Dr Mir Abdullah Miri

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on the Nuffield Foundation project ‘Education pathways for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children’, which examines pathways and barriers to accessing higher education and Level 3+ further education in England.

My research focuses on refugee education, educational inequality, language in education, and education in crisis and displacement contexts, with particular interests in belonging, safety, and the institutional practices that shape access and participation.

I am an early career researcher in the UK, with over a decade of academic and applied experience that began in Afghanistan, including university teaching and work as a consultant, trainer, and researcher with organisations including the British Council and the World Bank Group. As a researcher with lived experience of forced displacement, my work is informed by commitments to relationality, social justice, and accountable research with displaced young people.