Dr Rana Khazbak
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests
- Community
- Sustainable cities & communities (SDG 11)
- Child & Family
Biography
Rana is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Public Policy Research, King’s College London. Her fellowship builds on her PhD thesis which explored the impact of social housing regeneration on the wellbeing of young people from lower-income backgrounds. Her doctoral research used the capability approach and participatory methods to foreground young people’s experiences of restructuring their social housing estates into mixed-income communities.
Before joining King’s, Rana 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.
Rana's past research examined the role of place, class, gender and ethnicity on a range of child and youth wellbeing outcomes, including experiences of exploitation, citizenship and access to education and employment. 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.
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.
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...