Dr Preeti Dagar

  • Lecturer in Education (School of Education)

Biography

Preeti is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Education Policy at the School of Education. She has an interdisciplinary PhD in Adult Education and Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow. Preeti is the Deputy Director of Post Graduate Researchers within the School of Education. 

Preeti’s research focuses on skills development, sustainable livelihoods, decent work, and social inclusion opportunities for different marginalised populations in the Global South. She is a co-investigator on a study, ‘Decolonising Higher Education’, that analyses a master’s programme from a postcolonial lens. 

She has worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate on the ESRC-funded international research project – Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students through Higher Education and into Employment in India, Rwanda and the UK. She contributed to a multidisciplinary GCRF (£7m) project, Sustainable Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC), with partners in Education, Urban Studies, and Health departments in seven countries across Africa and Asia. Her doctoral research focused on the complex interaction of international and national refugee education and livelihood policies with lived realities of five distinct refugee communities: Afghan, Rohingya, Somali, Chin and Tibetan. Prior to that, she worked with indigenous groups in India. 

Preeti has worked with various international and local organisations such as UNIDO (Austria), UNESCO UIL (Germany), grassroots-level NGOs in India, and refugee organisations. 

 

Research interests

  • International development 
  • Refugee education and integration
  • Migration 
  • Education policy 
  • Adult education 
  • Gender inequalities in education and employment 
  • Postcolonial perspectives

Publications

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Number of items: 11.

2024

Sharma, N. and Dagar, P. (2024) Critiquing the concept of ‘self‑reliance’ in informal sector training: a case study of Afghan refugee women in India. In: Powell, L., Cooper, A., Brown, T. and McGrath, S. (eds.) Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South: Theoretical and Methodological Lenses on Skills and the Informal Sector. Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education. Routledge. ISBN 9781032626475

Dagar, P. (2024) Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups. British Educational Research Journal, 50(2), pp. 713-731. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3943)

Dagar, P. (2024) Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: Insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 54(1), pp. 110-127. (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2022.2078957)

Dagar, P. and Khurshid, K. (2024) Adult education in a postcolonial world. In: Slade, B., Mayo, P. and Bogossian, T. (eds.) Adult Education and Difference. Series: International issues in adult education (36). Brill: Leiden, pp. 246-257. ISBN 9789004692619 (doi: 10.1163/9789004692626_015)

2023

Dagar, P. (2023) Subaltern perspectives in adult education. In: Deb, P. and Bhattacharya, A. (eds.) Adult Education in India. Series: International issues in adult education (35). Brill, pp. 160-173. ISBN 9789004688780 (doi: 10.1163/9789004688780_010)

Dagar, P. (2023) Rethinking skills development and entrepreneurship for refugees: The case of five refugee communities in India. International Journal of Educational Development, 101, 102834. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102834)

Slade, B. and Dagar, P. (2023) Tracing longitudinal impact of Professor Lalage Bown: international master in adult education for social change. In: Slowey, M., Hinzen, H., Omolewa, M. and Osborne, M. (eds.) Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives. Series: Studies on adult learning and education (17). Firenze University Press, pp. 269-279. ISBN 9791221502527 (doi: 10.36253/979-12-215-0253-4.27)

2022

Dagar, P. and Sharma, N. (2022) Education and lifelong learning for refugees: Equity and inclusion in policy and practice. In: Rajan, S. I. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 318-330. ISBN 9780367531096 (doi: 10.4324/9781003246800-28)

Dagar, P. (2022) Vocational education and training for indigenous women in India: toward a participatory planning approach. International Journal of Training Research, 20(1), pp. 43-57. (doi: 10.1080/14480220.2021.1959379)

2021

Moskal, M. , Odena, O. , Arizpe, E. , Gormally, S. , Pacheco, E.-M. , Dagar, P. and Aldegheri, E. (2021) Education, Culture and Learning in Response to Conflict and Protracted Crisis [Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 65th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 25-29 Apr 2021.

2019

Dagar, P. (2019) Adult education In India from a subaltern perspective. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 8(1), pp. 61-77.

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Number of items: 11.

Articles

Dagar, P. (2024) Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups. British Educational Research Journal, 50(2), pp. 713-731. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3943)

Dagar, P. (2024) Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: Insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 54(1), pp. 110-127. (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2022.2078957)

Dagar, P. (2023) Rethinking skills development and entrepreneurship for refugees: The case of five refugee communities in India. International Journal of Educational Development, 101, 102834. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102834)

Dagar, P. (2022) Vocational education and training for indigenous women in India: toward a participatory planning approach. International Journal of Training Research, 20(1), pp. 43-57. (doi: 10.1080/14480220.2021.1959379)

Dagar, P. (2019) Adult education In India from a subaltern perspective. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 8(1), pp. 61-77.

Book Sections

Sharma, N. and Dagar, P. (2024) Critiquing the concept of ‘self‑reliance’ in informal sector training: a case study of Afghan refugee women in India. In: Powell, L., Cooper, A., Brown, T. and McGrath, S. (eds.) Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South: Theoretical and Methodological Lenses on Skills and the Informal Sector. Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education. Routledge. ISBN 9781032626475

Dagar, P. and Khurshid, K. (2024) Adult education in a postcolonial world. In: Slade, B., Mayo, P. and Bogossian, T. (eds.) Adult Education and Difference. Series: International issues in adult education (36). Brill: Leiden, pp. 246-257. ISBN 9789004692619 (doi: 10.1163/9789004692626_015)

Dagar, P. (2023) Subaltern perspectives in adult education. In: Deb, P. and Bhattacharya, A. (eds.) Adult Education in India. Series: International issues in adult education (35). Brill, pp. 160-173. ISBN 9789004688780 (doi: 10.1163/9789004688780_010)

Slade, B. and Dagar, P. (2023) Tracing longitudinal impact of Professor Lalage Bown: international master in adult education for social change. In: Slowey, M., Hinzen, H., Omolewa, M. and Osborne, M. (eds.) Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives. Series: Studies on adult learning and education (17). Firenze University Press, pp. 269-279. ISBN 9791221502527 (doi: 10.36253/979-12-215-0253-4.27)

Dagar, P. and Sharma, N. (2022) Education and lifelong learning for refugees: Equity and inclusion in policy and practice. In: Rajan, S. I. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 318-330. ISBN 9780367531096 (doi: 10.4324/9781003246800-28)

Conference or Workshop Item

Moskal, M. , Odena, O. , Arizpe, E. , Gormally, S. , Pacheco, E.-M. , Dagar, P. and Aldegheri, E. (2021) Education, Culture and Learning in Response to Conflict and Protracted Crisis [Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 65th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 25-29 Apr 2021.

This list was generated on Mon Jan 20 14:50:10 2025 GMT.

Grants

University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences Research Fund
Awarded to analyse a master's programme from a decolonial lens. The research contributes to the global discourse on decolonising higher education.

GCRF-SHLC College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship
University of Glasgow, 2018-2021

Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Scholarship by European Union's Education, Culture and Audiovisual Executive Agency (EACEA)
International Master in Adult Education for Social Change (IMAESC), 2016-2018

Supervision

  • Bhagat, Abhishek Gulab
    A Critical Exploration of Caste and the Hidden Curriculum in Indian Schools
  • Devadas, Mayukh
    The Impact of education through Digital Communication Technologies in Kerala, India
  • Nur, Jahid
    Informal Apprenticeship for Human Development in the Global South: The Case of BRAC STAR in Expanding Capabilities for Underprivileged Urban Female Youth

Teaching

Course Leader for Policy Enquiry and Decision Making (Education, Public Policy and Equity Programme)

Previously, I have led Advanced Policy Enquiry (Education Policies for Global Development Erasmus Mundus Programme)

Introduction to Adult Education for Social Change (International Master in Adult Education for Social Change Programme)

I contribute to teaching for several other programmes, such as the International and Comparative Education MSc, Education in Museums and Heritage, and Educational Studies MSc.