Thi Bogossian
Academic and research departments
Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, Sociology, Language, Literacies and Learning Research Group.About
Biography
Thi Bogossian (they/them) is an Associate Tutor at the University of Surrey. Thi's research interests are in the field of migration, education, social difference, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, childhood, and participatory and creative methodologies.
Thi has an interdisciplinary background, with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Surrey and a master's degree in Adult Education for Social Change, awarded by a consortium between the University of Glasgow, University of Malta, Tallinn University, and Open University of Cyprus. They also hold a bachelor's and teaching degree in Geography from Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) and worked as Geography teacher in Brazil in secondary schools and community education settings for several years before pursuing postgraduate education.
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ResearchResearch interests
Thi's research interests are in the field of migration, education, social difference, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, childhood, and participatory and creative methodologies.
Research interests
Thi's research interests are in the field of migration, education, social difference, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, childhood, and participatory and creative methodologies.
Teaching
I currently teach SOC3033 - Cultures of Race and Racism (2024/2025)
I was also Graduate Teaching Assistant between 2019/2020 and 2023/2024, teaching modules including Researching the Social World: Qualitative Methods, Explaining Crime and Deviance, and Hate Crime
Publications
Highlights
Slade, B., Mayo, P., & Bogossian, T. (2024). Adult Education and Difference. Brill.
Bogossian-Porto, P. & Bogossian, T. (2021). The school is not enough: The role of non-formal educational spaces in preserving Armenian identity in the diasporic community. International Studies in Sociology of Education. DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2021.1912632.
Bogossian, T. (2021). Do right by me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces. [Book Review]. Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2021.1896020.
Bogossian, T. (2020). 'I have to be at home': Place and gender among student-mothers in higher education. POWER: Psychology of Women and Equalities Review, v. 3, 1&2, pp. 42-49.
Additional publications
Bogossian, T. & Park, Y. (2024). Biodiversity and Adult Education: From Poor Cousin to Key Message for Social Change. In B. Slade, P. Mayo, T. Bogossian. Adult Education and Difference. Brill, pp. 147-159.
Bogossian, T. (2024). Babygirl, You’ve Got This! Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Educational System. [Book Review]. British Journal of Educational Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2024.2377443.
Bogossian, T. (2023). Anti-racist scholar-activism. [Book Review]. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46:8, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2115386
Bogossian, T. (2022). The nature of space. [Book Review]. The American Association of Geographers Review of Books, 10:3, DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2022.2072588
Bogossian, T. (2019). Participatory mapping in Latin America: A tool for adult education for social change. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 8(1), pp. 78-94.
Lopes, J. J. M. & Bogossian, T. (2018). Para onde vai o sol quando ele se esconde? Pesquisas em Geografia da Infância [Where does the sun go when it hides? Research in Children's Geographies], in: Carreiro, H. J. S. & Tavares, M. T. G. (Ed.). Estudos e pesquisas com o cotidiano da educação das infâncias em periferias urbanas [Studies and research on the everyday of childhood education in urban peripheries]. São Carlos: Pedro & João Editores.
Bogossian, T. (2017). El ejercicio de la mirada etnográfica: relaciones de género entre infantes. [The exercise of ethnographic outlook: relations of gender among children]. Revista Des-idades, 15, pp. 22-33.
Bogossian, T. (2014). Já pensou pedro com um cabelão de maria chiquinha! Não combina, né?!? Geografia e gênero na educação infantil. [“Have you ever imagined pedro withpigtails! It doesn’t match!”: Geography and gender in early childhood education]. Tempos e Espaços em Educação, v. 7, p. 169-183. DOI: 10.20952/revtee.v0i0.2963.