Biography
Biography
I have worked at Keele since 2001, when I received my PhD from Cambridge University on Higher Education and National Identity in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to this I worked and studied in Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. My research interests are in the politics of higher education policy with particular focus on higher education’s socio-political and developmental intermediary role – as reflected in various themes including gender, language use, risk, citizenship and enlightened political participation, sustainability/ecology, institutional cultures and academic capitalism. My work combines critical policy analysis & ethnography, and reflects both my interdisciplinary background (anthropology, education, Arabic and Middle East studies) and my experience of living and working in the Middle East. Most recently, I have been engaged in an ongoing project to bring educational research into International Relations and vice-versa, and sub-politics into policy studies. I have published fairly widely across the cognate fields of Higher Education policy, Sociology of Education, critical studies, ecology, comparative education, and international education.
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