Category: featured

Behind the search bar: Navigating the technicalities of databases during systematic reviews

by Wadhwani Nimarta, Waqas Faraz, Anila Hassan and Sadia Bhutta | Dec 17, 2025 | Critique

Among the different types of literature reviews, systematic reviews are one of the distinct and useful ways to identify the trends and map out the key evidence available for a particular research area. Despite the emergent use of systematic reviews across academic fields, there is uneven capacity for conducting reviews… Read More

Teaching Social Studies in an International Baccalaureate (IB) School in Pakistan

by Sahib Madad | Dec 16, 2025 | Learning

This blog presents a reflective analysis based on my observation of a Social Studies class in an International Baccalaureate (IB) school in Pakistan. The aim of this observation was to understand how Social Studies is taught, how students engage with concepts such as society, culture, identity, citizenship and civic responsibility,… Read More

Are our partnerships really opening doors for refugee students, or just moving the borders?

by Mir Abdullah Miri, Corinne Squire and Holly Rooke | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Education and Migration, Higher Education and Skills

‘Nothing about us without us’, a principle invoked in many struggles for social justice, only works if we mean it. When we talked with people from refugee backgrounds and those working with them for our research (‘It’s not just opening the doors’: Challenges and possibilities for refugees’ access to higher… Read More

Why collaboration matters: Personal reflections from British Asian Trust’s journey in convening outcome-based partnerships

by Shraddha Iyer | Dec 11, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Aid and Finance

This blog was written by Shraddha Iyer, British Asian Trust. For the 2025 UKFIET conference, a record 37 individuals from 15 countries, including Shraddha, were provided with...