DrHasti Abbasi

My research interests are centred on academic development, identity, and lived experience in higher education, with a focus on how academics and students learn, develop, and make meaning of their work and learning across teaching, scholarship, and professional life. I am particularly interested in academic development as a relational and reflective practice, including peer-supported professional learning, assessment and curriculum design, and the ways institutional structures such as conferences, recognition schemes, and evaluation frameworks shape teaching practice and academic identity. My work also engages with questions of belonging, migration, and cultural diversity, exploring how students’ and educators’ identities and experiences influence learning, engagement, and participation in higher education.  Alongside my scholarly work, my creative writing practice, focused on migrant lives, identity, and belonging, informs my sensitivity to storytelling, meaning-making, and relational ethics within academic development research.