Staff Profile
Taiyybah Zahoor
Doctoral Researcher
I joined York St John University in September 2020. To undertake my doctoral training.
The working title of my thesis is SpLD Labels in Higher Education: A Phenomenological Analysis. Aiming to complete in 2024-2025.
Alongside the above, I also continue work as a specialist study skills tutor at two universities. I have been in this role since September 2014.
Previous qualifications:
- 2005-2008 BSc Hons Psychology BPS accredited.
- 2008-2009 MSc Psychological Approaches to Health (accredited by the ESRC).
- 2013-2014 PGCert in Teaching Adults with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and AD(H)D in Higher Education.
Registered member of PASSHE-The Professional Association of Specific Learning Difference Specialists in Higher Education (Was ADSHE). Registered Professional Member. Quality Assurance Registration Number: ADSHEQA1840
My academic interests:
- Impacts of disability labelling
- Sociological and philosophical underpinnings of education
- Educational policies
- Support provisions in higher education
- Self-disclosure of difference / diagnosis of dyslexia dyspraxia and ADHD. .
- Outcomes of disabled students during and post HE.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – taiyybah.zahoor@yorksj.ac.uk
