Asia is a doctoral researcher in the Reparative Futures of Education programme and a studentship recipient within the Repair-Ed team. She is a photographer and the director of Global Routes Project CIC, a community interest company that supports children in schools to tell stories through photography, exhibiting in gallery spaces such as Alexandra Palace, London. With fifteen years of experience as a primary teacher and school leader, Asia is an experienced educator. She holds an MA in Culture, Diaspora, and Ethnicity with Linguistics and Art History from Birkbeck, University of London. Her research explores critical arts-based methods through photo walks, dialogic workshops, and visual methods, enabling children to engage with local and global ways of knowing across past, present, and future. She is particularly interested in how children participate in the production, sharing, and valuing of knowledge within their education.
Supervisors
Professor Arathi Sriprakash, Dr Alice Willatt and Dr Annabel Wilson