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Dr Achala Gupta

 SFHEA, PhD (Sociology), MPhil (EdRe), MPS, MA, BSc
Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Sociology of education
  • Shadow education
  • Educational inequality 

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Profile photo 
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Name 
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Job title 
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Research interests (for researchers only) 
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In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.

Contact details 
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ORCID ID 
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Accepting PhD applicants (for researchers only) 
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About

Dr Achala Gupta is a lecturer in Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton. Achala is a member of the editorial board of the British Sociological Association's flagship journal, Sociology.

Achala is a sociologist of education and has published research articles on social class and educational privilege, heterogeneity of middle-class advantageteacher-entrepreneurialism, as well as timescapesocial legitimacy, the shadowing process of, and mothers' subscription to, private tutoring in India. Achala has also contributed to the higher education literature by exploring how students are socially constructed in Denmark, England, Ireland, Germany, Poland, and Spain.

Affiliations:

Centre for Research in Inclusion 

Leadership, effective education and policy

The India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development 

KEY ROLES

  • Co-director, Centre for Research in Inclusion | University of Southampton (March 2024 - present)
  • Programme coordinator, Southampton Education School Research Seminar Series (January 2023 - present)
  • Ethics Reviewer for research conducted by students and staff in the Faculty of Social Sciences (July 2021-March 2024)
  • Academic Integrity Officer (BSc, PGCE primary and secondary, MSc Army programmes) for the Southampton Education School (July 2021-August 2022)

Member of the associations: 

  • UK’s Higher Education Academy
  • British Educational Research Association
  • Comparative and International Education Society
  • British Sociological Association

You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.

Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.

You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.