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Qualifications & Memberships

• BA (Hons)
• MA
• FHEA

• Higher Education Academy Fellow
• Member of American Education Research Association (AERA)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the international refereed Higher Education Academy Journal: Enhancing
• Learning in the Social Sciences, ELiSS
• Member of the Editorial Board of the international refereed journal: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, JCEPS

Courses

• Pathway Leader and Senior Lecturer Education and Childhood Studies.

Outline of Career

Alpesh Maisuria is a Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for our BA (Hons) Education and Childhood Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is affiliated to the Institute of Education University of London, UK; and Uppsala University, Sweden.

Alpesh is interested in and publishes in aspects of social justice and education, particularly the intersection of social class with 'race'. His most recent work has examined the efficacy of Critical Race Theory and the concept of Racialisation in a UK, US and Swedish context.

Alpesh is an editorial member of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies and Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences. He is also a member of the American Education Research Association and also co-convenes and co-chairs the Marxism and Education Renewing Dialogues seminar series.

Research interests

Alpesh's broad expertise focuses on inequality and social justice in education from a sociological perspective, using a critical theoretical method. His work explores:

• The Intersectionality of Social Class and 'Race'
• Critical Race Theory in Britain and Sweden
• Critical Realism and Marxism
• Neoliberalisation of Education
• New Labour's Education Policy
• The 'War on Terror' and its Impacts

Selected Publications

Maisuria, A. (2011) Ten Years of New Labour Race Education Policy: An Act of whiteness or Neo-Liberal practice? In Green, T. (2011) (ed.) Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues, Marxism and Education Series, Palgrave.

Maisuria, A. (2011) A Critical Appraisal of Critical Race Theory (CRT): Limitations and Opportunities. In Bhopal, K. and Preston, J. (eds.) (2011) Intersectionality and Race in Education. London: Routledge.

Cole, M. and Maisuria, A. (2010) Racism and Islamophobia in post 7/7 Britain: Critical Race Theory, (Xeno-) Racialization, Empire and Education: A Marxist Analysis. In Kelsh, D. Hill, D. and Macrine, S. (eds.) Class in Education: Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity. New York: Routledge.

Hill, D. Greaves, N. and Maisuria, A. (2009) Education, Inequality and Neoliberal Capitalism: A Classical Marxist Analysis. In Hill, D. and Kumar, R. (eds.) Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences. New York: Routledge.

Maisuria, A. (2009) "Race" and Social Class in Racism: a critical case study of education in Sweden: Proceedings of the 2009 Centre for Education for Social Justice Seminar Series. Held at the Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln. Available from www.bishopg.ac.uk

Hill, D. Maisuria, A. and Greaves, N. (2008) Does capitalism inevitably increase education inequality? In Holsinger, D. B., and Jacob, W. J. (Eds.) Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives. Hong Kong, Comparative Education Research Centre: Springer.

Cole, M. and Maisuria, A. (2008) 'Shut the f*** up', 'you have no rights here': Critical Race Theory and Racialisation in post-7/7 racist Britain. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. The Institute for Education Policy Studies, Vol 5, No1

Conference Papers

Conference paper given: Inside Critical Race Theory: Permanent Contradictions or Unfinished Theorisation of the Concept and Application of 'Race'? at American Educational Research Association Annual Conference (AERA), Denver, Colorado, May 2010

Conference paper given: Determination and Essentialism in Critical Racial Theory: An Examination of the Conceptualisation of Race' at XV11 ISA 2010 World Congress of Sociology Annual Conference, Goteborg, Sweden, July 2010

Conference paper given at: Anti-Terror Legislation and its Impacts for and in Education: In Austria, European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Vienna University, Vienna, September 2009