Professor Tehmina N Basit

• BSc, MSc (Punjab);
• MPhil, PhD (Cantab.)

Externally funded research projects:

• 2014-2017, Developing Employability Skills through Innovative Education using MOOCs for Youth. (With Rosemary Borup and teams from the UK & EU countries). Funded by the EU.
• 2014-2016, Shaping University Curricula to Critical Infrastructure Employer Needs. (With Rosemary Borup, Dr Budi Arief, Prof Tom Anderson & Louise Rutherford). Funded by the EU.
• 2013-2014, Speech and Language Development of 3-4 Years Old Children in Stoke-on-Trent. (As Project Director; with Dr Amanda Hughes, Prof Zafar Iqbal & Janet Cooper). Funded by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
• 2012, An Approach to Qualifications through Negotiated Work Based Learning (with Rosemary Borup, Dr Alan Eardley, Dr Kim Slack & Dr Amanda Hughes) Funded by the EU (Erasmus).
• 2009-2010, Intergenerational Dynamics and Education amongst British Asian Families (As Principal Investigator) Funded by the ESRC.
• 2005-2006, Plain Sailing or Uphill Struggle: Young Minority Ethnic Citizens and their Transition to Adulthood (As Project Director; with Iris Lightfoote & Chino Cabon) Funded by Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living.
• 2005, Tackling Racism on School Placements (As Project Director; with Ann Kenward & Dr Lorna Roberts). Funded by Multiverse for the Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2003-2005, The Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers (As Project Director; with Prof Ian Stronach & Dr Andy Pickard). Funded by the Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2003-2004, Research into Reasons why Minority Ethnic Trainees withdraw from Initial Teacher Training Courses (As Project Director; with Prof Ian Stronach, Prof Derek Woodrow, Dr Lorna Roberts; Prof Bruce Carrington; Dr Olwen McNamara & Dr Meg Maguire). Funded by the Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2003, The Role of Pupil Support Mentors in an Education Action Zone (As Project Director). Funded by Blackburn with Darwen EAZ.
• 2001-2003, An Evaluation of Sure Start in Clayton, East Manchester (With Rob Halsall, Dr Sheila Stark & Joanna Bateman). Funded by New East Manchester Limited.
• 2002, The Induction Experiences of Ethnic Minority Teachers in three LEAs (with Dr Olwen McNamara & Ann Campbell). Funded by The Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2002, Diversity and Needs in Gorton, Manchester: An Evaluation of Childcare Provision (with Cathie Pearce, Chris Marsh & Mutua Waema). Funded by Early Years Development Childcare Partnership.
• 2002, An Evaluation of Race Equality Policies and Practices in Rochdale Schools (with Rob Halsall & Lorna Roberts). Funded by Rochdale Education Department.
• 2000-2001, The Transition from BEd Student to Primary Teacher of Mathematics (with Dr Tony Brown, Dr Olwen McNamara & Lorna Roberts). Funded by the ESRC.

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Conference papers:

• Basit, TN (2013) Employer engagement in work-based learning: Working within a tripartite relationship in higher education. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), 10-13 September, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Basit TN (2011) Educational capital as a catalyst for upward social mobility amongst British Asians: A three generational analysis. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), 13-16 September, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.
• Basit TN (2011) The use of digital ethnography in research into ethnicity and education. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference, 6-8 September, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
• Basit, TN (2010) Ethics and access in research on social justice issues. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference, 28 November-2 December, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• Basit TN (2009) Ethnicity and gender in transition to adulthood. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), 28-30 September, Vienna, Austria.
• Basit TN (2008) Social capital versus social justice: Education, career and young minority ethnic Britons, Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference, 24-28 March, New York, USA.
• Basit TN & Santoro N (2007) Teachers of difference: Cultural expertise at the cost of career progression. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), 19-22 September, Ghent, Belgium.
• Basit TN (2007) Young Britons’ conceptualisation of identity and citizenship. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference, 9-13 April, Chicago, USA.
• Basit TN (2006) Ethnicity and identity: the British cultural landscape. Keynote Symposium Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference, 7-9 September, University of Warwick, UK.
• Basit TN & Pickard A (2006) The evolving identities of new teachers. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference, 7-9 September, University of Warwick, UK.
• Basit TN (2005) The perception of racism in teacher education. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), 7-10 September, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Books:

• Basit, TN & Tomlinson, S (Eds.) (2012) Social Inclusion and Higher Education. Bristol: Policy. (ISBN: 978 1 84742 797 7)
• Basit TN (2010) Conducting Research in Educational Contexts. London: Continuum. (ISBN: 978-0-8264-8689-9)
• Basit TN (1997) Eastern Values, Western Milieu: Identities and Aspirations of Adolescent British Muslim Girls. Aldershot: Ashgate. (ISBN 1 85972 503 1).

Papers in refereed academic journals:

• Al Sadi, FH & Basit, TN (2017) Omani girls’ conceptions of gender equality: addressing socially constructed sexist attitudes through educational intervention, Oxford Review of Education, 43(2), 209-224.

DOI 10.1080/03054985.2016.1264933

• Al Sadi, FH & Basit, TN (2017) ‘I have just understood it from the story…’: using vignettes in educational research to investigate cultural tolerance, Research Papers in Education, 32(2), 183-196.

DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2016.1158858

• Basit, TN; Eardley, A; Borup, R; Shah, H; Slack, K & Hughes, A (2015) Higher education institutions and work-based learning in the UK: Employer engagement within a tripartite relationship, Higher Education, 70(6), 1003-1015.

DOI: 10.1007/s10734-015-9877-7

• Basit, TN; Hughes, A; Iqbal, Z & Cooper, J (2015) The influence of socio-economic status and ethnicity on speech and language development, International Journal of Early Years Education, 23(1), 115-133.

DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2014.973838

• Basit, TN (2013) Educational capital as a catalyst for upward social mobility amongst British Asians: A three-generational analysis, British Educational Research Journal, 39(4), 714-732.

DOI: 10.1080/01411926.2012.677414

• Basit, T N (2013) Ethics, reflexivity and access in educational research: Issues in intergenerational investigation, Research Papers in Education, 28(4), 506-517.

DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2012.689318

• Al Sadi, FH & Basit, TN (2013) Religious tolerance in Oman: Addressing religious prejudice through educational intervention, British Educational Research Journal, 39(3), 447-472.

DOI: 10.1080/01411926.2011.652071

• Basit, TN (2012) ‘My parents have stressed that since I was a kid’: Young minority ethnic British citizens and the phenomenon of aspirational capital, Education Citizenship and Social Justice, 7(2), 129-143.

DOI: 10.1177/1746197912440857

• Basit, TN (2012) ‘...But that’s just the stereotype: Gender and ethnicity in transition to adulthood, Race Ethnicity and Education, 15(3), 405-423.

DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2011.624507

• Basit, TN & Santoro, N (2011) Playing the role of ‘cultural expert’: Teachers of ethnic difference in Britain and Australia, Oxford Review of Education, 37(1), 37-52.

DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2010.521621

• Basit, TN (2009) White British; dual heritage; British Muslim: Young Britons’ conceptualisation of identity and citizenship, British Educational Research Journal, 35(5), 723-743.

DOI: 10.1080/01411920802688747

• Basit, TN; McNamara O; Roberts L; Carrington B; Maguire M & Woodrow D (2007) ‘The Bar is slightly Higher’: The Perception of Racism in Teacher Education, Cambridge Journal of Education, 37(2), 279-298.

DOI: 10.1080/03057640701372616

• Basit, TN; Roberts, L; McNamara, O; Carrington, B; Maguire M & Woodrow D (2006) Did they Jump or were they Pushed? Reasons why Minority Ethnic Trainees withdraw from Initial Teacher Training Courses, British Educational Research Journal, 32(3), 387-410.

DOI: 10.1080/01411920600635411

• Basit, TN & McNamara, O (2004) Equal Opportunities or Affirmative Action? The Induction of Minority Ethnic Teachers, Journal of Education for Teaching, 30(2), 97-115.

DOI: 10.1080/0260747042000229735

• Basit, TN (2003) Manual or Electronic? The Role of Coding in Qualitative Data Analysis, Educational Research, 45(2), 143-154.

DOI: 10.1080/0013188032000133548

• Basit, TN (2003) Changing Practice through Policy: Trainee Teachers and the National Numeracy Strategy, Research Papers in Education, 18(1), 61-74.

DOI: 10.1080/0267152032000048587

• McNamara, O; Roberts, L; Basit, TN & Brown, T (2002) Rites of Passage in Initial Teacher Training: Ritual, Performance, Ordeal and the Numeracy Skills Test, British Educational Research Journal, 28(6), 863-78.

DOI: 10.1080/0141192022000019107

• Basit, TN (1997) I Want More Freedom, but not too Much: British Muslim Girls and the Dynamism of Family Values, Gender and Education, 9(4), 425-39.

DOI: 10.1080/09540259721178

• Basit, TN (1996) I'd Hate to be Just a Housewife: Career Aspirations of British Muslim Girls, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 24(2), 227-42.

DOI: 10.1080/03069889608260411

Papers in non-refereed journals:

• Basit, TN; Roberts, L & Kenward, A (2006) Tackling Racism in School Placements, Race Equality Teaching, 24,14-17.
• Basit, TN (1996) Obviously I'll have an Arranged Marriage: Muslim Marriage in the British Context, Muslim Education Quarterly, 13(1), 4-19.
• Basit, TN (1995) I Want to go to College: British Muslim Girls and the Academic Dimension of Schooling, Muslim Education Quarterly, 12(1), 36-54.

Book Chapters:

• Basit, TN (2023) ‘It was a life enhancing activity:’ The academic habitus of PhD students, in RJ Tierney, F Rizvi, & K Ericson (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Education, Vol. 8, Elsevier, 429-437.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.02069-8

(ISBN: 9780128186305)

• Basit, TN & Modood, T (2016) Ethnic capital, higher education and life chances, in JE Ĉoté & A Furlong (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 165-175.

(ISBN: 978 1 138 77812 2)

• Basit, TN (2012) ‘I’ve never known someone like me go to university’: Class, ethnicity and access to higher education, in TN Basit & S Tomlinson (Eds.) Social Inclusion and Higher Education. Bristol: Policy, 173-192.

(ISBN: 978 1 84742 797 7)