2009: Dr Priti Chopra, Greenwich University

Priti Chopra is a Senior Lecturer at Greenwich University, where she teaches on the Post-Compulsory PGCE programme. Priti started her teaching career as an adult education tutor in Literacy and ESOL. Over the past thirteen years she has worked as an adult education practitioner and researcher in the UK and India.

Priti completed a PhD in Adult Education from King's College, London in 2008. Her thesis concentrated on an ethnographic research based analysis of conceptualisations of gender, literacy, empowerment and development underpinning representations of gendered subjects within Indian adult education policy and programme practice.

Her current research interests in the UK and India include: multilingualism; widening participation in Higher Education for marginalised groups of people; and inclusive curriculum development for post-compulsory teacher education programmes. She is also interested in exploring the links between gender, education, human capability and social justice.

Priti used the 2009 UCET travel scholarship to present a paper at the 30th Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her paper, as a part of a panel of presentations, contributed to exploring the practice of ethnography as a transformative approach to educational research in terms of theory, methodology and reflexivity. She is currently writing this paper for publication.