Meet our speaker

Saira Mirza is a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education at Leeds Trinity University, specialising in South Asian migration, culture, identity and intersectionality from a psychosocial perspective. Saira has a Batchelor of Arts degree in Professional Practice: Children, Young People & Families, a Master of Science degree in Psychology and is currently pursuing a PhD centred around creating equitable interventions for socioeconomic status and psychological wellbeing for South Asian mothers in the UK through home-school partnerships. Saira has received the award for outstanding academic performance for her work on South Asian lived experiences in the UK and is currently working with schools to foster equitable home-school partnerships for South Asian mothers to enhance maternal wellbeing, socioeconomic status, sense of community and child educational attainment. Saira has worked in the fields of mental health, primary and higher education and family support; her research interests include social justice, immigration, religion and spirituality, acculturation, social psychology and identity.

Webinar Topic:

Navigating shame: A model for understanding shame-based complexes in the south Asian diaspora