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Farhana Ghaffar
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Biography
Farhana is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Grant Holder, working on the topic of intergenerational economies of student debt and social mobility. Her doctoral thesis examined the affective economies of indebtedness in graduate lives.
Farhana has a longstanding interest in HE policy and reform, particularly in relation to student finance and funding. Her broad interests lie in social mobility, uneven graduate outcomes and socioeconomic inequalities within Higher Education. Methodologically, her research draws on longitudinal, creative and participatory research methods and she has worked on a diverse range of community research projects. Previously, she has been commissioned as a researcher and evaluator by the Social Mobility Commission, the Office for Students and the Higher Education Funding Council for England to explore inequalities within Higher Education.
Research Summary
A Family Affair: Intergenerational Economies of Student Debt in Graduate Lives (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Grant)
Selected Publications
KAVITA RAMAKRISHNAN, FARHANA GHAFFAR and E PRIYADHARSHINI, 2025. Mobilising spaces of fugitive complaint within the neoliberal university Gender, Place & Culture.
FARHANA GHAFFAR, MADHURI KAMTAM, TOUSEEF MIR, LINDA-MARIE NAKIBUUKA, ESTHER PRIYADHARSHINI, KAVITA RAMAKRISHNAN, ABIGAIL MARTINEZ RENTERIA, TEEMOL THOMAS and QINGRU WANG, 2024. Crafting solidarities, crafting a zine: Methods for resistance and recovery in Higher Education amongst doctoral researchers of colour ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.
THE CONCRETE COLLECTIVE, 2024. Degrees of Belonging: The (Un) Homely University At: https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856108/
FARHANA GHAFFAR, 2022. Against Resilience: Affective Economies, Austerity and The Millennial ‘Snowflake’ Sentio.
Past Research
Time, space, belonging and mental health: Participatory explorations of Black and minority ethnic doctoral student experiences, (UKRI, 2021-2022)
KAVITA RAMAKRISHNAN, FARHANA GHAFFAR and E PRIYADHARSHINI, 2025. Mobilising spaces of fugitive complaint within the neoliberal university Gender, Place & Culture.
FARHANA GHAFFAR, MADHURI KAMTAM, TOUSEEF MIR, LINDA-MARIE NAKIBUUKA, ESTHER PRIYADHARSHINI, KAVITA RAMAKRISHNAN, ABIGAIL MARTINEZ RENTERIA, TEEMOL THOMAS and QINGRU WANG, 2024. Crafting solidarities, crafting a zine: Methods for resistance and recovery in Higher Education amongst doctoral researchers of colour ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.
THE CONCRETE COLLECTIVE, 2024. Degrees of Belonging: The (Un) Homely University At: https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856108/
FARHANA GHAFFAR, 2022. Against Resilience: Affective Economies, Austerity and The Millennial ‘Snowflake’ Sentio.