Tamara Sivanandan

Head of Department Social Sciences

Department: School of Health and Social Sciences

Contact

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 6549
E-mail: t.sivanandan@mdx.ac.uk

Qualifications

BA MA

Research Interests

Black literary writing during and after colonialism; race representation in the media; issues of race, gender and disability in the British education system; History of education in Britain.

Teaching Interests

Racism, Media and Politics; Racism, Social Issues and Social Policy.

Biography

Education

MA Literature, Cross Cultural Studies, University of Essex
PG Course Language Development, Open University
PGCE, University of Sussex
BA Sociology, History and Politics, University of Sussex

Employment

Current Principal Lecturer, Middlesex University

Selected publications

Articles and chapters in edited books

Sivanandan, T. (2004). Anticolonialism, National Liberation and Postcolonial Nation Formation. In N. Lazarus (ed), Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Professional Membership

Member of Higher Education Academy