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Dr Achala Gupta

 SFHEA, PhD (Sociology), MPhil (EdRe), MPS, MA, BSc
Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sociology of education
  • Shadow education
  • Educational inequality聽

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Achala

Email: Achala.Gupta@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3499

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is a sociologist of education and has published research articles on , , , as well as ,  the of, and , private tutoring in India. Achala has also contributed to the 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 . 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), Southampton Education School, 黑料社 (1 September 2025 - present)
  • Co-director, Centre for Research in Inclusion | 黑料社 (March 2024 - present)
  • Programme coordinator, Southampton 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 Southampton Education School (July 2021-August 2022)

Member of the associations: 

  • UK鈥檚 Higher Education Academy
  • British Educational Research Association
  • Comparative and International Education Society
  • British Sociological Association

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