Dr Srabani Maitra

  • Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education (Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy)

Biography

I am a sociologist of education and an adult educator. I have a PhD in Adult Education and Community Development from OISE at the University of Toronto and a Masters degree in Women’s Studies from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada. Before arriving in Glasgow, I was an Eyes High Post-doctoral scholar at the Werklund School of Education in the University of Calgary, Canada.

My research combines interdisciplinary theories and methodologies from sociology and education to focus on the issues of education/ learning, workplace skill training, transnational migration and community development. My research has been published in journals such as the Curriculum Inquiry, Studies in Continuing Education, Globalisation Societies and Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Workplace Learning.

Going beyond traditional forms of scholarly inquiry, I have drawn on the arts-informed qualitative research to raise public awareness about socio-economic inequities and struggles of marginalized groups. In this regard, I have developed and designed (as part of a team), a multi-media ethnodrama focusing on the gendered and racialized nature of work in post-Fordist economy. I have also completed a documentary film, “Journey to Find Myself Again” funded by York University Faculty Association, Canada. This film is around the causes of social inequities experienced by immigrant women of colour in the Canadian labour market.

Over the years, I have deeply engaged in community campaigns around issues such as anti-racism, anti-poverty, and education reform in Canada. My pedagogy too, underpinned by a social justice lens, is committed towards foregrounding suppressed voices, anti-racist and anti-colonial education as well as systemic changes.

Before pursuing an academic career, I was a secondary school English Teacher in India.

Research interests

I am interested in issues of adult learning, skill, racial and class relations, transnational migration, lifelong learning, vocational education and education policy.

  • My current project, Exploring Initial School Integration among Syrian Refugee Children (PI Prof. Yan Guo, University of Calgary) informed by a critical policy sociology approach, focuses on newcomer Syrian refugee children’s school transition policies and aims to bring new voices of immigrant as well as refugee parents and children into the educational policy process in Canada.

My longer and continuing research has focused on the relationship between work-related training, adult learning, and migration in our neoliberal present. In this context, my work critically analyzes “human capital” formations through work-related learning/training in the emergent knowledge economies of Canada and India. I have conducted four funded international research projects in the above area:

  • Redefining “Enterprising Selves”: Exploring the “Negotiation” of South Asian Immigrant Women Working as Home-Based Enclave Entrepreneurs: By drawing on the lived experiences of South Asian immigrant community in Canada, my doctoral research based on a feminist interpretive inquiry traces how employment-related training programs offered by immigrant settlement agencies in Canada are increasingly driven by a hegemonic neoliberal discourse of the “enterprising self”.
  • Bridge to “Success”? Examining the experiences of highly educated immigrant women of colour enrolled in Bridge to Work programs in Ontario: This post-doctoral project examines the efficacy of government sponsored “Bridge To Work” programs in facilitating the entry of immigrant women of colour into employment commensurate with their pre-immigration education and training in Canada. The study critically traces the ways in which dominant racial and gender assumptions underpinning the labour market are often normalized and replicated through soft skill trainings offered as part of the program.
  • The molding of Indian immigrant IT workers into enterprising labour: An exploration of the labour control regime by global recruitment agencies: Remaining sensitive to the dynamics of unequal power relations, equity, and social justice within workplaces, this project, combining transnationalism and intersectionality theory, seeks to understand the changing modalities of labour control and disciplining in the current post-Fordist labour market in India and Canada.
  • Skill India and Vocational Education: An Exploratory Study: This study examines the impact of vocational skill training on lower class youth population in India.

Currently I am part of a team of researchers from the School of Education at University of Glasgow who are working on a large funded project in Wales focused on progression of learning.

 

 

Publications

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2020

Guo, S. and Maitra, S. (2020) Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration. Routledge. ISBN 9780367436643

2019

Guo, Y., Maitra, S. and Guo, S. (2019) “I belong to nowhere”: Syrian refugee children’s perspectives on school integration. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 14(1), pp. 89-105. (doi: 10.20355/jcie29362)

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2019) Skill formation and precarious labor: the historical role of the industrial training institutes in India 1950-2018. In: Jammulamadaka, N. P. (ed.) Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Opportunities. Palgrave Macmillan: Singapore, pp. 21-43. ISBN 9789811378751 (doi:10.1007/978-981-13-7876-8_2)

Maitra, S. and Guo, S. (2019) Theorising decolonisation in the context of lifelong learning and transnational migration: anti-colonial and anti-racist perspectives. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 38(1), pp. 5-19. (doi: 10.1080/02601370.2018.1561533)

2018

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2018) Producing the aesthetic self: an analysis of aesthetic skill and labour in the organized retail industries in India. Journal of South Asian Development, 13(3), pp. 337-357. (doi: 10.1177/0973174118808129)

Hayward, L. et al. (2018) CAMAU Project: Research Report (April 2018). Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

2017

Maitra, S. (2017) The Making of the ‘precarious’: Examining Indian Immigrant IT Workers in Canada and their Transnational Networks with Body Shops in India. 2017 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2017.

Guo, S. and Maitra, S. (2017) Revisioning curriculum in the age of transnational mobility: Towards a transnational and transcultural framework. Curriculum Inquiry, 47(1), pp. 80-91. (doi: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1254504)

Guo, Y., Maitra, S. and Guo, S. (2017) Social integration of Syrian refugee children in Canadian schools: three prominent issues. Canadian Diversity - Diversite Canadienne, 14(3), pp. 5-7.

Maitra, S. (2017) Crafting ‘enterprising’ workers through career training programs among Canada’s South Asian professional immigrants. Studies in the Education of Adults, 49(2), pp. 196-213. (doi: 10.1080/02660830.2018.1453114)

2016

Maitra, S. (2016) Negotiating Soft Skill Training: Examining the Training/Learning Experiences of Highly Educated South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada. 2016 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Calgary, AB, Canada, 29-31 May 2016.

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2016) South Asian immigrants and the racial politics of the Canadian Nation: A history of the contemporary moment. In: Chattopadhyay, S. and Duttaray, D. (eds.) At the Crossroads of Culture and Literature. Primus Books: New Dheli. ISBN 9789384082710

Maitra, S. (2016) The making of the ‘precarious’: Examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body-shops in India. In: Guo, S. (ed.) Work, Learning and Transnational Migration: Opportunities, Challenges, and Debates. Routledge. ISBN 9781138926172

2015

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2015) Tapping into the ‘standing-reserve’: a comparative analysis of workers’ training programmes in Kolkata and Toronto. Studies in Continuing Education, 37(3), pp. 317-332. (doi: 10.1080/0158037X.2015.1043988)

Maitra, S. (2015) Between conformity and contestation: South Asian immigrant women negotiating soft skill training in Canada. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 27(2), pp. 65-78.

Maitra, S. (2015) The making of the ‘precarious’: examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body shops in India. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13(2), pp. 194-209. (doi: 10.1080/14767724.2014.934070)

2013

Maitra, S. (2013) Transnational Ties, Flexible Workers: Exploring the Strategies Adopted by Indian Immigrant IT Workers to Access the Labour Market in Canada. Proceedings of the Researching Work and Learning Conference - RWL8, Stirling, Scotland, 19-21 Jun 2013.

Maitra, S. (2013) Perspectives on work and family lives: exploring the lived experiences of South Asian immigrant mothers working from home in Toronto. In: Sangha, J.K. and Gonsalves, T. (eds.) South Asian Mothering: negotiating culture, family and selfhood. Demeter Press: Bradford, ON. ISBN 9781927335017

Maitra, S. (2013) Points of entry: South Asian immigrant women's entry into enclave entrepreneurship in Toronto. South Asian Diaspora, 5(1), pp. 123-137. (doi: 10.1080/19438192.2013.721065)

Maitra, S. and Gupta, T. D. (2013) A Journey to Find Myself Again: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Market. [Audio]

2012

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2012) The Production of Neoliberal Subjects through Employment Training Programs: A Comparative Analysis of Workers’ Training Programs in Kolkata and Toronto. 2012 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Waterloo, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2012.

Sangha, J.K., Slade, B. , Mirchandani, K., Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2012) An ethnodrama on work-related learning in precarious jobs: racialization and resistance. Qualitative Inquiry, 18(3), pp. 286-296. (doi: 10.1177/1077800411431555)

Mirchandani, K., Maitra, S. and Sangha, J. (2012) Treats and threats : global cultures in India's call centers. In: Prasad, A. (ed.) Against The Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies. Series: Advances in organization studies (28). Copenhagen Business School Press. ISBN 9788763002431

2011

Maitra, S. (2011) The Moulding of Immigrants of Colour Into Neoliberal Enterprising Workers: An Analysis of South Asian Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Employment Training Programs in Toronto. 2011 Joint Conference of the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE/ACEEA), Toronto, ON, Canada, 09-12 Jun 2011.

Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, S. , Rawlings, T., Shan, H., Siddiqui, K. and Slade, B. (2011) The entrenchment of racial categories in precarious employment. In: Pupo, N., Glenday, D. and Duffy, A. (eds.) The Shifting Landscape of Work. Nelson Educational: Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 119-138. ISBN 9780176500658

2010

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2010) Negotiating Precariousness: Exploring the Lived Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women Working as Home-Based Entrepreneurs in Toronto. Proceedings of the Land of Promise: Stories of the immigrant in multicultural Canada: International Conference on Canadian Studies, Kolkata, India, 03-05 Feb 2010.

Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, S. , Rawlings, T. and Shan, H. (2010) Transitioning into precarious work: immigrants' learning and resistance. In: Sawchuk, P. and Taylor, A. (eds.) Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work: Reflections on Policy and Practice. Series: Knowledge economy and education (2). Sense: Rotterdam. ISBN 9789087908881

2009

Maitra, S. (2009) Contested presence, hopeful future: experiences of South Asian immigrant women entrepreneurs in Canada. In: Novelli, M. and Ferus-Comelo, A. (eds.) Globalization, Knowledge and Labour Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance. Series: Rethinking globalizations (2). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415436632

2007

Maitra, S. (2007) Hegemony. In: Darity, W. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences [2nd ed.]. Macmillan Reference.

Maitra, S. (2007) Work and women. In: Darity, W. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences [2nd ed.]. Macmillan Reference.

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2007) Transgressive vs conformative: immigrant women learning at contingent work. Journal of Workplace Learning, 19(5), pp. 286-295. (doi: 10.1108/13665620710757842)

Mirchandani, K. and Maitra, S. (2007) Learning imperialism through training in transnational call centers. In: Farrell, L. and Fenwick, T. (eds.) Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work, and Knowledge Workers. Kogan Page.

2006

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2006) Liberatory Pedagogy and Immigrant Women’s Computer Learning. 2006 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2006.

2005

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2005) Informal Learning of Highly Educated Immigrant Women In Contingent Work. 2005 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), London, ON, Canada, 29-31 May 2005.

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2005) Informal Learning of Highly Educated Immigrant Women in Contingent Work. Project Report. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Maitra, S. and Sangha, J. (2005) Intersecting realities: young women and call centre work in India and Canada. Women and Environments International Magazine, Spring/Summer(42),

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Number of items: 36.

Articles

Guo, Y., Maitra, S. and Guo, S. (2019) “I belong to nowhere”: Syrian refugee children’s perspectives on school integration. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 14(1), pp. 89-105. (doi: 10.20355/jcie29362)

Maitra, S. and Guo, S. (2019) Theorising decolonisation in the context of lifelong learning and transnational migration: anti-colonial and anti-racist perspectives. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 38(1), pp. 5-19. (doi: 10.1080/02601370.2018.1561533)

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2018) Producing the aesthetic self: an analysis of aesthetic skill and labour in the organized retail industries in India. Journal of South Asian Development, 13(3), pp. 337-357. (doi: 10.1177/0973174118808129)

Guo, S. and Maitra, S. (2017) Revisioning curriculum in the age of transnational mobility: Towards a transnational and transcultural framework. Curriculum Inquiry, 47(1), pp. 80-91. (doi: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1254504)

Guo, Y., Maitra, S. and Guo, S. (2017) Social integration of Syrian refugee children in Canadian schools: three prominent issues. Canadian Diversity - Diversite Canadienne, 14(3), pp. 5-7.

Maitra, S. (2017) Crafting ‘enterprising’ workers through career training programs among Canada’s South Asian professional immigrants. Studies in the Education of Adults, 49(2), pp. 196-213. (doi: 10.1080/02660830.2018.1453114)

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2015) Tapping into the ‘standing-reserve’: a comparative analysis of workers’ training programmes in Kolkata and Toronto. Studies in Continuing Education, 37(3), pp. 317-332. (doi: 10.1080/0158037X.2015.1043988)

Maitra, S. (2015) Between conformity and contestation: South Asian immigrant women negotiating soft skill training in Canada. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 27(2), pp. 65-78.

Maitra, S. (2015) The making of the ‘precarious’: examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body shops in India. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13(2), pp. 194-209. (doi: 10.1080/14767724.2014.934070)

Maitra, S. (2013) Points of entry: South Asian immigrant women's entry into enclave entrepreneurship in Toronto. South Asian Diaspora, 5(1), pp. 123-137. (doi: 10.1080/19438192.2013.721065)

Sangha, J.K., Slade, B. , Mirchandani, K., Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2012) An ethnodrama on work-related learning in precarious jobs: racialization and resistance. Qualitative Inquiry, 18(3), pp. 286-296. (doi: 10.1177/1077800411431555)

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2007) Transgressive vs conformative: immigrant women learning at contingent work. Journal of Workplace Learning, 19(5), pp. 286-295. (doi: 10.1108/13665620710757842)

Maitra, S. and Sangha, J. (2005) Intersecting realities: young women and call centre work in India and Canada. Women and Environments International Magazine, Spring/Summer(42),

Books

Guo, S. and Maitra, S. (2020) Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration. Routledge. ISBN 9780367436643

Book Sections

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2019) Skill formation and precarious labor: the historical role of the industrial training institutes in India 1950-2018. In: Jammulamadaka, N. P. (ed.) Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Opportunities. Palgrave Macmillan: Singapore, pp. 21-43. ISBN 9789811378751 (doi:10.1007/978-981-13-7876-8_2)

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2016) South Asian immigrants and the racial politics of the Canadian Nation: A history of the contemporary moment. In: Chattopadhyay, S. and Duttaray, D. (eds.) At the Crossroads of Culture and Literature. Primus Books: New Dheli. ISBN 9789384082710

Maitra, S. (2016) The making of the ‘precarious’: Examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body-shops in India. In: Guo, S. (ed.) Work, Learning and Transnational Migration: Opportunities, Challenges, and Debates. Routledge. ISBN 9781138926172

Maitra, S. (2013) Perspectives on work and family lives: exploring the lived experiences of South Asian immigrant mothers working from home in Toronto. In: Sangha, J.K. and Gonsalves, T. (eds.) South Asian Mothering: negotiating culture, family and selfhood. Demeter Press: Bradford, ON. ISBN 9781927335017

Mirchandani, K., Maitra, S. and Sangha, J. (2012) Treats and threats : global cultures in India's call centers. In: Prasad, A. (ed.) Against The Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies. Series: Advances in organization studies (28). Copenhagen Business School Press. ISBN 9788763002431

Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, S. , Rawlings, T., Shan, H., Siddiqui, K. and Slade, B. (2011) The entrenchment of racial categories in precarious employment. In: Pupo, N., Glenday, D. and Duffy, A. (eds.) The Shifting Landscape of Work. Nelson Educational: Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 119-138. ISBN 9780176500658

Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, S. , Rawlings, T. and Shan, H. (2010) Transitioning into precarious work: immigrants' learning and resistance. In: Sawchuk, P. and Taylor, A. (eds.) Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work: Reflections on Policy and Practice. Series: Knowledge economy and education (2). Sense: Rotterdam. ISBN 9789087908881

Maitra, S. (2009) Contested presence, hopeful future: experiences of South Asian immigrant women entrepreneurs in Canada. In: Novelli, M. and Ferus-Comelo, A. (eds.) Globalization, Knowledge and Labour Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance. Series: Rethinking globalizations (2). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415436632

Maitra, S. (2007) Hegemony. In: Darity, W. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences [2nd ed.]. Macmillan Reference.

Maitra, S. (2007) Work and women. In: Darity, W. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences [2nd ed.]. Macmillan Reference.

Mirchandani, K. and Maitra, S. (2007) Learning imperialism through training in transnational call centers. In: Farrell, L. and Fenwick, T. (eds.) Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work, and Knowledge Workers. Kogan Page.

Research Reports or Papers

Hayward, L. et al. (2018) CAMAU Project: Research Report (April 2018). Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2005) Informal Learning of Highly Educated Immigrant Women in Contingent Work. Project Report. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Conference or Workshop Item

Maitra, S. (2017) The Making of the ‘precarious’: Examining Indian Immigrant IT Workers in Canada and their Transnational Networks with Body Shops in India. 2017 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2017.

Maitra, S. (2016) Negotiating Soft Skill Training: Examining the Training/Learning Experiences of Highly Educated South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada. 2016 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Calgary, AB, Canada, 29-31 May 2016.

Maitra, S. (2013) Transnational Ties, Flexible Workers: Exploring the Strategies Adopted by Indian Immigrant IT Workers to Access the Labour Market in Canada. Proceedings of the Researching Work and Learning Conference - RWL8, Stirling, Scotland, 19-21 Jun 2013.

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2012) The Production of Neoliberal Subjects through Employment Training Programs: A Comparative Analysis of Workers’ Training Programs in Kolkata and Toronto. 2012 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Waterloo, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2012.

Maitra, S. (2011) The Moulding of Immigrants of Colour Into Neoliberal Enterprising Workers: An Analysis of South Asian Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Employment Training Programs in Toronto. 2011 Joint Conference of the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE/ACEEA), Toronto, ON, Canada, 09-12 Jun 2011.

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2010) Negotiating Precariousness: Exploring the Lived Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women Working as Home-Based Entrepreneurs in Toronto. Proceedings of the Land of Promise: Stories of the immigrant in multicultural Canada: International Conference on Canadian Studies, Kolkata, India, 03-05 Feb 2010.

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2006) Liberatory Pedagogy and Immigrant Women’s Computer Learning. 2006 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2006.

Maitra, S. and Shan, H. (2005) Informal Learning of Highly Educated Immigrant Women In Contingent Work. 2005 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), London, ON, Canada, 29-31 May 2005.

Audio

Maitra, S. and Gupta, T. D. (2013) A Journey to Find Myself Again: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Market. [Audio]

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Grants

ESRC-UKRI

Gendered Journeys: The Trajectories of STEM Students and Graduates through Higher Education and Employment in multiple Global South Contexts.

Co-Investigator

2020-2023

 

Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB), Belgium

Professional Learning Communities (PLC) in the Global South: a Systematic Literature Review (Completed)

Co-Investigator

2020-2021

 

Scottish Funding Council-GCRF

Addressing Marginality and Informal Labour within Smart Cities in India

Principal Investigator

2019-2021

 

ESRC-GCRF

Can Dual Apprenticeships Create Better and More Equitable Social and Economic Outcomes for Young People? A Comaparative Study of India and Mexico

Co-Investigator

2018-2021  

 

Scottish Funding Council-GCRF

The role of Universities in developing skills for smart cities in India and Kyrgyzstan

Principal Investigator

2018-2019

 

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account

Exchanging Knowledge with policymakers and marginalised youth about skill training in India

Principal Investigator

2018 

 

College Strategic Research Major Initiatives Fund

University of Glasgow

Principal Investigator

2017-2018 

 

University International Grant

University of Calgary, Canada

Co-Investigator

2017-2018 

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada

Targeted Research on Syrian Refugee

Co-Investigator

2016-2019 

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada

Principal Investigator

2010-2011

 

Supervision

Graduated

Rebecca Ipe

Navigating School Development Governance and Children's Rights: The Experiences of School Actors in Resource Poor Contexts in Karnataka (India)l; Funded by CoSS University of Glasgow Scholarship

Preeti Dagar

Creating Sustainable Livelihood and Entrepreneurship Opportunities throgh Skill Development for Refugees in Urban Neighbourhoods; Funded by CoSS University of Glasgow Scholarship

 

I am currently supervising the following students:

PhD

Nihaya Jaber

Curriculum and Pedagogy Effects on Muslim Immigrant Students' Identities; Funded by British Council

Ellen Vanderhoven

Dual Apprenticeships in Mexico; Funded by CoSS University of Glasgow Scholarship

Anna Greenslade

Postcolonial Education Policy in the Caribbean

Abimbola Abodunrin

Decolonizing Higher Education: Underrepresentation of women academics of colour in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields in British Higher Education; Funded by CoSS University of Glasgow Scholarship

Jane Umutoni

Gendered Choices: STEM students in Rwanda; Funded by UKRI Gendered Journey Project

EdD

Jason Chan

An Autoethnographic Study of a Chinese English Teacher

Teaching

Current Courses:

  • International Issues in Adult  and Continuing Education

 

Past Courses:

  • PGT Introduction to Education and Society Research
  • PGDE Professional Enquiry
  • PGT Modern Education Thought
  • M.Educ 3 Enquiry
  • M.Educ 4 Education and Society

Additional information

Selected Refereed Conference Presentations

Read, B., Maitra, S., Maitra, S. & Thakur, M. (Dec 2021). Transitional Troubles: Gendered Dynamics of Postgraduate Students With STEM Backgrounds Entering into Elite Institutions, and Moving into a Precarious Employment Landscape in India and the UK. SRHE Annual International Research Conference, UK.

Maitra, S., Maitra, S. & Sethwala, S. (Dec 2021). Gender inequality and COVID-19: A view from ITIs in India. 11th Annual International CESI Conference, New Delhi, India.

Maitra, S., & Maitra, S. (May 2021). Training to be Entrepreneurial: Examining Vocational Education Programmes for Young Women in Industrial Training Institutes in Kolkata. 65th Annual Meeting CIES Conference, Pittsburg, USA.

Maitra, S. (May 2018). Are we not being entrepreneurial? Exploring the home/work negotiation of South Asian home-based immigrant women entrepreneurs in Canada. International Conference on Long-term perspectives on home-based work, organised by Centre for Women’s Development Studies in Delhi and the WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) Network. Stockholm. 

Maitra, S. (July 2018). Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration. International Conference by Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA), University of Sheffield.

Guo, S., & Maitra, S. (May 2017). Beyond a nationalistic approach: Revisioning curriculum in the age of transnational mobility in Canada. 6th BNU/UCL IOE (Beijing Normal University/University College of London, Institute of Education) International Conference in Education, Beijing Normal University, China.

 Maitra, S. (May 2017). Considering the Crucial: Ethics, Research, Publication. Organized and Chair Pre-conference for graduate students and Post-doctoral scholars, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education [CASAE] Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

 Maitra, S. (May 2017).The making of the ‘precarious’: Examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body shops in India. In Guo. S. organized symposium, Work, Learning and Transnational Migration: Opportunities, Challenges and Debates. Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education [CASAE] Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

 Maitra, S., Arshad-Ayaz, A., Das Gupta, T. (May 2017). Pedagogical potential of documentary and social media in creating conditions for critical pedagogy. Symposium presented at the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC), Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

 Guo, Y., Maitra, S., & Guo, S. (May 2017). Straddling the two worlds: Exploring challenges to Syrian refugee children’s school integration in Canada. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference (CSSE), Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

 Guo, Y., & Maitra, S. (May 2017). Immigrant parent mobilization for equitable ELL policy in Alberta. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference (CSSE), Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

 Guo, Y., Maitra, S., & Guo, S. (March 2017). Exploring challenges to Syrian refugee children’s school integration in Canada. Paper presented at the 19th National Metropolis Conference: Looking Forward: Migration and Mobility in 2017 and Beyond, Montreal, Canada.

 Maitra, S. & Maitra, S. (May 2016). The Training/Learning Paradox: A comparative study of Employment Training Programs in Kolkata and Toronto. Paper presented at the Engaging India and Canada: Landmarks and Roadmaps for Global Educational Collaboration between Canada and India,Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi, India.

 Guo, Y., Maitra, S., & Wu, X. (May 2016). Two Decades of Community Engagement for Improved ELL policies. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

 Maitra, S. (May 2016).Negotiating soft skill training: Examining the training/learning experiences of highly educated South Asian immigrant women in Canada. Paper presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education [CASAE] Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

Maitra, S. (Dec 2015). Learning to be Supple? Neoliberal trends, learning regimes and the Canadian labour market. Paper presented at the Researching Work and Learning Conference [RWL], School of the Arts, Singapore.

Maitra, S. (June 2013). Transnational ties, flexible workers: Exploring the strategies adopted by Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada to access the labour market. Paper presented at the Researching Work and Learning Conference [RWL], University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland.

Maitra, S. (February 2012). ‘You Need to Recognize Our Initiatives’: Examining the Lived Experiences of Self-employed South Asian Immigrant Women within Ethnic Enclaves in Toronto. Paper presented atthe International Conference on Canadian Studies, “Demystifying the Urban: Borderlands of Canada and India”,Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Maitra, S. (February 2012). ‘Cultivating ‘ethnic ties’-National and Transnational: Exploring the strategies adopted by South Asian immigrants in Canada to access the labour market. Paper presented at the 14th National Metropolis Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Maitra, S., & Maitra, S. (February 2011). ‘Negotiating ‘Mother-Work’: Exploring the Lived Experiences of South Asian Working Mothers in Kolkata and Toronto. Paper presented at the International Conference on Building Bridges: Negotiating Cultural Memories in Canada and India, Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Maitra, S., & Maitra, S. (February 2010). ‘Negotiating Precariousness’: Exploring the Lived Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women Working as Home-based Entrepreneurs in Toronto. Paper presented at Land of Promise: Stories of the immigrant in multicultural Canada: International Conference on Canadian Studies, Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Maitra, S. (October 2010). ‘The Making of Subjects’: Thinking Through Agency and Resistance in Diverse Settings. Paper presented at the Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, Binghamton, NY, USA.

Maitra, S. (November 2008).  ‘Negotiating the Blocked Mobility Effects’: Lived Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women in Home-based Work in Toronto.Paper presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco, California, USA.

Maitra, S., Mirchandani, K., Sangha, J., Slade, B., & Shan, H. (May 2007). ‘Skilled in Vulnerability’: A Multimedia Ethnodrama on Learning in the Racialized Culture of Contingency. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Critical Race and Anticolonial studies conference of researchers and academics of colour for equality (R.A.C.E), OISE, Toronto, Canada.

Maitra, S., Mirchandani, K., Sangha, J., Slade, B., Shan, H., & Promislow, S. (October 2006). ‘Skilled in Vulnerability’: An Ethnodrama on Learning in the Racialized Culture of Contingency. Paper presented at the False Promises: Precarious Work in the New Economy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Ng, R., Maitra, S., & Siddiqui, K. (April 2004). The Discursive Practice of Racialization: Examples from the Garment Industry. Paper presented at the Race, Racism and Empire: The Local and the Global Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada.

 

Invited Speaker

Guo, Y., & Maitra, S. (2017). Gaps in Policy and Practice for ELL Planning and Programs and Possible Solutions. Paper presented at the College of Alberta School Superintendents (CASS) Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Maitra, S. (2015). Unsettling Canadian Experience. Keynote speaker at Community Roundtable, Canadian Experience: Shaping Lives and Generations. Organized by Bengali Information and Employment Services and Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto, Canada. http://bluffsadvocate.ca/september2015/bengalinewcomers.html

Man, G., & Maitra, S. (2013). Labour Market Participation and Transnational Migration Practices of Immigrant Women Professionals from India. Paper presented at the Indo-Canadians: Dimensions of Economic Integration Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

Maitra, S. & Das Gupta, T. (2013). Film Screening of A Journey to Find Myself Again: Experiences of South Asian immigrant women in the Canadian Labour Market. Centre for Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada.

Maitra, S. (2011). “Tracing the Immigration Process of South Asians in Canada”. Paper presented in the Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Maitra, S. (2011). The governing of immigrants of colour into neoliberal enterprising workers: An analysis of South Asian immigrant women’s experiences of employment training programs in Toronto. Paper presented in the Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

 

Invited Reviewer

  • Adult Education Quarterly
  • Asian Women
  • Curriculum Journal
  • International Review of Education
  • Journal for the Social and Behavioural Sciences and Humanities
  • Journal of Gender, Work & Organization
  • Journal of Adult and Continuing Education
  • South Asian Diaspora

 

Professional Membership

  • Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)
  • Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)

 

Other Selected Grants and Scholarships

  • Eyes High Post-Doctoral Grant, University of Calgary, Canada
  • York University Faculty Association Grant (with Professor Tania Das Gupta, York University), Canada
  • Shastri Indo-Canadian Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant
  • PhD Entrance Scholarship,OISE, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Dean’s Special Scholarship, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Graduate Scholarship, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada
  • Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award, University of Toronto, Canada
 

Other University Services

Embracing Diversity: Promoting Leadership. Organized panel discussion at Werklund School of Education, Teaching and Learning Centre, University of Calgary, Canada (Mar 2017)                    

Post-Doctoral Representative, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), University of Calgary, Canada (May 2016-May 2017)

Post-Doctoral Representative, Diversity and Equity Network, University of Calgary, Canada (Nov 2016-April 2017)