Farzana Shain

Farzana Shain is George Wood Professor in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. She joined Goldsmiths in January 2020, having previously been (since 2013) Professor of Sociology of Education at Keele University where she was also the Head of the Centre (and REF Lead) for Social Policy Research (2015 - 2019)

Farzana’s research interests are in the areas of: educational inequalities; social justice and education; race and racisms; gender and education; education policy and politics; and the educational implications of 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’.

Farzana has published widely in the field of sociology of education on issues of social justice and education and racialised and gendered inequalities including The New Folk Devils: Muslim Boys and Education (Trentham: 2011), The Schooling and Identity of Asian Girls (Trentham: 2003), and Neoliberalism and Education Rearticulating Social Justice and Inclusion, (Routledge: 2015) which was co-edited with Kalwant Bhopal. She is also the author of a forthcoming book (2023) with Bristol Policy Press, Generation 9/11: British Muslim girls and Education in England, which draws on the research she conducted as a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow (2017-2019). Farzana has supervised 23 doctoral candidates to successful completion to date and examined more than 30 doctoral degrees in the UK and internationally.