Professor Andrea Abbas
Professor of the Sociology of Higher Education in the Department of Education at the University of Bath
Andrea is Professor of the Sociology of Higher Education in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. She has published widely: her work explores the ways in which the higher education system is implicated in challenging, reproducing, and exacerbating inequalities, such as those associated with socio-economic inequalities, race and ethnicity, disabilities, and nationhood. It uses critical social theory. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Educational Research in Asia https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-research-in-education-in-asia-crea/. She is also a Deputy Link Convenor for the European Educational Research Association’s Gender and Education Network https://eera-ecer.de/networks/33-gender-and-education/ and on the Editorial Board of Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning https://journals.co.za/journal/cristal. Her two current projects explore higher education through a longitudinal study of academic careers; work on how to collaboratively produce better knowledge for inclusive education across two countries (China and the UK). A third developing project will explore the implications of microcredentials for the higher education sector.
