Dr Tania Saeed is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Director of the Sociology and Anthropology Program at LUMS.
She is trained as a qualitative researcher working on education, citizenship, and social justice in the context of Pakistan and its diasporas. Saeed has published in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is the author of Islamophobia and Securitization. Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice (link) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and the co-author of Youth and the National Narrative. Education, Terrorism and the Security State in Pakistan (link) (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is also the co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education. Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings (link) (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Exploring Education and Democratization in South Asia. Research, Policy and Practice (link) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Her recent project explores overseas networks of South Asian political parties within diaspora communities, and educational institutions in the UK and US. This project was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (grant agreement No 890965), selected from a pool of 7600 applicants across Europe and was funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. For this fellowship, Saeed was based at Ca’Foscari University of Venice (2021-23), during which time she held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford and Harvard University (link).
Saeed was the elected Chair for the South Asia Special Interest Group (SA SIG) at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) (2019-21). She has partnered and consulted on multiple international grants across OECD countries, Europe and the US. She was the Co-Investigator on a £2,000,000 project under the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Network Plus (2020-2025) called Education, Justice and Memory (EdJam) Network (link). The project brought together academics and civil society partners across 14 OECD countries, exploring innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning about violent histories to understand the possibility of “memory work” within peace education and beyond educational institutions. Saeed has also contributed to policy and practitioner reports on Global Citizenship Education for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) (link).
Saeed has a DPhil (PhD) in Education from the University of Oxford where she was a Wingate scholar (2011-2012), and an HEC Pakistan Overseas PhD scholar (2008-2011), and an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).