Dr Tania Saeed is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Director of the Sociology and Anthropology Program at LUMS.
She is trained as a qualitative researcher working on education, citizenship, and social justice in the context of Pakistan and its diasporas. Saeed has published in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is the author of Islamophobia and Securitization. Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice (link) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and the co-author of Youth and the National Narrative. Education, Terrorism and the Security State in Pakistan (link) (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is also the co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education. Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings (link) (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Exploring Education and Democratization in South Asia. Research, Policy and Practice (link) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Her recent project explores overseas networks of South Asian political parties within diaspora communities, and educational institutions in the UK and US. This project was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (grant agreement No 890965), selected from a pool of 7600 applicants across Europe and was funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. For this fellowship, Saeed was based at Ca’Foscari University of Venice (2021-23), during which time she held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford and Harvard University (link).
Saeed was the elected Chair for the South Asia Special Interest Group (SA SIG) at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) (2019-21). She has partnered and consulted on multiple international grants across OECD countries, Europe and the US. She was the Co-Investigator on a £2,000,000 project under the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Network Plus (2020-2025) called Education, Justice and Memory (EdJam) Network (link). The project brought together academics and civil society partners across 14 OECD countries, exploring innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning about violent histories to understand the possibility of “memory work” within peace education and beyond educational institutions. Saeed has also contributed to policy and practitioner reports on Global Citizenship Education for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) (link).
Saeed has a DPhil (PhD) in Education from the University of Oxford where she was a Wingate scholar (2011-2012), and an HEC Pakistan Overseas PhD scholar (2008-2011), and an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Saeed, T. (2016). Islamophobia and Securitization: Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice. (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lall, M. & Saeed, T. (2020). Youth and the National Narrative: Education, Terrorism and the Security State in Pakistan. UK: Bloomsbury.
Saeed, T. (2018). Islamophobia in Higher Education: Muslim Students and the "Duty of Care". In J. Arday and H. S. Mirza (Eds.), Dismantling Race in Higher Education. Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy (pp. 233-250). UK: Palgrave.
Saeed, T. (2019). Islamophobia and the Muslim Student: Disciplining the Intellect. In I. Awan and I. Zempi (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia (pp. 175-187). UK: Routledge
Saeed, T. (2019). Resisting Islamophobia. Muslim youth activism in the UK. In Press, In P. Morey, A. Yakin, and A. Forte (Eds.), Contesting Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim Prejudice in Media, Culture and Politics. UK: Bloomsbury.
Saeed, T. (2017). Education and Disengagement: Extremism and the Perception of Muslim students. In F. Panjwani, L. Revell, R. Gholami and M. Diboll (Eds.), Education and Extremisms: Rethinking liberal pedagogies in the contemporary world. (pp. 45-59). UK: Routledge.
Saeed, T. & Johnson, D. (2016). Intelligence, Global Terrorism and Higher Education: neutralising threats or alienating allies? British Journal of Educational Studies, 64 (1), 37- 51.
Brown, K. E. & Saeed, T. (2015). Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization at British Universities: Encounters and Alternatives. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (11), 1952-1968.
Saeed T. (2019) Is Education A Priority for PTI? Commissioned by Dawn Prism. Available at: https://www.dawn.com/news/1500805
Neithammer, C., Saeed, T., Mohamed, S. S., & Charafi, Y. (2007). Women Entrepreneurs and Access to Finance in Pakistan. Women s Policy Journal of Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 4, 1-12.
Saeed, T. (2014). Islamophobia. In John Scott (Ed.), A Dictionary of Sociology, Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Saeed T. (2019) Locating Prejudice: Scientific Rationality and the Racialization of Muslim Belief. Invitation to respond to Jones et. al. "That s how Muslims are required to view the world": Race, culture and belief in non-Muslims descriptions of Islam and science The Sociological Review. Available at https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/locating-prejudice-scientific-rationality-and-the?racialization-of-muslim-belief-a-response-to-our-featured-paper-re-describing-islamophobia-in-a?language-of-anti-racism/
Saeed T. (2016) Islamophobia and the British Security Agenda. Global Dialogue. International Sociological Association, 7 (2). Available at: http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/sociology-from?pakistan-islamophobia-and-the-british-security-agenda/
Invited Book Review: "Veiling in Fashion. Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities by Anna-Mari Almila (I.B.Taurus)" reviewing for the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.
Saeed T. (2018) Narratives of Securitization: Islamophobia and Counterterrorism Policies in Educational Institutions in the UK. Countering the Islamophobia Industry. Toward More Effective Strategies. US: The Carter Center. Available at: https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/peace/conflict_resolution/countering-isis/cr-countering?the-islamophobia-industry.pdf
Saeed T. (2019) The poor scope of higher education in Naya Pakistan. Commissioned by Dawn Prism. Available at https://www.dawn.com/news/1502389/the-poor-scope-of-higher-education-in-naya-pakistan
Invited Book Review: "Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-democratisation of Islamic Knowledge, by Masooda Bano (Cambridge University Press)" reviewing for the Journal of Development Studies.
"Teacher Ideology and Inclusive Education: Teaching Towards (In)Tolerance." Comparative and International Studies (CIES) Conference. Atlanta, US. March 2017.
"Islamophobia: Experiential Accounts of Pakistani and British Pakistani Muslim Women in England." British Sociological Association (BSA). Glasgow, UK. April 2015.
"Securitizing the curriculum: Education reforms under the Punjab government in Pakistan." UKFIET, Education and Development Conference. Oxford, UK. September 2017.
"Beyond the "vulnerable": Islamic societies and Muslim student activism in English universities." British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS). Edinburgh, UK. April 2014.
"Narratives of discrimination: Pakistani/British Pakistani women s experiences of Islamophobia in universities in England." Pakistan Workshop: The Politics of Space. Lake District, UK. May 2011
"Book Launch, Islamophobia and Securitization. Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice." Comparative and International Studies (CIES) Conference. Mexico city, Mexico. March 2018.
"Student Activism and the possibility of a Multicultural Pedagogy," Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Religions and Secularism, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Twentieth Anniversary Conference, University of Bristol. Bristol, UK. November, 2019.
"Constructing the resilient citizen: A case of education policies and the fight against extremism in Pakistan," Panel: Educational approaches to preventing violent extremism, Comparative and International Education Studies (CIES) Conference. San Francisco, US. April, 2019.
"Ideology and the curriculum: Exploring the case of Urdu textbooks in government schools in Punjab, Pakistan," 47th Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wisconsin, US. October 2018.
Saeed T. (under review) Bureaucratization, Securitization and the Higher Education sector in England: Critical Inquiry in the age of Right Wing Populism. British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) Special Issue, Interrogating education: Critical thinking in the time of populist politics.
Constructing the resilient citizen: A case of education policies and the fight against extremism in Pakistan. In Preparation. 30% complete. Expecting to submit by August 2020.
Panjwani, P. and Saeed T. Teachers conception of history and historiography: the case of teachers in Lahore, Pakistan. In Preparation. 10% complete. Expecting to submit by December 2020.
Student Activism and the possibility of a Multicultural Pedagogy. In Preparation. 50% complete. Expecting to submit by April 2020.