supervised 24 doctoral students to successful completion and has examined over 35 PhD theses at universities in the UK and abroad.

I welcome applications from prospective doctoral students on the following topics:

• educational inequalities/social exclusion/social justice
• race, politics and education
• gender and education
• education policy and politics
• educational implications of 9/11 and the war on terror
• institutional change

Publications and research outputs

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Edited Book

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