School of Education Research Staff Profile

Dr Tehmina N Basit

Developmental work and research activity

Tehmina has been involved in teaching Masters, PhD and EdD students. She has previously worked at the University of Leicester where she coordinated the Research Methods Training for Doctoral students, and was Course Director of the MSc in Educational Research Methods. At Wolverhampton, she is responsible for the PhD Programme. She currently supervises three doctoral students.

Her research interests include the education of minority ethnic groups; race and ethnicity; citizenship and young people; social justice; social inclusion; initial teacher training; the professional development of teachers; and qualitative research methodology. Tehmina leads the academic research cluster on Education for Social Inclusion and Social Justice.

Externally-funded research projects

• 2009-2010, Intergenerational Dynamics and Education amongst British Asian Families (As Principal Investigator) Funded by the ESRC.
• 2005-2006, Plain Sailing or Uphill Struggle: Young Minority Ethnic Citizens and their Transition to Adulthood (As Project Director; with Iris Lightfoote & Chino Cabon) Funded by Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living.
• 2005, Tackling Racism on School Placements (As Project Director; with Ann Kenward & Dr. Lorna Roberts). Funded by Multiverse for the Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2003-2005, The Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers (As Project Director; with Prof. Ian Stronach & Dr. Andy Pickard). Funded by the Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2003-2004, Research into Reasons why Minority Ethnic Trainees withdraw from Initial Teacher Training Courses (As Project Director; with Prof. Ian Stronach, Prof. Derek Woodrow, Dr. Lorna Roberts; Prof. Bruce Carrington; Dr. Olwen McNamara & Dr. Meg Maguire). Funded by the Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2003, The Role of Pupil Support Mentors in an Education Action Zone (As Project Director). Funded by Blackburn with Darwen EAZ.
• 2001-2003, An Evaluation of Sure Start in Clayton, East Manchester (With Rob Halsall, Dr. Sheila Stark & Joanna Bateman). Funded by New East Manchester Limited.
• 2002, The Induction Experiences of Ethnic Minority Teachers in three LEAs (with Dr. Olwen Mcnamara & Prof. Ann Campbell). Funded by The Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
• 2002, Diversity and Needs in Gorton, Manchester: an Evaluation of Childcare Provision (with Cathie Pearce, Chris Marsh & Mutua Waema). Funded by Early Years Development Childcare Partnership.
• 2002, An Evaluation of Race Equality Policies and Practices in Rochdale Schools (with Rob Halsall & Lorna Roberts). Funded by Rochdale Education Department.
• 2000-2001, The Transition from BEd Student to Primary Teacher of Mathematics (with Prof. Tony Brown, Dr. Olwen McNamara & Lorna Roberts). Funded by the ESRC.

Key and recent publications and materials developed

• Basit TN (2010) Conducting Research in Educational Contexts. London: Continuum. (ISBN: 978-0-8264-8689-9)
• Basit TN(2009) White British; dual heritage; British Muslim: Young Britons’ conceptualisation of identity and citizenship, British Educational Research Journal, vol. 35, pp 723-743.
• Basit TN, McNamara O, Roberts L, Carrington B, Maguire M & Woodrow D (2007) The Bar is slightly Higher: the Perception of Racism in Teacher Education, Cambridge Journal of Education, vol. 37, pp 279-298.
• Basit TN, Roberts L, McNamara O, Carrington B, Maguire M & Woodrow D (2006) Did they Jump or were they Pushed? Reasons why Minority Ethnic Trainees withdraw from Initial Teacher Training Courses, British Educational Research Journal, vol. 32, pp 387-410.
• Basit TN, Roberts L & Kenward A (2006) Tackling Racism in School Placements, Race Equality Teaching, vol. 24, pp 14-17.
• Basit TN & McNamara O (2004) Equal Opportunities or Affirmative Action? The Induction of Minority Ethnic Teachers, Journal of Education for Teaching, vol. 30, pp 97-115.
• Basit TN (2003) Manual or Electronic: the Role of Coding in Qualitative Data Analysis, Educational Research, vol. 45, pp 143-154.
• Basit TN (2003) Changing Practice through Policy: Trainee Teachers and the National Numeracy Strategy, Research Papers in Education, vol. 18, pp 61-74.
• McNamara O, Roberts L, Basit TN, & Brown T (2002) Rites of Passage in Initial Teacher Training: Ritual, Performance, Ordeal and the Numeracy Skills Test, British Educational Research Journal, vol. 28, pp 863-78.
• Basit TN (1997) Eastern Values, Western Milieu: Identities and Aspirations of Adolescent British Muslim Girls. Aldershot: Ashgate. (ISBN 1 85972 503 1).
• Basit TN (1997) I Want More Freedom, but not too Much: British Muslim Girls and the Dynamism of Family Values, Gender and Education, vol. 9, pp 425-39.
• Basit TN (1996) I'd Hate to be Just a Housewife: Career Aspirations of British Muslim Girls, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, vol. 24, pp 227-42.
• Basit TN (1996) Obviously I'll have an Arranged Marriage: Muslim Marriage in the British Context, Muslim Education Quarterly, vol. 13, pp 4-19.
• Basit TN (1995) I Want to go to College: British Muslim Girls and the Academic Dimension of Schooling, Muslim Education Quarterly, vol. 12, pp 36-54.

Recent conference papers

• Basit TN (2009) Ethnicity and gender in transition to adulthood. Paper presented at the European Conference for Educational Research (ECER), 28-30 September, Vienna, Austria.
• Basit TN (2008) Social capital versus social justice: Education, career and young minority ethnic Britons, Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference, 24-28 March, New York, USA.
• Basit TN & Santoro N (2007) Teachers of difference: Cultural expertise at the cost of career progression. Paper presented at the European Conference for Educational Research (ECER), 19-22 September, Ghent, Belgium.
• Basit TN (2007) Young Britons’ conceptualisation of identity and citizenship. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference, 9-13 April, Chicago, USA.
• Basit TN (2006) Ethnicity and identity: the British cultural landscape. Keynote Symposium Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference, 7-9 September, University of Warwick, UK.
• Basit TN & Pickard A (2006) The evolving identities of new teachers. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference, 7-9 September, University of Warwick, UK.
• Basit TN (2006) Plain sailing or uphill struggle: Young minority ethnic citizens and their transition to adulthood – project Findings. Paper presented at the Dissemination Conference, 16 June, Walkers Stadium, Leicester, UK.
• Basit TN & Kenward A (2006) Tackling racism on school placement: Project Findings and Strategies for Teachers. Paper presented at the Multiverse Conference, 5 May, BMA House, London, UK.
• Basit TN (2005) The perception of racism in teacher education. Paper presented at the European Conference for Educational Research (ECER), 7-10 September, University College Dublin, Ireland.