Dr Achala Gupta

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Achala Gupta’s research focuses on investigating educational issues sociologically. Her published work has explored practices and processes involving education delivery systems (formal and supplementary) and schooling practices in Asia (India and China), and how higher education students are socially constructed in Europe (Denmark, England, Ireland, Germany, Poland and Spain). Dr Gupta is co-convenor of the Education Study Group of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and co-director of the Centre for Research in Inclusion. She serves as a member of the editorial board of Sociology (BSA’s flagship journal) and the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Associate professor, University of Southampton

Education

  • 2018 
    National University of Singapore, PhD in Sociology
  • 2013 
    University of Cambridge, MPhil in Educational Studies

Publications

  • 2021
    From Eurostudents project , http://eurostudents.net/project-outputs/
  • 2020
    Heterogeneous middle-class and disparate educational advantage: parental investment in their children’s schooling in Dehradun, India, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01425692.2019.1660142?journalCode=cbse20
  • 2019
    Teacher-entrepreneurialism: a case of teacher identity formation in neoliberalizing education space in contemporary India, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508487.2019.1708765?journalCode=rcse20

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