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Dr. Feryal Awan is a Lecturer in Media and Postcolonial Studies at the IOE Faculty of Culture, Communication & Media, University College London (UCL). She previously served as Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcoloniality at UCL's Arts and Sciences department from August 2022 to January 2024. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from the University of Westminster.
Her research examines colonial impacts on childhood in Palestine and the UK through interdisciplinary lenses. Key interests include:
- Political/cultural economics of colonialism in children's lives
- Identity formation among Arab diaspora children in London
- Digital literacy for refugee and out-of-school youth
- Institutional racism in UK education systems
- Criminalization of Palestine solidarity in schools
Publications focus extensively on Palestinian childhood representations in media, with recurring themes of postcolonial identity, resistance narratives, and cross-cultural analysis of children's screen content. Her ethnographic methodologies reveal how media shapes childhood under occupation.
Teaching includes interdisciplinary modules:
- BASC0042 Race, Gender and Feminism
- BASC0053 Approaches to Interdisciplinarity
- CCME0126: Critical Studies Route: Digital Media Enquiry
