Professor Maria Tsouroufli
Professor in Education

Summary

I am Professor of Education at the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences. Previously I worked as Reader in Women and Gender at the University of Wolverhampton. My research is concerned with social justice with a particular focus on gender inequalities in education and professions.  I am a transnational feminist academic and my applied social research aims to advance theorizations of gender and gender equality in the Global South.  My intersectional study of identities is underpinned by post-structuralist and decolonial approaches and is centred around 4 themes with violence as a cross-cutting theme: educational policy inlcuding medical educational policy, decolonization of international partnerships; emotionality of difference and disembodiment of EDI discourses in HE; internationalization and academic migration;  and critiques of white mainstream feminism.

Qualifications

PhD in Gender and Education, University of Southampton, UK

Post-graduate Certificate in Post-Compulsory Education, University of Warwick, UK

BA in Education, with Qualified Teacher Status, School of Educational Studies, University of Crete, Greece

Responsibility

 Director of Research, Education Unit of Assessment Impact Case Lead and REF 2029 Lead, ESRC GUDTR Education path lead (2019-2023),  EdD teaching, assessment and tutoring, MA and BA dissertation supervision, marking and moderation, Doctoral research supervision, Research mentoring and support,  Founder and Lead of the Interculturality for Diversity and Global Learning research group