Dr Tehmina Khan

Associate Professor in Law

LLB (Hons) LL.M, PgCert.(HE), EdD

t.khan@surrey.ac.uk

Academic and research departments

About

Biography

Dr Tehmina Khan joined the School of Law at Surrey University in June 2021. Along with her teaching role and assisting with the Law Clinics, she is also the Senior Personal Tutor for the School of Law. Tehmina adjudicates on the Student Disciplinary Panel and sits on the EDI forum at Surrey. She qualified as a solicitor in 2000 specialising in immigration and criminal law. She was a Senior Law Lecturer on the Legal Practice Course at London Metropolitan University for 17 years. Tehmina is a commission member on the Football Association's National Serious cases and Regional Disciplinary Panel. In February 2022, she was appointed as a Magistrate. Her research interests include gender and race inequalities, forced marriage, teachers’ identities, generally addressing teaching and learning practices in education and responses to government policy in these areas.

Tehmina welcomes expressions of interest and research proposals from prospective doctoral students focusing on issues related to forced marriage.

Publications

Khan, T. and Mikuska, E. (2021) The first three weeks of lockdown in England: the challenges of detecting safeguarding issues amid nursery and primary school closures due to COVID-19.

Mikuska, E., Khan. T., and Kurowski, A. (2021) Home-Schooling during the lockdown in England.

Khan, T. (2022) Parents’ experiences of home-schooling amid COVID-19 school closures, in London, England.

Khan, T. and Mikuska, E. (2023) The relationship between the supervisors and the supervisee: Experiences of PhD completers.

Khan. T (2023) Teachers’ intersecting identities of culture, ethnicity, religion and gender when addressing awareness of forced marriage in the classroom, in London, England: A case study of five teachers.