About
Dr Achala Gupta is a sociologist of education and has published research articles on social class and educational privilege, heterogeneity of middle-class advantage, teacher-entrepreneurialism, as well as timescape, social legitimacy, the shadowing process of, and mothers' subscription to, private tutoring in India. Achala has also contributed to the higher education literature by exploring how students are socially constructed in Denmark, England, Ireland, Germany, Poland, and Spain. She has recently completed externally funded research projects on GenAI in higher education, and teacher retention in England.
Achala co-leads the Centre for Research in Inclusion and initiated CRI Chronicles. She is a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education and has in the past served as an EdBoard member of the British Sociological Association's flagship journal, Sociology.
Affiliations:
Centre for Research in Inclusion (Co-lead)
Leadership, effective education and policy (Member)
The India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development (Expert member)
Key roles
- Director of Internationalisation (Research), BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Education School, University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 (1 September 2025 - present)
- Co-director, Centre for Research in Inclusion | University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 (March 2024 - present)
- Programme coordinator, BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Education School Research Seminar Series (January 2023 - 31 August 2025)
- Ethics Reviewer for research conducted by students and staff in the Faculty of Social Sciences (July 2021-March 2024)
- Academic Integrity Officer (BSc, PGCE primary and secondary, MSc Army programmes) for the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Education School (July 2021-August 2022)
Member of the associations:
- UK’s Higher Education Academy
- British Educational Research Association
- Comparative and International Education Society
- British Sociological Association