Dr Saima Salehjee
Senior Lecturer in Education
Gaskell 205
- Email: saima.salehjee@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265470
Research area(s)
Teaching and learning in science in primary and secondary schools, racism, anti-racism and pedagogy in higher education; informal science education and public understanding of science; lifelong learning in STEM among ethnically minoritised women.
Research grants and projects
Project details
- University of Glasgow, College of Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Funding (PI). Developing STEM-based educational resources for ethnic minority families. (2023-2024).
- Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Scotland (QAAS) (PI) STEM Discipline to epistemic disobedience: a focus on Anti-Racist Curriculum. (2022).
- Skills Development Scotland and Centre for Work-based learning grant (Co-PI)– Boosting Teachers’ Engagement with Research Evidence in Scotland. (2019-2021).
- Royal Society of Chemistry (PI)– Nudges into Science Education. (2018-2019).
- The British Council/Newton Funded scheme (UK delegate)– Visiting ECR at Mahidol University Thailand, Multiculturalism in Education. (2018).
- Canberra University (Conference presenter and chair)– ASERA Conference funding. (2016).
- Brunel University (Education) – Grace Peeling Memorial Prize. (2011).