Dr Duna Sabri

Dr Sabri is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy Research, King’s College London. Her research is in the sociology of higher education, pedagogy, interdisciplinary education, and institutional and national policy relating to HE.  Her published work critiques the concept of ‘the student experience’ and explores HE policy discourses.

She is also Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Education at King’s, which encompasses educational development and the design and management of cross-faculty curriculum innovations. Her current interests are in the development of interdisciplinary curriculum design, learning and teaching.

Duna’s doctoral research on the assumptive worlds of policy-makers and academics arose from her experience as Educational Development Advisor at the University of Oxford. Subsequent research has focused on institutional practices and national HE policy relating to the conceptualisation of students, academics, HE managers and the interplay between them. Over the past 10 years, her research has focused on the causes of inequality in students’ outcomes in UK higher education. As well as contributing to a national review on this subject, she has completed a five-year longitudinal study at one institution, which explores the causal mechanisms that underlie statistical differences in students’ degree outcomes. This has led to her most recent article on the conceptualisation of causality in HE policy and a forthcoming article on the impact of students’ engagement with industry through placements and live projects.

She is a member of the British Sociological Association, and the Society for Research into Higher Education.

Publications

As well as publishing in peer-reviewed journals, Duna has produced a range of institutional research reports relating to the causes of inequality in students’ degree outcomes, assessment criteria, student retention and students’ engagement with industry.

Many of these reports can be found on her UAL page.