Rida NasirPhD student

About me

I find critical thinking, mindfulness, educational choices and the context in which students make decisions to pursue higher education to be generally interesting. I did my Bachelors in Anthropology/Sociology from LUMS, Pakistan and an Erasmus+ Masters in Adult Education for Social Change (IMAESC) from University of Glasgow, University of Malta, Open University of Cyprus and Tallinn University. My masters thesis explored student perceptions on how universities incorporate critical pedagogy to build an equitable society in Pakistan.  

I am a PhD student at the research school “FinnFram-  Finding paths in a time of great future challenges". It is a joint collaboration between Umeå, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö universities. My PhD research is on student perspectives from non-European backgrounds who come to Sweden for higher education and the role marketization plays in determining their choice to study here. I am aiming to look at expectations associated with the Global North in terms of work opportunities and the process of transition that the students go through once they arrive in Sweden.  I find the intersectionality lens and Bourdieu's cultural reproduction theory to be relevant to my research.  

Outside of work, I love photography, reading fiction and listening to music.  

Supervisors: Carina Carlhed Ydhag, Fredrik Hertzberg and Larissa Mickwitz.