Dr Zahid Naz, Ph.D., SFHEA, PGCE, DELTA, CELTA

Profile

Dr. Zahid Naz is a senior lecturer in Academic and Professional Education at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to this he worked in Further and Higher Education in various teaching and management positions for 15 years. He has taught internationally on pre-service and in-service Teacher Education programmes. His research interests concern Complexity, Foucauldian discourse analysis and discursive practices in post compulsory education.

Postgraduate Teaching

EAL7213: Research Methods in Language Teaching.

EAL7214: Assessment in English Language Teaching.

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests concern Complexity, Foucauldian discourse analysis and discursive practices in post compulsory education.

Publications

Book

2023 Politics of Quality Improvement in English Further Education. Switzerland: Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24008-9

Articles

2024 ‘Dis/placing teacher identity: performing the ‘brutal forms of formalities’ in English Further Education’. International Journal of Lifelong Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2024.2368720

2024 "'Tick boxes are just tick boxes': Problematising evidence-based teaching and exploring the space of the possible through a Complexity lens". Policy Futures in Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103241240542

2024 "Backyard ethnography: researching the interplay between education policy and teaching practices in a complex workplace". In Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1. SAGE Publications, Ltd., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529684483

2023 “The ‘Calculated management of life and All that Jazz: Gaming Quality Assurance Practices in English Further Education” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Polictics of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2192907

2021 “Analysing Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework through a Foucauldian lens’. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 1-22” https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2021.1995469

Opinion Pieces

2024 ‘Teacher recruitment and retention: a question of identity?’ Available at: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/teacher-recruitment-and-retention-a-question-of-identity/

2024 ‘UK Higher Education must beware of going too far with privatisation’.

Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/uk-higher-education-must-beware-going-too-far-privatisation

2024 ‘The employability agenda corrupts educational and personal values’. Available at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/employability-agenda-corrupts-educational-and-personal-values

2023 ‘Under pressure: inspection regimes and the institutionalisation of failure’. Available at: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/under-pressure-inspection-regimes-and-the-institutionalisation-of-failure/

2021 ‘FE’s educational ethos is being overshadowed by market logic’. Available at: https://feweek.co.uk/fes-educational-ethos-is-being-overshadowed-by-market-logic/

2021 Powerful knowledge? Challenging neoliberal trends in FE policy and practice’. Available at: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/powerful-knowledge-challenging-neoliberal-trends-in-fe-policy-and-practice/

Outputs in progress

Article Beyond compliance: unpicking the complexity of teaching practices and transversality of hierarchies. Journal of Education Policy

Article The (dis)placed teacher: reshaping identity, compliance and resistance. International Journal of Lifelong Education

Public Engagement

Selected conference presentations

2023 “Complexity and transversality in teaching of FE.” 6th International Academic Conference on Education Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

2023 “Foundations for Success in the U. International Baccalaureate | IB Global University Admissions Conference.

2021 “Investigating Quality Assurance Systems in Education : the case of FE”, The 9th European Conference on Education, UCL, Institute of Education, London

2019 “The position of English as Lingua Franca and it implications for English Language Teaching”, EFL Leadership Summit & Education Forum, Higher School of Linguistics, Moscow, Russia

2019 “Sustaining the neoliberal ideology: modes of regulation, control and evaluation in

FE inspection policy’. 13th JVET international conference, 28th – 30th June, Keble College, University of Oxford

2018 “Behind the scene: governmentality reconfigured in FE’. 3rd ARPCE International Conference Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford