RESEARCH
Projects
Co-I on evaluation of RISE refuge’s culturally-integrated domestic violence intervention, funded by a tri-borough initiative (Barnet, Brent and Enfield council), February 2022-present
Co-I on Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) funded mixed-methods project in the School of Law - developing a continuing professional development (CPD) framework for training in migrant organisations, February 2022-July 2022
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Co-PI on Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) projects within the MDX School of Law ‘Decolonising the curriculum in the School of Law’ and ‘Student-led workshops using creative methods to gather qualitative data on belonging’ February 2021-July 2021
Co-I on Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) funded mixed-methods research project ‘Exploring Digital Media Access, Use and Skills by British South Asians in England’ April-July 2020
Research assistant at the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys (CCSS) on ESRC-funded research project ‘Making Wellbeing Count for Policy: Patterns and trends in personal, social and societal wellbeing in Europe and the UK’ March 2015-March 2016
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Publications
Saini, R. (2023) Issue 3, Sociology Review Magazine, Hodder Education (forthcoming)
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Saini, R., Zwiener-Collins, N., Jafri, J. and Poulter, T. (2023) Decolonising quantitative methods teaching in UK Sociology. In: Bhambra, G., Meghji, A., Tinsley, M. and Papadakis, S. (eds) Rethinking British Sociology: Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations. BSA: Sociological Futures Series. London: Routledge (forthcoming)
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Saini, R. (2022) The racialisation of class and the racialisation of the nation – ethnic minority identity formation amongst the British South Asian middle classes. South Asian Diaspora. DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2055518
Saini, R (2022) The racialised ‘second existence' of class: class identification and (de- / re-) construction across the British South Asian middle classes. . DOI: 10.1177/17499755221076388
Zwiener-Collins, N., Jafri, J., Saini, R. and Poulter, T. (2021) Decolonising quantitative research methods pedagogy: teaching contemporary politics to challenge hierarchies from data, Politics, DOI: :10.1177/02633957211041449
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Saini, R. (2021) (Pseudo)intellectualism and democratic (il)liberalism: on Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter’s “Reactionary democracy”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI:10.1080/01419870.2020.1867759
Saini, R. and Begum, N. (2020) Demarcation and Definition: Explicating the Meaning and Scope of ‘Decolonisation’ in the Social and Political Sciences. The Political Quarterly, DOI:10.1111/1467-923X.12797
Doidge, M. and Saini, R. (2020) Short Guide to Sociology. Bristol: Policy Press.
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Saini, R. (2020, August 11) ‘From management meetings to meaningful change: risks of institutional capture in the decolonisation of UK higher education and recommendations for delivering structural change’ [Blog]. LSE Impact Blog.
Saini, R. (2020, June 22) ‘Sit stand, or take a knee: Symbolic acts and anti-racism’ [Blog]. MDX Minds.
Begum. N. and Saini, R. (2019) Decolonising the Curriculum. Political Studies Review. Professional Section: Teaching. 17(2), 196-201
Saini, R (2018) ‘Stating the Sociological: Rima Saini’. The Sociological Review.
Meghji, A. and Saini, R. (2018) Rationalising racial inequality: Ideology, hegemony and post-racialism among the Black and South Asian middle-classes. Sociology. 52(4), 671-687
Saini, R (2018) Book review: ‘Plumbing the depths of immigration discourse’. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Issue 67. 128-130
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Saini, R. (2017). 'Racial self-interest' is not racism: Populist correctness gone mad?' [Blog] Media Diversfied.
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Harrison. E., Saini. R., and Zwiener, N. (2016) 'Percevied Quality of Society' In: Harrison, E., Quick, A., and Abdallah, S. (eds.) Looking through the Wellbeing Kaleidoscope, London: New economics Foundation, 2016.
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Saini, R. (2016). Why political campaigns that target ethnic minority groups can go horribly wrong. [Blog] The Conversation.
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Saini, R. (2015) Book review: 'Eric S Brown, The Black Professional Middle Class: Race, Class, and Community in the Post-Civil Rights Era', Work employment and society, p. 1041-1042
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Past articles:
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Saini, R. (2011). Human rights, absolute and inalienable…in most cases, at least. [Blog]. Catch 21.
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Saini, R. (2011). Socialized Media? [Blog]. The Naked Punch.
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Saini, R. and Hughes, C. (2011). 'Cost of the EU: Can we count on Express Estimates?' [Blog] Full Fact.
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Saini, R. (2011). RSA Lecture: 'An Unbreakable Friendship?' Where next for Britain and and Pakistan? [Blog]. The Samosa.
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Saini, R (2011). Saini, R. 'Factcheck: What Price Are We Paying for Human Rights?' [Blog] Full Fact.
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