Dr Farhan Samanani

Dr Farhan Samanani is a Lecturer in Social Justice in the School of Education, Communication and Society.

He explores how people build forms of connection, understanding and common cause across lines of meaningful difference, in the contemporary UK. Farhan works closely and collaboratively with communities on issues ranging from racial justice, to accessible cities, to climate change, seeking to understand and support everyday efforts to build a better future. An anthropologist by training, Farhan has published widely across several disciplines, including anthropology, migration studies and human geography.

His work has been featured across the media, including on BBC Radio 4 and in Aeon Magazine, i News, and Open Democracy. He is the author of How To Live With Each Other - An Anthropologist's Notes on Sharing a Divided World.

Teaching

Farhan teaches on the BA in Social Sciences, including on Power, Inequality and Social Change and Political Activism and Social Change.

He also supervises dissertation students.

Farhan's office hours are 10:00-12:00 on Fridays. Students are free to drop in, or can pre-book a time.

PhD supervision

Farhan is interested in co-supervising PhDs looking at community building or grassroots social change in the UK, at cities and caring or social infrastructures, and at the politics and practices of navigating diversity in minority-world contexts.