Ghazala Bhatti is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Education.
Ghazala has a long-standing interest in the education of children and young people from minority ethnic backgrounds and the relationship of schools with their families.
She has been involved in Inclusive Education involving young people from marginalised communities. Ghazala is a founder member and convenor of the Social Justice and Intercultural Education network at ECER (European Conference on Educational Research) which looks at the intersection of race, gender and social class. Ghazala has undertaken collaborative work with colleagues in the US (College of William and Mary in Williamsburg) on the education of bilingual children and those who are learning English as an additional language. She has also worked on the EU funded project- EDIC (Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship). This joint initiative meant working with academics and post-graduate students from six European Universities (University of Helsinki, Charles University Prague, University of Barcelona, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Tallinn University, Estonia and the University of Humanistics in Utrecht). Since 2023, Ghazala has been involved in a Nordic research project ‘Migrant youth, Education, Culture and Identity’ with colleagues in the departments of education in the universities of Gothenburg, Iceland, Inland Norway University of Applied Science and Aarhus University, Denmark.
Ghazala Bhatti has taught in universities in England, including Reading and Southampton. She participated in the ESRC funded seminar series DTDL (Diverse teachers for diverse learners). She has been a visiting academic at the College of William and Mary in US, the universities of Turin and Padua in Italy and the University of Debrecen in Hungary. Ghazala has been on the executive board of BJES and on the editorial boards of Gender and Education, British Journal of Educational Studies, Race, Ethnicity and Education and Intercultural Education.
Ghazala’s post-doctoral research concerning the educational achievement and aspirations of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in secondary schools in the city of Oxford was funded by the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Prior to that Ghazala taught English in secondary schools.