Dr Rana Khazbak
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests
- Community
- Sustainable cities & communities (SDG 11)
- Child & Family
Biography
Rana is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS) and one of the co-investigators of the ESRC-funded study Young Lives, Young Futures.
Rana’s research focuses on understanding young people’s experiences of inequalities and the social, place-based and institutional factors that produce such inequalities. She uses youth-centred participatory methodologies that aim to amplify youth voices in research and policymaking.
Her PhD project investigated the impact of social housing regeneration on the wellbeing of young people from lower-income backgrounds in London. She used the capability approach and participatory methods to foreground teenagers’ experiences of restructuring their social housing estates into mixed-income communities.
Rana first joined ECS as an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in 2022. She completed her PhD at the London School of Economics' Social Policy Department, after which she was a research fellow at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab. Previously, she also worked in international research and development contexts.
Research interests
- Social policy, inequalities and youth wellbeing
- Place- and community-based effects
- Youth participation in research and policy
Research
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)
The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.
Events
Mixed-communities regeneration and the capabilities of low-income young people
In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Rana Khazbak will share findings from her research on the experiences of young people affected by social housing regeneration in...
Please note: this event has passed.
Workshop: Supporting young people to influence change in urban regeneration
Youth workers and organisations are invited to a workshop to discuss ways of working collaboratively to influence change in regeneration policy and practice.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
How do we change the status quo? Start by involving young people
The concept of child participation is enshrined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but too often engagement with young people is tokenistic...
Spotlight
Building understanding of the value of youth work
Research at King’s, led by Dr Tania de St Croix, revealed how the combination of austerity and the increased use of outcome-based monitoring procedures was...
Research
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)
The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.
Events
Mixed-communities regeneration and the capabilities of low-income young people
In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Rana Khazbak will share findings from her research on the experiences of young people affected by social housing regeneration in...
Please note: this event has passed.
Workshop: Supporting young people to influence change in urban regeneration
Youth workers and organisations are invited to a workshop to discuss ways of working collaboratively to influence change in regeneration policy and practice.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
How do we change the status quo? Start by involving young people
The concept of child participation is enshrined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but too often engagement with young people is tokenistic...
Spotlight
Building understanding of the value of youth work
Research at King’s, led by Dr Tania de St Croix, revealed how the combination of austerity and the increased use of outcome-based monitoring procedures was...