Dr. Sophia Hayat Taha

Developing Pedagogies of Compassion in Higher Education: A Practice First Approach Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Aysha Mazhar (MLS) has published a book review of Kathryn Waddington and Bryan Bonaparte’s “Developing Pedagogies of Compassion in Higher Education: A Practice First Approach” with the British Journal of Educational Studies. Available to read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mazhar and Taha examine 'Transitioning from PhD to an academic career': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Feminist approaches to PhD supervision Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)

3) Aysha Mazhar with Dr Rosie Fox, has published a learning resource review of Maebh Harding and Aoife O’Donoghue’s Best Practice Guide “Feminist Approaches to PhD Supervision” with the journal The Law Teacher. Available to read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transitioning from PhD to an academic career Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)

2) Aysha Mazhar with Dr Sophia Hayat Taha, has published a learning resource review of Maebh Harding and Aoife O’Donoghue’s Best Practice Guide “Transitioning from PhD to an Academic Career” with the journal The Law Teacher. Available to read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Prioritising the mental health and wellbeing of doctoral researchers: promoting healthy research cultures Published in Studies in the Education of Adults (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Several publications from Aysha Mazhar - huge congrats!
1) Aysha Mazhar has published a book review of Jane Creaton and Owen Gower’s “Prioritising the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Doctoral Researchers [...]” in the journal Studies in the Education of Adults: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Best practice guides - Doing Feminist Legal Work Edited by Maebh Harding and Aoife O’Donoghue

Doing Feminist Legal Work's #Feminist Legal Pedagogies Best Practice Guide has been reviewed in the #Law Teacher. Delighted its gets attention

You can read the review here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And read all the Best Practice Guides here
dflw.ie/publications...

Thank you 🤩 it’s only really just starting to sink in

Empire has no new lyrics.

Until you taste olive oil made fresh by family from their land you haven’t lived. This olive oil is from my mums aunty’s olives & za’ata is homemade too 🇱🇧
It also makes the ongoing ecocide in Palestine 🇵🇸 & Lebanon more painful. May our lives & our trees’ lives be saved from ongoing genocide.

Thank you 🤩

Thank you 🙏🏽

Thank you so much 🙏🏽

Thank you 🤩 it’s so lovely to be able to breathe 😂

Successfully defended my thesis this morning & I’m now officially Dr Sophia Hayat Taha

Thank you for the wonderful support from my co-supervisors Dr Moran Mandelbaum & Dr Jane Krishnadas

I’m grateful to my examiners Prof Dallal Stevens and Dr Forough Ramezankhah & my chair Dr Mario Prost

Hi all! Just wanted to share that I’ve contributed a piece to the South Atlantic Quarterly’s latest issue, “Decolonising Kurdish Studies.” It’s about Kurdish Queer Studies - you can read it here:
"On the (Im)possibility of the Kurdish Queer"
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... @dukepress.bsky.social

“Kurdish queer studies … offers up a powerful tool to unravel deeply knotted histories of violence and oppression, and to excavate the multiple layers of queer, postcolonial, and decolonial imagination.”

Powerful essay by @hsw.bsky.social on what we can learn from Kurdish Queer Studies.

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My PhD student @ryanswan.bsky.social is researching NGOs and third sector organisations that work with Arab refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. If you have contacts who work in this field, please get in touch with Ryan - details below 👇

Biden OKs $680m Israel arms sale despite new Gaza ceasefire push: Reports Approval comes despite US promise to renew efforts on long-elusive Gaza ceasefire after Israel-Hezbollah truce.

Biden is working tirelessly for a ceasefire.

For the first time since the beginning of the war, famine is decimating southern Gaza, life is getting cramped, and people have no bread crumb to shut the stomachs of their hungry children
don't hesitate to Donation Maybe it's your support.The reason we're still alive.💔🇵🇸🍉🥺😣
gofund.me/a527a4d8

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

Sending so much love to you and healing thoughts

Under the UK’s hostile immigration system, it’s difficult for *anyone* to successfully gain asylum. For gay people, this is made worse by hostile legal logics that determine sexuality and persecution using stereotypes. I’ve written about this in more detail here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A very fluffy asleep ginger dog on a pillow and a pink sofa. The dog is called Mango

Here is Mango she has been a co-author in all my academic work

UN Special Committee finds Israel's warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war

Do everything you can to speak out against genocide because your silence will not protect you in the long term.

In solidarity with Palestinians fighting for surviving
Please share/donate @mahmoudfamily.bsky.social GFM
#FreePalestine

www.gofundme.com/f/help-mahmo...

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

—Julius Nyerere