Shafqat Nasir
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
(1997) MPhil Discourses of Equality in Equal Opportunities Policy and Anti-Discriminatory Practice .
(1991) Applied Community Studies (Hons) 1st Class with distinction
Other academic service (administration and management)
During my time at Manchester Metropolitan University ( since 1991) I have undertaken a number of administrative roles:
Combined Honours Tutor for Sociology
Director of Studies
Direct Entry Coordinator
Co-Leader for a Joint MA in Social Policy with University of Manchester.
Interviewing and selecting candidates for all levels including MA
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice
The Journal of Mental Health
Previously - Editorial Collective member Critical Social Policy
Consultancy and advisory roles
Over the years I have provided consultancy to the following organisations:
- Manchester Social Services Training Department.
- Shades, manchester voluntrary organisation for young homeless people.
- The Albert Kennedy Trust - national organisation for the placement and support of young LGBT peolple.
- BHAF - Black HIV and AIDS forum.
- Tameside Social Services - Directorate.
Community, charity and NGO links
Time to Change champion.
Previous involvement: Womens Aid collective member and volunteer; Subah, young Asian women’s refuge management group member; Standing committee of Black women on child sexual abuse.
Membership of professional associations
British Sociolgical Association
The Mental Health in Higher Education Hub
Asylum
Time to Change Champion
Bipolar UK
Impact
Consultancy for
Tameside Social Services on taking steps towards equality.
BHAF:Black HIV and AIDS Forum
Albert Kennedy Trust for the support of young gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Shades, Manchester young homelessness organisation.
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
Joint MA in Social Policy with University of Manchester: Power, Politics and Policy.
Subject areas
Sociology and Social Policy
Supervision
MA Theses
Research outputs
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mental illness: Stigma, prejudice and discrimination in the Higher Education setting as institutional forces framing staff and student well-being; current debates in relation to policy; current debates in relation to psychpolitics and ‘madness studies’; verbal hygiene in relation to issues in mental illness with specific reference to sexuality; language and psychosis; employment and mental illness; everyday racism as trauma.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal articles:
Nasir, S. (1994) ‘Reframing research into equality issues’ in The journal of applied community studies 2 (1) 69-89.
Chapters:
Nasir, S. (2006) ’ “Well you would say that wouldn’t you?”: Subject positions and relationships between knowledge and common sense’ in Reflections on practice : Teaching ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Further and Higher Education Edited by Steve Spencer and Malcolm Todd in association with The Higher Education Academy for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP).
Nasir, S. (2006) ‘Queer’ in A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain Edited by Ali, N; Kalra, V.S. and Sayyid, S. Published by Hurst and Company.
Nasir, S (1998) ‘Discourse analysis’ in The years work in Critical and Cultural Theory 1995 edited by Kate McGowan, Oxford, Blackwells with the English Association.
Nasir, S (1997) ‘Discourse analysis’ in The years work in Critical and Cultural Theory 1994 edited by Kate McGowan, Oxford, Blackwells with the English Association.
Nasir, S. (1996) ’ ‘Race’, gender and social policy’ in Women and social policy edited by Christine Hallett, Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Reviews:
Nasir, S. with McGowan, K. (2007) Worlds of sents and sensibility in the Times Higher Education.
Nasir, S. (1996) Postmodern Welfare: Reconstructing an Emancipatory Project in the Journal of Critical Social Policy, London, Sage.