Shirin joined King’s for an MA in Child Studies before being awarded a Rosalind Driver Doctoral Studentship in Science Education. She is pursuing her PhD on a part-time basis alongside teaching and research roles within the School of Education, Communication and Society (ECS).

Shirin has taught on a range of modules within ECS, including Children’s Rights (MA International Child Rights and Development); Environment, Sustainability and the Role of Education (MA STEM Education); and Learning Out of School: Play, Youth Work and Social Pedagogy (BA Social Sciences). She is a member of the Centre for Research in Education in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (CRESTEM).

Research

Shirin's doctoral research uses the theoretical lens of ecofeminism to examine contemporary Forest School practice in England. Specifically, it is concerned with Forest School's potential role as environmental education in the context of unprecedented, interrelated ecological and social crises, and how its pedagogy and practice might support socioecological justice aims. 

Principal supervisor: Dr Melissa Glackin

Secondary supervisor: Dr Tania de St Croix

Thesis title: Forest School as environmental education in a time of crisis: an ecofeminist exploration of its potential to support socioecological justice