Basma Hajir

My research interests lie in Education and International Development, Education and Conflict, Education in Emergencies (EiE), Higher Education, Refugee Education, and Peacebuilding.

I draw largely on post-colonial and decolonial thinking, engage in reflexivity about dynamics of power and marginalisation and promote a greater interdisciplinary collaboration so that the multidimensionality of human embodied experience and its interrelationship with oppressive structures can be adequately understood and addressed.

Philosophically speaking, I am drawn to the ontological and epistemological orientation of Critical Realism (CR) for its consistency with critical-emancipatory social science traditions and its alignment with decolonial studies and other counter-hegemonic projects. I am interested in exploring the potential of CR to advance more critical nuanced decolonial engagements.

I am open to supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• Education and International Development (Topics grappling with education's humanitarian or developmental role in the Global South. This could include: education access, provision, quality, inequalities..etc.)
• Education in Conflict Settings and Emergencies
• Education for Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Recovery
• Decolonising HE in the Global North and Global South
• The Role of Education for Social Change
• Peace Education/ Global citizenship education