Dr Saeeda Shah

MEd (Manchester), PhD (Nottingham)

Tel: 0116 229 7522

Email: sjas2@le.ac.uk

Saeeda Shah has taught for many years in higher education in Pakistan, holding senior management posts. Before coming to the University of Leicester, Saeeda was a Dean at the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. She was awarded the Best University Teacher Millennium Award 2000 by the University Grants Commission, Pakistan.

Saeeda is Programme Leader for Msc Educational Leadership (Distance Learning) and teaches many areas on the MA International Education programme. She also teaches on the EdD programme and supervises a number of doctoral students from the UK and overseas.

In addition to her responsibilities at the University of Leicester, Saeeda holds many external positions including Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Derby, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Member editorial board, journal of Education and Research (Pakistan),Member editorial board, International Journal of Leadership and Policy in Schools (USA) and many more.

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

Teaching

Saeeda's teaching interests range include educational leadership and management, managing diversity/ethnicities, and culture, gender and power issues. 

Saeeda teaches on the following modules:

• MSc Educational Leadership (Distance Learning)
• MA International Education
• EdD

Selected Publications

Shah, S. (2011) ' Muslim Schools in the West: persistence or resistance'. British Journal of Religious Education.

Shah, S. (2011) 'Pakistani Diaspora in Britain: intersections of multi-locationality and girls’ education'. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 32.

Shah, S. (2009) ‘Impact of Societal Culture on Practice: people management in colleges in Pakistan’. Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Practice; 24(2) 4-18.

Shah, S. (August, 2009) Muslim Learners in English schools: a challenge for school leaders’, Oxford Review of Education; 35(4) 523-540.

Shah, S. (June 2009) ‘Why Single-Sex Schools? Discourses of culture/faith and achievement’. Cambridge Journal of Education; 45(2) 191-204.