Taha Sophia Hayat

Biography

Biography

Sophia Hayat Taha is a British-Lebanese postgraduate student whose experiences in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual upbringing made her realise how Eurocentric her education has been.

She is a PhD candidate whose work takes a postcolonial feminist critique working with migrant women who have ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’.

Sophia was fortunate enough to be supported by a wide range of people so that she gained ESRC funding and is a NWSSDTP PhD candidate.

She has worked on projects covering digital exclusion, international students’ learning environments during lockdown and decolonising the curriculum.  Sophia holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics, a PGDip in International Relations & Security Studies, MA in International Relations, MRes in Social Science Research Methods. 

Research and scholarship

Research and scholarship

PhD Project: Postcolonial Resistance to U.K. Bureaucracy: Centring Migrant Women as they navigate ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’

Co-Supervisors: Dr Jane Krishnadas and Dr Moran Mandelbaum

The project combines postcolonial legal methodology with empirical research in local partner agency, Staffordshire North and Stoke-on-Trent Citizens Advice (SNSCA) to address the research aims.

Her PhD uses an interdisciplinary approach combining Law and International Relations to allow for a different understanding of how the State interacts with migrant women, moving away from an Eurocentric interpretation of law. 

Further information

Further information

Associate Fellowship HEA

Publications

Publications

Aneta Hayes, Sylvie Lomer & Sophia Hayat Taha (2022) Epistemological process towards decolonial praxis and epistemic inequality of an international student, Educational Review, DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2022.2115463

Krishnadas, Jane, and Sophia Hayat Taha. “Domestic Violence through the Window of the COVID-19 Lockdown: a Public Crisis Embodied/Exposed in the Private/Domestic Sphere.” Journal of Global Faultlines, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 46–58. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0046. 

Refugees, Migrants and Citizens in U.K. Socio-Political Discourse: A Postcolonial and Discourse Analytical Critique, Journal of Global Faultlines , Vol. 6, No. 1 (August-October 2019), pp. 17-38, stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.0017 

The panel on ‘Decolonisation, Curriculum, Challenging Current Hierarchies’ at Keele Institute for Social Inclusion, ‘Tackling Inequalities’ Conference, Thursday June 13, 2019 Author(s): Sophia Hayat Taha, Ade Bakare and Fides Dagongdong Source: Journal of Global Faultlines , Vol. 6, No. 1 (August-October 2019), pp. 105-106 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.0105

Review Articles: 

Sophia Hayat Taha (2020) (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire, Journal of Borderlands Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1828143 

Sophia Hayat Taha (2022) Migration beyond capitalism, Review of African Political Economy, 49:171, 194-196, DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2022.2049146